Though folks scoffed when it was first announced, the stylus-centric interface of the Nintendo DS has only extended Nintendo’s domnance of the handheld video game market. Now, a similar gamble’s being made on Nintendo’s home console but it’s not Mario’s keepers who are rolling the dice. THQ–who, up until now, have been strictly …
5 Mad Men Scenes That Prove Betty Draper Is A Great White Queen
I know what you’re thinking: January Jones? As X-Men: First Class‘ uber-bitch, Emma Frost? Surely that’s not going to work.
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I share your concern, but want to offer these moments of hope. Yes, Betty Draper may not seem like the White Queen that we’ve come to know, love and …
Upcoming Verizon FiOS App Turns Your iPad into a TV
Verizon announced plans to offer an iPad app capable of showing television shows in real time to the company’s FiOS subscribers. Due to hit next year, the app will only show live channels at first—no recording or time-shifting just yet. Essentially, it turns your iPad into another TV if you’re a FiOS subscriber.
The service will …
Throw Punches at Your TV with Ubisoft’s Fighters Uncaged
And so it was written: all motion-control platforms must have a game that demands you flail wildly into the air to knock out an on-screen opponent. Wii Sports‘ Boxing starts this mess in the current console generation and we’ve already seen The Fight (formerly called Motion Fighters) for Playstation Move in its early stages.
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Compact iPad Charger Sports Both Home and Car Connectors
The ReTrak 4-in-1 iPad Travel Charger costs $40 and plugs into your home outlet while featuring a flip-out car charger connection as well.
The bottom of the charger has two USB ports—one for connecting the retractable charging cable to your iPad and another for juicing up just about any other USB-powered device.
With both the …
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App Club Contest: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Star Wars month rolls on and this week we’re challenging you to a duel. We’ll be doling out codes for THQ Wireless’ The Force Unleashed for iPhone. For a chance to win a gaggle of 3 3/4 –inch Clone Wars and Galactic Heroes figures. Don’t forget that the big prize for the reader with the highest overall score is a Boba Fett …
Chrome Store Due ‘Most Likely in October’ with Plenty of Games
Google’s Mark DeLoura took the stage at the Game Developers Conference in Europe and said that the Chrome Web Store will launch this fall, “most likely in October.”
Games look to be plentiful, thanks in part to Google’s aggressive revenue sharing plan. Where most app stores take a 30% cut of purchases, leaving 70% to the developers …
Chrome OS or Android: Which Is It? Google Tablet in November
Renderings of what a Google Chrome OS tablet could look like first showed up in early February when Google’s Senior Software Engineer Glen Murphy posted a handful of images and a video of what the UI might look like. Then in May, the WSJ and Bloomberg reported that Verizon was working closely with Google on an Android-powered tablet. …
Preview: Dracula: The Company of Monsters
The newest incarnation of Dracula to appear in comics skips over the familiar Bram Stoker version of the character, concentrating instead on Vlad the Impaler–the historical figure who inspired the Dracula legend–and what might happen if he were revived today, and throws in another Transylvanian legend: the Scholomance, a secret college …
Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse Folds Flat, Features Touch Scroll
That mysterious peripheral that the Microsoft Hardware team was teasing via Twitter a couple weeks back is indeed the Arc Touch Mouse, as proposed by documents unearthed shortly after the guessing game started.
PC owners jealous of Apple’s Magic Mouse will be happy to hear that the Arc Touch packs the same type of touch scrolling …