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I have a shameful confession to make: I’ve never finished The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The furthest I’ve been? The water temple. That’s the three-quarters mark, true, but it might as well be the start, in view of the raves lavished on this game (you know, like “best game ever made in the history of civilization and frankly time …
We know Nintendo plans to unveil its Wii follow-up at E3 next month, but what’s this about Microsoft handing off its Xbox successor today?
[UPDATE: EA tells Industry Gamers "This story is a total fabrication – 100 percent not true."]
No joke: according to industry biz site Develop, Microsoft’s Xbox Next has arrived, and it’s …
Want to do 0 to 60 in under three seconds and up to 200 miles per hour on flats? You’ve got two options: Splash yourself with a shelf’s worth of random chemicals while holding a lightning rod in a thunderstorm, or pick up a C-X75 hybrid electric supercar courtesy India-based Tata Motors’ boutique car wing, Jaguar.
And you can have …
Still not convinced the moon landings weren’t faked? That the moon isn’t made out of cheese? That it’s not a giant disembodied man-face, floating free of earthly tethers? Why not hop a space capsule and see for yourself?
You’d have to be filthy rich to spring for a ticket, but say you’re flush and fearless: private space tourism …
You’ve seen them once, twice, thrice, and who knows, probably more. I can’t stand to watch them myself, what with out-of-place one-liners like “no one tosses a dwarf,” the scene where John Rhys-Davies harumphs off a horse, and the tone-shattering sequence in Return of the King where Orlando Bloom surf-skis like Brett Michaels …
From Avatar‘s tawny-eyed, blue-skinned aliens to high-def Blu-ray movies to Nintendo’s totable 3DS, everyone’s hip to 3D, and the latest company to hop onboard looks to be–wait a second, Intel?
Yep, Intel, as in Intel 3D microprocessors. No, you won’t need dorky glasses to run your next computer, but using sophisticated 3D …
Down, down, to obsolescence town–that might just be the broad-view takeaway from Los Angeles-based Digital Entertainment Group’s recent sales report (via Financial Times), which suggests new DVD sales in the U.S. plunged 20% over the past 12 months.
It wasn’t just customers fleeing a sinking ship: DEG notes the drop was in part due …
Sony just put up its response to the U.S. House of Representatives about the PlayStation Network debacle, and it looks like we’ve seen our first bit of finger-pointing.
The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing today in Washington, D.C. on …
It looks like rent-to-own retailer Aaron’s Inc. may have stepped in it–or at least stepped all over its customers’ privacy rights.
According to the legal firm representing a Casper, Wyoming couple, rental outfit “can secretly monitor ‘rent-to-own’ computer customers’ electronic communications in violation of federal …
Joyce Carole Oates, Francine Prose, Megan Abbott–names of note to literary wonks, but in a video game? As scripts go, the best the industry’s mustered to date–BioShock, Red Dead Redemption, possibly Grim Fandango and the original Gabriel Knight–pale in comparison to books like Black Water, Blue Angel, and Bury Me Deep. You’d never …
Oops, they did it again, or at least did a whole lot more than Sony thought until yesterday, shortly before Japan news site Nikkei claimed a second data breach at Sony HQ involved the theft of nearly 13,000 credit card numbers. Hide your wallets, folks.
I knew something was up when Sony Online Entertainment (EverQuest, DC Universe …
