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Sony PS3 Will Deliver 3D Experience After All
We speculated back in August that the stars were starting to align for Sony around a Motion-controlled/3D future for the PS3. Our confidence in this fact centered around the recent motion-controlled demonstration that Sony gave for the PS3 at E3. Combined with the never-used EyeToy camera, what Sony was showing off looked comparable, if not [...]
Continue reading...Google Chrome OS Based on Ubuntu
Thursday, November 19, 2009
As we type this Google is in the process of announcing their new Chrome OS operating system at a Google Event (TechCrunch Live Coverage). Just like the Chrome browser is based on the Chromium OS project, Chrome OS will be based on the Chromium OS project. Glancing around the source repository for Chromium OS it looks [...]
Continue reading...How to Fix the Xbox 360 “MTU Too Low” Problem with the Qwest Actiontec Q1000 DSL Modem
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
NOTE: If you are coming to this article after Googling the subject in frustration, here’s the quick-fix for you: Upgrade the modem’s firmware to QAQ01-31.00L.33 or later and you should be fine. Qwest has been rolling their new high-speed fiber-optic DSL service out throughout Denver and Arizona for the last year or so (it’s not fiber-to-the-house, [...]
Continue reading...Video and Pictures from Microsoft Store Grand Opening in Scottsdale
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Many thanks to Chris Hunkele for the pics and video’s from the grand opening! If you live in Phoenix or Scottsdale you like saw the news that Microsoft has opened it’s first (new) Microsoft Store in the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall and from the looks of things, it was a huge hit. With a few hundred [...]
Continue reading...God of War 3 Screenshots
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Thanks to Ted Regulski for the heads up on these. We actually had about 10 mins of alone-time with God of War 3 at PAX 2009 and can say this: It’s exactly what you want. If you liked God of War 1 and God of War 2, the God of War series continues with the exact [...]
Continue reading...Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Screenshots
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Well it’s coming and everyone is waiting for it, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 2, so we figured we’d put up as many screenshots as we could find that were tasty. Unfortunately it looks like still no main-story-line co-op, but they are offering co-op in the SpecOps mode which is taking down foes in special [...]
Continue reading...Antarctica is HUGE – Bigger Than the US
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Saw this on TwitPic, it’s the United States superimposed on top of the land-mass that is Antarctica and holy-hell, I honestly didn’t realize it was so big.
Continue reading...Canon 5D Mark II Firmware Update Coming
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Thanks to Grant Gochnauer for the heads up on the news that Canon is working on a firmware upgrade for the 5D Mark II folks that will allow 1080p video recording at 24 and 25fps. London, 20 October 2009 – Canon today announces that it is currently developing a firmware update to the EOS 5D Mark [...]
Continue reading...Canon 1D Mark IV 1080p Video – Vincent Laforet’s Nocturne
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
SmugMug’s Don MacAskill blogged about Vincent Laforet’s new ‘Nocturne’ short that was shot in 1080p at ISO 6400 on the new Canon 1D Mark IV — for those of you with your 5D Mark II’s, apparently the 1D MIV has better low-light performance, but the body runs a solid $5k — so probably just buy [...]
Continue reading...Borderlands: For Mainstream Gamers
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Borderlands is the new 4-player co-op, FPS/RPG that just dropped today to retailers and so far is getting solid 8.5/10 reviews from the few sources we’ve seen. Overall we’re pretty pumped for the title and it looks like Gearbox hired a pretty savvy marketing group to put together a mock advertisement about how “mainstream” Borderlands really [...]
Continue reading...Dragon Age: Origins Villages, Environments and World Screenshots
Monday, October 19, 2009
Most of the Dragon Age: Origins screenshots we’ve seen up until now have focused primarily on battle and the party in the game. That is why I was excited when an environments-only screenshot pack dropped in our lab tonight. These screenshots show of the world that Dragon Age: Origins takes place in. The type of environments, [...]
Continue reading...Dragon Age: Origins Goodies
Friday, October 16, 2009
Dragon Age: Origins was a game we got some special time with at PAX 2009 back in September. It was about a 30-minute private playthrough that honestly took about 2 hours to get into. Curses on BioWare for running their demo like that at the conference — they never bothered to walk back in line [...]
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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