Now, this is an Avengers promo. Granted, the film it’s hyping doesn’t even exist yet but it’s still better than the calorie-free logo reveal that leaked last week.
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The clip-crafted by fan Ivan Guerrero–uses scenes from the 1940s Captain America serial and gets …
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Up Front:
Do iPhone Users Really Have More Sex? [OkTrends]
Gadgets:
Amazon Is Said To Look At Hardware Beyond Kindle [NYT]
Why The Verizon iPhone Is Already Too Late [Gizmodo]
Twitpic Founder Announces Stealth Communications Startup Heello [Tech …
New comics drop tomorrow. Tomorrow, man. I hope you reviewed yesterday’s list of new comics. Here are five comics that I really want to be good reads. I want to believe in them and what they stand for. Time for a saving throw against mediocrity. As always come on back later in the week for the Comic Book Club and
This week’s app is admittedly limited in scope but for those of you living in one of 22 states where AT&T offers U-verse TV service, the U-verse app is perfect for any TV junkie with an iPhone or BlackBerry Torch.
The free app allows you to peruse your U-verse TV programming guide, as well as scheduling and managing your DVR. So …
The next year’s going to be a very good one for gamers who are Star Wars fanatics. LucasArts–the game development division of the Star Wars empire–has a handful of major releases brewing, including the long-awaited Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. The Old Republic‘s being developed in conjunction with Bioware, who know a thing or two …
Starcraft II players beware, Blizzard’s new game may overheat your video card.
The issue has been around for about two weeks now, but finally hit home (literally) when my own video card went kaput running Starcraft II this past weekend.
(More on Techland: Blizzard Reflects On Five Years Of World Of Warcraft)
The issue at hand? …
The Smoking Gun got its hands on some hilarious bits of transcript from the trial of David Kernell, the 22 year-old hacker who broke into Sarah Palin’s email in 2008, but it’s not Kernell that made us giggle. 4Chan creator Christopher ‘Moot’ Poole was called to testify during the trial, and much to our delight, much of his time on the …
DC Comics announced yesterday that the single-named artist Jock–best known for drawing The Losers–would be joining writer Scott Snyder as the creative team on Detective Comics as of November. We spoke briefly with Snyder at Comic-Con (before the Jock announcement had been made public) about what will be coming up for Batman in …
Blockbuster has added nationwide game rentals to its $8.99-and-up monthly “Blockbuster By Mail” service. Game rentals by mail had been tested in various markets around the country but are now available everywhere.
The pricing, which includes one game or movie out at a time for $8.99 or multiple combinations of games and movies with …
One word ruined Star Wars for me, and probably for a generation of fans, too. That word wasn’t Jar Jar or Watto. It wasn’t a character.
It was “midi-chlorians.”
With that one word, the mechanisms of the Force became less spiritual and more scientific. Major bummer. The draw of the concept of the Force in the Original Trilogy is …
The console versions of Madden NFL 11 are available today, as are versions for the iPhone and iPad. The iPhone version is priced at $7.99 while the iPad version fetches a $5 premium at $12.99.
Both games make use of EA’s new GameFlow play calling system, feature custom hot routes that you can draw yourself, full seasons, …