Tuesday, July 13, 2010 – Happy Geekness Day!
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Peter Jackson Secretly Meeting With Hobbit Actors [The Hollywood Reporter]
Why Apple – Not Its Customers – Should Fix The iPhone 4 [Consumer Reports]
Verizon Wireless Summer Device Catalog Leaked [Boy Genius …
The Playstation Move will let you do a lot of things in the upcoming games compatible with Sony’s motion controller. It’ll be a racket, a sword or a showerhead and you can use it as a gun, too. Of course, the PS3 peripheral’s already been shown as a sniper rifle, a machine gun and other armaments in Sony’s first-party SOCOM 4 …
Via GamePolitics comes news that gamers of a certain stripe may handle stress better than non-gamers. These findings come from a study conducted by Texas A&M University professor Chris Feguson.
Here’s the pertinent quote from the TAMU press release:
“In this study, 103 young adults were given a frustration task and then
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We’re late on this, but in case you didn’t see it, College Humor knocks it out of the park with this “If Games had Super-Easy Mode” parody video.
The Duck Hunt and Pac-Man moments made me LOL but the guys at CH deserve extra props for the deep Battletoads …
Monday, July 12, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Despicable Me Tops Box Office With $60 Million Opening [via TIME]
Microsoft’s Ballmer: Windows 7 Slates Are Coming This Year [via ZDNet]
Army’s Self-Driving Trucks Let Humans Watch For Bombs [via Wired]
Skype Blocks, Threatens To …
The creators behind the classic Marvels series (as well as similarly wonderful Astro City) have announced that they’re re-teaming to honor lesser known characters created by Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America and X-Men co-creator Jack Kirby with a brand new comic, Kirby: Genesis.
Focusing on Kirby’s latter, …
BlackLight: Tango Down is a fully-featured FPS that’s finally been unleashed on the world after months of development. The game puts you in the boots of a near-future soldier as the member of a squad that handles conflicts in the world’s touchiest hotspots. The squad memebers all use cutting-edge military tech that’s based on …
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What do you get when you combine the action-RPG elements of Diablo with the tongue –in-cheek comedy of the Lucasarts Monkey Island games? You get Deathspank, a downloadable adventure being released tomorrow on Xbox Live and hitting Playstation Network on Wednesday. …
When Titans Clash…! Except this time, those titans are Marvel Entertainment and Ed Norton, arguing over why the latter won’t be reprising the role of Bruce Banner in the Avengers movie. The news broke as a rumor on Friday evening, and was quickly confirmed by Marvel Studios the next day, with studio president releasing this …
Dragon Quest’s a prime example of a game series that’s a blockbuster phenomenon in Japan, but is hardly known here. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, the newest entry in the RPG series, comes out this Sunday for the Nintendo DS and the series creator Yuji Horii will be appearing at the Nintendo Store this weekend to …
Curt Schilling won’t be eligible for Cooperstown until 2013, but he’s already a Hall-of-Fame nerd. The former Boston Red Sox pitcher has confessed his love for strategy board game Advanced Squad Leader and has been a regular EverQuest and World of Warcraft player. Even before he retired, Schilling formed 38 Studios (formerly Green …
With a game as successful as Dragon Age: Origins was, it’s probably inevitable that a sequel would be coming. But today’s announcement of Dragon Age 2 indicates that Bioware and Electronic Arts plan to take the fantasy RPG into a somewhat different direction than its predecessor.
It appears that you won’t be reprising the …
