When I lived in Beijing, I used ChinesePod language lessons to work on my Mandarin. ChinesePod beat out Berlitz and other language tapes because it offered short, targeted lessons. I could practice a short dialogue with vocabulary words for the post office before I went to mail a letter. Plus, ChinesePod was available as a…
Microsoft did disappoint quite a few gamers when it announced that the new Xbox One will require you to connect to the internet once every 24-hours. However, the company’s Executive Don Mattrick says that the company is also offering an offline solution to the gamers, the Xbox 360. In an interview with GameTrailers, Xbox Chief…
Venom #36 contains a version of the popular Spider-Man villain many readers may not be familiar with. But nevertheless, Flash Thompson’s bonding to the alien Venom symbiote is an interesting choice by Marvel and one that has seen great success for the Venom series since its debut in 2011. But is Venom #36 a good…
The highly anticipated HTC One Mini is finally upon us. The upcoming HTC One Mini a.k.a HTC M4, has been leaked in a clear picture next to its elder brother, the HTC One. Even though the HTC One Mini looks exactly like a smaller HTC One (Duh!) it`s not the only high-end phone it resembles….
Do you remember your best friend from grade school? Remember that time when that best friend moved away? Remember when they came back to visit and you bought terrible tasting smoothies together and purposefully threw them in the middle of the street to see if cars might run them over? Okay, that last bit might…
I grew up reading (and believing in) the Young Jedi Knights series, so the rumors circulating that two 17-year old twins are going to star in Episode VII pretty much stops my heart dead. For those of you who aren’t getting chills in your bones, let me explain: the two twins are Jacen and Jaina,…
It wasn’t all Xbone and PS-FTW this week at E3 2013 (Get it? PS-four-the-win? Bah. I’ll show myself out). Tons of new PC game releases got new buzz and trailers. Today a boatload of those E3 games received a slashing discount thanks to new coupon codes at Green Man Gaming, resulting in discounts between 20% and…
I’ve always felt that the best comic book series are the ones that I could imagine watching unfold during a really good television series. The odd thing about The Walking Dead is that it actually has been made into a television series. That series is pretty good, but at this point isn’t much like the…
I love the Elder Scrolls series. I just wanted to get that out of the way so nobody thinks otherwise. I began playing the series when Morrowind was it’s newest game and have been in love ever since. There are just things that the Elder Scrolls games have done that no other franchise seems to…
Game of Thrones is a complex puzzle where none of the pieces actually fit together. Conventional wisdom and the literary cues given to us throughout the first three seasons are proven false without warning. It’s as if author George RR Martin is telling us to stop anticipating what will happen because we are wrong. Now…
This Sunday is Father’s Day, the annual tie giving, barbecuing holiday that adorns our June calendars every year. The week before is filled with racked brains trying to figure out something our poppas would actually want. It’s not any easy process. Unless you are in fact a dad and then it’s time to just sit…
There are a lot of films released every year that are sci-fi or fantasy in nature. But not many of them are able to boast being based on a true story. One such supernatural true story in the works has gained some traction after being linked to one of Hollywood’s most prominent leading men. Deadline.com…
The Saints Row series marches on, with the August 20th release of Saints Row 4. Many were concerned about the series with the bankruptcy of THQ, but Deep Silver has grabbed the baton and set the game for an August 20th release date. Preorder copies get the “Commander and Chief Edition!” pack which includes a…
Samsung isn’t finished yet. Yet another handset (the 4th in the past week, and the third S4 variant) has been announced. The Galaxy S4 Zoom, they call it, confirming the numerous leaks and rumors we’ve had over the past weeks. The handset seems to be a hybrid of the Galaxy S4, and the Galaxy Camera. The…
Few franchises have been as consistently strong as the GRID series. It started out as the TOCA Touring Cars series on PS1, producing one of the best racing games that console ever saw in TOCA 2 Touring Cars. It had a wobbly PS2 debut with TOCA Race Driver, featuring a laughably stupid Days of Thunder-esque…