I’ve been very interested in Amazon’s Kindle device since it first launched a couple of years ago. It’s not only an E-Book reader but has a built in modem that allows it to go online to the Amazon store and selected websites. I noticed that there were many free blogs available for subscription for the device and thought I would apply to get this blog available for the Kindle too. To my surprise it has been accepted and Amazon have listed it at a $1.99 price tag (content providers have no control over pricing).
Amazon pass on 30% of the selling price to the content creator which might not sound like a great deal, it typically costs me nothing to create my content so anything is profit. But in the end I’m not really in this for the money, however I’m quite interested to see if any Kindle users do check me out.
So whilst I’m terribly excited that Kindle Owners can subscribe to me direct from their Kindle and have my blog with them 24 hours a day, I do wonder if I need to add more stuff to make it worth while – especially if they have to pay.
I’d be interested in hearing from anyone with Kindle experience both on the hardware side as well as producing content for it.
If you didn’t already know, Dodge Ball is primarily a school game for children (also played by adults) in which one team throw a red ball towards their opponents in an attempt to hit them. If a player gets hit he or she is out of the game but if they catch the ball, then it’s the thrower who is goes out instead. Hard throwing and good dodging skills are very important in Dodge Ball and typically this is one of those games that sort the Jocks from the Nerds; long before kids get off to high school and college when American Football takes over as the coolness decider and sport of choice. Now I don’t know about you but the thought of mixing a brutal kids sport with the awesomeness of Pirates and Ninja’s get’s me pretty excited. This is where my review of Pirates vs Ninja’s for Wii comes in.
You can read the rest of my review over at Wiigamereview
I got a very kind email asking for me to host this trailer for the upcoming Harry Potter video game. Had a problem hosting it myself so got it off YouTube instead. I must say it’s looking pretty cool.
I was recently informed that one of my site’s pages wasn’t displaying correctly (hardly at all) when using Internet Explorer. I’m not sure how it got there, but a huge wad of strange text was at the top of my HTML and was screwing things up. Interestingly the garbage code was ignored by Firefox, Opera and Chrome without problems.
When it comes down to it Russ Greeno is a fairly easy going and polite chap. If he had any friends they’d probably back this up with stories of kindness, generosity and other happy examples of Russ being lovely. However just like Bruce Banner; Russ Greeno can turn totally insane if something makes him angry. So here just for you are the 5 things which you should avoid doing in Russ’ direction to avoid his wrath.
For reference the last tennis game I played most recently was Sega Superstars Tennis for Wii and whilst it was fun it neither managed to recapture the initial fun of Wii Sports Tennis nor the typical Nintendo charm found in Mario Tennis. As much as I like Sonic and his friends they just don’t have the same level of personality as Mario and his pals do but maybe I’m just being a biased Nintendo fanboy. Anyway I digress.
Real time strategy games have never been my favourite game genre and if I’m honest I’ve only played a handful in the last few years. I tend to prefer more lightweight RTS games such as Pikmin or Mega Lo Mania. I just couldn’t get into Command and Conquer and the many others that were popular on the PC during the late 90’s. Empire Total War comes from the Creative Assembly crew that bought us recent console game Stormrise as well the other more well known Total War games such as Rome and Medieval.
With combined sales of around 100 million Nintendo DS and Nintendo DS lites one would wonder if Nintendo needed to develop a third iteration of their dual screen money printing machine but they have done it anyway. Have Nintendo improved on the already popular DSlite enough to warrant a new model and an increase in price? We’ll find out in my review of the Nintendo DSi.
With combined sales of around 100 million Nintendo DS and Nintendo DS lites one would wonder if Nintendo needed to develop a third iteration of their dual screen money printing machine but they have done it anyway. Have Nintendo improved on the already popular DSlite enough to warrant a new model and an increase in price? We’ll find out in my review of the Nintendo DSi.