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For Only $99, 23andMe Can Reveal The Exciting Wonder (Or Absolute Horror) Of Your Own Genetics
Bring it on, genetic sequencing!
Nowadays, you can’t use your smartphone without partaking in some sort of cloud storage that’s undeniably you, everywhere. Whether it’s your Google or Mac ID, your pictures, your music, so forth, we rely on the idea that somewhere out there, our information is being stored securely and we can retrieve it at any time. But there’s another form of secure storage out there that’s extremely close to us and still relatively untapped. It’s our DNA. Common to any living organism, geneticists have only begun to understand what those 3 billion base pairs mean and what functionality (or lack thereof) they provide us as human beings. For $99, genomics company 23andMe will examine your permanent source code and provide you some pretty interesting information on who you are as a person, whether you may like it or not.
New SimCity Trailer Reveals Cities Working Together, How To Enlist Your Friends
SimCasino, a wretched hive of scum and villainy…
The sooner I get my hands on this new SimCity, the better. Maxis has just revealed a more nuanced look at how they plan to approach play between multiple cities. SimCity 4 featured a primitive version of this, but how next year’s SimCity handles is unique because of how the game handles individual simulations. Let’s dive in, I’ve got the video below!
$550 Gets You A Samsung Galaxy Camera On Verizon LTE, Perhaps Made Of Gold
It’s a camera running full-blown Android. What else do you want?
Earlier this year, I surveyed Samsung’s new Galaxy Camera, which is an Android-powered device married to a larger-than-your-average-smartphone’s light sensor and a mechanical zoom. I though it was a beautiful idea and now the camera that can do it all is appearing in its various forms here in the States. Samsung has now officially announced that you can get the device with a Verizon LTE radio for high-speed cellular transmission (most) anywhere. But, there are some downsides.
Will Smith Plays Jaden Smith’s Dad In Post-Apocalyptic Film ‘After Earth’
Welcome to Earth! Now that’s what I call a close encounter!
Everyone, quick. Bring out your film/short film/cinematic adventures regarding a life after some terrible calamity, right now. At this very second. I was cheery about the Tom Cruise/Joseph Kasinski/M83 kickpunch-threat Oblivion from the moment I heard the three were working together. Now we have the debut trailer from Will Smith/M. Night Shyamalan/scribe Gary Whitta and despite some excellent bread in that trio, that lunch meat in the middle has gone rotten over the past few films. It’s seriously like mold in your pantry. Well, how does After Earth hold up in an initial preview? I’ve got an embed on the trailer below.
Windows 8 Review: A Modern Experiment
Tiles are better than menus, anyway.
Windows 8, Microsoft’s experimental new version of the world’s most popular operating system, has already been out for a few months, so it seems a little silly to just now come out for a review, especially when the Consumer Preview was out for several months before that. I disagree. I think that, having now spent several months with the final version on my working desktop and needing to replace some hardware in that time, it’s time to really get into how Windows 8 operates and whether it might be a good upgrade for you. On a technical basis, Windows 8 is a redress of the Windows 7 core, which hails from decades of solid advancement, allowing it to maintain backwards compatibility. On a usability basis, Windows 8 is a drastic change to the norm and requires some learning to get used to. Is it worth a shot? I think so.
Tom Cruise Plays Wall-E In New Post-Apocalyptic Film ‘Oblivion’
War. War Never Changes…
Universal recently revealed the trailer for Joseph Kosinski’s (TRON Legacy) new film, Oblivion. Based on a graphic novel he co-wrote, the film will tell the tale of the last repairman on Earth, played by Tom Cruise, trying to scavenge the last vital minerals on the planet after an alien race has carved up the surface, Cataclysm-style. Of course, he finds Something Weird that drags him into a crazy predicament and totally warps his worldview. It’s dark, mysterious, and has plenty of special effects. Why am I so excited? Let me explain below (along with the trailer!).
Far Cry 3 (Xbox 360) Review: A Tropical Sandbox Worth Fighting For
Awwww, he’s so adorable! When he’s, y’know, not trying to murder you and your friends.
I’m going to describe a game and I want you to guess what it is. You’re an out-of-water American stuck in a civil conflict set in an archipelago of tropical islands in southeast Asia. You fall on the side of the insurgency against a corrupt, oppressive regime that dresses in bright red and sports a white star for a logo. The world is a sandbox, allowing you to tackle objectives in any order, including knocking over and claiming enemy outposts, vehicle races, and a series of scripted story-based missions that feel out of place compared to the fun you’re having out in the jungle. If you guessed 2009’s Just Cause 2, you’d be right. If you happened to guess Far Cry 3, you’d also be correct. Far Cry 3 lacks the over-the-top zaniness of zip-lining and parachuting through a tropical paradise, but where it lacks that game’s comic fantasy, it’s a far more intimate, more tightly structured game that improves on the gaggle of systems introduced in its predecessor.
Why The Hate For Far Cry 3’s Co-op? [VIDEO]
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Far Cry 3’s co-op looks like this, minus any drinking or the dude-bros.
Far Cry 3 is a solid game and while our review is still forthcoming, I’m a little curious about the drubbing that the game’s co-op mode has been receiving from the media. Taking an open world game and then stripping most of that away for the cooperative action seems a little anti-thetical (and honestly, less fun) than letting you and your bros wreak havoc across the landscape. Cody, Kelly and I played through the first hour or so of Far Cry 3’s experience below so you can draw your own conclusions.
FleshEatingZipper Liveblogs The Spike VGAs, Join Us For The Horror! (9PM EST, 6PM PST)
They put a smiley face in the logo because it’s ironic.
It’s that time of year again! Tonight, Spike TV presents the tenth edition of their Video Game Awards, a program they dedicate as a tribute to gamers, but is anything but. The VGAs are known for not only being a showcase of new game trailers from complicit developers, a solid lineup of actual game award winners, and a show that could be best described as hugging a cactus with your eyes. We’re live blogging the event in hopes that you simply won’t watch it. We’re doing it for you. So stay tuned, the liveblog will update itself automatically below, you don’t need to refresh the page!
Killing The Physical Juggernaut, Part 1: The Life And Death Of Home Movies
Endless stacks of discs, forever.
I have no love for physical media and society demands I feel just a little trapped. With the arrival of the holiday season and its plentiful specials, the NeRDS, and the amount of sheer rubbish we receive at FEZ HQ, I’ve acquired a lot of shiny discs in the past few weeks. Hidden within many of these amaray cases, like some kind of matryoshka doll, are nests of discs, numbered in sequence. We live in a time that streaming services and technologies are divorcing us from the necessity of acquiring a galaxy of different physical media to enjoy our content. My parents, however, were married just as a lot of this was coming home in the form of chunky black tapes and silver discs for the very first time. In thirty years, we have created the monster and are now, not quickly enough, killing it.
