The home of the future will be insanely connected–everything talking to everything else. And while I don’t really care if my toaster is able to network with my coffee maker just yet, one of the things that intrigues me the most is the concept of a refrigerator that would be able to sense volume levels of certain containers and, when …
Films Worth Watching According to Red Letter Media’s Notorious Film Critic
Last week Red Letter Media’s Mike Stoklasa (as the crotchety, maniacal Harry Plinkett) assaulted yet another Star Wars film in his latest review. The victim was eight-year-old Attack of the Clones, and I’m sorry to say, it didn’t survive the attack. The film’s dignity was ripped out and left bleeding, and I’m sure even the “infallible” …
Flip SlideHD Review: When Good Enough Isn’t Good Enough
Today Cisco officially unveiled the latest addition to the Flip family: SlideHD. (I hinted at a new model back in January, by the way.) Flip products have always been simple to use and the SlideHD doesn’t venture too far off the reservation.
What’s unique about this particular model is the 3-inch resistive touchscreen (recording …
Quick Look At The Opera Mini Web Browser For iPhone
The Opera Mini web browser has finally been approved by Apple and is available through the app store. Features include server-side page compression, tabbed browsing, and bookmark synchronization. I’ve been playing around with Opera Mini for the better part of the morning and here are some early thoughts.
The Good
It’s very …
Gears of War 3 Trailer: Ashes to Ashes
Little known fact: I love the Gears of War franchise. Love. It.
By now you’ve read Evan’s interview with Cliffy B., so news of Gears of War 3 is old by Internet standards, but maybe not. In any case, here is the debut trailer for Gears 3.
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Is there anything more …
Apple Outs New MacBook Pros
Apple unveiled its updated line of MacBook Pros this morning. The 13-inch model starts at $1199, the 15-inch at $1799, and the 17-inch at $2299.
Highlights include ten-hour battery life and NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics on the 13-inch model. The 15- and 17-inch models feature GeForce 330M graphics paired with an Intel HD graphics chip, …
The Techland Interview: Cliff Bleszinski, Part 1
How do you plan on doing that?
We’re committing to four-player co-op. We hadn’t had that in the campaign before and the thing that makes it special here is the only way to play as Cole and Baird is to play as Players Three and Four. We want to find out ways to make players re-use the campaign and play through again, so if …
New episode of LOST airs on ABC at 9 p.m.
New episode of V airs on ABC at 10 p.m.
Apollo 13 & Nightmare on Elm Street out on Blu-ray
The Daily Dose
Monday, April 12, 2010
Happy Monday, everybody. Hope your weekend went swimmingly. Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the Web:
#streamysfail: Who else cringed while thinking back on Paul Scheer’s announcement that more than 750,000 people were subjected to watching last night’s award show? The main complaints go a …
The Forecast Calls For Death: Epic Games and EA Unleash Bulletstorm
So, hear anything about Epic Games this weekend? The House That Gears of War Built had its secrecy spoiled by a flurry of leaks, but it’s finally been confirmed that they’ll be co-publishing Bulletstorm with Electronic Arts. The sci-fi FPS is being developed by People Can Fly, the Polish dev studio responsible for Painkiller. …