Author: Jack Slater

  • It’s Time For iOS To Allow Apps From Outside the App Store

    Recently, Apple started removing VPN apps from their iOS App Store in China in order to comply with local laws. That may be something they have to do as a business, but it’s time to allow apps from developers outside of the App Store. Gruber: To me, the more interesting question isn’t whether Apple should…

  • Tacoma Looks Great; Out August 2nd

    The creators of Gone Home have a new game coming out. This time you are playing the role of protagonist Amy Ferrier on the Tacoma space station. Here’s part of Andy Kelly’s review at Windows Gamer: The first wing of the station I can access is Personnel. Now pinned to the floor by artificial gravity,…

  • Sick Crowdfunding

    Step 1) Never increase the minimum wage, which peaked in 1968 at (adjusted for 2014 inflation) $10 Step 2) Strip healthcare away from 32 million people even when they get it through their workplace. Step 3) Invest in tech startups and profit on suffering! Bloomberg’s Suzanne Wooley: Crowdfunding platforms such as GoFundMe and YouCaring have…

  • Apps Dropping from iOS 11

    Cyrus Nemati for Slate in an article titled “iPhone Gamers, Brace Yourselves for the App-ocalypse”: If you’re an iPhone user still addicted to Flappy Bird, be ready to experience withdrawal symptoms. When Apple launches iOS 11 in September, the company will drop support for old 32-bit applications—which is most apps released before 2014. Apps that…

  • Behold the Kickmen

    Dan Marshall of Size Five Games (Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please!) has put out Behold the Kickmen. It is loosely about the sport of football (Soccer in our state of America). In which you can play a single-player story mode or quick games of something very clearly inspired by football, if you…