Thursday, April 1, 2010
Today in Techland: We still can’t get over today’s casting bombshells: Dweeby Micheal Cera as the Riddler? Charlie Sheen as Lex Luthor? Did Christopher Nolan have a stroke? Thank god we’ve got another literary monster mash-up to look forward to: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manticore. Bring it on. Later …
Lot of old-school gamers will remember Paperboy in its original iteration, which was an arcade cabinet with a unique handlebar controller. A few updates have come out in the modern era but none have been able match the physicality of tilting and steering of the arcade version.
Until now.
Get ready to dodge those crazy poodles, …
Wednesday, Mar. 31, 2010
Today in Techland: Steve caught up with the lovely Kari Byron of Mythbusters, to talk about her return to the show, Evan brought us a look at upcoming game Spider-Man: Shattered Memories, and Doug tracked down the latest on the Loch Ness Monster. Happy hump day! And just in case you missed something…
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Details are starting to emerge about this year’s Spider-Man game and it looks like it’ll be a stark visual departure from Activision’s most recent web-slinging games. Actually, make that several visual departures. Shattered Dimensions looks like it’ll feature some reality-hopping elements, …
So it was revealed just now that Israeli-based PrimeSense is powering the 3D sensing and recognition technologies behind Microsoft’s Project Natal.
The PrimeSensor is comprised of three main components: PrimeSense’s PS1080 SoC, CMOS image sensor and an IR light source. So how do those three components make Project Natal work? Glad …
Last week, a few days before their big pay-per-view, THQ and UFC hosted a slew of journalists for a night of hands-on play with this year’s video game version of their mixed martial arts competition.
Now, I need to preface the rest of this write-up with a bit of disclosure: I don’t follow UFC or any other MMA promotion and …
Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2010
Today in Techland: We rolled out the things we’ll geek-out for in April. (Hint: Kick-Ass, Stephen King, Brightest Day) Doug declared war on that pesky rain, I showed some love for Rube Goldberg and Lev bravely went back into Twilight territory. Kind of a slow day all around, but just in case…
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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 …
Stimulus Package, the long awaited downloadable content package for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, hit the intertubes this morning. The pack consists of five maps, three all-new ones and two popular locations from developer Infinity Ward’s first Modern Warfare title. The whole 320 MB kaboodle costs 1200, or about $15.
Finally an answer to the ages-old question of where Pac-Man’s been lately. It seems he’s retired to one of Saturn’s moons. Mimas, as it’s called, shows Pac-Man frozen in full-on chomp mode as he prepares to eat Herschel Crater, which resembles a nice big power pellet.
The image was captured by the Cassini spacecraft as it
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Monday, Mar. 29, 2010
Today in Techland: The boys are back from PAX East, Evan is playing Metro 2033, Doug brought us some pretty sweet saves in his Monday Morning Tech Deals, and of course, we hope you didn’t miss the results from our Monster Madness Elite Eight match ups. Happy Monday, darling readers.
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Sometimes, the best sci-fi ideas find their roots in the real world. Take the setting of THQ’s new first-person shooter Metro 2033. Moscow’s Metro public transportation system was not only built to serve the purpose of ferrying people around a big city; it was also built to shelter citizens in case of nuclear attack. So, the game’s …
