Wednesday, June 23, 2010
When Peter and I got to the Nintendo meeting rooms behind the Japanese gaming giant’s huge E3 booth, Satoru Iwata was pecking away at one of Apple’s Macbook Pro laptops. He folded it shut and quickly stood up to greet us, but I found it telling that the president of Nintendo’s worldwide operations would be [...]
As a tech journalist I have a good record with firsts. I’m pretty sure I was the first journalist to see the iPhone. Ditto the Wii. Also the Xbox 360: in the months before it came out I spent a lot of time in Redmond with J Allard and the other guys who were building [...]
On the evolutionary ladder of human creativity, the internet mash-up rests on a fairly low rung. All the “creator” of the mash-up does is combine two things that someone else came up with. It’s hard to respect the creativity of someone whose only skill is to edit together stuff which already exists.
We didn’t get a chance to go in-depth with Driver San Francisco during E3 last week, but the floor buzz on the driving action game was pretty good. The Driver series was an early pioneer in open-world game design, and was among the first to showcase jump-in, jump-out carjacking mechanics.
Today, the court found in favor of YouTube in regard to its spat with Viacom over claims of copyright infringement.
Surprising nobody thanks to several early hands-on demos and leaks, Verizon and Motorola made the Droid X official today and announced a launch date of July 15th. The phone will be priced at $200 after a $100 mail-in rebate and a two year contract.
Wondering how the Futurama crew survived disappearing into a wormhole and ended up with a new season on Comedy Central (starting tomorrow night)? The first 90 seconds of the premiere explains all, and ends with the one of the greatest bad puns in television history. You know you want to see it.
By the time the doors opened, there were already 5,000 fans lined up outside of Universal Studio’s brand new Harry Potter theme park, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, ready to surge through the magical world created by J.K. Rowling in her beloved book series.
