http://raddevon.com tech, the Internet, and gaming Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:20:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Most everyone has heard the news of OnLive, the new cloud-based computer gaming platform. I'm not here to regurgitate that for you. Instead, I intend to give it some context. Cloud computing is all the rage right now. With netbooks growing in popularity, all sorts of Internet-based services are popping up ... http://raddevon.com/abstracting-hardware-obsolescence-obsolete-with-onlive/ I just posted on the 1Up forums my ideas for a new model for games distribution that might help the industry escape the wrath of economic recession. I thought I should repost it here to direct readers' attention toward it and get some feedback. I've been listening to lots of discussion ... http://raddevon.com/a-new-games-distribution-model/ The developer has released a meaty update to the fantastic iPhone dual-stick shooter iDracula (my review). It includes two new levels, new weapons, and new game modes. It really adds quite a lot to a game that was already well worth the cost of admission. If you were waiting, maybe ... http://raddevon.com/idracula-update/ Online shopping has opened up for many of us a shopping world that was totally alien before it. Online retailers are competing with every other store you can think of which makes the competition fierce. They also sell large quantities of items which opens up room for deep discounts never ... http://raddevon.com/video-automated-online-bargain-hunting/ There was a short period of about a month just after the app store went live that there were no tower defense games whatsoever. Now, that space is much more crowded and with good reason. The iPhone is a gaming platform excellently equipped for the tower defense genre of which ... http://raddevon.com/iphone-review-geodefense/ Windows is a rare breed: an open software platform that has seen a great deal of success. Open platforms are what people tend to think of when they think of software platforms in general because they are more accessible. If I'm thinking about a software platform not as a consumer ... http://raddevon.com/open-vs-closed-software-platforms/ As soon as you launch Zen Bound, you're going to realize you've stumbled into something really special. True to it's name, the game is really a zen experience. The feelings I get playing this game are very close to those I get playing Flower on the PS3. I'm sure it's ... http://raddevon.com/iphone-review-zen-bound/ This is a big deal for social web addicts. One of the first articles posted to this site was about the inadequacies of Google Reader as a sharing platform when compared to FriendFeed. Yesterday, one of FriendFeed's advantages over Google's sharing platform was mitigated as Google unveiled comments for shared ... http://raddevon.com/google-reader-adds-comments-for-sharing/ The Quest is a first-person Western RPG in the vein of Daggerfall and probably some older titles I don't recall. RPGs on the app store are few and far between. Most of those are JRPGs which are often characterized by cookie-cutter save the world/princess storylines and strictly linear gameplay that ... http://raddevon.com/iphone-review-the-quest/ When the excellent social bookmarking site Delicious launched in 2003, it re-branded an old idea about categorizing and organizing data—namely tagging. Tagging is basically the same concept as keywords, but somehow the rebranding makes it seem more friendly and accessible. Delicious provided users with a system that made tagging easy ... http://raddevon.com/tagging-conventions-and-hive-organization/