Dear old dad. Why is he always so tough to buy for?
Enough with the boring ties and BBQ aprons. (More: The Summer’s Best BBQ Gadgets) I’m sure even he’s a little sick of the World Greatest Dad mugs, though he’d never admit it. This year, we really put our heads together to bring you a few ideas of gifts that he might actually like. Go …
Monday, June 14, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the Web:
Up Front:
“That’s A Wrap!” – Filming Of The Harry Potter Series At An End [via Slash Film]
Gaming:
ESPN Comes To Xbox 360 Game Console [via LA Times]
New Castlemania Game Confirmed, Will Be A Part Of XBLA’s Summer Of Arcade [via Kotaku]
E3 2010: Dead Space 2
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Evan and I are on the ground at Ubisoft’s E3 press conference in LA. The show doesn’t start until 5PM PT but we already know about two upcoming titles thanks to a Teleprompter glitch – Child of Eden and Michael Jackson. Stay tuned.
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I mentioned in our story last week that we’d have another exclusive tech demo video of the PlayStation Move. If the multiple window portion of last week’s video impressed you then you’ll likely be blown away by everything else Evan and I saw while we were in California at the PlayStation headquarters. Words won’t do it …
*long exhale*
Looks like Jim Lee and the Sony Online Entertainment group have a kick-ass looking MMO on their hands.
Video game giant Electronic Arts took the stage at E3 to announce a bevy of upcoming titles. Here’s a look at some of the highlights.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Criterion games will “take the game back to its roots” with Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit “for a connected generation.” You play through a full career as a …
Text by Evan Narcisse. Photos by Peter Ha.
Fresh out of Microsoft’s E3 press conference, Peter and I got to unbox and test out one the newly-redesigned Xbox 360 S.
(More on Techland: E310: Xbox 360 Press Conference Liveblog)
It’s much lighter than the previous iteration. The casing’s a glossy black plastic with chrome …
In case you missed our liveblog of Microsoft’s press announcement at E3, the company announced an all new Xbox 360 design to replace the 120GB Xbox 360 Elite model. It looks quite a bit more svelte than the current hardware, yet retains the familiar shape underneath a slick black paint job.
Under the hood, there are a couple …
Free at last. Today, Starbucks announced its plan to offer free Wi-Fi Internet access beginning July 1.
After seeing its first increase in customers in 13 quarters, the Seattle-based coffee company will offer free Wi-Fi through AT&T at 6,700 locations nation-wide, a decision that came just six months after McDonalds began offering …
This September, Titan Books will be publishing Icons: The DC Comics and Wildstorm Art of Jim Lee, a hardcover art book collecting work by the artist who’s now DC’s co-publisher. It will include a bunch of previously unseen pieces, including a lot of Lee’s process artwork, from rough layouts to finished pencils, an extensive interview …
Smallville may be ending next year, but Clark Kent’s replacement may already be waiting in the wings. Spicing up a slow Sunday, DC Entertainment’s Chief Creative Officer revealed yesterday on Twitter that DCE is preparing a live action television series based on the recent Blue Beetle series. He tweeted,
We have a live-action test of
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