SYRACUSE, New York (AP) — Police and firefighters were called in to break up what was described as an “all-out riot” between members of the Sigma Chi and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternities. According to witnesses, the adjacent fraternity houses were both playing a popular version of the video game Rock Band, called “Beer Rock Band,” when the …
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The Nerdies: The 10 Best Nerd Things of 2007
I’m on leave from Time for a month to work on a book, which is leaving me less exposed to nerd things than usual. I haven’t even seen fricking I Am Legend, for frick’s sake. But I’m keeping the blogging flame burning, sort of. Because, you know, it matters.
Today I spent my lunch break noodling around with a list of the best nerd things …
iPod Touch: The Last Review
Photo courtesy of Apple
Whenever a new product comes out there’s a massive rush by the media to get the first review up. Which makes sense, because we-the-media are like that, but it’s also kinda lame, because everybody knows you have to live with a gadget for a while to truly grok its tiny electronic soul. That’s why I imagine a series
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I Went to E3 and All I Got Were These Lousy Videos. Or Wait, I Didn’t Even Go to E3
Every year I very graciously get asked to help judge the Best of E3 competition. And every year I agree, because I genuinely want to judge said competition, and I genuinely believe that I will actually go to E3. And I end up not going.
But I do feverishly monitor what comes out of it. And I’m going to post the best/most important videos …
Games People Like Me Play: The Darkness
So I’ve been chewing my way through a new game called The Darkness. Trailer below:
The concept is quite an appealing mash-up (sorry for using what has become a journalistic cliche, but it is): A young mafia thug, upon being whacked by his own uncle, discovers that he’s not just a young mafia thug, he’s a young mafia thug who …
Ha Ha: Other People Don’t Understand Technology
Via Kotaku: Kia is doing a cross-promotion in Spain with Playstation 3. As part of it they’ve got a website up showing what it’s like to drive a Kia in a PS3 driving game. Except — as an astute blogger noticed — the license plate on the little virtual Kia clearly says “PGR.” It’s a model from Project Gotham Racing 3, a title that is …
True Tales of the Halo 3 Beta Party
There’s always something a little surreal in the way Microsoft handles previews of its Halo franchise. The Halo 3 event this past Friday was typical: instead of, say, staging a demo at a conference room at a hotel, they rented out a bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, complete with a doorman outside. You go inside. It’s dark. The …
Raw William Shatner Interview Outtakes Dump!
(This interview was conducted by my excellent colleague Clayton Neuman — henceforth “CN” — for this week’s 10 Questions feature in Time. I threatened him with my orbital railgun until he agreed to hand over the outtakes. They’re posted below in minimally-edited form — seriously, these are raw transcripts of a phone interview, so don’t …
Bad Director, No Hobbit for You
I don’t really get the new vogue on the part of studio execs for publicly calling-out the talent. Maybe they’re tired and cranky from counting all their money. But last summer Sumner Redstone got all up in Tom Cruise’s grill, and now some guy from New Line is all, like, no way is Peter Jackson making The Hobbit here. I don’t pretend to …