Archive for March, 2011 - Page 12

The Barnes & Noble Nook Color is popular with the Android hacking community for several reasons. It’s cheap, it can be rooted, and it can run Honeycomb. But new updates might mean you no longer have to hack the NOOKcolor to enjoy Android.

This past week, Google insiders had said that Google co-founder and incoming CEO Larry Page is hoping to bring the company back to its “startup roots”. Now, Google tipsters talking to the Wall Street Journal have leaked that in advance of Page regaining the CEO spot from the outgoing Dr. [...]

3D gaming is big now, right? I mean, Sony is promoting it as a major advantage to the PlayStation 3. And while Microsoft hasn’t been highly promoting it in the United States, they’ve been pushing the Xbox 360 as a 3D gaming machine in Asia. But, there was one Nintendo console all [...]

Has of today, the Nintendo 3DS is on sale in the United States. Nintendo held a special US midnight launch event in New York City, at the Times Square’ Best Buy. And while there were some people there, it looks to have been a cold frigid night in the Big [...]

Have you tried taking a photo with your iPhone or Blackberry and wondered at how quickly the phone can show an image preview? It turns out Kodak owns the patent, and it wants to be paid.

2009′s point-and-click indie hit Machinarium will be heading to PSN later this year, Amanita Design founder Jakub Dvorský recently announced at GameCityNights in Nottingham. There weren’t many details given on the game during the announcement, but considering it’s already launched on PC and Mac and was a part of last [...]

Crysis 2 – seems to suffer from “Call of Duty” syndrome and on the PC suffers from signs of “console port-itis”. Now, to answer community complaints, the folks at Crytek issued a Day One patch for the PC version that, among other things, removes the dreaded auto-aim from the PC [...]

Think that Pokemon is out of style like parachute pants? No way, Jose. Nintendo of America has just announced via Twitter that they’ve sold a whopping 2 million copies of the popular monster catching RPG in the United States in just the first two weeks. Just like it was in [...]

Ever since gaming blogs blew up over the reveal of Duke Nukem Forever’s “Capture the Babe,” mode last week, we all knew it was only a matter of time before Fox News picked up on it. This should surprise no one, though, because of course Fox News was bound to [...]

Previously, my colleague Robert Nelson told you that the Motorola Xoom was coming to Canada sometime in April. Now we have a bit more information about the tablet and it’s arrival in Canada. As reported, just the WiFi-only model is coming to Canada. Verizon in the United States has an [...]