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I’m playing a whole bunch of story games for a Thing, and one is making me intensely motion-sick – even more so than the previous nausea-inducing champ, The Witness. I may have to resort to a YouTube walkthrough to make it to the end. Do devs just not test for these problems?
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Is it expecting too much of the BBC to want a comprehensive, fully searchable, and indexed list of Winter Olympic sports, with video clips plus chapter markers, preferably on the web and iPlayer? It’s surprisingly difficult to find my ol’ favourite Snow Cross wacky races.
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The New VR Arms Race: Kids vs Parents
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1 comment on The New VR Arms Race: Kids vs ParentsKids are gonna have cybersex, and parents won’t like that General-purpose VR headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are so expensive and fragile that we haven’t yet had to worry about how it’ll affect kids. VR is still like the PalmPilot PDA in 1997, an expensive curiosity for just a million enthusiasts. It has…
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Through an iPhone, Squinting
If you want a vision of the future, imagine your arm holding up your iPhone — forever It has been truly delightful to see all the imaginative augmented reality prototypes made by developers playing around with Apple’s new ARKit framework. It’s only been available for a couple of months, but developers have already gone to town with…
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Disney’s Giant Leap Forward
When Disney surveyed the public about a hypothetical immersive Star Wars hotel early this year, it felt like an idea from the future, not an actual commitment. Surely they’d wait until after the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge — already a highly ambitious and risky new park area — before starting work on a whole new hotel? But…
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The Problem with Podcast Dramas
TV drama has entered its platinum age. Novels are being written by more diverse and talented authors than ever before. Even games are getting decent stories. But in the world of podcasts, dramas are being outearned and outlistened by their nonfiction counterparts. Why? Here’s the easy answer: just as television killed the radio (drama) star…
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What They Want, the Government Can’t Give
It wasn’t a surprise to me, or to anyone else in the UK, that residents of Grenfell Tower heckled their councillors and Tory politicians. And I wasn’t surprised when Prime Minister Theresa May cravenly refused to meet with anyone from the tower. But what is surprising to me is that even the Queen received criticism:…
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When Surveillance Goes Private: A 2027 Retrospective
I’d like to begin with a story. I was born in the UK — in Birmingham — although obviously I don’t have the accent! My parents came from Hong Kong, but we didn’t visit it until I was a few years old, since it’s quite the trip for any family. The approach to the old Hong Kong airport in…
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Read ebooks? Fuck you! (says the book industry)
It is 100% impossible for humanity to invent a technology superior to printed books. Who doesn’t love the feel of the printed page, suffused with organic volatiles that emit its distinctive scent, bound into a form so perfect that it’s hard to believe humans invented it, that – Me. I don’t love printed books. Now,…
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Five Years of Zombies, Run!
Five years ago today, we launched Zombies, Run! on the iTunes App Store, only six months after our Kickstarter. When Naomi Alderman and I came up with the idea behind Zombies, Run! back in the summer of 2011, neither of us had any notion that it’d be this popular and last this long. I thought…
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