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Simulate NASA’s Curiosity Rover Landing In Full 3D Right Now!
Curiosity in final descent, bundled with skycrane.
Ahhhh, space. Isn’t it exciting? With only six hours left before NASA’s latest exploratory rover touches down on Mars’ rustic surface, we’d normally be confined to video feeds from CNN or MSNBC to determine the rover’s progress. But NASA decided to step it up this time around, offering an interactive experience for Curiosity’s last moments.
Get Google Wallet For Your Verizon Galaxy Nexus Right Now!
Finally!
This post has three parts: why Google Wallet is awesome, why Google Wallet is more awesome now, and where you can finally get Google Wallet, officially, for your Verizon Galaxy Nexus. You will now officially be able to leave all your credit cards at home. That’s right, the singularity is here and it begins with your money! Let’s begin.
Oculus Rift Brings Us Virtual Reality’s Future’s Past’s… Now!
This seems fine, but I was kinda pining for the red laser tech in the Oculus.
It makes sense, in my mind at least, that if 3D is (thankfully) dying off, then virtual reality should return to take the helm. I’d written as much last year when it seemed like there was no hope. Well, now there is hope, and it’s called the Oculus Rift, and within one day, it smashed its Kickstarter goal. Smashed it.
Hotmail Gains Outlook View, Doesn’t Quite Win Over This Gmail Fan
Hotmail looks a lot better as Outlook, just sayin’.
Microsoft wouldn’t come out and say it, but Hotmail is becoming Outlook; a Metro-themed extravaganza without much of Hotmail’s muchness. The new Outlook web portal eschews most of the crap that had been caked onto Hotmail over the years, especially after their Live services launch years back. The new look is fantastic, if perhaps simplistic to the point of being barren (something that underserves the sophistication of Microsoft’s products at times) and comes with a clean Messenger client and Skype calling right in the panel. If I still used Hotmail regularly, this would probably be the best news ever. But I don’t.
Strikefleet Omega Review: Great Space Strategy For Your Android Tablet
No Space Battlecruiser Yamato’s here!
I’ve been dying for a fun space strategy game on any platform for ages and recent offerings have been a bit flat. But the fact that are so few decent non-tower defense titles on phones/tablets kills me because the touch screen is perfect for that style of game. Strikefleet Omega is, reduced, a freemium tower defense game, something that would’ve thrown me off if someone had explained it to me that way, but instead, I’ve found a flashy little game that’s super fun to play and willing to swallow up your free time… if you have a tablet, that is.
Facebook Timeline Becomes Mandatory Come This Fall, Get Ready Now
Seriously, it looks better and everything, just do it.
Guys, if you haven’t moved over to Facebook Timeline, you simply aren’t going to have the option come Fall. Introduced nearly a year ago with crazy banner images and the ability to go your birth on a single page, Timeline has been a drastic change in how Facebook walls are presented. Also, you need to stop being a luddite and move over before Facebook forces you to.
Dead Trigger Review: Insert Coin To Shoot Zombie
I’m not a math student, but this seems like a pretty easy equation.
Free to play games seem to be popping up everywhere, some seem really great, and others let their reliance on micro-transactions drag them under the water line. While originally offered for a mere $.99, developer MADFINGER Games felt obliged to give it away on the Google Play Store because of rampant piracy of the game. Oh sure, you can play Dead Trigger for free, but it’s not long before the game bares its teeth.
Nexus 7 Review: The Tablet For The Rest Of Us?
The mythological Nexus tablet has arrived, but can it compete?
We’ve waited a long time for the Nexus tablet; for proof that Google really wants to compete against the iPad. Hardware with the flagship Nexus moniker is co-designed by Google and granted not only the latest and greatest versions of Android, but tend to be high-quality hardware as well. Google said they wanted to spread the Nexus branding amongst their partners and Asus is the latest to join the stable of privileged. While Android dominates in the smartphone market, shoehorning it onto tablets has net lukewarm results, proving that the iPad success story is far more exception than rule. But does the Nexus 7 make enough headway as a tablet to lead Google’s hardware partners to the promised land of tablet dominance? And does it cure my indifference to tablets altogether?
E3 To Stay In Los Angeles Until 2015, Avoid Santa Monica Situation
E3’s home sweet home for the forseeable future.
Today the Entertainment Software Association (or the ESA, for the rest of us) informed us that their world-famous Electronic Entertainment Expo (or E3, for the rest of us) will remain in Los Angeles. The organization, which represents hundreds of gaming entities and runs the world’s largest gaming show, had some trepidation about staying in Los Angeles with Farmer’s Field about to be placed where the current West Hall stands. Well, it looks like hugs and kisses made their rounds and E3 will be locked into Los Angeles until at least 2015. We, of course, will be there.
Castle Story, An Exciting New Minecraft-ish Strategy Game, Beats Kickstarter Goal On First Day
Build, my minions! Build!
When Kelly tipped me off to this a few months ago, I was immediately excited. Take a classic real-time strategy game like Command & Conquer or Stronghold and implement brick-by-brick detail. Or, take Minecraft and zoom out a bit, allowing you to command workers to build your structures exactly as you see fit. Throw in a dash of Dungeon Keeper or even The Settlers and you have Sauropod Studios’ Castle Story, which is already making bank months from release. Another indie gaming smash in the making?
