Spore, EA and Piracy

Here’s an important article I’ll be duplicating under Key Articles for current 2nd year GET students in the Business in Computer Games subject next year in April.
IGN Entertainment and Ipsos Media CT did a comprehensive study on video gamers. Their study revealed a number of findings, some of which I think has long been suspected [...]

GET’s Joann as Featured Female Gamer!

Here’s the article:
http://www.garenasg.com/index.php?showtopic=1492&st=0&#entry15423
Happy birthday to me anyways.

The Force is strong with this one

Despite the mixed reviews remarking that the recently released Star Wars: The Force Unleashed surfaces from control issues and inconsistent difficulty, there’s no stopping players from lapping up the game that lets you wield the lightsabre mowing through stormtroopers, wookies and just about everyone else who gets in your way. One source has suggested that this multiple [...]

“Computer games drive social ties”

And that shouldn’t be news for gamers at all. That said, it’s still nice that well-regarded news publications like the BBC News carry reports on the prosocial benefits of computer gaming, like this one, with excerpts below, formatted to save space:
BBC News: Computer games drive social ties (16 Sep 2008)
Far from turning teenagers into anti-social loners, [...]

Otaku Happenings : Suzaku Kick

Suzaku Kick: Also known as Spinzaku, is one is my personal favorite internet phenomena. Originated from the anime series Code Geass, which is pretty much a CLAMP version of Gundam SeeD, after winning the hearts of many anime lovers of both gender, it was declared as one of the best animes that was ever created, [...]

Stardock and game piracy

One of the most well-regarded sci-fiction PC strategy games released in recent years was Stardock’s Galactic Civilization II. Now, not only was this game known for its game AI, it also garnered attention for its novel implementation of copy protection, and specifically that the game CD itself had no copy protection.
Brad Wardell, Stardock’s CEO, has [...]

Alice In Action 2008

Better late than never, a quick entry on the Alice in Action 2008 finals, held by the IIT school for secondary schools from across Singapore. This was my first experience of the yearly Alice competition and having been asked to be a judge, I got to see the competition close-up. There had been some strong [...]

National Education Visit to Sengkang Fire Station

As part of the semester break that students on campus are enjoying right now, a group of GET students from C182 and myself visited the Sengkang Fire Station as part of the National Education Learning Journey on 6 Sep. The visit was a ball of fun, with the personnel and LTA Goh of the firestation [...]

Gaming terms

Yo! It’s the holidays baby! Bet everyone’s bustin’ their rear off working for extra money, or spending the whole day gaming, huh. Well if you are new to the gaming world, these are some of the commonly used terms nowadays so that you won’t appear as a n00b.
noob – A player that is new to [...]