The main message delivered by the current generation of mainstream war video games can be summed up with the words “War Is Not Fun.”
It’s not all that surprising, given the fact that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare games, Medal of Honor and Battlefield 3 all mimic ongoing conflicts with repercussions that hit close to home. But for …
Ah, college: the most and least amount of responsibility you’ll ever have at exactly the same time. It’s equal parts work and fun, kind of like these handpicked back to school gadgets and accessories.
Have a question of your own? Send it to tips at techland dot com!
Question from Tim: My brother just lost his iPhone and is debating whether or not he can muddle through with a disposable until September or October or whenever the new iPhone comes out. This ALWAYS happens with the new Apple products, right? There’s a period where …
Certain etiquette is quite straightforward. Always say please and thank you, don’t speak with your mouth full, and hold the door for a lady. But when technology gets thrown into the manners mix, many of us find we’re in unchartered territory—Jane Austen never had to handle Facebook!
Techland is here to help, with a readers guide …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
There is a debate happening in the industry about whether or not we are heading toward a future where all computing takes place in the browser or …
Have a question for Techland? Send an e-mail to tips at Techland dot com and we’ll do our best to answer it.
Question: Now that my friends are all jumping onboard this Google+ thing, is there a way to sync my posts with Facebook and Twitter?
Answer: If you’re a Chrome user, there’s a promising new extension called Publish Sync …
LulzSec’s inevitable made-for-TV movie, gadget price cuts, Steve Jobs vs. Mark Zuckerberg, and more: Here’s a quick look back at some recent stories from the Land o’ Tech.
Want more videos like this? Click here…
I’ve been sitting with Groove Coaster for about a week now, trying to figure out if it’s just really, really good or one of the best iOS games I’ve ever played. The reason this determination has been difficult is because, on the face of it, Groove Coaster‘s a relatively straightforward rhythm game. You know the kind: music plays, colored …
And so it begins again. Boy Genius Report has an exclusive scoop from an “unproven” (ooh!) source: Apple is in talks to buy Barnes & Noble, the country’s last remaining national bookseller. As BGR points out, the acquisition would get Apple B&N’s digital books and other publications (which it might conceivably want) and Nook …
When you’re God, the world is your puzzle.
That’s the main conceit powering From Dust, a game from legendary designer Eric Chahi, best known for his early PC gaming masterpiece Another World. It’s a graphical and aesthetic update to the god game, a genre which saw its greatest popularity more than a decade ago in titles like Populous …
Fair warning: We’re defining “man” here in a much more nerdy way than, say, the tree-chopping, Dos Esquis-swigging sense. Here, we’ll be talking about male tweeting tendencies when computed from raw data through a field of study called sociolinguistics.
The study here was originally uncorked by Fast Company and is taken from a paper …
What started as a joke holiday back in 2000 is now celebrated in several countries all over the world: System Administrator Appreciation Day.
The holiday’s inventor, Ted Kekatos told Networkworld, “Overnight I set up a website. It was tongue-in-cheek. I sent out an email to my friends announcing the holiday, directing them to the …
