Fallout Parent Company Acquires Studio of Resident Evil Creator

ZeniMax Media–the company that owns Fallout: New Vegas publisher Bethesda Softworks–announced the acquisition of Tango Gameworks, the development studio founded by Shinji Mikami.

China’s Supercomputer Fastest in the World, Has American Parts

China’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer just turned in the fastest performance score in the world: 2.507 petaflops. That’s “more than 40% higher” than the score set by the “Jaguar” supercomputer housed here in the U.S. at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, according to the Wall Street Journal.

AutoBot Connects Your Car to the Net, Offers Phone Control

Your car is a big computer of sorts, your cell phone is a small computer of sorts; why not connect the two? That’s the promise of AutoBot, a $300 device that hooks into your vehicle’s OBD-II connector and relays diagnostic information to your cell phone, integrates with mapping functions, and lets you start and unlock [...]

Paris Games Week in Paris, France

Daily Dose

“You want to know the real reason why I freed those dolphins? It’s because I felt like they were calling to me,” Arthur “AC” Curry from Aquaman

Syfy Cancels Caprica, Pulls Show Entirely From Schedule

Syfy has announced that they are not only not renewing Caprica, but they will be removing the remaining episodes from their schedule starting next Tuesday, with the intent to air them at some point in the first part of 2011. While the cancellation of the show isn’t unexpected considering continually falling ratings, pulling the remaining [...]

My Favorite Zombie: Ed from Shaun of the Dead

To celebrate the premiere of The Walking Dead on AMC this Sunday, we here at Techland will be picking out our favorite formerly deceased monsters across comics, games, film and other media. The zombie myth’s been around for centuries and has been reinterpreted almost as much as vampire lore. At their most basic, though, zombies [...]

The Dark Knight Also Rises For Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan has revealed the title of his third Batman movie, but he’s not so eager to give away what it’s about just yet. Nolan told the LA Times’ Geoff Boucher that the follow-up to The Dark Knight will be called The Dark Knight Rises, and that it will “use many of the same characters [...]

Samsung Galaxy Tab Pricing and Availability Roundup

T-Mobile: Wednesday, November 10th

Comics on Our Pull List

Here are some comic books (and one hard cover) that are dropping today. I can’t promise great reads in all of these but there is something about each one that I’m intrigued by. Here I use ‘intrigued’ in the voice of a typical Bond villain, swivel chair and unnerving grin are implied. Come back tomorrow [...]

Avatar 2 And 3 Confirmed For 2014, 2015

Fox has announced that James Cameron’s next two movies will be Avatar 2 and Avatar 3, with production beginning next year and the release of the movies planned for December 2014 and 2015, respectively. The news is surprising only insofar as it means that Cameron won’t be involved in Sony’s rumored 3D Cleopatra movie starring [...]