Retail giant Best Buy is looking to cash in on the onslaught of new video game titles that will be released over the coming months by expanding its game trade-in service to over 600 of its stores.
Our friends over at TIME Video have an interesting story on conflict minerals being used in every day devices – like cell phones and laptops – that are fueling violence in Congo, where the materials are mined and traded. Something that you may recall was brought up to Steve Jobs in an e-mail.
Garmin is recalling roughly 1.25 million personal navigation devices that could potentially catch fire. 796,000 of those units were sold in the U.S.
As an update to this morning’s post, Google has officially unwrapped free voice calls to any phone number in the U.S. and Canada right from within Gmail. International calls start at around two cents per minute, too.
Oh, okay; it’s not that kind of XXX screenwriter, sadly (But it makes a great headline, right?). Marvel Studios have hired Rich Wilkes, the scriptwriter behind the Vin Diesel/Ice Cube franchise xXx, to write a movie based upon the company’s 1970s kung-fu character Iron Fist.
This just in: Eddie McClintock does a great Joanne Kelly, and Artie’s gift for poetry leaves a lot to be desired. Was it just me, or was last night’s Warehouse 13 the best episode of the season? Clearly, my head was turned by the possibility that Myka would actually get a non-work-related subplot of her own for once. Here’re thirteen quick thoughts about “Merge With Caution.”
Thanks to being one of the most loved and profitable entities in popular culture over the last decade, Halo has expanded way beyond the gaming space. Books, direct-to-DVD movies and toys aplenty have all spun off of Bungie’s seminal sci-fi FPS. Marvel and Microsoft have put out a bunch of Halo-centric comics over the last [...]
This just dropped into our inbox. Looks like Bloomberg was wrong. Apple will be holding a “special event” on September 1 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco.
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The Awl described it as The Sheltering Sky set on Tatooine. I would’ve gone more with Eraserhead. Either way I felt strangely compelled.
