Extenuating Circumstances is a weblog by Dan Hon

Twitter Privacy Fixed, Area Man Still Angry

So Bobbie’s reporting that the hole in Twitter has been fixed, but there’s one particular quote in the piece attributed to Dave Troy, the developer of Twittervision:
“For what it is worth, the number of people who participate in something like Twitter who also opt to keep updates private is a pretty small percentage, and you […]

There’s a hole in your Twitter

Meg’s posted about Twitter’s security hole.
Really not happy.
At all.

PS3 leading cross-platform software development

So Destructoid’s picked up on a trend that what Haze and Devil May Cry are both leading development for cross-platform on the PS3.
I have to say that this jibes with a talk given by Richard Parr at Imperial College’s GaME 07 event. Unfortunately, I didn’t take full notes, but Parr said that with Burnout […]

London Gamer Geeks Night 2 (and London Gamer Geeks Night 3)

Wednesday 16th May saw the second London Gamer Geeks night, helpfully billed by me as:
A geeky games-type thing where we do stuff like:

bring your DS and swap games! (extra points for bringing a Game Gear or a Lynx)

shout about Sony Home! (and, by logical extension, how no one you know owns a PS3!)

make jokes about […]

SXSW 2007 - ARG! The Attack of the Alternate Reality Games Transcript

ARG! The Attack of the Alternate Reality Games

Room 9C
Saturday, March 10th 2007
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Part game, story and treasure hunt, alternate reality games introduce people to a world of creative play, skywriting, online games, phone calls, radio broadcasts, secret websites, blogs, texts, coded adverts, emails, hidden audio files and helicopter chases. What you need […]

links for 2007-05-23

Unlock Hidden TV Show Plots with Alternate Reality Games
ARGs are rapidly becoming a standard complement to television programming
(tags: ARG television tvshow wired heroes lost jericho 3300)

“MTV VIEWERS HAVE SPOKEN WITH OVER 1.2 MILLION HITS — THEY WANT THEIR HUMAN GIANT!”
MTV wanted 1m hits to their website to renew Human Giant. They got them. It’s renewed.
(tags: […]

IT’S LIKE AN RPG EXCEPT EVERY TIME YOU HAVE A FIGHT IT’S BEJEWELED

We talked a lot about Puzzle Quest at the last London Gamer Geeks night - Tom Armitage in particular relating his frustration at having to explain the game to all and sundry, when really, IT’S LIKE AN RPG EXCEPT EVERY TIME YOU HAVE A FIGHT IT’S BEJEWELED.

We thought it’d merit a t-shirt. So Tom […]

links for 2007-05-19

Gamasutra - PS3 Hardware Sales Slip Below 10,000 In Japan
PS3 selling badly in Japan shocker. Not as badly as the ‘360.
(tags: ps3 xbox360 gamasutra sales japan)

AOLMobileMystery.com - Nancy Drew and the Mobile Mystery
Looks ARGish. Very slick.
(tags: nancydrew arg aol aim mobile gaming movie advertising)

links for 2007-05-18

Preview - SingStar PS3 // PlayStation 3 /// Eurogamer
Aiming for 350 online songs at launch, with 50 added per month. Oh, and it’s got a social network. Which probably doesn’t work with any of the other ones. Sigh.
(tags: singstar ps3 online eurogamer preview)

XTech 2007: Widgets and Joost from Guardian Unlimited: Technology
Some notes on the Joost […]

Imperial College - GaME 07 - Creating Games for the Next Generation

I’m at the Games and Media 07 event at Imperial College today. Next up is:
Creating Games for the Next Generation

David Braben. founder of Frontier Developments.
Some history for those people who haven’t heard about Elite. Chairman of Frontier: RollerCoaster Tycoon, Wallce & Grommit, Thrilville, and Outsider.
The games industry is in the second tier of […]