E3’s still over a month off and Nintendo’s ship already has leaks: A Wii U trailer for Rayman Legends is circulating, packed with footage of gamers playing the beautiful-looking platformer on Nintendo’s forthcoming Wii followup.
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PSOne Game You Can’t Play Debuts on Vita PS Store
If you chance on an original PlayStation game called Buzz Lightyear of Star Command while browsing Sony’s PlayStation Store with your PS Vita, just click on by, because it doesn’t work — not yet, anyway.
How to Choose Between Cloud Storage Services like Google Drive and Dropbox
Cloud storage is in the spotlight this week with the launch of Google Drive and the relaunch of Microsoft’s Skydrive. Along with competitors such as Dropbox and SugarSync, you’ve now got lots of good choices for storing files …
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Google Sells SketchUp (Wait, Google Sold Something?)
Google’s “spring cleaning,” which involves the company reassessing stuff that’s not core to its activities, continues. It’s selling SketchUp, a really nifty program for creating 3D models of buildings, to Trimble Navigation. …
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HTC One S Review: A Winning Android Phone for Shutterbugs and T-Mobile Customers
Call it the great Android paradox. The whole notion behind Google’s mobile operating system is to give hardware makers software that’s flexible enough to let them build an array of different handsets. But when you start to …
Man Builds 1:6 Scale ‘Star Wars’ Arcade Game
While I certainly remember Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, my earliest memory of an arcade game is of the 1983 Atari game Star Wars. Now, a man going by the name of “Le Chuck” has built a 1:6 scale version of the classic game and put it …
If Harvard Can’t Afford Academic Journal Subscriptions, Maybe It’s Time for an Open Access Model
Last week, Harvard’s Faculty Advisory Council revealed that the school now spends $3.75 million annually on academic journal subscriptions. Why so much? According to a memo the council sent out, some journals cost the school up …
Video: Wherein Songs Are Skipped by Chucking Stuff at a Poster on the Wall
Agency Republic, billing itself as “a digital creative agency based in Battersea, London” has cobbled together quite a digitally creative way to enable anyone in the office to skip over unwelcome songs that have been added to the …
Brydge iPad Keyboard Dock Looks to MacBook for Style Cues
A new Kickstarter project called Brydge aims to make iPads more like MacBooks–just in time for Apple CEO Tim Cook’s comments about the danger of combining the two products.
Brydge is an iPad keyboard dock with a magnetized …
Will Google Drive Snoop Inside Your Data? Google Needs to Be Clearer
Upload your private diary, novel manuscript, amateur movie or digitally crafted song to Google’s new Google Drive and it’s totally impervious to company tinkering, right? Not necessarily. In fact the way things are currently laid …