With a definitive 4 wins among the 17 categories, BioShock Infinite has emerged the top beneficiary of E3 2011. BioShock was named overall “Best of Show,” while also taking home the awards for “Best Original Game,” “Best PC Game,” and “Best Action/Adventure Game.” Read more »
With Team Fortress 2 now free to play, it feels a like 2007 all over again. I’m up till 3 in the morning, capturing points, inching the payload forward, and cursing medics who don’t do it right. The only difference is that at this point I feel like I’m king of the leader boards. The pyros don’t know how to air blast rockets, the engineers don’t know how to rotate turrets, and everyone holds back playing a sniper. This is of course all because Team Fortress 2 is now free to play and the influx of thousands of new players (double) jumping into the most recognized team-based warfare has reset Read more »
This is it, folks! It’s the first anniversary of Tau Day, the “time to celebrate and rejoice in all things mathematical and true.” Every year, geeks, nerds, and pie pi lovers celebrate Pi Day on March 14. Year in and year out, students learn the value of pi – both in theoretical and practical aspects. 3.1416… – who is not familiar with the number? Behind the scenes, however, there is another number that we must pay attention to. Earlier this year, I discovered the Tau Manifesto, courtesy of math goddess (I’ve taken the liberty to call her this) Vi Hart. She made a video explaining why Pi is wrong. Why Read more »
The first season of The Game of Thrones has just ended, with fans raving about the finale. As can be expected, viewers already have their personal favorites – characters they love and characters they hate. All sorts of infographics, guides, flow charts, and what have you about the Game of Thrones can be found online, but this set of mashups takes the cake. Characters from the HBO version of Game of Thrones have been “muppetized”. Now that is hard to beat, isn’t it? There are times when I just loathe Cersei, but there are rare moments (at least when reading the book, that I somehow understand why she thinks/behaves in Read more »
Call me old fashioned, but I just want to sit and watch a movie. 3D is nifty when it’s used properly — aka, when the on-screen characters don’t throw stuff at you — but that’s where I draw the line. If “motion seating” company D-Box gets its way, the next big thing in movie theaters will be seats that lift, pitch, roll, and heave you around like a ragdoll. Read more »
Every Summer, Microsoft gathers a killer lineup of great Xbox Live Arcade games and releases them once-per-week over a month or so. It’s happened for several years now, and many Xbox users have begun looking forward to this tradition because the games in the “Summer of Arcade” are usually top-notch. Here’s this year’s complete roster, along with screens from each game! Read more »
Spitting to some, including yours truly, is disgusting. That said, we’ve all sent saliva flying from our mouths at one point or another for a variety of reasons. Some spit to display disdain, others spit when eating seeds of some sort, while many shun spitting altogether. New scientific research however shows that spit may hold a very important place in society, determining one’s true biological age. Read more »
It’s just another geeky Monday, but I still wish it were Sunday! (Or Saturday for that matter. The weekend just swooshed by without me realizing it.) At least reading material abounds online which makes up for Mondays. Take this article title “20 Things You Didn’t Know About DNA” from Discover Magazine. Now, not everyone would go around parading their interest in DNA and stuff like that, would they? This list is then the best thing to come along since – well, name whatever you think the best thing is. You can now have all your DNA questions answered without having to actually ask them! Instead of listing down all the Read more »
The anime from this spring season are wrapping up, and that means it’s time for some new anime to fill the void. As usual, there are some anime that are destined to fail and others that may rise up above the rest. Here are just some titles which caught my eye. Blood-C The next installment in the Blood franchise, Blood-C should be on the watch list of any fans of “Blood: The Last Vampire” and “Blood+”. Little is known about the story at this point, but speculation based on the main character’s name (Saya) and the sword seen in promotional art, we can probably expect a story similar to Blood+. Read more »
Robots may soon become a part of our everyday lives. They have their own world wide web, are capable of cleaning our bathrooms, are becoming ever better at solving puzzles, and realistic robot babies with the possibility of having a solar-powered skin that can touch and feel exist already. If that wasn’t evidence of enough that robots are becoming omnipresent, Mechanical Engineering students at Delft university of Technology have developed a robot that can deliver drinks swiftly and without spilling a single drop. Read more »
