Rovio and 20th Century Fox are taking fans of the Angry Bird franchise to Rio for the next installment. According to PC Mag, Angry Birds Rio will be a little different from the original game and related to RIO, 20th Century Fox’s new bird-themed animated movie.
After the angry birds are kidnapped by an evil white parrot and taken to …
This seems a little too good to be true but rumor has it that Amazon may be getting into the unlimited video streaming game a la Netflix.
That in and of itself isn’t all that unbelievable, but there seems to be some indication that the unlimited streaming deal may be tied into Amazon’s expedited shipping program, called Amazon Prime …
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Vizio 42-inch 1080p TV: $600 at Amazon (today only)
With the Super Bowl coming up this Sunday, TV deals abound. Amazon starts things off with a 42-inch Vizio priced at $600—that’s over $100 off its regular price.
Free shipping, too. The deal’s good today only.
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Marvel and DC are already gearing up for this year’s big superhero comics crossover events. The shape of Marvel’s Fear Itself is not yet entirely clear, but it’ll involve a central seven-issue miniseries by Matt Fraction and Stuart Immonen (which launches in April), a seven-issue secondary miniseries called Fear Itself: The Home Front, a …
There’s a lot of moaning about how so little though goes into the story and scenarios of most video games and the first-person shooter genre, especially, catches a lot of that criticism. Some of that grousing is justified, with all the grim, square-jawed super-soldiers and cookie-cutter corridor combat that gets churned out year after …
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech links so far. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
Amazon rolling out Netflix-like unlimited video streaming for Prime subscribers?
Link: Engadget
If you pay $79 per year for Amazon’s “Prime” expedited shipping service, you may soon get …
Mark Zuckerberg came face-to-face with not just one, but two evil twins Saturday. (Yes, Andy. “Awkward” is right.)
The Facebook CEO joined actors Jesse Eisenberg and Andy Samberg on stage for Saturday Night Live’s opening monologue after arguing that he was, in fact, the real Mark Zuckerberg. “That guy’s like my evil twin, …
Tweetdeck has decided that 140 characters isn’t enough anymore. The company has announced Deck.ly, a new service that allows users to post tweets longer than 140 characters. Similar to the already existing Twitlonger, Deck.ly will let users post longer tweets that will be linked to on Twitter and then available to read in full on a …
Internet retail giant Amazon.com released its Q4 2010 earnings yesterday, highlighted by “two big milestones” according to company founder Jeff Bezos.
Amazon reported Q4 as the first quarter that it cleared $10 billion in sales—it almost hit $13 billion, actually, with the final tally settling in at $12.95 billion. The company also …
If you downloaded the new PS3 firmware 3.56 update and you happened to, um, tweak the Call of Duty: Black Ops game to boost your stats, you might have found yourself among the angry people who had their account blocked.
It seems to be part of Sony’s promise to crack down on piracy; last weeks Xbox 360 firmware 3.56 update blocked …
Confusion no more! If the US Commerce Department has its way, juggling multiple different passwords for all your different online accounts will be a thing of the past. The department is heading up a plan for a new online security system that will use one single log-in at the start of any session to grant you access to any and all …
The announcement this week that comiXology would be offering brick-and-mortar comic book stores an opportunity to become its “digital storefront affiliates” is probably not actually that big a deal. Digital storefronts are not often particularly useful, or well-trafficked, unless they offer something that’s unavailable elsewhere. That’s …
