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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (Xbox 360) Review
Summary [5.5 out of 10] A sequel to the 2006 original, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 offers up a hybrid Secret War/Civil War storyline and the same four character, top down beat-em-up action found in the first game and the X-men Legends titles before it. Vicarious Visions left the basic game play alone and streamlined the interface [...]
Continue reading...Google Traffic on Surface Streets Not Perfect
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Late for work? Just zoom-in! As Chris Hunkele points out, Google has launched traffic information for surface streets (no longer just interstates), but it’s not perfect just yet. Chris tells us: … it’s a little buggy, look at the east west curvy street (greenway), when zoomed in the traffic is fine, when zoomed out it’s red, you [...]
Continue reading...King of Fighters XII (Xbox 360) Review
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Summary [ 5.5 out of 10] King of Fighters XII brings the long running mash up series into current gen but developer Ignition apparently didn’t notice as there is very little upgrading or innovation going on here. This ‘effort,’ if you can call it that, looks and plays last gen and charging $60 for this [...]
Continue reading...Xbox 360 Broken, but Original Nintendo Still Working
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Marc Chung just sent this one in, got a kick out of it:
Continue reading...Mac OS X Offers 2x Battery Life than Vista or Windows 7
Monday, July 13, 2009
I’m not a fan of Macs generally speaking, but due to recent realizations that Microsoft was never going to create an operating system that didn’t share fundamental behaviors with all past and present versions of Windows — I’ve decided to jump ship and get a computer that will “just work”. Keep in mind I don’t [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 – It Just Works… As Long as You Don’t Use It
Monday, July 13, 2009
I’ve been using Windows 7 since the RC was announced a few months ago and we’ve had quite a bit to say about it — mostly all good. Over the last month I’ve noticed a trend in my Windows 7 install (that I use as my primary desktop and work machine) that was feeling all too [...]
Continue reading...Terminator Salvation (Xbox 360) Review
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Summary [5.5 out of 10] Terminator Salvation is a terrible game whose unfinished feel, technical hickups and terribly scripted sequences all punish the player for trying to play it. Terminator Salvation has the feel of a game that only had 8 months of development time in order to make it’s launch along-side the movie. I wouldn’t [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming Performance for Viewers
Saturday, March 14, 2009
What’s Going on with Netflix Streaming Performance? I noticed about 3 weeks ago my streaming video performance from Netflix has become unbearably slow. I’m on a 7 mbps Qwest DSL line in Tucson, AZ and my previous experience with Netflix “Watch Instantly” service had generally been excellent, almost never showing the buffering screen for a movie [...]
Continue reading...Intel X25-M SSDs Performance Degrades Over Time
Thursday, February 19, 2009
With the recent discovery by Anandtech that JMicron-based cheap SSDs can introduce multi-second lockup/lag in a system and that Intel’s ultra-pricey X25-M SSDs didn’t suffer from the problem, it was looking like folks that had to have an SSD and were willing to pay for it had a chance at salvation… not so fast. PC Perspective [...]
Continue reading...Android Market “MemoryUp Personal” App Possibly Destroying Data
Friday, January 30, 2009
Possible rumors floating around that the MemoryUp Personal Android Market application is destroying personal data as well as installing adware. So far the evidence seems circumstantial, but a connection between installing that app and lost email, spammed email accounts, adware showing up and SD cards being wiped clean are all getting reported. This brings up an interesting [...]
Continue reading...Not All SSDs Are Equal – Some Will Kill Your Computer’s Performance
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Not all solid state drives (SSDs) are created equal it seems. Taking a quick glance at the Newegg SSD product listings for 32GB drives, you can get an idea that there is something different between a $300 OCZ and a $600 Intel SSD. A big thanks to Patrick Norton for sending this information in — it [...]
Continue reading...Fable 2 (Xbox 360) Review
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Summary [8.5 out of 10] The first Fable game is known just as well for its list of unfulfilled promises as its solid and fun game play. Fable 2 finally delivers on some of those promises but still fails to revolutionize RPGs as we know them. It has a much longer quest, more satisfying side quests, and [...]
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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