Archive for January, 2011 - Page 23

Is it just me, or does the hardcore difficulty setting on most games these days leave something to be desired? While ramping up enemy health to the point where each little monster feels like a fully armored tank might be enough for some game companies, Visceral and EA aren’t willing [...]

Leave it to Valve to take the formula for producing pure joy and ramp it up to eleven by just pushing it to the most logical conclusion: make two of them. And leave it to Old Man Murray’s torso (or feet, depending on who you ask, I guess), Chet Falliszek [...]

The launch of one of Sony’s pretty big but not quite huge shooter franchises is also occasioning a change in the decor in the Home away from home most PS3 gamers are rabidly apathetic about. This is apparently the first time Sony has gone all out in quite this fashion, [...]

Two days before the expected announcement of the expected PS3 grade plutonium of the handheld world, rumormongers, as is their wont, are doing their best to get a few more hits in. Sony isn’t saying much, as usual, but if these specs we’re hearing about are on the level, it’s [...]

The Samsung Nexus S, the unofficial Google Nexus Two, is the only device out there to run Google’s latest smartphone OS, Android 2.3 Gingerbread. What’s more surprising is that no Gingerbread device has been announced since the Nexus S, not even at CES 2011, not to mention we’re still waiting [...]

Earlier today we saw a rumor revealing pricing details for the Motorola Atrix 4G Laptop Dock, one of the most interesting smartphones of the year, and now we have a bunch of release dates, still not official, for U.S. and Canadian consumers.

Yep. Another. Eric. Schmidt. Story. (Hey, you wouldn’t complain if it was Steve Jobs.) According to an inside source who spoke to the New York Post, outgoing Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt, who’s set to remain on as the company’s executive chairman, has dreams of becoming a talk show host [...]

Despite how the French feel about McDonalds, which appears to be a kind of loosely controlled loathing mixed with enjoyment, the British have taken to the Colonies’ invention with much greater fervor. And it’s getting to the point where you won’t even have to touch cash any more to pay [...]

Projectors are fantastic things, really–they can give you that theater experience right in your home unlike any television. But they’re not without their problems–they often don’t last as long as regular televisions, you need a screen of some type to show the images it generates on, and of course, you [...]

Food service has never been what you’d call a dream job for a lot of people–with the exception of some chefs, of course. Taking food to people who treat you as less than the scraps they throw away isn’t a self-esteem builder, so it’s hardly a surprise to see robots [...]