Archive for August, 2011 - Page 27
Telltale Games Bringing Back To The Future To Wii
The time travelers who frequent TFTS (yeah, I know you’re out there) will be pleased to know that Telltale Games has decided to bring its most recent episodic game, Back to the Future, to the Wii. You know what this means: the Wii is finally getting a noteworthy game. It [...]
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Microsoft To Offer Five Free Games With Xbox 360 Holiday Bundle
When I was a kid and my parents would give me a new video game console for Christmas, I got one game with that, maybe two. However, it looks like there will be some lucky kids getting Xbox 360s this Christmas, as a leaked photo on Twitter shows that a [...]
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Steam Offering Refunds To Disgruntled From Dust Purchasers
Apparently, the controversy over Ubisoft’s stupid online-only DRM for From Dust is making more waves than we originally thought. Ubisoft announced earlier this week that they’d be releasing a patch in the next couple of weeks that would remove the requirement for a persistent internet connection (a move that they’re [...]
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PlayStations Of The Future May Sense Mood & Where You're Looking
You know how, sometimes, you might hear a chunk of Apple hardware being described as “magical”? Well, if word out of the folks at Sony is any indication, they’re taking that particular ball and running with it into a new and strange place with word that, not too far from [...]
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Microsoft Not Interested In Publishing Downloadable Games That Were On PSN First
Microsoft is back to being a big old baby again, saying that they’ll refuse to publish any downloadable title that was on the PlayStation Network (or any other platform) first. This means that there’s no hope for seeing PSN-exclusive games on Xbox Live Arcade, even though the developer may want [...]
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Star Wars Kinect, Special Edition Star Wars Xbox 360 Pushed Back To 2012
Yeah, I know you’re disappointed to hear this news. Frankly, I am too, but not because I was looking forward to actually playing Star Wars Kinect. On the contrary, I have no interest in Star Wars Kinect at all, but rather I’m disappointed because this delay means that I’m going [...]
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Logitech Fold-Up Keyboard Gives You Possibly Ergonomic Keyboard For Your iPad
As if the suction cup joystick, the solar powered keyboard and the clip-on speaker weren’t enough, now I’ve got word about a new peripheral from the folks out at Logitech. Once again, it’s for your iPad, but this time, it’s the Fold-Up Keyboard.
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Facebook Serves 1 Trillion Page Views in June; Google+ Who?
Facebook proved, in case it still needs to do so, that it’s the most popular website in the world. Sure the fact that the site is basically a huge social network helps connecting hundreds of millions of users around the world is very helpful.
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Second Quarter Numbers Reveal That China Now Sells More PCs Than US
Until just recently the US has held the number one spot when it comes to PC sales. Not anymore according to second quarter numbers because now China is the king of PC sales. With numbers diminishing in the US, China has been gaining year after year which brings them to [...]
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GameStop Removes OnLive Codes From New Copies Of Deus Ex: Human Revolution
If you bought a retail copy of the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution yesterday, you might have been surprised to find a code for a free copy of the OnLive Version packaged within. It’s a pretty cool little launch promotion on the part of Square Enix and OnLive, [...]
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