November 18, 2013

PS4 vs. Xbox One

In less than one week, the next generation of gaming consoles will both have entered the ring, ready to begin sparring for consumer attention. But choosing between them isn’t as hard as it should be.

To many, this generation is the most closely matched battle in console history, and purely on the basis of specifications that’s likely the case. Both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One are tremendously powerful machines when compared to their predecessors, with their full potential years away from being unleashed.

Samsung Galaxy S4

Have you ever seen those novelty weather rocks that you find at humour stores?

You know the ones: it’s a hanging rock and there’s a label telling you that “if the rock is wet, it’s raining”, “if rock is moving, it’s windy” and other helpful forecast revelations.

The Bookstore Scavengers

—Gary Jennings, The Journeyer

If a man is to have a fault, it should be a passionate one, like insatiable curiosity. It would be a pity to be damned for something paltry.

Playstation Vita

It has now been nearly three months since Sony’s much-anticipated PSP successor, the Vita (code-named NGP), was released in North America.

As an early adopter—thanks more to an excellent trade-in offer from GameStop than any particular fervour for the device itself—I have now spent an appreciable amount of time with the new console and wanted to assemble my thoughts in a way that might help those who are considering buying the device, as well as those who may have been discouraged by a proliferation of doom-and-gloom reports from various tech blogs.