Here’s yet the latest evidence that Hollywood knows a good thing when it sees it – and proceeds to then strangle it to death. The announcement just came down that a new director’s been signed up to helm the sequel to Paranormal Activity.
Yes, the uber-low-budget docu-style indie ghost thriller, which gained acclaim precisely …
Team Techland (me and Doug) are posted up at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston waiting for Wil Wheaton’s keynote that’s slated to start at 3PM ET. No More Kings’ “Sweep the Leg” is currently blasting over the PA system. We dig it.
A few things:
• Our live blog of Wheaton’s keynote will be light since we’re videotaping the …
Mad Catz’ Eclipse Litetouch keyboard sports a 3-in-1 LCD touch panel where you’d normally find the number pad. And while one of the three modes is indeed the tried-and-true number pad, you can quickly toggle to a media-centric mode or to a programmable “MyEclipse” mode.
MyEclipse mode features “12 pre-defined icons covering …
Yesterday, we brought you news that our cinderella, Lucy Van Pelt, had finally fallen to The Kingpin on Oolong Island, while The Flood and The Reapers dominated in Rapture. But who will advance in Narnia and the Phantom Zone?
We’ve got some serious match-ups today. Will Dr. Horrible be able to take down King Kong? Can Darth Vader …
MacRumors.com is reporting that Best Buy will be the only other retailer to sell Apple’s iPad on launch day, April 3rd.
Some details, for your infotainment:
1. It will only be sold at Best Buy locations that have special “store-within-a-store” Apple sections. So if your local Best Buy has a section that’s blindingly white …
Welcome to another episode of the Techland Show. Lev is still out this week on vacation, but fret not, he makes his triumphant return next week with Gabe and Tycho from Penny Arcade! So please stop complaining about the lack of Lev around here. It really does wonders for the morale of the Hive Mind. Really.
We went for the trifecta …
Doug and I are here in Boston prepping for PAX East and we stumbled upon this live action trailer for Ubisoft’s upcoming Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. As good as Activision’s Modern Warfare series is, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the Ghost Recon series. This, of course, shows zero gameplay, but hints at …
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
10% ($0 to $8,375)
Cheer up, big cat. You’ll …
The launch of Apple’s iPad is upon us and over the last few weeks we’ve seen more and more “details” pop up over the hyped tablet. Here’s a quick rundown of what you may or may not have missed.
Pricing: Apple is pricing iBooks to match Amazon’s Kindle pricing. 27 out of the 32 eBooks from the NYT Bestsellers section …
Do I really even need to type anything here? We’re looking at bookends with Darth Vader’s lightsaber piercing either side, creating the illusion that he came to your house, saw your Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book in plain sight on your bookshelf, and decided to create a paperback shish kabob. Then he got on the bus! You’d …
Comics about pop music are a tempting, vexing proposition. You can tell stories about bands (D.M.C., Greatest Hits); you can try to build narratives around lyrics (Comic Book Tattoo); you can make fantastic comics about the subcultures that arise around music, and the way people respond to it (Scott Pilgrim, Hate). But it’s nearly …