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Trine Gameplay Trailer Looks Surprisingly Awesome
This came out of left field… I’ve never heard of this title and only watched the debut trailer cause I thought it had a terrible name. Fortunately, the game actually turned out to look really badass… for some reason it gave me a very etherial/Monkey Island/Dungeon Siege vibe; you guys notice that? Update #1: Ahhh nice, [...]
Continue reading...Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Announced
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Yesterday MTV’s Multiplayer Blog semi-officially announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is being developed and should be releases Fall of 2009. I’m not surprised that the most popular game of the Call of Duty series, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, is getting a sequel. I am a bit surprised they have changed [...]
Continue reading...Nintendo Making a Profit on Wii Hardware
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
I’ll be the first to admit my Wii takes a back seat to my other gaming consoles. I do play it occasionally and my wife is a Wii Fit fanatic, but compared to the 15 games I own for my Xbox 360 the 3 I have for my Wii is a pretty small collection. However, according [...]
Continue reading...Xbox Live Marketplace Holiday Deal of the Week
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Major Nelson announced today that due to the popularity of the Black Friday deals on Live they are going to have additional deals for weekly for the moth of December. First up is the Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack. Originally priced at 600 points, it will go on sale tomorrow for 400 points for Gold Members [...]
Continue reading...Title Update for Gears of War 2
Thursday, November 27, 2008
So you’re coming out of your turkey coma and thinking of doing a little gaming. You throw in Gears of War 2 and you notice the game has an update available. That’s not a hallucination resulting from your Thanksgiving Day feasting hangover. Epic released their first update to Gears of War 2 today. Rod Fergusson, Senior [...]
Continue reading...Grand Theft Auto IV DLC Announced… and No One Cares
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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 [...]
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Saturday, December 6, 2008
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