This year saw the second edition of the Penny Arcade Exposition, Eastern Variant, otherwise known as PAX East. In the new Boston Convention Center venue, the 2011 fan festival saw gaming of every stripe celebrated with CCG groups playing Magic: The Gathering in the hallways, giant LAN parties for FPS and fighting game competition and …
Top Spin 4 Lets You Pretend You’re a Tennis Pro
Ready for a realistic tennis-playing experience? 2K Games’ Top Spin 4 lets you play as one of the pros so you don’t have to be represented by a cartoon avatar that no one will mistake for John McEnroe. Instead of just having your friends clap for you as you score that winning point, the game features an attentive crowd that responds to …
Lexar’s First With a 128 GB SDXC Card
Professional photographers and videographers, and wealthy amateurs, take note: Lexar now sells an SDXC memory card with a whopping 128 GB of storage.
SDXC refers to the latest generation of SD memory cards. Theoretically, SDXC supports up to 2 TB of storage and transfer speeds of 104 MB per second. We’re not nearly there yet, but …
Study: VoD Is Now 25% Of All US Video Watching, And Netflix Dominates The Field
It’s good news for streaming video enthusiasts, and even better news for Netflix: Digital video now makes up a quarter of all video watched in the home in the US, and 60% of that market belongs to Netflix. The new figures come from research firm NPD Group, and the Netflix flattery doesn’t stop there; according to NPD, Netflix topped the …
Apple Wants You To Take Your Old iPads To School
Okay, so you may have a little bit longer to wait than you’d like before getting your new iPad, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t think about what to do with your original iPads. Unsurprisingly, Apple has a suggestion for you about that: The company is supporting Teach for America’s iPads for Classrooms program, allowing people to …
Are The Reapers Coming in Mass Effect 2 Expansion?
Everyone knows those creepy-crawly planet-slaying Reapers are earthbound in Mass Effect 3, but maybe the alien invasion actually happens before the game arrives sometime this holiday. Place your bets?
I’m talking about that new screenshot up top, mysteriously tweeted by BioWare as from Mass Effect 2, and which may just be a peek at …
Gird Your Loins, Samsung, You’re About To Be Bangled
Chris Bangle, the most controversial designer of automobiles in recent memory, has a nifty new geek gig: designing cellphones and notebooks for Samsung.
A wee bit of backstory, for those one or two of you who don’t passionately follow design trends in high-end automobiles. Bangle, a stylish and persistently innovative Midwesterner, …
Cruel, Cruel Zynga Unleashes Rewardville on Unsuspecting Users
Confession time: I’m a Zynga addict.
Being able to access these games anywhere, coupled with the fact that there is always something to do, makes them unsettlingly compelling to me. Yes, I know the games are mind-numbingly boring — especially as compared to Call of Duty, Mass Effect, and even Monopoly. Nonetheless, I schedule my day …
Whitehouse.gov, Brought to You By Clorox!
Ever notice that most government websites leave something to be desired in the awesome department? Take for example the crazy mazes that are the Department of Agriculture or Department of Labor sites.
Well, at a recent Aspen Institute event on transparency and open government Blair Levin, the former FCC advisor and father of the …
Qik for iOS Lets iPhone, Android Users Converse
Apple and Google’s smartphone rivalry doesn’t mean iPhone and Android users can’t video chat. Qik’s new iPhone app provides another way to do it.
Qik Video Connect for iPhone, fourth-generation iPod Touch and iPad 2 is available from the App Store now for $3. It includes video editing for conversations, live visual effects, HD video …
YouTube To Pay $4,000 Per Minute For Premium Content
More details are emerging about YouTube’s celebrity channels, including just how much the company is looking to pay for the premium content. Spoiler: It’s probably more than you’d expect.
Advertising Age is reporting that sources put the figure around $4,000 per minute for the premium content, with overall deals said to be between $2 …
‘Homefront’ Review: Shot Through the Heart and Left for Dead
War’s a staple setting a huge chunk of the hundreds of big-budget video games that come out every year. Last year’s best-selling games–Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops–both took place in the midst of military actions.
But there’s one thing most war games fail to communicate and that’s the tragedy that results from all the …