Gizmondo Europe

The story of the Gizmondo handheld console and it's parent company Tiger Telematics Inc is massively entertaining. A steamy mixture of crime, car crashes, Sting, million dollar salaries, and a racehorse. Obviously most of that falls outside of the remit of this blog but I do have pictures of office buildings. Imagine the story of Gizmondo is the most amazing party in the world. Well this blog is in the flat next door trying to sleep with a pillow over its ears.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Copyright Infringement

A couple of things combined to give me the idea for this post. The major one being Fantasy Software. I knew they'd had a brush with solicitors acting for Douglas Adams over their game Backpackers Guide To The Universe but I originally thought they had been unlucky and just chosen a bad time to release a game with a title parodying The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy. That is, sort of, the case but it's also the end point of a trend of Fantasy passing off Hitchhikers ideas in the scenarios of their games. After I noticed that, I seemed to keep falling over examples of other companies doing the same.