Angry Birds is a tremendously fun game. Those with an iPhone, iPad, Android device, or Mac, are no doubt aware of its addictive nature. Thanks to Mattel, the wildly popular game seeks to make the jump from electronic devices to a board game, allowing one to play the game with physical birds, pigs and other pieces that make up Angry Birds scenery. Read more »
Could Sony be plotting a competitor to Nintendo’s 3DS that’s packing horsepower equivalent to its powerhouse home console? That’s the rumor du jour circulating the gaming world today. According to British print mag MCV, which covers the goings-on inside the game industry, Sony has been telling game developers that the PSP2 will be in stores by Christmas 2011, and that it’s planning on competing against the 3DS by offering a high-end device that’s leaps and bounds beyond what any other handheld is capable of. The appearance of the PSP2 has yet to be shown to developers, but it’s expected to be very similar to the original PSP in design, with Read more »
Here it is: your first official look at actor Andrew Garfield wearing the brand new Spider-Man suit from director Marc Webb’s reboot of the film franchise. The Spidey-suit has clearly been completely redesigned with an even more textured look than Tobey Maguire’s. (Click the image to zoom in to a super-high-res version, where you can scrutinize every last detail.) The new, untitled Spider-Man film is said to share no continuity with the Sam Raimi films, instead hewing closer to the comics with an origin story that depicts Peter Parker as a teenage high schooler who pines after a very much still-alive Gwen Stacy. Some reports indicate that the super-secret plot Read more »
Who says #13 is unlucky? This week has given us a plethora of wins and fails to gleefully dissect, from mass firings at MySpace to social networking space robots to sex on Mars. Hey, at least somebody’s getting lucky with that last one. Let’s dig in. FAIL: Job Security Again. This seems to be a recurring theme in our weekly updates. Perhaps, given the economy and the fickle nature of the Internet, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to see 47% of MySpace’s employees sacked this week. It’s even less of a surprise since, at least to me, MySpace’s decline has been fairly evident for some time. 500 employees lost Read more »
Minecraft, Minecraft, Minecraft. If you follow video game discussion online at all, that word is everywhere you look. Just this week, the indie game sensation joined the millionaire’s club: more than one million players have purchased and now own the game. Minecraft is officially a phenomenon. (And it’s still in beta!) If you’re not among that million and have yet to take the Minecraft plunge, here’s a primer on why it’s become an object of obsession. Taking a page from LEGO and another from Dungeon Keeper, Minecraft is a sandbox game where you use same-sized cubes to build anything you want in a three-dimensional playground. Using various ores that are “mined” Read more »
Two enterprising young gentleman operating under the moniker, Satarii, have taken iPhone accessory innovation to a “moving” new level. Read more »
If you haven’t managed to catch the first two episodes of the Young Justice cartoon aired on the Cartoon Network before Christmas, then you have really missed a treat. Still, don’t despair, the rest of the series continues this with a repeat of the second episode this Friday. Now I may have fallen for the sillyness that was the JLI some fifteen years ago, but when it came to the immature antics of Young Justice, I was never a fan. This however is a lot different. Compared to the first episode of the Justice League cartoon, this is more character driven and a real treat for DC fans, or a Read more »
Say what you will about Google‘s empire growing too big and dominant over the web, but every now and then they do something… awesome. (Yes I know, “awesome” is the world’s most over-used word, but in this case it’s perfectly applicable.) Google has cooked up an amazing idea: they’re holding the world’s first-ever global Science Fair. Scientists, Google believes, should be rock stars, every bit as celebrated and championed as athletes and musicians. And I couldn’t agree more. Young people between the ages of 13 and 18 are now invited to come up with ideas for a submission, and then create a free Google website where they show their work. Read more »
Would it bother you to know that a colony’s worth of bold adventurers set off from Earth to Mars with zero hope of returning? Could you rally behind a suicide mission, even with so grand a purpose? Those are the questions, among many others, being asked about a privately-organized mission to colonize Mars which, if it goes ahead, could put man on the Red Planet as soon as 20 years from now. Doing much of the asking is Albert Harrison, a psychologist who’s dedicated himself to astronaut psychology (a specialty I wasn’t even aware existed, but one that makes perfect sense) since the 1970s. Read more »
Ah, E3. How do I love thee. This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, aka video game nerdvana, where the gaming industry reveals its biggest games for the coming year and insiders can get hands-on time with upcoming titles, is scheduled for June 7th – June 9th. Thankfully, we’ve finally gotten past all that unpleasantness from a few years ago when the show was severely downsized, because E3 has become the grand spectacle it deserves to be once again. The official list of vendors bringing booths to E3 this year has just been unveiled, and it’s all kinds of juicy. These booths range in size from standardly small cubes all the way Read more »
