Zune HD hacked, entire hardware open to homebrew programmers
Potentially huge news for Zune HD owners—that means Devin and I. It has been hacked~! Yes, the good folks over at ZuneBoards have hacked the Zune HD to pieces, giving homebrew developers full access to...
View ArticleShock: Graphics being equal, Crysis 2 said to run better on PS3 than Xbox 360...
It was only a few days ago that Crytek and EA showed off Crysis 2 to the world's gaming press—and CrunchGear. It looks crazy, yes, and that finely tuned opinion—"it looks crazy"—is based on the Xbox...
View ArticleVideo: How good is the Nintendo Wii emulator Dolphin? Let’s see how Resident...
So a few days ago Dolphin 2.0 was released. Dolphin is a Nintendo Wii and GameCube emulator for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and it works quite well. How well? Here’s a video of me playing the Wii version...
View ArticleComputer virus mucks up Russia-China border crossing
This isn't the best time to be a traveler. Europe is still fighting plumes of volcanic ash—FC Barcelona had to take a bus from Barcelona to Milan for tomorrow's game against Inter!—and now there's word...
View ArticleWWE Latest: Two years after App Store launch, WWE launches 1st iPhone App
It took WWE almost two years to release an iPhone App, but here we are. That's right, today the company, which fancies itself as some sort of catch-all, cutting-edge entertainment juggernaut, has...
View ArticleAre video games art?
I'm hesitant to write this because, really, who cares? And I don't mean that in a negative, cynical way at all, but rather in a practical way. Clearly there are people who enjoy playing video games,...
View ArticleMarvel vs. Capcom 3 comin’ at ya Spring 2011
There's a couple things going on today. One, of course, it's some sort of smokers' holiday—they're celebrating on Ron and Fez on Sirius XM right now and I'm giggling like a fool. Two, Barcelona plays...
View ArticleThe Adidas Jo’bulani will be used in the FIFA World Cup final
You're already familiar with the Adidas Jabulani, the ball that will be used during the FIFA World Cup this year. It's the roundest ball ever created—impressive—and hopefully Messi will score many...
View ArticleFCC pressing for AllVid to replace Cable Cards
Looks like the FCC wants to replace your Cable Card with, I don't know, something useful. The new device, dubbed "AllVid," would work with a variety of media—TVs, computers, and the like—to deliver...
View ArticleAbsolutely bananas Asus Rampage III Extreme motherboard first offered by Origin
This is the greatest motherboard that has ever lived. It's the Asus Rampage III Extreme, and it's designed for people who do insane things like run three video cards simultaneously alongside an Intel...
View ArticleLeft 4 Dead 2 DLC now available. Too bad Xbox 360 players have to pay for it.
There's pretty much no need to write this next story, especially if you're a fan, but... Valve, darling developers that they are, have released the very first DLC for Left 4 Dead 2, The Passing. I was...
View ArticleVideos: WePad’s interface moves oh so smoothly
This is the final version of the WePad, and it's currently earmarked for a July release. We'll see, of course. Anyhow, the device was shown off to the press in Germany earlier today, and several videos...
View ArticleNvidia commits to simultaneous desktop-laptop driver releases
Nvidia wants to help out you laptop gamers. How nice of them. From now on, the company will release both desktop and mobile drivers at the same time. This isn't such a big deal for desktop users, what...
View ArticleVideo: Chikara has a video game?!
I truly have seen everything now. Apparently Chikara, the Philadelphia-based pro-wrestling promotion that mixes lucha libre, puroresu, and general tomfoolery will be releasing its very own video game,...
View ArticlePlex for Mac OS X adds hardware h.264 video decoding
Exciting news from Plex, the media center for Mac OS X that won my heart a long time ago. The devs have announced that they've integrated Apple's new video decode acceleration framework into the latest...
View ArticleSprint HTC EVO 4G coming June 4th; new plans detailed
We knew it was coming, but we didn’t know when until now. Sprint just let us know that the HTC EVO 4G is arriving on June 4th. I gotta have one. Pricing is set at $199.99 with new contract (after you...
View ArticleAsus claims 100 percent recyclable laptops (that are made of bamboo)
What do you do with a laptop when you're done with it? That's an actual question being that the only laptop I owned before my current old man MacBook is sitting in the closet, broken beyond repair....
View ArticleCan’t sleep? Turn off your iPad!
You're an animal. You're a living creature not too dissimilar from a chimpanzee—well, I guess chimps don't wear sneakers—, and yet you constantly fight your natural instincts. Like, you're meant to be...
View ArticleDid Rogers Wireless ruin this woman’s life (or is she simply a fool)?
A Canadian woman has sued Rogers Wireless over privacy concerns. Sounds normal so far, right? Let's add a little color to the sentence, then gauge your reaction. A Canadian woman has sued Rogers...
View ArticleYou’re playing a lot of mobile games on the subway, aren’t you?
You're on the subway on the way to work. It's not a long trip, maybe 15 to 20 minutes long if you're coming in from an outer borough. You have to kill the time somehow lest you be alone in your...
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