Archive for August, 2011 - Page 2

Last week, Google+ introduced a new feature called “Ignore,” which, as its name implies, lets you ignore people on your friend list. It’s totally different beast from Block – the latter is the stronger option, and clicking it lets the Google+ system know you don’t want anything to do with [...]

In the modern-day shooter, realism is everything. Most games you see will allow you to mow down any NPC in your path, be they friend, foe, or innocent. Even in fantasy space shooters like Halo, the player is allowed to shoot down NPCs not meant for their bullets. DICE, however, [...]

The Elder Scrolls games typically do pretty well as a purely single-player experience, but there’s more than a hanful of fans out there who seem to the think that Tamriel would make a great setting for an MMO. While I’m not sure I agree with that notion, I can see [...]

Those of you who have been thinking of buying an Xbox 360 might want to stop reading this and head over to Amazon right now, because they’re offering you a $75 credit if you buy a 250GB Xbox 360 today. That’s some pretty substantial savings, considering that 250GB Xbox 360s [...]

When you think about the upper echelon in photography, many people’s thoughts shoot right to Hasselblad, about the only place out there you can find cameras selling at five figures outside of antique auctions. And thanks to a recent firmware update for the Hasselblad H4D-40 and H4D-50 cameras (it also [...]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. CNET is reporting that an Apple employee has lost a prototype iPhone in a San Francisco area bar. Yep, except this time it’s not an iPhone 4, and it’s not in Redwood City. It’s being reported that this iPhone 5 prototype was [...]

Dead Island‘s release is nearly upon us, so you know what that means: it’s been given a launch trailer in one final effort to nab some last-minute pre-orders. It has all the things you’d expect in a trailer for a zombie game: guns, relentless waves of zombies, humans stuck in [...]

We’ve been following the idea of Facebook getting a music service for some time now. Whether it was going to hook up with Spotify or make it look like iTunes or something entirely different was unclear, but what we knew was that Zuckerberg et al were clearly looking to bring [...]

I’m sure the anticipation for the 3DS Ambassador games is at an all-time high, especially after yesterday’s reveal of the full list of NES games that will be given away to those who bought a 3DS at full price. Luckily for you, dear 3DS Ambassador, you don’t need to wait [...]

Following the report that suggested Sprint is next in line to receive the iPhone 5, and the iPhone 4, we’ve seen various reactions from the carrier that can be interpreted as confirmation for the imminent launch of a new CDMA iPhone.