Showing posts with label Editorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Editorial. Show all posts

Chinese manufacturers and the sad state of after-sales support

Recently, India has seen a handful (and more) of companies entering the consumer electronics market. It does not take a genius to guess that most of them are from China. This has led to healthy competition in the sector, which is a good thing from the end consumer's perspective. This has also resulted in price and specification wars, which has ultimately led to possible scams like Freedom 251, Docoss...

A brief history of gaming - from arcade level games to smartphone applications and online games

Initially, electronic games were available only in specialized gaming arcades, where people had to shell out hard cash in order to play for a couple of minutes. In recent times, this concept was captured in the movie Wreck-It Ralph. Nowadays, this kind of arcades do exist, but their popularity has gone down considerably. Hugely popular games like Temple Run and Cut the Rope are found in arcades...