Nintendo’s woes, Apple’s secret and subtle plans for social, GTA is the root cause of the London riots (or possibly not) iOS 5′s hidden voice controls, and high praise for the under appreciated Bioshock 2.
A surprisingly games-lite episode of Platformer, with our heroes studiously analyzing the latest Apple rumours, the broken state of broadcasting in this Space Year 2011, the even more broken patent system, and why RIM sucks even more than usual.
Lots and lots of Apple news and speculation, including the possibility of an iPad Pro, Zynga being Zynga, Free to Play taking names and kicking buttocks, and lots of banter about app stores and ecosystems. Plus we sorta kinda lament the move from tinkerer/geek toy to everyday device our good friend the computer has taken in the last few years.
A new era dawns! Introducing the Platformer Podcast, an expanded pallete for the hosts of the (now former) Fruitygamer podcast to expound on more than just Apple and games. We’ll still cover those subjects in depth, but we wanted a forum where we could rant, rave and cogitate about all manner of tech, gadgetry and games. This episode we look at Google Plus, the continuing Final Cut Pro X debacle, World of Warcraft going free to play, and the iCade, plus a whole lot more! Enjoy, and please tell us what you think o the new format, the new title, or anything else.
In the weeks to come we’ll revamap the site, change the url and try to add new and different content, but for right now we wanted to just get our new format out there.
Even though we’re nominally a gaming podcast, the disastrous release of Final Cut Pro X deserved some attention…and Chip managed to wrangle things back to gaming with a comparison between the FCP X launch and Star Wars: Galaxies debacle of many moons ago. Also, Marathon is coming to iOS, the iPhone 5 is apparently Apple’s first step to world gaming domination, and the United States Supreme Court has just ruled games are a form of expression and thus subject to free speech protection. Heady stuff. Enjoy!
New iPhone in September? According to some telecom guy in the UAE, yes. According to us, no. Warren rescues his Boot Camp partition from BSOD hell, Todd makes a game, and Chip is victorious in getting publishers to charge us all more money. All in this week’s Fruitygamer!
Upgradable (nor not) iMacs, Playbook bashing, second thoughts about Atomix, and Portal mods…for PC only. Boo! New episode of Fruitygamer! Yay!
Rumours of ARM processors in Mac laptops, new iMacs, Chinese riots, and one hell of a lot of talk about comic books, all in the latest episode of Fruitygamer!
iClouds, white iPhones, Nokia getting uppity…and games! Order and Chaos gets positive reviews, Portal 2 might be the last single player Valve game, and we both extoll and lament the one dollar game.
Retina Displays on iMacs (not likely), iPhone 5 with multitouch button (crap) and Apple’s location tracking brouhaha (feh.) Three cynical Mac gaming jackanapes prognosticated on all these matters and more, including Real Racing 2 HDMI kludges, the utter awesomeness of Portal 2, and the fact that One Single Life isn’t quite what it seems.
