Well, you’ve come to the right place. Herein lies the ultimate list of geek-splosive Valentine’s Day gifts for that special someone in your life.
Some say the tech sector has no business trying to cultivate a lovey-dovey crowd; that heart-shaped USB drives and the like are little more than silly pandering to a savvy demographic of …
So what’d everybody think of all the Super Bowl ads last night? While there’s been some discussion as to whether or not Groupon’s ads were the most offensive or all the ads in general have just plain stunk lately, let’s not forget all the awful, overfunded, offensive ads from years past.
Here’s a look at some of the tech-centric …
Unsettling developments, on several fronts:
U.S. surveillance. The Obama administration, once again, is reaching farther than its predecessor on electronic surveillance. Now it wants a law requiring internet service providers to keep logs of their customers on the web — all of them, not suspected bad actors — just in case the …
Guess which two classic blasts from the past are about to get resurrected as Facebook games? Don’t look up there at the title! Okay, go ahead. Too late.
The Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? are set to make their return to the edutainment world as Facebook games. The Oregon Trail will be available tomorrow, …
We’ve seen cyberwar declared before, but the one playing out in Egypt is my own candidate for World Web War I. Hosni Mubarak fired the first shot, switching off the internet and mobile phones after crude attempts to block Twitter and Facebook fell apart. The web fought back in ways we haven’t seen before, and it’s winning.
It no …
In the first part of the talk with Brink‘s lead writer Ed Stern, he talked about how the look of the game can inspire plot and gameplay ideas. In this interview, art director Olivier Leonardi–the man in charge of Brink’s aesthetic–discusses how the eco-pocalypse FPS’ distinctive approach to character and environmental design came …
Love is in the air this month, and it’s not only for your significant other. We at Techland are excited about the new releases in the tech and nerd world, and we’re eagerly counting down the days to when we can finally get our Verizon iPhone or play Bulletstorm. Want to see what else is on our wish list for the next 28 days? Check it out …
There’s a lot of moaning about how so little though goes into the story and scenarios of most video games and the first-person shooter genre, especially, catches a lot of that criticism. Some of that grousing is justified, with all the grim, square-jawed super-soldiers and cookie-cutter corridor combat that gets churned out year after …
The Verizon iPhone will be here before you know it and though the hardware behind the AT&T iPhone and the Verizon iPhone is nearly identical, the service plans offered by AT&T and Verizon differ enough to warrant a closer look. The voice plans offered by the two companies are the same, but the required data plans and optional text …
Dead Space 2
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Visceral Games
Systems it’s available on: PS3/Xbox 360
ESRB rating: Mature
System reviewed on: Xbox 360
In the year 2511 on one of Saturn’s moons, a man with serious girlfriend issues dismembers a race of alien monsters called Necromorphs. Dead Space 2–already positioned to …
It’s been an interesting couple of days for Jim Greer, CEO of Kongregate. The web portal destination for independently-developed, browser-based games launched the Kongregate Arcade app on Android Market earlier this week. Bringing 300 of the site’s best games to the millions of Android devices out in the world meant that users got a …
Google’s Eric Schmidt announced today that company co-founder Larry Page would take on the role of CEO in April of this year, a huge shake up for the tech giant. In a blog post, now-Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt revealed that he’ll be overseeing things from a new chairman’s post while Page would inherit the day-to-day operations …
