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New ‘After Earth’ Trailer Still Hasn’t Won Me Over On Shyamalan’s Fresh Prince Connection
Don’t cry Will Smith, at least you’re not in Devil. Or The Last Airbender, or The Happening, or…
In this second trailer to M. Night Shyamalan’s new sci-fi action thriller After Earth, we see a bit more of the juicy relational bits that are supposed to make us sympathize with an injured father tasked with sitting in a chair. Of course, watching that wouldn’t be terribly exciting, so the movie instead focuses on his efforts to guide his son through a hundred kilometers of wild post-human Earth, complete with The Day After Tomorrow-esque snap freezes and animals that couldn’t possibly exist a measly thousand years after humans depart.
Kevin Smith Started Writing ‘Clerks III’ This Morning
Featuring: weed and beers.
I may be able to forgive Kevin Smith for his recent films. Cop Out was terrible, Red State was even worse. What happens when Kevin Smith steps out of his comfort zone and starts making action films or whatever he was trying to do with those films? Only bad things. What happens when he starts writing the third film in the Clerks series? Only good things, we hope!
Apple And Samsung Chasing Wireless Charging For New iPhone/Galaxy S4, But Is It Hot Or Not?
The future.
Apparently, we have a revolution on our hands. Soon, we’ll no longer need to fish for the tail end of a USB cable and plug it into our phones when they run low, and boy do they ever run low these days. Instead, as DigiTimes reports, we’ll be able to take our iPhone 5S and/or Galaxy S4 and place them on an inductive charge pad to let those precious battery bars return to us. Like NFC before it though, a case still needs to be made for its usefulness.
Dynamite Jack (Android) Review: You’re Sam Fisher, But With Bombs
Watch for those troopers or it’s an instant death!
With the recent debut of a new Humble Bundle, I decided to dig in and check out some awesome Android games as well as help out charity. The biggest unknown was Dynamite Jack, a game that looked like Bomberman, and to an extent it is, but further, it’s a satisfying puzzle game from the guys who brought us GalCon, another great mobile game.
Safeway Home Delivery Review: What Was Life Like Before Grocers Came To You?
It’s like ordering pizza online, but with all kinds of food!
Before I moved out to Phoenix, Rob – and later, Kelly – kept yammering about how Safeway delivered groceries out here, to your home. It seems somewhat paradoxical that as a fat kid, I actually kinda enjoy walking through many of the aisles and seeing what I want specifically. Maybe I want something special here and there. But that’s also where the trouble lies: if I’m walking around that store, with aisles full of things I want, I’m going to want it all.
Facebook Is Changing Its News Feed Design, But Relax, It’s Awesome
Everything’s getting bigger in Facebook’s News Feed.
It won’t satisfy everyone, but Facebook’s News Feed is getting a revamp. Unlike the company’s previous big announcement about Graph Search, a feature that still hasn’t shown its usefulness yet, this new feed looks amazing. Influenced by the work they’ve put into their mobile apps, something they’ve been lagging behind on for many years, they’re bringing in a new way of looking at things from your friends and otherwise that’s got bigger pictures, is far more direct, and is a lot more useful. Let’s break down the changes.
Gore Verbinski’s Tron-like Marble Game For Kinect, ‘Matter’, Is No More
It’s so shiny! Or, it was.
One of the coolest games to be announced at Microsoft’s E3 conference last year was Matter, a Marble Blast Ultra-esque game with a severe sci-fi theme and echoes of Portal. The game was being produced by Gore Verbinski’s new game studio Blind Wink and was being designed specifically for Kinect with a goal of eliciting emotion, which is a pretty heady premise for a game. Perhaps too heady, because the game is now cancelled without a frame of gameplay footage ever being shown.
Boy Scouts Will Be Able To Design Games, Earn A Merit Badge For It
The Boy Scouts join the future! Almost!
I was a Boy Scout for four years and we never had anything this cool. The hundred-plus year old organization for boys and young men has been receiving a lot of heat for its now-controversial stance on letting gays into troops across the country, but there’s nothing controversial about a merit badge about game design. One has to wonder though: what took so long?
RunKeeper May Be My New Favorite App, Demotivated Walkers Unite!
Plenty of stats keep you informed on what’s going on during your exercises.
I’ve mentioned it before, but I am big, fat, and lazy. At the tail end of my retail career, I walked two miles each way to and from work on top of almost ten miles in store, so you can see I got plenty of walkin’ on. Of course, in the two and a half years of call center work that followed, I dematerialized into a pile of human-like goo and grew to a terrible size. Merely scaling the stairs to get into my building would cause me to start huffing and puffing, to say nothing of those in worse condition than I who had been with the company for a decade-plus. Well, with my new job here at FleshEatingZipper, I knew I wanted to change that and I’ve enlisted RunKeeper to help me get back into shape.
EU Fines Microsoft $730M Because 15M Europeans Couldn’t Figure Out How To Download Another Browser
People who use Windows in Europe get to see this.
For those of us in America, this all might seem a little silly. The European Union brought up an antitrust case against Microsoft a few years ago – much like how our government struck out at them in the late nineties – because they were bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. While the charges were ultimately dropped in the US, the EU continued to have a problem with it, so in 2009, Microsoft agreed to pay a massive $1.2 billion in fines and install a variant of the browser ballot you see above for users starting up Windows. Microsoft’s only problem is that it didn’t work for some people, an estimated 15 million people at the determination of the EU, and now Microsoft is back in the hot seat.
