Back to Karkand, BF3

Christmas came and went, but Battlefiled3 is still going strong.

The meaty 2gig update and download delivered in December brought many updates, ten new weapons, three new vehicles and access to some new, beloved and reimagined maps from the Battlefield universe.

These maps, unlike map packs in other games have the ‘new shoes effect’, once you have tried the new maps the old ones seem stale, tired and worn out. Whereas other games that offer map packs often lack the impact that Karkand has delivered. Continue reading

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Has Kinect been missing it’s own boat?

So, most of us have been ‘hands-off’ with Kinect for a year now, in fact Microsoft themselves have been lauding the devices successful first 12 months and the widespread innovation resulting from the “Kinect Effect”. The standards questions and expectations are still there, when will the device deliver a Killer App? When will it produce a hardcore game that is not designed for children and does not have anything to do with dancing? Or, has Kinect been missing it’s own boat?

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