Clip it: Paramount Cashes In

If you’re the type of person who thinks clips from Mission: Impossible might help you sell your new line of organic doggie pajamas, well, isn’t this just your lucky day.

It’s A Christmas Irony, Charlie Brown

It’s ironic, really, when you think about how A Charlie Brown Christmas has endured as a staple of the holiday season for 44 years. Leaning on a simple – even naive – theme of anti-consumerism, the Christmas special has emerged as one of the most recognizable – and profitable – brand names in holiday entertainment. [...]

App Club: StarDefense. This Time, It’s Round.

StarDefense is a twist on the classic desktop tower defense game: it restages the combat in three dimensions instead of two. In StarDefense you’re not defending a plane, you’re fighting on the surface of a sphere — a tiny little-prince-style planetoid.

10 Artists We Think Should Get the Video Game Treatment

With the news that Green Day would be getting their own Rock Band game a la The Beatles, that made us wonder… what other muscians should get the Rock Band or Guitar Hero treatment?

Faceoff: Goo.gl vs. Bit.ly

Looks like Google has updated its hit list.

Nexus One: New Specs, Details

It comes as no surprise that the Android 2.1 ROM from the Nexus One has leaked. It’s already been ported to other Android devices like the Droid, but what’s most intriguing about the leak is that it reveals a handful of key hardware specs. The most notable of the bunch being libraries specific to Qualcomm’s [...]

Branson Still Won’t Invite Me To Necker Island

I’d like to think that Sir Richard and I are homeboys by now, but several interviews later and I still don’t have an invite to Necker Island.

I Spent The Day At Ford and Almost Puked

A week or two before Techland launched, I trekked across the country to Michigan for the first time. Ford wanted me to take a spin in their VIRRTEX driving simulator and I happily obliged. Not that they paid for me to get there or put me up anywhere. I stayed at the Time house in [...]

Top 10 Superhero Deaths of the Decade

The last decade was either a good stretch or a bad one for super heroes. It was bad because many of them died but it was good because at some point most of them came back to life. It’s impossible to write a list about super hero death without including super hero resurrection. Retconning stories [...]

Comics on our Pull List 12/16/09

This week the saga of Cap’s rebirth continues with Captain America Reborn #5. What will Cap do with the Red Skull behind the wheel? Guy Gardner, the sleeveless Green Lantern becomes so cheesed off he turns into a Red Lantern in the Green Lantern Corps #43. Incorruptible #1 shows us what happens when bad guys [...]

“Inglorious Basterds” out on DVD