Twitch Plays Pokemon

Over the past week there has been a wide event taking place over at Twitch.tv called “Twitch Plays Pokémon”, or “TPP” for short. It is an online play-through of one of the classic Gameboy games “Pokémon Red”. But it’s not just one group of friends playing the game and commenting on it. Twitch Plays Pokémon is literally 70+ thousand viewers including you if you watch it, playing through this game using only commands that you typed out on your keyboard. TPP takes the concept of a thousand monkeys in a room full of typewriters, and replaces the typewriters with one Pokémon game. The results may actually surprise you.

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Slacker Radio Service

Have you ever been working on a project and realized you needed some music to help you get through it quicker? On any other day you would go to Pandora radio, but they seem to have the same songs going each time. With little change you begin to notice how old the stations are becoming, and how boring the music really is. But you can’t skip over that song, because then an advertisement will play through. With all of the advertisements which seem not to fit the station you’re on makes it feel less and less like a radio, but more of a paying service. Introducing Slacker radio, an improved version of the Pandora radio service that has a wider variety of music.  When the advertisements play it actually fits the station and sounds like a live radio station. Multiple genre’s to pick from and plenty to listen to, give this service a try.

Slacker Radio

Will Video Game Streaming Services Really Catch On?

This was originally posted on agamingsite.com

Whether its queuing in line for hours to get the latest 'Call of Duty' or saving up every penny so you can get the latest game; every gamer knows the excitement of breaking that plastic seal for the first time and placing the disk into your console of choice, but is this set to disappear?
It seems that every industry is trying to move as much of their operations onto the web; an example of this can be seen clearly in the music market, CD sales down and mp3 downloads up its no wonder why certain business are encountering shaky times; but is this set to move over to the gaming industry? This inevitable move for everything to be on the web shows no sign of stopping and instead looks set to smash through gaming more then any other industry, with companies such as 'OnLive' and others researching into how best to enter this market. But should we embrace this or rather fight against it?
I for one feel like we should welcome this move as it can have big impacts and change many factors; one of which being environmental issues, with all the packaging that engulfs games today its no wonder that there is an environmental impact for clearing all this and recycling it, however with a streaming service their would be no need for any packaging at all and therefore have less impact. Furthermore the lack of packaging would also create a slight reduce in cost which would be much welcomed by all!
Additionally a streaming service would also make game rental a lot easier and eliminate the tiresome task of having to take them back on a deadline or otherwise be fined; as with an online service the game could just be removed from your account when your rental finishes and save you time and money.

There are many arguments against streaming games as well, although over time i expect it to be inevitable, as technological capabilities change so will the users experience in gaming. But will we still get that excitement of opening a new game out of its case? Only time will tell.

 What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments below.

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PS3 Media Streaming For Free?

The PS3 is a lot more than just a games console. In fact, a large number buy it for it's media capabilities alone, enticed by it's built in blu-ray and wide support for various kinds of media content.

Why then, is it such a major annoyance to set it up for media streaming? So many solutions to this problem are costly or extremely fiddly to set up.

Today I am going to show you a FREE piece of software that works on multiple platforms that allows you to stream, copy and transcode your media in real time from your computer to your PS3. Good stuff eh?

The software can be found here.

It's free, safe and secure, so download today. What have you got to lose?

I have included a demonstration video below that barely scrapes the surface and potential of this software, so see it for yourself.

Have fun

-Adam