Hot damn. This remote control Mario Kart set not only lets you race your favorite characters around on your kitchen floor, but the controllers feature built-in virtual projectiles and power-ups in the form of shells, banana peels, mushrooms, stars, and more.
The karts apparently have built-in sensors, so when you get hit from …
Last Friday I did something I rarely do – take time off. I figured it being a long weekend and all, I might take the extra day to unwind and get some “perspective”. Well, I didn’t really take the day off. Instead, I went to the Cnet offices in Manhattan to sit down with Jeff Bakalar, Justin Yu and the lovely Natali Del Conte on …
Fact: the Star Wars franchise is a cash cow.
Fans of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series will be delighted to hear that Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts will be collaborating on the forthcoming Clone Wars Adventures that launches on the PC this fall alongside the release of Star Wars: The Clone Wars season three.
The …
Welcome to the Loadout. Our philosophy is that the working week is a recurring boss battle that you’ll need the proper weapons to take down. The supplies at hand won’t always be pretty but you might just be able to hold out until the weekend. Green means add it to your arsenal, yellow leaves it up to your discretion and red means …
Friday, May 28, 2010 – Hey China, You guys can finally buy an iPad!
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No Iron Man for two years? Nope. During a radio interview director Jon Favreau said that Iron Man 2 is the last we’ll see of Tony Stark until Joss Whedon’s Avengers film in 2012, which means, obviously, …
Both X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine have shown us that the young Professor Charles Xavier looks just like a CGI’d Patrick Stewart in an unconvincing wig, but Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class looks set to reveal that he was, in fact, a Scot with genuine follicles.
Wanted‘s James McAvoy will play the young Xavier …
Small children have no regard—NO REGARD!—for the fact that you shelled out $60 for a Wii remote and Nunchuk. And their hands are always covered in peanut butter, jelly, and who knows what else. The simple truth is that kids should have their own Wii controllers.
Thankfully, the Wii Kid Friendly Remote and Playchuk will be …
Engadget has received a tip “which has been confirmed by a source very close to Apple” that appears to suggest Apple hasn’t given up on AppleTV just yet. Apparently we may see a new revision of the device based on the iPhone’s operating system that contains only 16GB of storage but is capable of streaming full 1080p video with …
Transformers director Michael Bay clearly wants to touch your childhood. How else to explain the fact that, in addition to his uber-successful movies about robots in disguise, he’s just signed on to produce the movie reboot for four well-known Heroes In A Half Shell?
Bay’s production company Platinum Dunes has been brought in to …
In an interview with Bloomberg, senior product manager for Zune Terry Farrell apparently hinted that Microsoft might lower the price of Zune Pass. There’s no direct quote in the interview from Farrell, so I’m skeptical of whether or not Farrell even hinted at it. The only direct quote from Farrell mentions how challenging the space …
This can’t be good. Matias Duarte has left Palm for Google.
The now former senior director of human interface and user experience for Palm was the genius behind webOS’s user interface and his departure does not bode well for new owner HP. Google has confirmed with All Things D that Duarte is joining his former Danger cohort Andy …
Thursday, May 27, 2010 – Smell you later, FlashForward*
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*Series finale airs tonight on ABC at 8 p.m.
Sherlock 2 gets a release date: The sequel to last year’s Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams is set to open Dec. 16, 2011. We also …
