What kind of freedom does digital distribution afford you, when compared to traditional disc releases?
As developers, digital distribution allows us to control the scope of the game. Being a small company, we wanted to make a game we could do well, creating a game with no filler. A traditional disc release would force us to make a …
Remember earlier in the month we asked you what your favorite Star Wars fan film was? Well we heard you loud and clear and Time.com has narrowed their list down to the top 10, using your suggestions.
Check out the video above to see which films made the list (and what the filmmakers have to say about their work).
And continue to …
Is there any really good history of the earliest Star Wars comics? It seems like those were put together under such weird circumstances.
RS: The first six or eight issues from Marvel were put together before the movie came out. They had some photos from the movie, but nobody really had an idea of what this was, and so things get …
It’s a known fact that TV networks crank the volume to 11 when programming switches to commercials. It can be both annoying and frightening all at once.
Gefen appears to have a fix for the nuisance with the GefenTV Auto Volume Stabilizer. Think of it as a volume attenuator, like the one you get with the purchase of high-end …
Everyone’s favorite DVR fanatics have just announced a revolutionary new product to compliment the rest of their illustrious line of goods, the TiVo Slide Remote. The QWERTY slider connects via Bluetooth and is available starting today for $89.99 on the TiVo website. Best Buy will begin carrying the remote this weekend.
“This …
I’m not sure that it’s a lawsuit that anyone has been waiting for, but you have to admit: There’s something kind of wonderful about seeing “Lucas Vs. Jedi Mind” on a legal docket.
The lawsuit in question is a $5 million trademark suit launched by Lucasfilm against a company calling itself Jedi Mind, Inc., which sells a wireless …
Mafia II
Publisher: 2K Games
Developer: 2K Czech
Systems it’s available on: Xbox 360, PS3
ESRB rating: M for Mature
System reviewed on: PS3
Ambition doesn’t make a good game. Great production values do not make a good game. Not by themselves they don’t. It seems like a continually hard lesson to learn as console cycles roll …
31:20 – Magnetic Harpoon Gun
Perfect for bringing down an AT-AT or as a makeshift hide-a-key for when you lock yourself out of that 35th-story Miami penthouse you bought as a little retirement present for a lifetime of fighting the Empire.
44:53 – Portable Droid Charger
What, no solar panels? Probably just as well …
DC Comics has released a new promotional image for their Brightest Day event, one that links together already-released alternate covers with previously unseen material for a round-robin tease that cries out for decryption.
What seems obvious: It’s all the Brightest Day returnees from beyond the grave, sitting …
The first time I saw Star Wars I was really freaking scared.
I was 7 in the spring of 1977, and I had already been traumatized by Young Frankenstein. Yeah, I ended that one out in the lobby. So uppermost in my mind, as we drove out to the Burlington (Mass.) Mall Cinema, where Star Wars was playing, was whether or not I could gut out …
You have to hand it to Stan Lee and Boom! Studios: Their latest promotion for their new line of superhero books has managed to make buying the books seem like part of a much nobler quest to keep superheroes alive. Watch for yourself:
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It’s that part at the end that gets me. “This …
Mike Masnick over at Techdirt, who had a kind word for my first post about “nothing to hide,” draws my attention to a short scholarly essay on the subject by GW Law School’s Daniel Solove. By way of rebutting the claim that we don’t need privacy if we do no wrong, Solove lays out what he calls a taxonomy of the many issues …
