Recent content by TwelveBaud

I have a Windows Phone 7 device, which still lives with the Zune software. I'm very happy with it and have no desire to upgrade, especially since Windows Phone 8 doesn't allow me the same control that Zune does over what exactly is on my device. Even though Microsoft Points are going away, and...

I'm going to have to go against the flow here and say that it's actually bad that we have the engines we have, not because development on engines is stagnating (we've got some really nice innovations coming up if the Tokyo Game Show is anything to go by), but because of how high consumer...

The huge Silver Ball of Doom the old boot animation had is now merely a tiny prop for the Flirty Floating Green Ribbon to hide behind. T_T My Avatar Awards have a little exclamation mark where they used to be in the Avatar Editor, and can't be selected, but as long as I don't change my avatar...

One: the Office of Film and Literature Classification is ... overprotective. "Zombies? BLEEDING? What will my six-year-old think???" "Uhh, they say it's not meant for people under the age of 17." "THINK OF THE CHILDREN! REFUSED CLASSIFICATION!!" (repeat three or four times) Two: Publishers...

I don't like Zynga for two reasons. 1. Extreme platform domination. I know of only two non-Zynga games that my friends use on a regular basis; most are too busy with *Ville and *World, because that's all their own friends use. Other companies are having problems entering the market because...

In the documentation (not the press release) for the technology, Ubi said that save games would be saved locally and then synced to the servers in the background, on a separate channel than the DRM connection, and that for ACII and three other proposed games all content for the main game is on...

Every once in a while my mom asks me if I'm gay and proactively reassures me before I can respond. No, Mom, I'm not gay, I just tend to have more guy friends; all awkward "I'm a virgin" conversations with girls are strategically avoided by not having any girl friends that'd want to have them...