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iCloud and the Accumulation of Cloud Hype: It’s Much More than Simple Streaming Media
In a particularly biting editorial recently, Carl Brooks, Senior Technology Writer for SearchCloudComputing.com, penned that he wasn’t pleased with the use of “cloud” to describe Apple’s new iCloud service. The crux of his argument rested on that it didn’t involve any cloud-computing; but instead presented itself as a sort of Software-As-a-Service architecture for simplified media ...
E3 2011: Battlefield Gets More Social With Free ‘Battlelog’ Networking Feature
This year at E3, video game publisher/developer Electronic Arts revealed the release of the newest of their extremely popular console-based first-person shooter (FPS) series with Battlefield 3. They demonstrated beautiful rendering and game play that will certainly push modern hardware to its extreme for the gaming enjoyment of millions of customers everywhere. This year, though, ...
E3 2011: EA Sets Sights on Zynga’s Crown with The Sims Social for Facebook
When it comes to Facebook and the social gaming sphere there is no contender as heavyweight as Zynga—the game publisher best known for Farmville and all its strange descendants—but other developers believe that growing crops and petting cows might be too staid an activity for the hip Facebooker. Enter Electronic Arts and they’re über-famous social-simulation ...
E3 2011: Nintendo Mixed PS3 and Xbox 360 Footage Into their Wii U Highlights Reel
During the E3 2011 keynote for Nintendo we saw a lot of beautiful footage outlining the capabilities of the suped-up Wii U platform. Most of those watching will probably recall a highly stylized reel with a bird flying past a cherry tree and a pond full of beautifully rendered koi. However, later on in the ...
Sony’s Jack Tretton Addresses PlayStation Network Outage at E3 2011 Keynote
It’s been a big year for Sony and the PlayStation Network—and by big I mean the elephant in the room where the PSN was dead-in-the-water for nearly a month of that year. Not only did the PlayStation Network go dark, but after it came back online, Sony kept getting hammered by further breaches to various ...
E3: PS Vita Expected in Market ‘Phased Rollout’ by the End of 2011
In light of the beating they’ve taken, Sony really needed to come to market with something to revitalize their position in the market and the PS Vita may do exactly that. Originally called the NGP (Next-Generation Gaming Portable) the Vita retained the name it was rumored to possess when Sony representative’s debuted the platform at ...
Kinect Fun Labs: Testbed For the Future of Interactive Media
The Kinect system for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console seems to be an experiment more than anything. Although the Kinect allows gamers to control their video characters with gestures and voice commands, the simple truth is that motion-based gaming is really only suitable for a very few types of games. The Kinect must be meant for ...
E3: Nintendo Wii-U First Impressions—Game Changing?
Today Nintendo stepped out at E3 2011 and revealed their “next-gen” console, which is really a controller-peripheral called the Wii-U. From its initial looks, the Wii-U appears to be an oversized controller-cum-tablet (with a massive 6.2-inch diameter touchscreen), which will bring a screen literally into the hands of the player. The overall bulk of it ...
Xbox LIVE’s Feet Staying on the Ground but Head Firmly Thrust into the Personal Cloud
Yesterday, Microsoft’s press event at E3 revealed a new direction they intend to take the Xbox—into the realm of becoming an Internet entertainment center—but also away from trapping all of their content on that box by allowing players to carry their personalization with them. As a result, Xbox LIVE is moving themselves into the personal ...
Really New New Xbox Experience Debuts at E3
What does Microsoft have up its sleeve for E3? So far, we’ve been given hints of the New Xbox Experience, which is something like the previous New Xbox Experience, except with live TV, YouTube, and motion control through Kinect. Although it might seem a little strange to stream in live TV through your Xbox, given ...
