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Grand Theft Auto IV DLC Announced… and No One Cares
Rockstar finally announced their Xbox 360-exclusive DLC for Grand Theft Auto IV: Lost and Damned, focusing around a brand new main character, “Johnny”. Apparently Johnny is part of a bike game and does cross paths with Niko in a few bit pieces in the game, but otherwise it’s basically just another story told in the [...]
Continue reading...NETGEAR Releases XAVB101 & HDXB111 200 Mbps Powerline Adapters
Monday, November 17, 2008
We have been waiting for revised, higher performance Ethernet-over-Powerline adapters since our “How to build a high performance Powerline home network” article in June of 2007. It seems that after the initial HomePlug 1.0 spec which was a 4 or 7 Mbps spec, things were going quick. We got the HomePlug 1.1 spec that bumped [...]
Continue reading...Upcoming Downloadable Content for Music Games
Saturday, November 15, 2008
If you play you’re preferred music game anything like I do, at least 3 or 4 songs a day with longer stretches on the weekend, you’ve probably downloaded a few songs to expand your music gaming library. Both Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour have had a pretty steady stream of additional songs [...]
Continue reading...Phoenix Arizona Valley Metro Light Rail Pricing, Schedule and Destinations
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Just got this news sent in from Todd Swarthout… he lives in Atlanta, about Phoenix getting ready for the Grand Opening of the Valley Metro light rail this December… here in Arizona… where I live (I didn’t even know about this). Light Rail Pricing 1 ride $1.25 All day pass $2.50 3 day pass $7.50 7 day pass $17.50 31 day pass $45 Senior, youth, disabled - [...]
Continue reading...UPS Announces Rollout of Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicle
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Robert Heron sends in an interesting bit of news: UPS has announced the adoption of Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicles (HHV) for it’s delivery truck line. Trials begin with 7 trucks total and deployed in Minneapolis where they will be monitored daily and the hydraulic engine design tweaked and maintained as data is collected about the performance [...]
Continue reading...Motorola Adopts Google Android and Windows Mobile Exclusively
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Up until this point, Motorola has been shipping millions of devices on it’s custom MOTOMAGX Mobile Linux platform as well as the Symbian UIQ platform. After announcing some disappointing 3Q losses, Motorola announced plans to move their entire device line to Google’s Android and Windows Mobile platforms exclusively, discontinuing development and support for the MOTOMAGX platform [...]
Continue reading...Good Old Games Public Beta Launches
Thursday, October 23, 2008
It’s here, Good Old Games (GOG) Public Beta! We covered the announcement of Good Old Games back in June. The idea behind the service being that the guys who brought you The Witcher, CD Projekt, have bought the rights to classic PC titles in order to recondition them to run on the latest operating system, making [...]
Continue reading...Lucas Arts Announces MMO: Star Wars: The Old Republic
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
It’s official, Lucas Arts has partnered with BioWare to create their first MMO and it is Star Wars: The Old Republic. BioWare has stated that Star Wars: The Old Republic is actually in leui of Knights of the Old Republic 3 (and 4, 5, 6, etc…). They claim the story lines are so extensive set forth [...]
Continue reading...Google Open Sources Android
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
It’s official, no more waiting, no more secret SDKs and top-secret government handshakes (ok, there never really was), but it’s still nice to hear that Google has officially Open Sourced Android. The preferred licensing for working with the Android platform is the Apache 2.0 license. For folks wanting to contribute directly to the platform you will [...]
Continue reading...Alone in the Dark PS3, Renamed and Revamp for the Better
Friday, October 10, 2008
When the advanced physics and materials engine was demoed for Alone in the Dark (360) last year, we got really excited. Bringing the AITD story back to live with really cutting edge engine design along with some really interesting game-design elements like the “look in my coat” real-time inventory system as well as the DVD [...]
Continue reading...Intel Claims Upcoming Core i7 Nehalem Architecture to be 50% Faster
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Expreview.com got ahold of a marketing doc from Intel that claimed the upcoming Nehalem-based “Core i7″ architecture would be approximately 50% faster than the existing 3.2Ghz QX9770 CPU. More specifically the document quotes the following vauge-ish values: 38% more rendering performance 41% more movie editing and conversion performance 52% more 3D gaming performance Let’s try and de-marketing-asshole-ify these numbers [...]
Continue reading...No HTC Touch HD for the US, Just the T-Mobile G1 and Beyond
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
As we move into the fall the announcements of mobile devices are going to start leaking out of our ears… especially sexy, Christmas-fodder devices. A lot of folks a few months ago were waiting for HTC’s next “Sexy device” after the HTC Touch ended up sucking balls with slow performance, crappy software and not the greatest [...]
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
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