Archive for January, 2011 - Page 9

Blizzard is trying a new tactic in its continuing crusade against the exchange of real money for imaginary money and vice-versa  in its impossibly popular MMO World Of Warcraft.It’s enlisting allies, starting with PayPal, which will be blocking gold trader’s accounts, as named by Blizzard. I’m not exactly sure what [...]

I find it a bit strange that while Sony’s newly announced NGP has so many noteworthy features and all of them got ample press time, a fairly major feature that will make its debut on a Nintendo console has been pretty much overlooked, despite the only big hardware features the [...]

When you’re about to push out a new product, employing new and untested technology and you mean to inject a bit of the revolutionary in the way content is distributed to your new media consumption device, item number one on your to-do list should probably be to show a unified [...]

All those rumors floating around about Sony shopping around a PSP2 development kit to everyone and their mum’s cat a few months ago? True, but you have no idea just to what extent. Also, that games line-up they showed when announcing the console? Again, just a tiny portion of the [...]

We haven’t been writing about PlayStation Move lately. I think it’s gone under the radar of a lot of folks. Unlike Kinect, nobody is hacking it, but it seems to ‘just work’ and they’ve quietly been releasing games for it, too. So, here’s a story to get Move back into [...]

Do you see, Sony? You could have had this five years ago. Well, not five, but quite a few years ago. All it took was for you to announce a portable with a second analog stick. Sure, the hernia-inducing visuals that the ridiculous amount of horsepower the NGP hardware can [...]

Do you remember that free Xbox Live weekend Microsoft announced a while back to wild cheers and dancing in the streets? Well, I wish I could put this a nicer way, but basically they lied. And it’s not the first time they canceled planned events, but at least then they [...]

In a frenzied bid to ensure the original PSP’s not inconsiderable and in fact quite handsome back catalog doesn’t get thrown out with the bathwater, especially since it can be such a valuable addition to the NGP (PSP2 for those of you late to the party) bullet points, of which [...]

CPR can be a lifesaver–literally. That’s why it’s an important thing to learn even if you’re not a doctor or emergency medical technician. This CPR tutorial application for iOS not only does that, but gets help for you.

Treyarch recently thanked Black Ops players for helping them achieve 5 million fans on the Call of Duty Black Ops Facebook page, but the response they received from some of them probably wasn’t what they expected. In fact, most the replies to the status update on the Black Ops fan [...]