The Grumpy IT Admin

Hi all you gaming developers out there. I like gaming (on my PC) I don't do consoles because my wife watches Eastenders (for you US folks that is a British soap) and we only have one TV in the house, I now it is sad but that is how the other 99% of the world live. I imagine gaming development is a high pressure job these days with the humungous film like budgets and all that you have to deal with, but there seems to be a be a disconnect between you and us. I accept you develop for consoles and then transfer to PC, if we are lucky, because apparently we in the PC zone like to pirate your games, well here's some news for you, everyone I know who owns a console has chipped it and there is a hard disk going round with 100's of games on so don't delude yourselves that there isn't as much pirating going on on consoles as there is on PCs. From a gameplay perspective, you need to focus on the end user. Yes, they come in many varieties and you need to cater for all of ...

I have been using Windows 10 on my Nokia 925 for two weeks now and for the most part there is a a lot to be thankful for. It is a development of the Windows 8.1 Phone, especially the not widely released one that spookily turns up on your phone just before Windows 10 if you decide to go down the Windows Insider path, I would like to spend a bit more time with that one. However, as with Windows 10 on the PC there are signs that Microsoft are struggling to to hit that one OS rules them all goal that they started with Windows 8. It is all beta still but as we are expecting an Autumn (fall) release, you would expect them to have nailed the basic design of the OS and supporting in house apps and just be fixing GUI and interface issues and any bugs. Unfortunately there are still, in my opinion some major issues with some functionality which I would have expected only from an immature company not one that built it’s empire around how the user interacted with its software and could mak...