Net neutrality. There are two sorts of Americans: Those who not only know the term, but have been closely monitoring the ongoing Net neutrality debate, and those who have no idea what I’m talking about.
But the decision today by a federal appeals court, which slapped down the FCC and dealt a major blow to Net neutrality advocates, …
According to Kotaku last night, the development studio responsible for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has apparently seen the exodus of two more members. Lead Designer Todd Alderman and Lead Software Engineer Francesco Gigliotti appear to be no longer working at Infinity Ward, if the screen caps from LinkedIn are accurate. Alderman’s …
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 …
Monday, April 5, 2010
Today in Techland: Peter got mail from Iron Man. (No, really.) Doug prepped for baseball season. (You’ve got to see these baseball gizmos.) And me, I spent all day re-watching Red Letter Media’s scathing review of Attack of the Clones. Hilarious. But just in case that’s not enough …
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Case of the Mondays? Well, we’ve got some free stuff to give away to cheer you up. I alluded to this in last week’s Techland Show and it’s now about to become reality. We have an autographed copy of The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: The 11 1/2 Anniversary Edition for one lucky reader.
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It’s official: Reach is going to ramp up Halo to a new level of crazy. The multiplayer trailer released by Bungie a while back teased a ton of new features including jetpacks and up-close-and-personal assassinations. Now, on Bungie.net, details get discussed about …
Players of the first Mass Effect will remember the Mako. It was the deeply flawed wheeled personnel vehicle from ME1. People hated that thing and it’s easy to see why. The Mako jumped like a three-legged dog trying to snatch a biscuit it didn’t really want. Lining up targets with the transport’s guns was scream-inducing, since …
Friday, April 2, 2010
Today in Techland: We’ve got iPad fever like everyone else – will you be lining up for hours? – but we took some time out of the tech haze to bring you our take on Clash of the Titans (hint: Bor-ing) and the next round of our Monster Madness bracket chosen by a very special guest: the guys from Penny …
Because gaming moves at the speed of light, it’s easy to gloss over or outright miss the quirky, bizarre or just plain interesting elements that go into the games we obsess over. Continue? will be where we dig back into the used bins and back-catalogue stacks to talk about the trends, personalities and uniqueness that powers the video …
When I sat down with members from the Ruffian development studio this week, I offered the opinion that Pacific City should be an idyllic urban center now. After all, gamers everywhere cleaned up every last bit of crime in the first Crackdown. That hit Xbox 360 exclusive put you in the boots of a genetically engineered Agency supercop, …
Video games for the iPad will quickly climb the charts and become the best selling paid apps when it launches tomorrow. Here are 10 must have titles to tide you over until they release the kraken.
Guess what? Our gallery is busted and likes to strip out code. So here’s the full list of games with links to iTunes.
In an interview with Techland, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts the existence of machines with human-level intelligence by 2029, offers advice to inventors, and discusses how you can prepare yourself for the very real possibility of human immortality in the not-too-distant future.
Dr. Kurzweil will be delivering a keynote …
