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Buying N.O.V.A. for the iPhone is like driving down the street in a stretch Hummer in a rap video, and you hit the button to clean your windshield, and instead of windshield wiper fluid, pure Close du Mesnil champagne (1979, a great vintage, their first bottling, 98 points in Wine …
While everyone’s chatting about the new Google smartphone the Nexus One, Apple just revealed that there have been three billion downloads from its App Store.
And one app that’s taken the lion’s share of those downloads is Pocket God. The mini God-game by Bolt Creative has players take the role of an omnipotent being ruling over …
After raking in a billion dollars and selling out a few thousand 3D screenings, the film force that is Avatar has seeped into TV execs’ fantasies.
Variety is reporting that FX just bought the basic cable rights to James Cameron’s blockbusting flick Avatar for a tidy $25 million sum.
But, take away the large screens, the surround …
Marvel is suing to keep the rights to superheroes including Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and X-Men.
The federal lawsuit filed Friday in Manhattan asks a judge to invalidate notices sent by the heirs of artist Jack Kirby to try to terminate Marvel’s copyrights.
The heirs sent notified several companies last year that the rights to …
LOST fans are gearing up for the beginning of the end. The White House is prepping for, yeah okay, something pretty important, too.
One of the possible dates for the upcoming State of the Union is Feb. 2 – the same date as the premiere of the final season of the ABC favorite.
Twitter and Facebook have been cloaked with …
Watch out, Wii.
At CES today, gaming hardware maker Razer announced that they’re developing a motion-sensing controller for the PC with the help of Sixense Entertainment.
According to the press release:
Razer and Sixense scientists and engineers along with select PC OEM partners have been working on ultra-precise one-to-one motion
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You guys have been great at submitting your captions. This week’s screenshot of the week is from a new batch of Mass Effect 2 images.
Here we see the game’s protagonist, Commander Shepard, in a gunfight. (Click here for a bigger version.)
Describe what’s happening below in the comments section. Maybe I’ll send you a cookie.
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Robbie Bach has just announced that Project Natal will be available this coming holiday season. An exact date has not been disclosed, though. No word on pricing or configurations. However, MS wants to reiterate the fact that Natal will work with any Xbox 360.
To date, Microsoft has sold more than 39 million Xbox 360 consoles and over …
Or as one staffer put it: “Irrelevant Company Hires Relevant Singer.”
Okay, you got us, Polaroid. You went and did something outrageous so that everyone would write about you. Congratulations. Here’s your obligatory-outrageous-move post:
Today amidst the tech frenzy that is CES, Polaroid announced that Lady Gaga will act as a …
Massively multiplayer online games these days are a dime a dozen, but the new game from Alpharetta, Georgia-based Hi-Rez Studios is trying to mix up the genres at least. According to Hi-Rez, Global Agenda is a blend of sci-fi and secret agent, which the developers are dubbing “spy-fi.”
The game’s deep backstory is set in the 22nd …
All the old people in the house say yeah!
The Apple II is the most underrated gaming platform of the 1980’s. People — me included — talk a lot about the greatness of the Atari 2600, but I owe just as much of my gaming DNA to our Apple IIe, with its 64KB RAM — that comes standard, folks — and its revolutionary four-way cursor …
As the video game industry continues to bank on sequels (albeit many good ones) to win over gamers’ minds and wallets, there are the game makers who are trying something new this year.
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Whether they’re new ventures based on popular licenses or entirely brand-new intellectual …
