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Angela Natividad
Angela Natividad is a freelance copywriter, journalist and strategist based in Paris. She co-founded AdVerveBlog.com, a blog and podcast about ads and design, and writes MarketingProfs' “Get to the Point!: Social Media” newsletters. She likes people and animals, but not as much as books.
Tweet her @luckthelady.
James Martin
James Martin is the community manager of music & TV tradeshows midem & MIPTV/MIPCOM. He edits their respective industry news & trends blogs (blog.midem.com & mipblog.com) and also covers video games and technology for French cultural weekly A Nous Paris
Tweet him at @jamesmart_in
Stuart Dredge
Stuart Dredge is a freelance journalist based in the UK. He writes about digital music for Music Ally, and about apps and mobile for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Appside, as well as his own Apps Playground site.
Tweet him @stuartdredge
Breaking Bad: Now With More Egocasting. If you’re following Season 5 of Breaking Bad as closely as we are, you know the madness hasn’t stopped escalating since Season 4’s twist (yet somehow inevitable) ending. Now, take your place in BB history. Sony’s Go Fring Yourself iPhone app lets you graft your face — or better yet, someone else’s — onto mild-mannered druglord Gus Fring’s, just in time for the epic face-off at Season 4’s end. Once done, share a video or photo of your nursing-home-wild-west moment with fawning friends who’d never be able sling meth and sell chicken the way you could.Breaking Bad: Now With More Egocasting. If you’re following Season 5 of Breaking Bad as closely as we are, you know the madness hasn’t stopped escalating since Season 4’s twist (yet somehow inevitable) ending. Now, take your place in BB history. Sony’s Go Fring Yourself iPhone app lets you graft your face — or better yet, someone else’s — onto mild-mannered druglord Gus Fring’s, just in time for the epic face-off at Season 4’s end. Once done, share a video or photo of your nursing-home-wild-west moment with fawning friends who’d never be able sling meth and sell chicken the way you could.Breaking Bad: Now With More Egocasting. If you’re following Season 5 of Breaking Bad as closely as we are, you know the madness hasn’t stopped escalating since Season 4’s twist (yet somehow inevitable) ending. Now, take your place in BB history. Sony’s Go Fring Yourself iPhone app lets you graft your face — or better yet, someone else’s — onto mild-mannered druglord Gus Fring’s, just in time for the epic face-off at Season 4’s end. Once done, share a video or photo of your nursing-home-wild-west moment with fawning friends who’d never be able sling meth and sell chicken the way you could.

Breaking Bad: Now With More Egocasting.

If you’re following Season 5 of Breaking Bad as closely as we are, you know the madness hasn’t stopped escalating since Season 4’s twist (yet somehow inevitable) ending.

Now, take your place in BB history. Sony’s Go Fring Yourself iPhone app lets you graft your face — or better yet, someone else’s — onto mild-mannered druglord Gus Fring’s, just in time for the epic face-off at Season 4’s end. Once done, share a video or photo of your nursing-home-wild-west moment with fawning friends who’d never be able sling meth and sell chicken the way you could.

Sony buys Gaikai. Cloud gaming is GO for next-gen consoles…

Cloud-gaming services like OnLive and Gaikai are clearly disruptive technologies for the games industry, removing the need for people to own a powerful console to play powerful console games. But how can they reach the widest possible audience? Perhaps from within… a console maker?

Well, Sony Computer Entertainment has bought Gaikai for $380m, a not-so subtle hint that cloud gaming will be an important part of its next-generation PlayStation console – or, indeed, Sony’s other consumer technology products like TVs and Blu-ray players.

Here’s Sony’s Andrew House: “SCE will deliver a world-class cloud-streaming service that allows users to instantly enjoy a broad array of content ranging from immersive core games with rich graphics to casual content anytime, anywhere on a variety of internet-connected devices.”

The console industry is already being disrupted by social and mobile/tablet gaming. Could services like Gaikai be its way of fighting back and retaining its mainstream relevance in the coming years? And just as importantly, will Microsoft now move to snap up Gaikai’s fellow cloud-gaming service OnLive?

Watch this space.