Archive for January, 2011 - Page 16

Mozilla is moving ever closer to releasing Firefox 4 and because of this the company has released several beta editions. The latest edition if Firefox 4 Beta 10, just a few weeks after Beta 9 hit the masses.

I don’t know about you, but my elementary school career was pretty much defined by Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego. Did I learn anything from them? Well, I learned that traveling the Oregon Trail was rough, but only because my family members seemed to have an affinity for dying from [...]

As well received as Scribblenauts was, 5th Cell are reaching way out of their comfort zone here, or at least so the latest details available on its new game, Hybrid, would seem to indicate. They seem to be going for gameplay, rather than narrative innovation, which is just as well, [...]

With all the internet commerce sites launching stock options and IPOs in the coming years, one has to wonder whether we are witnessing a second dotcom boom. Demand Media, a freelance writing site launched an IPO yesterday and the company’s stock rose 35 percent from its opening.

Windows Phone 7 is the newest major mobile operating system. Microsoft has been putting a huge marketing push behind the new OS, and so there’s been a lot of discussion about how well it’s doing. Microsoft has once again graced us with an update on the sales race – they’re [...]

While we’re awaiting a decision from the Supreme Court on Schwarzenegger v. EMA, Representative Joe Baca (D-CA) has taken the initiative to reintroduce a bill to the House of Representatives that would require a warning label on all video games rated T, M, or AO by the ESRB. Baca introduced [...]

It was bound to happen, but I’m slightly surprised that Sony have managed to get their act together so quickly. Sony’s first salvo in the Great PS3 Piracy War of ’11 has been fired, firmware update 3.56 by its maiden name. There is only one sort of update that brings [...]

There are two ways this bit of news can be spun. The first is that Crytek are so dedicated to their fans that when they reported issues like freezing and server disconnections with what is essentially a free piece of software, Crytek fixed it with all due haste. The other [...]

While no one can claim that sales of the Apple iPad haven’t been extremely brisk, no one will accuse Apple of resting on its laurels. Yesterday the computer giant released a brand new ad that shows off several of the newer apps that are available on the iPad.

The announcement of a 360-only Crysis 2 multiplayer demo probably pissed some people off, and the subsequent announcement that it would only be available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers probably didn’t earn Crytek or Microsoft any new fans, either. However, this weekend Microsoft will allow Xbox Live Silver subscribers to [...]