Tron’s Binary Countdown Begins: 10100, 01!

What Avatar was to 2009, Tron: Legacy is hoping to be to 2010. Cashing in on a major league brand name, embracing state-of-the-art technology and jumping the gun with an ambitious viral marketing campaign, Tron was already making waves last summer – a good year and a half in advance of opening night – when [...]

Things I’m Catching Up On

It’s been a busy few weeks for team Techland. In fact, it’s been an incredibly hectic start to the year for me. I’m like a chicken with my head cut off and everyone at Techland can vouch for that. So in an effort to appease the many folks who send me things to test and [...]

The Daily Dose

Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010

Wired Demos Tablet App

Chris Anderson and the folks from Adobe shared a tiny morsel of what Wired might look like on a tablet last week at TED. What they showed was “live code” with actual copy from Wired and not a fancy mockup video like this one. What’s most interesting is that the design team that puts together [...]

Verizon and Skype Sitting In a Tree, So On and So Forth

A bit of MWC news that’s actually applicable to the US. Huzzah!

Episode 16: Windows Phone 7 Kicks Butt, Defendor Offends, Toy Fair Rocks

Peter Ha discusses all the buzz around the new Windows phone, rages on about how Defendor offends the superhero fanboy in him and raves on about all the cool things he and Allie found at Toy Fair 2010.

Toy Fair 2010: We Came, We Saw, We Picked The Best

Allie alluded to our Toy Fair adventures yesterday in the Daily Dose and today we bring you Techland’s Best of Toy Fair 2010. Selections were made for kids ranging in age from 6-90. Some are motorized and interactive while others need to be under lock and key, but mostly, they’re fun and enjoyable for all.

Street Fighter IV Dragon Punching Its Way to the iPhone

Capcom just announced that it’s porting over its Street Fighter IV fighting game to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Coming out in March, the game employs a touchscreen virtual d-pad to control the characters’ movements. I haven’t played this version of SF4 yet but I can only imagine how hard it’s going to be to [...]

Go Figure: Sobering Numbers For The PSP

SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3 came out today for the PSP: did anyone notice? There doesn’t seem to be too much buzz about this game, which is hardly surprising given the latest figures for Sony’s struggling portable game console. According to NPD, Sony sold 100,100 PSPs last month. That’s 1/4th the amount of [...]

Comics on Our Pull List – 2/17/10

Yes, there are event-y things going on in the world of the big two. Nights are still blackest and Hulks are certainly still falling but there are some smaller titles I’m looking forward to more this week. Although it got some bad reviews I sort of enjoyed Joe the Barabarian’s first issue and I’m ready [...]

The Hunger Games: What Happens Next

A few days ago Scholastic released the cover of the new Hunger Games novel on its blog. It looks like this: