Digital Design: 2012

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Is the gaming console dead?

With the acquisition of Gaikai by Sony, is the future of the gaming console dead? If you can play games on the cloud and it can be played on many supported devices, then what is the point of the gaming console anymore. Sure they can make it a cloud streaming device, but even that will signify a change in the video game industry. Is the gaming console dead, because of the threat of cloud gaming and the changes made by major corporations.

Cloud gaming has sparked interest ever since the idea was thought out and delivered. With its low price and access to many games all at once, it's no wonder it has sparked some interest. All you have to do is pay a monthly fee and you can have access to a library of games, that although limited, are popular and fun to play. Most people are casual gamers and this could prove a great alternative to buying games and the process of upgrading hardware for every new console refresh. This could save people more money and make gaming a lot more affordable.
Cloud gaming can also be supported on more devices as well. Game companies can now reach a wider audience in a shorter time frame and reach more consumers than ever before. This is because since games would cost less, more people will be interested in purchasing them and the game companies could not only earn more money, but also long term customers. This would be beneficial to the developers as the profits are instant and quick and to consumers as they'll be at a lower price.
Cloud gaming can also revolutionize the way we perceive of games. It could force developers to develop better games as now more people have a wide variety and can afford any game they want. Forcing the developers to develop better games would be great for everyone and we can finally see a better Call of Duty game. Jokes jokes. Better games = more people, how is that bad? With a new way of gaming, games might get better from the increased competition.
With cloud gaming becoming more popular, the fact that gaming is dead is long from true.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Get Playon for free

If you have an XBOX 360, PS3, etc. and you want to stream some services without XBOX Live Gold or want to access some American content like Hulu. Look no further than Playon and VPN.

Download the Playon trial and follow the steps.
Open the settings manager and go to registration and enter: User Name: michael nadolny License Key: 8C86-A5DF-7184-AED6-44E8-BE11-1B4D-6281
Exit the program and end all other Playon services in the Task Manager.
Go to run and type in regedit.
Go to HKEY_Local_Machine>Software>WOW6432NODE>Mediamall>System
Double click on the license and delete the key. Not the registry itself. Just erase the numbers.
Click on Advanced and click on permissions.
Click on SYSTEM and click edit.
Deny Query Value, Set Value, and Set Subkeys.
Make sure the thing on top of the entry isn't gone or the program won't run properly.

To Get American Stuff

From Windows 7 Desktop, click Start - Control Panel to open the control panel;
Click Network and Internet, click Network and Sharing Center;
Click Set up a new connection or network, then Connect to a workplace;
Select option No, create a new cnonection, then Use my Internet connection (VPN);
In the Connect to a workplace window, fill fields as shown in homepage;

in Next window, use free as User name field, and use 1234 in the Password field, then click "Connect" button to start the free VPN connection!