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Google plan to buy Motorola Mobility an explosive development in tech world - The Washington Post
Just a few hours ago, Google announced that it would be buying the entirety of Motorola’s Mobility business for $12.5 billion. As far as explosive developments in the world of technology go, that’s tantamount to detonating a nuclear bomb . . . a big one.
Ownership of that company will hand Google substantial businesses that it has previously flirted with but never committed to. Notably, the business of producing and selling its own hardware for smartphones and tablets, and the not-insignificant side business of manufacturing and designing TV set-top boxes used by cable providers. -
The Top 30 “WTF?!” Moments in LOST History : Apropos of Something
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If this blog has a recurring motif, it is how history and strategy games are uneasy partners. Despite our tendency to look to the past for analogies and lessons, history is a mess that refuses to conform to rule sets and is constantly under reinterpretation and understanding. Even if “making history come alive” is a goal for many history themed game designers, it is a goal that must always take a seat behind the goals of balance and entertainment.
But designers and gamers bring their own knowledge and expectations about the past with them to any gaming experience. There is a growing understanding between the two groups that no grievous harm will come to history and that things look like they are supposed to.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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