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!
WWDC and E3 on the same day means a ton of news about Lion, iOS5, the mysterious iCloud and plenty of semi-related but mostly just cool console news. LIsten as Warren, Todd and Chip wax eloquent about clouds, Kinect and a whole lot more!
iOS 4.1, Gamecenter, App Store downloads in plain English, and a new Portal 2 trailer. All this and Words with Friends, on the latest episode of Fruitygamer.
In this episode, Warren and Todd discuss GameCenter, the law, Tron Legacy, old schol games like Ecco the Dolphin and Cinemaware classics, and the late, lamented Amiga. Plus we pimp Robert Ashley and explore the madness that is Tass Times in Tonetown for the Apple IIgs. Enjoy!
Check out the inaugural episode of the Fruitygamer Podcast over at fruitygamer.com. I’ve ben working for a while on the Fruitygamer website, and I think it’ll likely be a showcase for weekly audio podcasts, along with less frequent but higher-end video segments.
When I started Freyburg Media, I wanted to create videos for clients that brought TV-level quality to web video. I’ve been lucky enough to accomplish that with a couple of different projects including working with The South Granville Business Improvement Association on a number of videos. But while I love doing work for clients, I like creating original programming even more, and I think that’s where the future of online media is headed.
To that end, I spent the last couple of weeks trying to figure out how to create niche websites targeting things I’m interested in and could blog about regularly. But what I found is that while I’m perfectly comfortable zipping around FInal Cut and creating a video, all the attendant WordPress setup, ad network crafting and other bits and pieces of “making money from a website” drives me mental. It also occurred to me that while many people can and have created websites in order to bring in income, significantly less do so with video and audio (Leo Laporte and a few others spring to mind) because of the much higher barrier to entry.
Fruitygamer is my first effort to create a niche program for an online audience. Mac gaming is finally coming into its own, and the iPhone and iPad are becoming portable gaming platforms rivalling Nintendo’s dominant handhelds. It makes sense to target that audience, I think.
In the next few weeks and months I’ll be rolling out more programming, but for now enjoy the two episodes of Fruitygamer from E3. I’m looking forward to putting out more content soon.
Fruitygamer at E3 2010 with an interview with Joe Bentley of Onlive about their streaming video game service. Onlive brings many premium titles to the Mac that have up until now been out of reach for Mac gamers.?