Some video game genres fit pretty easily onto Apple’s iDevices. Platformers do extremely well, as do strategy games and turn-based RPGs. First-person shooters have been a mixed bag so far, though, and getting decent multiplayer FPS action on an iDevice has been an exercise in frustration.
That said, I’ve been playing a bit with …
Concerns that the multicultural characters of Marvel Comics’ Runaways would become slightly more white in their upcoming movie incarnations have been lessened after Marvel Studios released a statement assuring worried fans, and updated casting notices to ensure that their intentions were good. How did this happen?
Well, it started …
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This full-scale pixelated ExciteBike-style motorcycle is one of a kind and totally impractical for actual use, which makes it perfect for you! Plenty of pictures of the build process are available, so you’ll need to commission someone to make one for you and then commission someone else to install a bunch of
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It appears that the Invisible Woman is on Death Row again. Marvel’s been making a fairly big deal out of Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting’s forthcoming Fantastic Four story arc “Three,” in which one of the long-running superhero team will die for realsies, and they’ve been understandably hush-hush about which one. This week’s Fantastic …
It’s undoubtedly missing a few grey-market ones here and there, but this publicly available Google spreadsheet from Australian site hdmp4.com contains an exhaustive compilation of Android-based phones, netbooks, e-book readers, portable media players and more.
There’s plenty of useful data in there, too, such as the type of …
It’s finally here.
A few weeks ago, the hilarious Matthew Latkiewicz, creator of Star Wars Yoga, was nice enough to give me a lesson. In New York’s Central Park, Matthew showed me how to get my midichlorians flowing while I did my best stretchy attempt to become one with the force. We even got a few recruits to join along. Enjoy.
Not since the invention of Tupperware has storage ever been so sexy. A bidding war between Dell and H.P. over the past few days has seen the two tech giants leapfrog each other several times over the small data-storage company 3PAR, with the latest an offer by H.P. of $30 per share, or roughly $1.88 billion.
So why all this …
What does Star Wars mean to me? Difficult to say. It means two very different things, depending on what point in my life you asked me.
I was born in 1978. I did not see Hope or Empire in the theaters. I did see Jedi as a five year old and worshipped it as a five year old would. Why wouldn’t I? It’s all plush freedom fighters and …
The Microsoft Store is blowing out Civilization IV: The Complete Edition for $9.99 until next Wednesday. It’s available in downloadable format for Windows PCs and “includes the original strategy classic, plus both expansion packs and the standalone game Colonization.”
The game’s successor, Civilization V, will be available September …
Next up was investigating a spire that projected an EMP dead zone which prevented UNSC sensors from scanning the area. Turns out the spire was a teleporter and the last part of Tip of the Spear showed just how serious the stakes of this battle were going to get. A UNSC frigate bearing reinforcements came into view and it looked like …
Of course, Shank‘s not a game on a disc so there’s no actual physical copy to win. What you can get, though, is an Xbox 360 download code for Klei’s gritty stab-em-up. All you need to do is sound off in comments and tell me who’s been the toughest, most macho hombre in video games up until this point. I loved Shank and think you will, …
At least that’s the way Logitech is approaching the launch of Google TV and their Revue companion box. Creepy.
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