From the International Space Station to the snowy stretches of central Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts have safely returned to earth.
The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Kelly and Russians Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri touched down today (March 16), a few minutes before 0800 GMT, bringing to …
Everyone knows those creepy-crawly planet-slaying Reapers are earthbound in Mass Effect 3, but maybe the alien invasion actually happens before the game arrives sometime this holiday. Place your bets?
I’m talking about that new screenshot up top, mysteriously tweeted by BioWare as from Mass Effect 2, and which may just be a peek at …
Because Techland loves you, we’re giving away five codes for Microsoft’s new Halo: Reach “Defiant” map pack, out today. Hey, we’re talking $10 worth of map pack here, or 800 Microsoft Points.
“Defiant” comes packed with three new battleground maps set in some fairly wild-sounding spaces. There’s one that transpires on an orbital space …
You’re wrapping up dinner at your favorite restaurant, but how do you reply to the maître d’ who hands you the bill and asks “paper, plastic, or semiconductor”?
With your phone, of course, and that’s just what Google’s hoping you’ll do when its new mobile payment service goes live sometime during the next four months, according to …
You know you want to watch live TV on your iPad, because what else are you going to watch live on your iPad, right?
Well now you can, courtesy an app from Time Warner Cable Inc. — full disclosure, Time Warner Cable was divested from our parent company, Time Warner, in 2009 — that’ll allow your totable Apple slate with its glossy …
The ongoing earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan’s eastern regions have video games companies temporarily shuttering online game servers and delaying imminent releases.
Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix said it would shut down online roleplaying games Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI, as well as its PlayOnline service, to help …
They’re birds, and they’re angry, and now they’re flush with $42 million investment cash, thanks to a couple of bullish venture capital firms. Which means? A whole lot more Angry Birds, obviously.
Call it the next step in a series of improbable victories for the out-of-nowhere game about a bunch of surly (but cartoon-cute) avians …
Hackers briefly punctured the Xbox 360’s veil of security yesterday, finagling an algorithm that generates virtual currency used to purchase items through Microsoft’s online games store. The exploit reportedly allowed users to reuse special access codes and rack up counterfeit Microsoft Points, redeemable for downloadable content.
The …
Critics seem to love Dragon Age II, awarding it high scores and spouting superlatives by the dozens. Techland’s own Evan Narcisse gave it a 9.7 out of 10, calling it a “heavyweight champion,” and he doesn’t even like fantasy games.
So what’s the deal with all the wildly-at-odds Metacritic user reviews?
The Xbox 360 version of …
According to a UK-based psychotherapist, playing video games for two hours is like doing a line of cocaine. No, really, that’s just what he said. As in lowering your nose to a mirror lined with white powdery coca bits and inhaling.
“Spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces …