I’ve got a whole host of things going on lately and really not enough time to think about or write about them all. I’ve got some cool new projects I’m working on, and work may take a big potential upswing this week (fingers crossed!).
In the meantime, this week there are a few things goin on in tech land. Tuesday is the launch of id Software’s latest game, Rage, which I have happily pre-ordered like every other id game that I own. Rage promises to illustrate id Tech 5 the latest incarnation to their engine and probably the only competitor (IMHO) that the Unreal engine has. I have nerd adoration for id’s Technical Director, John Carmack and the impressive amount of things he has created or envisioned over the last 20 years. If you do anything with computer graphics you owe this man a lot.
Anyway, Rage looks awesome. 3 discs? 25 gigs of data? This thing has to rock….
On Tuesday, Apple’s holding some press event. I expect them to announce a lower-end iPhone 4S model and a top-end iPhone 5 and a release date for iOS5. While I am in the beta, I’ll report on what others are surmising, namely FaceBook integration at a system level. Personally I’m more happy about iCloud persistent storage for apps and what that means for devices: Game saves in the cloud anyone? How about automated push downloading of the Daily without me having to manually fire up the app? It’s very exciting.
Plus, I’m looking forward to getting rid of the “razor blade” phone that my dropped, cracked, but-barely-there-still-works iPhone 3GS currently us. I’m due for an upgrade and I’m hoping to hear something good on Tuesday. Stay tuned.
