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Happy Birthday, Fallout 3! How Have Three Years Been To Ya?
Oh Em Gee, has it already been three years since Fallout 3 sponged up all my free time? I remember that October morning so well with a clouds-and-sunshine glare and a car that I was worried wouldn’t get me to and from the store. With the game – just the standard edition, please – and the hefty strategy guide in hand, I was ready to dive into Bethesda’s grim visit to Interplay’s classic post-apocalyptic nightmare. My last save clocked sixty-five hours of playtime, but I never did fall in love with Fallout 3, however much I liked it.
New ‘Beavis And Butthead’ TV Review – “Werewolves of Highland”/”Crying” (Spoileriffic!)
I wasn’t old enough to appreciate (or should I say, watch) Beavis and Butthead in its original run that ended fourteen years ago, but I caught up with it when I did watch MTV (a scary time) and fell in love with its spin-off Daria. In subsequent years, I found Beavis and Butthead Do America was a bit too long of a format for the series’ crude pedestrian humor, but now Mike Judge is happy to be back and making the show, what was once MTV’s proto-South Park, and we’re here to review it for you, heh heh.
In Time – Movie Review – A Time-Thriller That’s Not In A Hurry (Spoilers Within)
I’m a sucker for movies built around cleverly complex machinations. A man has spent his entire life being the protagonist of a TV show he’s not aware he’s in. A society of vampires is running out of humans to draw blood from. A group of thieves must dive into the sleeping mind of a magnate’s son and build dreams within dreams to get deep enough to plant an idea to destroy his empire. Here, the only currency is time. As soon as you turn twenty-five, your time starts ticking away. Coffee costs minutes, cars cost years, many wake up without enough hours to make it through the day. So with time in such a crunch, why does In Time take so long to resolve?
Is Zynga Doomed?
As sensational as the title may seen, it appears that social gaming magnate Zynga is about to tragically slam into a brick wall – or perhaps already has. We all recount the rise of Zynga, its controversial past, and how our moms needed to harvest their crops in Farmville before going to bed. But by their own numbers, it appears that they’ve hit a hard glass ceiling on the appeal of their titles and have nowhere to go but down.
Nexus One Owners Jelly, No Ice Cream Sandwich
If you’ve wanted to stay on top of the mobile upgrade train (like our gerascophobic friend, Kelly), it’s been tough for Android owners. While anyone can build an Android phone with publicly available software, the incentive to keep those users upgraded to the newest version faces the point of diminishing returns quick. Google uses the Nexus line to show off its latest and greatest version of Android before it disseminates to the masses and then ensures that older models will be upgraded quickly when new versions arrive. However, while this year’s Nexus S will be getting the upgrade to Android 4.0 – Ice Cream Sandwich, born to this world by the new Galaxy Nexus – its predecessor will not. Nexus One owners are up in arms, but why?
‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson – Book Review – How To Unravel A Complex Man
In the past week, the tech blogosphere and other media outlets have picked at this book like vultures. Jobs granted noted author/biographer Walter Isaacson intimate access to his life, family and then some, going so far as to reveal his final acts and product ideas before his death. Ripping morsels from a tome like this while Apple is in its prime is petty; a cruel version of ‘Snape Kills Dumbledore’ that does little justice to who Steve Jobs was. While I never fell in love with Apple or its end-to-end ecosystem, it’s intriguing to see how ruthless Jobs had to be to exact his specific vision and the enthralling story of how he got there.
Nokia Unveils Flagship Windows Phones, But Is It Enough?
At Nokia World this morning, the Finnish cellphone maker finally unveiled its inaugural Windows Phones to the planet. As we all know, Microsoft spent a lot of time courting the company in an effort to expand their influence to developing markets: places where Nokia currently thrives. But does this pair of new hardware have what it takes to elevate Microsoft’s mobile efforts?
Love It Or Hate It, The iPod Changed Music, Turned 10 Today
I was for the iPod before I was against it, but even I can’t deny how important it was to the formation of this post-PC era. As many of you know, I picked up the 10GB version of the one you see above. It was the first iteration they released for Windows and it was October 2002. The massive, cubic packaging (which they would shed quickly) was only about half-full of product, including the iPod, crappy earbuds, a remote that was too heavy to keep clamped on anything, and a Firewire cable. Yes, I needed a Firewire card to even use the thing and that puppy got hot when you started transferring stuff over. The screen was monochromatic with a bright white backlight that faded in and out as you used it. Sure there were other MP3 players out at the time, but this is the one you actually wanted.
Galaxy Nexus Gets November 10th Release Date On Verizon?
Looks like some Verizon employee has decided his job isn’t worth it, because into our (well, collectively the internet’s) hands falls a release schedule of the network’s phones. Included is both our favored Droid RAZR and the new ultra-slick Galaxy Nexus, but something isn’t quite right here.
Are You Willing To Commit Yourself To World Of Warcraft For 12 Months At This Point?
Y’know, this is a really good deal. So you sign a year-long commitment to World of Warcraft with their new, limited-time Annual Pass and get Diablo 3, a crazy awesome flying mount, and access to the beta for the next expansion, Mists of Pandaria. You can’t cancel and you’ll still spend $180 over the next year. Do you do it?
