Rethinking App Stores: Closed, Open, or Something in Between?

App stores are all the rage right now. App stores, app stores, app stores! They’re on our phones, they’re on the web, they’re coming to Macs, they’re coming to PCs—they’re here to stay.

Green Lantern’s Movie Homebase Revealed

Warner Bros has released concept art from next year’s Green Lantern movie, letting fans and those of us more prepared to be critical get out first chance to see what Green Lantern Corps home planet Oa will look like on the big screen. And the answer is apparently… rocky?

Your Next Movie Reboot: Hellraiser

You can’t keep a good cenobite down. Well, you probably can, considering that whole “Hell is down below” thing, but what I’m referring to is the fact that, five years after the last Hellraiser movie, Dimension Films are trying (yet again) to resurrect the horror franchise.

Hobbit Casting Confirmed

Now that Warner Bros has finally confirmed The Hobbit movie adaptations, and Peter Jackson has finally confirmed that he will, as expected, direct the movies, it’s time for the confirmation of the last everyone-knows-it’s-true bit of information about the much-anticipated fantasy project: Martin Freeman is Bilbo Baggins.

The iPad Says Howdy To Farmville Farmers

First of all, I’d like to apologize to everyone who has to see it on their Facebook newsfeed that I need someone to fertilize my crops or that a lost sheep has wandered on my farm and needs an owner. Sorry that I keep asking for wooden boards to complete my nursery barn.

Paycheck Friday: Purchasing Suggestions For Your Perusal

It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.

Emanata: Doonesbury at 40

The big “Doonesbury” news this week is that G.B. Trudeau’s comic strip is reaching its 40th anniversary–its first episode ran October 26, 1970. (Trudeau’s celebrating the milestone with 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective, a mammoth book reprinting about 1800 strips.) A smaller but welcome piece of news is that this week also sees the publication of [...]

Good News Everyone: Battlestar Galactica To Get Another Spinoff

For you BSG fans out there who want more than Caprica, Syfy has greenlit Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, a show based on the adventures of a young Bill Adama, will be coming to your television screens.

Fallout MMO Confirmed, Coming in 2012

Many gamers already now that the most recent Fallout games are just the latest titles in a heritage that goes back more than a decade to 1997′s Fallout. What some may not know is that Bethesda acquired the right to make Fallout games when original publisher Interplay fell on financial hardship. While that deal’s resulted [...]

TV Networks Blocking Shows From Google TV’s Web Browser

Well, that’s not good. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ABC, CBS, and NBC are all blocking their own streaming TV content from playing inside the Google TV web browser. I can confirm that ABC and CBS are doing so, but I’m currently able to play NBC shows without any problems.

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