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A Shot in the Dark: Video Game Screenshots of the Week
Video game screenshots are a dime a dozen, and they’re used as carefully parsed-out marketing tools for video game PR.
Instead of posting every screenshot we get, we decided to look at a few of the ones released every week and, in the spirit of box art reviews, make fun of them give our commentary or try to guess what’s happening …
Natalie Portman to Star in Film Version of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”
Maybe this will keep the vampire movies at bay for a while.
Geek-fantasy Natalie Portman will take on the roll of Elizabeth Bennet the zombie exterminator in the upcoming film based on the best-selling book by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen. Portman is also set to produce the film backed by Lionsgate, and we’re hoping she …
Want an Xbox 360 Elite Holiday Bundle?
Hello Techland Readers-
Hope this finds you well. In the spirit of holiday fun and other shenanigans, we’ve teamed up with the Xbox team to bring you two chances to win an Xbox 360 Elite Holiday Bundle that includes – you guessed it – an Elite Xbox 360, one wireless controller, headset and copies of Lego Batman and Pure.
We have …
Get Your Comics on the PSP, Starting Today
It’s new comic book day! And not just for retail stores.
Today Sony is launching their new digital comic book service for the PSP. Comic book readers around the globe who own PSPs can purchase, download and read comics directly on their handheld gaming device. For now, just Marvel and Disney comics are available (no DC yet), but North …
Dick Family None Too Pleased With Google
Like most of you, I immediately thought of Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? when news broke (you know, when HTC filed the device with the FCC) that the Google Phone would be called Nexus One. There’s an obvious connection to Dick’s Replicants. That much is obvious.
When Lev and I were looking …
The World’s First $99 Laptop
A laptop for less than $100? No, Best Buy isn’t going out of business.
Cherrypal, the self-touted eco-friendly computer company – Cherrypal.com is powered by wind energy – just unveiled it’s newest and cheapest computer yet – the 7-in. Cherrypal Africa. Make no mistake, as far as computers go, this is no modern marvel. On …
Clip it: Paramount Cashes In
If you’re the type of person who thinks clips from Mission: Impossible might help you sell your new line of organic doggie pajamas, well, isn’t this just your lucky day.
Paramount Pictures is now peddling movie clips to businesses through a new site, ParamountClips.com, which allows users to search through the Paramount Vault and …
App Club: StarDefense. This Time, It’s Round.
StarDefense is a twist on the classic desktop tower defense game: it restages the combat in three dimensions instead of two. In StarDefense you’re not defending a plane, you’re fighting on the surface of a sphere — a tiny little-prince-style planetoid.
Tower defense isn’t a genre that really needed much twisting. Put an IV in my arm, …
10 Artists We Think Should Get the Video Game Treatment
With the news that Green Day would be getting their own Rock Band game a la The Beatles, that made us wonder… what other muscians should get the Rock Band or Guitar Hero treatment?
In addition to The Beatles: Rock Band, we’ve gotten Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Guitar Hero: Metallica, Guitar Hero: Van Halen (out next week) as well as a …
Faceoff: Goo.gl vs. Bit.ly
Looks like Google has updated its hit list.
The Internet king announced it will attempt to conquer URL shorteners and dethrone current crowned-prince-of-the-short, Bit.ly.
Via its blog on Monday, Google announced the launch of updated versions of the Google Toolbar and Feedburner, as well as the introduction of the Google URL …
Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 Characters Meet in New DLC
Today Valve announced the first downloadable content for Left 4 Dead 2.
And if you thought just four characters were loquacious for a game about killing zombies, now we’re getting eight characters all at once. The add-on, called “The Passing,” takes place after Left 4 Dead 2‘s Dead Center campaign, which will have players encounter …