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Nexus One on AT&T! Sign me up.
Posted on March 16, 2010 | 4 CommentsFor all of you geeks out there wanting to get your hands on the pinnacle of android tech, but were cursed with the bad fortune of being on AT&T your day is here. Google has officially (also quietly) released the nexus one with frequencies to... -
Corey Haim is dead.
Posted on March 10, 2010 | No CommentsCorey Haim was taken to the hospital in Burbank, California and pronounced dead at 2:15 AM (PST) from an accidental drug overdose at the age of 38. Throughout his career he had a history of prescription drug abuse, and a history of sobriety. It was... -
What’s going on at Activision and Infinity Ward?
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No CommentsHow many of you love Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1 & 2? Well it’s developer Infinity Ward is having a few family problems. On March 1st G4 broke the story of Jason West and Vince Zampella (the two minds behind the Modern Warfare franchise)... -
All your data are belong to PSN.
Posted on March 2, 2010 | 1 CommentUPDATE: Everyone can start coming out of the bunker now. No official word has been put forth by Sony but it appears that PS3 systems affected by this bug are beginning to work again. No patch or firmware upgrade was needed. If your PS3 has suffered from... -
Drunken WoW player chokes his mom, gets shot in the head.
Posted on February 17, 2010 | 3 CommentsJames Swan is 27 and lives with his grandpa, mother and five young children. He likes to play World of Warcraft and sometimes get drunk while doing so. On one of those nights his mother asked him turn the volume down at around 10 p.m.... -
Threats on Xbox Live lead to Texas teen’s arrest.
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsWhile playing Modern Warfare 2, a Texas teenager told his Canadian party that he was going to take a few guns to school, that he would get from a Marine friend, and shoot a pregnant girl and his best friend. He also said “that because... -
A News Round Up
Posted on February 14, 2010 | No CommentsWelcome, welcome. All links go to places other than this site. Do these annoy you? Christopher Nolan might direct the Superman reboot. Ebayer got $13k for an NES+5 game bundle. Chris Pine (Capt. Kirk) on the short list to be Captain America. Wil Wheaton will... -
Bulletproof Blackberry
Posted on February 11, 2010 | No CommentsHave you ever been putting on your coat at a restaurant and accidentally set off the gun that you were carrying only to have it shoot your girlfriend in the leg? Yeah me neither. That’s exactly what happened to Anthony Holtvogt and I bet he... -
I’m a potential sociopath according to Supernanny’s video game study.
Posted on February 10, 2010 | 1 CommentJo Frost is the Supernanny. Basically, she takes unruly kids and the parents they walk all over and turns them into rule-abiding, behaved families. This woman does not sugar coat the truth, she tells the parent exactly what she sees and advises them on how... -
Microsoft said no to a Xbox contract for the US Army
Posted on February 10, 2010 | No CommentsIt comes down to a simple reason: Public Relations. The consoles were to be used in place of the PCs that are currently used for training and education, but Microsoft didn’t want to sell the Xbox 360 or license XNA game development tools to the... -
Butthurt Nintendo gets $1.3 million worth of revenge
Posted on February 9, 2010 | 1 CommentNintendo announced that they were the victor of an Australian court case involving a man, James Burt, who uploaded the first pirated copy of New Super Mario Brothers Wii onto the internet a week before it’s official release. Captain Burt now owes $1.3 million dollars... -
The Middle East bans Dante’s Inferno
Posted on February 8, 2010 | No CommentsDante’s Inferno will not be released in the Middle East. EA states, “Electronic Arts has decided not to release Dante’s Inferno in the Middle East after an evaluation process which is based on consumer tastes, preferences, platform mix and other factors.” The religious area is... -
A News Round Up
Posted on February 7, 2010 | No CommentsA news round up. Links below go to their respective source. February 1: A fan of the Assassin’s Creed series? GameInfomer has a wish list. Apple won’t support flash. IGN explains. IGN Movies chats with Ben Kingsley about the Prince of Persia movie. Shenmue 3... -
Xbox not so “live” soon
Posted on February 5, 2010 | No CommentsI know that since we provide news for quite a few gamers and geeks that a few of you are probably still playing Xbox titles, either on your 360 or like me and on your original Xbox. Well that’s all and well if you don’t... -
This week in bad ideas: Watchmen spinoffs
Posted on February 3, 2010 | 5 CommentsSo Watchmen ended when it ended, so thought the writers, the fans, and about anyone who ever has lifted a comic, but Dan Didio, a man known for good ideas has decided to milk the property for everything it’s worth, this is a bad idea,... -
A News Round Up
Posted on January 30, 2010 | 1 CommentA Saturday news round up, because I’ve been busy with real life and it turns out it.. it’s been a slow week. Links below go to their respective source. Mass Effect 2 is selling like crazy. Somalia Islamists group bans video games, as real guns... -
Old Wii news, but still relevant.
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No CommentsNetflix is bringing its instant streaming option to the Wii. Now the motion controller-dependent system can join the PS3 and XBox 360. If you’re not familiar with Netflix, it’s the service that will mail DVDs to the house and has a library of instant streaming... -
Tweet Leads to British Man’s Arrest
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No CommentsAcross the Atlantic from this writer, over in the UK… A frustrated update to Twitter from Paul Chambers, 26, saying he would “blow up the Doncaster’s Robin Hood Airport ‘sky high’ if his flight was delayed” led to his arrest a week after it was... -
On the lighter side…
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsHere’s a little something to brighten your hearts as well as your day. There has been a lot of sad news coming out of tech lately with people dying or being killed in all kinds of inconvenient manners. An 11-year old boy that goes by the name Cameron has had an... -
Playstations are poisonous, the West is all about lung cancer.
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsI’ll make this short, since it’s not really all that detailed anyway. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stated on his radio show that the Playstation console is poison and that “some games teach you to kill.” He also said that games featuring bombs and cities were...