Console Sales

Here’s a bookmark-able article for the GET students. At some point you’re gonna have to do a subject called Business of Computer Games, so here’s a resource you could use:
In-Depth Analysis of Games and Console Sales

The Olympic Fever

Yeah I know the Olympics has been blogged about before here, but hey this two weeks has been really fun! For me at least. There are many storylines such as
Breaking Records..

Michael Phelps

Usain Bolt

Controversy..

Cuban’s Matos infamous referee kick

Redemption..

Basketball Team USA “Dream Team” finally wins another international basketball touranment after 6+years of disappointment.

Disappointing injuries
 
Liu Xiang and Yao [...]

Game Review: Patapon

NO, I AM NOT KIDDING.

You may laugh now, but only people that had truly played the game for themselves will understand the value of this gem. The style, the never-tried-before combat system. The semi-childish yet still-remain-cute kind of storyline. The Patapon design. The fact that it attracts girls around you. Perfect.
Okay maybe not as perfect [...]

Olympics Irony

The hype is up and running at full speed with the on-going Olympic Games held at Beijing, China.  Spectators around the world are glued to the latest reports and updates on whosoever whom the gold, silver or bronze medal for any event. There are several world records made already in the swimming in terms of [...]

Internship, part II.

Hola! I am back. Today shall be part II, or continuation of my ‘review’ about this attachment so far. Since the last post, the previous project has been submitted (finally! It sure feels good to know one project was completed well).
Currently, I have been tasked to do some research & development, to prepare documentation and [...]

Meet the Sandvich

Watch it

I can’t get the embed to work, no matter how i tried, it doesn’t work. But what I got to say is that it’s epic. Totally epic.
EDIT: Thanks Dr. Foo =D
For those that does not know what epic means, it basically means something that is cool or awesome. I, for [...]

Play games = become better surgeons (!)

Here’s one for all the naysayers who think playing games is about as beneficial to your well-being as say taking a dive off Republic Plaza. What do you know; US researchers have actually noted that surgeons who play video games become better at what they do:
Gentile presented several studies on video games including one involving 33 surgeons specializing [...]

Game Review: Tales of Eternia (PSP)

While on the topic of Tales of Eternia, a remake of the old Tales of Destiny II for the US version in the PS1, let me say something. There is one thing I hate in this world, and those things are called “Remakes”.
Usually, game creators have the basic idea of “Its popular, it’s worth my [...]

Exclusive Session with Will Wright at the Zoo

By Low Kuan Wei, GET Junior Year
SimCity, The Sims and now Spore. Will Wright created them all. When I realized that I was given the rare opportunity to attend an exclusive session with him, I was very excited. After all, I am an avid fan of The Sims myself, as well as, eagerly awaiting Spore. [...]

A history of gaming platforms

Here’s another article from Gamasutra looking at the early gaming platforms. The age of some of these platforms is beyond the age of most GET students but there could be one or two students in the course who may vaguely recall these. Plenty of photos in the article that will help contextualize what gaming machines [...]