12/20 – 12/27
While sipping on our eggnog this week, we dutifully admired the Morgan Freeman Chain of Command, pondered the acid trip that is The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and nursed a pretty serious Avatar hangover. We also brought you our list of the biggest Disappointments of the Decade, a five-minute sneak peek video of the …
Christmastime is here. It may not surprise you to know that your correspondent isn’t a great lover of the holiday season. As I write this I’m listening to MC Kreacher’s “My Wish List.” It soothes my black grinchy heart.
Casual gaming has gotten me through many a grim holiday season. Snood in particular — well do I remember hours …
Instead of writing my own captions for new screenshots, I took one of our reader’s suggestions from last week and now I’m putting you to work. Here’s a new screenshot from the upcoming PlayStation 3 game Heavy Rain.
What do you think’s going on in this image?
Share in the comments. I know you’re not working today…
This via Slashdot: “hackers” have broken the DRM on the Kindle’s proprietary e-book format.
Interesting. Yay, says the anti-DRM, pro-freedom-of-information part of me. Boo, says the book-writing part of me, who fears widespread piracy will further cripple an already challenged publishing industry.
Crawl back into your anti-deluvian …
Today I went back Home. To PlayStation Home, that is.
The PlayStation 3’s online, avatar-based social networking community is filled with plenty of other player avatars, mini-games, shops, music, advertisements and video previews. I’ve only hung out in the virtual world a handful of times since the beta launched about one year ago …
After years of neglect it appears we now know what Apple is doing with the Apple TV: subscription TV services. According to the WSJ, Apple is in negotiations with CBS and Disney to stream their respective content over the Internet to the Apple TV. Yes, it appears as though Apple is gunning for cable and satellite TV providers. Tech …
It was reported last week that Google was poised to snatch up user generated review site Yelp for $550 million. It would have been a lovely acquisition and mashup with Google Maps, but something happened over the weekend to derail talks indefinitely.
TechCrunch is citing multiple sources saying Jeremy Stoppleman simply walked away …
12/13 – 12/19
It was another Week of Lists here in Techland, and for your amusement, we doled out more best of the year/decade lists in comics, gadgets, gaming and film. We also worked our tails off to prep you for what could be called the biggest event in film so far. So get your specs on, Avatar is here.
Oh, and James Cameron …
OK, listen, Star Defense. Stop crying. I know I said some things on Tuesday. About your gameplay. And it’s not that I didn’t mean them. But that doesn’t mean that’s all I feel about you. I want you to know — jeez, would ya stop crying for a minute and listen?
I’ve played a lot of Star Defense in the last four days. Which is not …
With Christmas upon us, all the year’s biggest releases have come out.
That leaves us with budget PC titles this week, but that doesn’t excuse them from having crappy covers.
See which games’ box art gets through our scrutiny and which ones don’t in this week’s unintentionally all-PC edition of box art reviews.
Late last night Twitter was apparently hacked by a group calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army. It turns out that it was merely a DNS exploit that redirected Twitter.com visitors to a page with the following message:
Iranian Cyber Army
THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY
iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM
U.S.A. Think
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Violence, sex, race, religion.
Certainly controversial topics on their own, but perhaps even moreso when they’re depicted in a video game.
Techland’s seemingly never-ending list features (we totally admit it) continue as we look at the most controversial games of the 2000s.
Though video games have been around for quite a while, …
