Thistle Games: Spring Preview

The ice has just about thawed, so it’s time for a quick Spring Preview. We’re planning the now usual coverage of tabletop RPGs, graphic novels, boardgames and exceptional videogames:

The 2010 E3 show is near and videogame companies are already in a frenzy. There’ll be a lot of talk about Grand Theft [...]

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Touch Technologies and Gaming: Update 3

To our surprise Apple’s iPad delivers most of the features on our touch tablet ‘wish list’. It’s light, thin, has a 9.7” screen, offers 10 hours of battery life and comes with WiFi as standard. The pricing is equally impressive, as a £310/ $499 entry point for a device that brings together personal, [...]

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Touch Technologies and Gaming: Update 2

Nintendo recently released statements about being in no rush to produce an upgraded Wii console and a policy of delaying hardware releases until software support is in place. It was also suggested that the next versions of Zelda and Metroid Prime for the Wii would not be arriving any time soon.

With [...]

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Touch Technologies and Gaming: Update

We’re suitably impressed by the appearance of a Microsoft tablet with a full screen. (A split screen tablet may yet be on the way from Microsoft). We’re also far from surprised that the first full screen tablets will be expensive and lack certain features, (e.g. touch/ touch and pen is a key consideration [...]

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Touch Technologies and Gaming

There hasn’t been any coverage of touch and/ or handheld gaming in earlier posts, as we’ve seen these technologies as being solely about solitary gameplay. In particular, the Nintendo DS has become the ‘distraction’ of choice for many parents: convenient, portable and isolating.

Fortunately 2010 seems set to bring together a series [...]

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