Archive for July, 2011 - Page 27

NetherRealm’s reveal of Freddy Kreuger as the fourth DLC character for Mortal Kombat was truly a surprise announcement in every sense of the term, but according to series creator Ed Boon, the idea of using classic horror characters in their games is nothing new to them.

A while ago, Sprint announced two business-style Android phones, with a touchscreen but a BlackBerry-style keyboard. The second of those two phones was the Motorola Titanium. We now know that the Motorola Titanium will be released… tomorrow! Sprint will be selling the business-minded Android phone tomorrow for $140 with a [...]

Baseball is the Great American Pastime. There’s nothing like the smell of the grass, the taste of the Cracker Jacks, the sound of the ball hitting the bat and… the touch of a tablet? Yep, soon, tablets will be a part of baseball at Angels Stadium in Anaheim, California. The [...]

Before it’s launch in February, Epic rolled out a huge marketing campaign for Bulletstorm. Yes, Bulletstorm made a lot of waves with it’s juvenile humor, foul-mouthed developer diaries, and it even caught some moral outrage from the pillar of society that is Fox News. All of this publicity, when coupled [...]

There are a lot of good games on the Xbox Live Arcade. Dead Rising: Case West. Torchlight. Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light. ‘Splosion Man. Shadow Complex. Limbo. So, what’s the best selling game on Xbox Live Arcade so far of 2011? According to a study by website Gamasutra, [...]

The NPD Group analyst firm is like the Holy Gospel when it comes to sales numbers. They poll retailers and manufacturers and everybody in between and come up with sales numbers for all sorts of consumer electronic devices and video games (and an insider at Microsoft told me they are [...]

The BlackBerry Torch 9800 was last year’s big phone release for RIM. So far, it’s been exclusive to AT&T in the United States. A few weeks ago, the “BlackBerry Torch 9860” showed up on a leaked US Cellular roadmap. Now, Verizon may also be getting this alleged CDMA BlackBerry Torch. [...]

There’s some troubling news if you’ve been using a Mac Mini as a home theatre PC. Inexplicably and without warning, Apple has removed Front Row from Mac OS X Lion. Macs updated to the new operating system will find the ten-foot (sofa-friendly) user interface for accessing your media missing. But, [...]

If you were to go looking for a mapping service on the web, where would you go? Google Maps? Bing Maps? Maybe go old-school and use Mapquest? How far down the list would Nokia Maps be? Yep, Nokia offers an online version of Nokia Maps, which is understandably optimized for [...]

The internet community on social networks like Twitter and Facebook has risen up in the past to support the protests in the Middle East and to decry the BP oil spill. Something that’s also being protested is the AT&T-T-Mobile merger. But, that doesn’t affect the lives of oppressed people or [...]