Gut You Like a Fish: The Shank Review

The beauty of Shank is that it doesn’t overreach. The downloadable brawler makes good on a simple mandate: stabbing, shredding and shooting a whole lot of bad guys.

Ready to Rock: Harmonix Unveils Official Rock Band 3 Setlist

After all the uproar over the leaks and speculation, fans finally get an official RB3 song listing straight from the makers of the Rock Band games. Out on October 26 in North America and on October 29 everywhere else, Rock Band 3 will feature multi-part harmonies, pro guitar training sequences and an all-new keyboard peripheral. [...]

Red Bull Stratos: How Do You Document a Freefall From 120,000 Feet Up?

Felix Baumgartner is expected to jump out of a gondola from the Earth’s stratosphere – roughly 23 miles or 120,000 feet high. The Red Bull Stratos Project was first announced in January but a jump date wasn’t announced until recently. Baumgartner, a professional skydiver and BASE jumper, will not only break the free fall record [...]

The $70 ‘iPADock’ Charges Two iPads, Four iPhones, and More

The backside of the dock sports two iPod nano slots, a three-port USB hub, three memory card readers, and four USB power slots to provide juice to all the Apple products you’re going to load up. It’s perfect for a family of Apple owners or one very crazy Apple fanatic.

TIME’s 50 Best Websites: The Mobile Edition

Today, TIME rolled out its picks for 2010′s 50 Best Websites. This year’s crop proves itself a quintessential part of the Web, whether you’re researching, shopping or simply just browsing. But, as more and more users take their Internet usage on the road, we’ve become increasingly in tuned to the way our favorite sites translate [...]

Voice Calls From Within Gmail Looking More and More Likely

It appears that rumors from back in June suggesting Gmail would be integrating the Google Voice service into its chat features might be getting closer to reality. CNET has some screenshots and more information about what may be the marrying of Google Talk, Google Voice, and Gmail.

Interview: Tom Taylor on Writing “Star Wars” Comics

Tom Taylor is a young Australian dramatist who’s just started writing comics in the past few years, but he’s already making a splash, writing The Authority and several indie graphic novels. American audiences probably know him best for his Star Wars comics, though; we talked to him about his upcoming plans for a galaxy far, [...]

Google Earth For Android Lets You Explore the Ocean

While we debate over whether or not Google is scheming to do evil things with Verizon, there’s no denying the simple fact that checking out what’s underneath the surface of the Earth’s oceans on your mobile phone isn’t cool.

Apple Said To Be Readying 99 Cent iTunes Rentals, Sept. 7 Event

We’ve heard this before, haven’t we?

All Doug Liman Needs Is Kill

Director Doug Liman may have flirted with SF action movies before – I’m one of those who prefers to pretend that Jumper doesn’t really exist – but now that he’s been confirmed as the director of All You Need Is Kill, based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s 2004 novel, I’m hoping he’ll bring his full-on Bourne Identity kinetic energy to the job.

Q&A With Jedi Path Author Daniel Wallace

Techlander Mike Williams came across the Amazon page for The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force by Daniel Wallace a month or two ago, so we tracked down the author to ask him about it. And here’s what happened.