Archive for October, 2010 - Page 5

Diaspora Public Alpha Coming Out by Thanksgiving; Facebook, You’ve Been Warned

Diaspora Team Announces Alpha Version of Its Social Network Coming by the End of November
Filed by on Saturday, 30. October 2010

What is Diaspora you ask perplexed? Well that’s the name of a totally new social network that’s going to go head to head against Facebook in the very near future. We talked about the Diaspora team formed by Ilya, Maxwell, Daniel and Raphael, and we can’t wait to see how [...]

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Minecraft Sales Numbers Hit 500,000 Units

Indie Building Blocks Game Hits 500,000 Paid Download, Creator Sets Up Video Game Studio For Further Development
Filed by on Saturday, 30. October 2010

Minecraft is the indie game that has taken the gaming world by storm in the past few weeks. It’s sort of a open-ended building game with simplistic 16-bit style huge blocks. Yet, the sandbox-style possibility for creativity has really gotten a lot of people interested in the game. And while big AAA [...]

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The Top Six Saw Traps

With Saw 3D Opening Today, We Take A Look At Six Of The Best Bits Of Engineering From The Popular Saw Films
Filed by on Friday, 29. October 2010

Today, folks, the Saw series supposedly reaches its grand climax. It’s been seven years in the making and it’s gone through a whole lot of twists and turns, some of which made sense, in retrospect. But for all the reasons to watch Saw–the storyline, the jockeying for position among Jigsaw’s [...]

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Twitter Goes Official On Windows Phone 7

Microsoft's New Cell Phone Boasts Twitter Function
Filed by on Friday, 29. October 2010

Just in case you were on the fence over whether or not to go with Windows’ new cell phone, the Windows Phone 7, because it wasn’t set to have Twitter, your last bit of resistance is now destroyed. The folks out at Twitter announced yesterday that there will be an [...]

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Table Connect For iPhone Gets Mockup, Full Accessibility

The Table Connect Allows You To Connect Your iPhone To A Table And Use It As Normal On A 56 Inch Screen Surface
Filed by on Friday, 29. October 2010

The picture you’re looking at below is a schematic view from the folks behind the Table Connect, who have done something profoundly interesting with your basic iPhone. Imagine using your iPhone, and then plugging it into your kitchen table, where now all of your icons are displayed on a touch, [...]

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Redbox Plans To Go Streaming Next Year

DVD Kiosk Diehard Redbox Announces Plans To Offer Streaming Movies Next Year
Filed by on Friday, 29. October 2010

Now here’s an out of left field shocker for you, folks: seems the folks out at Redbox, who may well have killed Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video by offering the DVDs that they both offered but at vastly reduced prices, have an eye on getting into the streaming video market, [...]

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops Censored In Germany, Like Every Other Violent Game

Call Of Duty: Black Ops German Copies Censored, Steam Authorization Needed Even For Disks
Filed by on Friday, 29. October 2010

Is it ironic that the people who have offered us the game industry’s most killable and indeed most profitable opponents can’t enjoy the gruesome deaths of their virtual zombified forefathers at their own hands and in the same gory detail as the rest of us? We don’t really know the [...]

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CrystalRoc Galaxy Tab Brings Hefty Quantities of Sparkle

CrystalRoc's Version Of The Samsung Galaxy Tab Boast 5,700 Swarovsky Crystals
Filed by on Friday, 29. October 2010

As seems to be the case with most every technological launch item these days, it’s time for the nigh-inevitable rolling out of the bling. This time, the folks out at CrystalRoc would like desperately to introduce you–not to mention your wallet–to the Galaxy Tab, coated in a whopping 5,700 Swarovsky [...]

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White iPhone 4: Video of What Really Happened

White iPhone 4 Commercial Gets Banned; Black iPhone 4 “Once You Go Black You Never Go Back”
Filed by on Friday, 29. October 2010

Apple is still to come out with a formal clarification on the white iPhone 4 but until that happens we have a video commercial of the white iPhone 4 that reveals the truth behind the white iPhone 4 arrival.

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Nintendo 3DS Launch Line-up & Japan Release Timeframe Dug Up

Nintendo 3DS 1st Party Games To Release in Spring 2011 In Japan
Filed by on Friday, 29. October 2010

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Pilotwings Resort, Nintendogs + Cats and Steel Diver are penciled in for a Spring Japan release, at least according to the Nintendo dumpster divers GoNintendo. Well alright, not dumpster divers, annual Nintendo fiscal report readers, same difference.

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