Month: July 2006

For some time now I’ve been involved with a video game art outsourcing venture called Vykarian, located in Shanghai and founded by my buddy Xin Chung. We’ve been building towards an eventual goal of the “best and biggest” outsourcing venture in China. It’s our plan to establish art “factories” which are capable of cranking out…

WGA and Activation Failures Don’t Faze Redmond While Microsoft insists that problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program are much overblown — claiming last week that “only a fraction of a percent” of the systems that fail the WGA verification are actually legal — Microsoft’s customers keep saying otherwise. What’s worse, the WGA false…

Hong Kong is a densely packed forest of high-rise business and residential buildings. In many respects it is a modern, high-tech place. But it’s also China, which translates to “a little backwards”. For instance, people often seem unclear on the concept of gravity. There are many tales told of random objects falling from the skies:…

They spew out a ton of polution, but hey, it makes for nice sunsets:

Great news today from Codemasters and Mercury Steam: Clive Barker returns to gaming Today, Codemasters announced that master of horror Clive Barker will be returning to video games when Clive Barker’s Jericho ships for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in late 2007. …Jericho is being developed by Mercury Steam, who last worked on Scrapland.…

GameDaily is running an excellent opinion article on why the games industry is broken: GameDaily BIZ: Opinion: The Video Game Business Is Broken We all know this a year of change in the video game market place. The future of the industry is very much at a crossroads with the big 3 bringing out their…