Archive for January, 2011 - Page 6

Most of you probably weren’t planning on buying one of those simplistic knock-off game consoles from the flea market, but if the only thing stopping you was the fact that you were getting 999 games instead of one and you didn’t have anywhere to put your iPhone inside the flea-market [...]

Chances are, if you’ve been reading game news this week, you’ve been reading Sony NGP news. And probably wondering what the hell this NGP thing is and where all the PSP 2 coverage is. For the shrinking pool of people who were in hostage situations or out exploring the bottoms [...]

While I haven’t read Stephen King’s incredibly ambitious epic yet, it has been on my waiting list for a while and it looks like I may need to hurry the process along or else risk having the whole thing revealed in spoilerific trailers and such, at least if Ain’t It [...]

It always takes me by surprise when a newly-arrived franchise that was a glimmer in an executive’s eye a few short years ago grows into a household name and branches out in other media and on every platform imaginable. It’s even more amazing when it manages to do so with [...]

Reports coming from Kotaku say that Sony may be looking to implement a cloud saving service on PS3 with an upcoming firmware update. Kotaku’s source told them that Sony had been informing developers about the service, which would allow gamers to upload saves to a remote server, thus freeing up [...]

Quick, what do class-based shooter revelation Monday Night Combat, class-based shooter legend Team Fortress 2 and gaming webcomic legend Penny Arcade have in common. Well, all of them at once, not that much, but if taken in twos, at least a Fruit F*cker. And some hats. I have a feeling [...]

Activision’s intrepid quest for good press might be not at an end, because that would be premature, but it will at least be seeing a recess.Yes, it seems that the publisher’s usual cease & desist antics with regard to misuse of its trademarks and, as is the case here, facilitating [...]

It’s certainly a draconian undertaking to cut off an entire country’s Internet access just to limit communication. The Egyptian government has done just this, in a bid to address an expected mass protest.

Anyone who’s even smelled an episode of the new but now old again Battlestar Galactica remake, the one with all the hot Cylons, not the one with the department store window dressing helmets will feel just a slight twinge at this news from the opinionated Bigpoint studio. That twinge will [...]

It’s one of those on-again, off-again affairs. Rumors have it that Facebook will soon be launching its own branded smartphone manufactured through HTC. recently, though, Facebook has denied this, and has explained that the handset maker is likely customizing their smartphone with extensive Facebook features.