Tuesday August 20th marks the release date for Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist on the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, and PC for $59.99. While discounts aren’t available yet for the console versions, if there’s any PC download deal hunters out there, you can now sneak in a 20% coupon at GameFly and knock $12…
I’m going through a phase. Sometimes, I’ll catch myself on YouTube watching a game of Crusader Kings II unfold as a nervous guy talks off-camera in a monotone punctuated by bursts of uncharacteristic enthusiasm. The premise: a person records their gaming session, narrating as they go – highs, lows, awkward pauses, expletives and all –…
Animated shows have a subjective hierarchy. When Fox lines up hours of television dedicated to “Animation Domination” (including some, shockingly not created by Seth MacFarlane), choices for cartoon chuckles are numerous. But how do you rate the big names? Are you a South Park supporter, or do you prefer probably-past-its-prime Family Guy? Futurama: The End…
Stop me if this sounds familiar: Thing comes into existence. Thing gathers more fans and snowballs in popularity. People start to become actively angry that this thing is becoming popular, which then grows in direct proportion to the popularity of the thing. This is happening with The Big Bang Theory, a show watched by upwards…
Twitter just hit a new record for tweets per second revealed by the company yesterday. The 143,199 tweets-per-second record was set thanks to the airing of a particularly famous anime film. Castle In The Sky Breaks Twitter Record Hayoa Miyazaki is known for creating some of the highest grossing Japanese animated films…
With just a month to go until GTA V is finally delivered into our greedy, clutching mitts, Rockstar have recently released details on the much talked about multiplayer. And it’s big news. I mean, really big. If Rockstar manages to pull this off, it will be quite spectacular. Despite the fact that it is yet…
At some point or the other, many of us would have wondered why Nokia chose Windows Phone as the OS for its Lumia range of smartphones. Nokia, once the largest selling handset manufacturer in the good old days, has seen its market share consistently fall over the past years. Microsoft’s OS has tailed Android &…
The first rule of Kickstarter is don’t be Zach Braff…. No, wait, that’s the unwritten first rule of Fight Club which doens’t exist and just STOP TALKING ABOUT IT! The first rule of Kickstarter is to deliver. With Tech Recon blasters hitting retail shelves, while the backers of the Tek Recon Kickstater still haven’t received…
Firefall is a first person shooter massively multiplayer online role-playing game. I’d say call it an FPSMMORPG, but let’s be honest that isn’t really much better on the too damn long front. Firefall is put out by Red 5 studios out of California, a team filled with game industry veterans. The game recently went into…
Does your shiny new Apple device seem to be dying far faster than expected, or is it even too hot to handle (literally)? Here are some simple tips you can use to ensure your iPhone 5 or previous models of the iPhone stays cooler, longer. This simple iPhone 5 tutorial can and will save your…
LG may return to partner with Google for the next Nexus phone this year. According to a new rumor, the Nexus 5 will be based on the LG G2 and should release in October priced similarly to the Nexus 4. According to South Korean website MyDrivers which has broken the news, the Nexus 5 will…
Not the kind of headline you might expect, but in some parts of the United Kingdom, slow internet is in fact, hindering the learning efforts of young students. Poor quality internet is a growing concern; so much so, local government officials are ramping up an effort to speed things up in order to bring some…
Having a weak connection to your wireless network is often a big pain. After all, you didn’t buy a wireless router just so you’d be forced to plug directly into it anyway. Luckily, there are a number of easy solutions to the issue of a poor Wi-Fi connection in the home. Here are some tips…
If you read about the new DoTA 2 edition tech coming from SteelSeries and were a jealous Guild Wars 2 player, then you are in luck. ArenaNet has teamed up with SteelSeries to bring out a Guild Wars 2 gaming keyboard. Of course if you play for DoTA2 and Guild Wars 2, then you should…
What version of Android does your phone run? 4.0? 4.1? Now pick 10 other of your droid-wielding friends. How many of them are likely to be running the same version of the OS? Android Fragmentation A frequent weapon against Android in its war with Apple’s iOS, is the serious fragmentation issues the platform…