When Is Jelly Bean Landing For The Verizon Galaxy Nexus? Ever?
So close, and yet, so far away…
We’ve talked before about how much we hate carriers for holding up our smartphone updates, the slabs of new functionality our phones need to remain relevant. For Android users, you have the Nexus series of phones that are destined to receive the latest and greatest first, and for GSM-equipped owners of the Galaxy Nexus, the new 4.1 Jelly Bean update has been available from Day One. But what about those who caved into the demands of big carriers and wanted subsidized phones? We wait.
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South Park: The Stick of Truth – New Screenshots Released
SCREW YOU GUYS!!
South Park: The Stick of Truth…Another one of the things we got the pleasure of getting to see at E3. Trey Parker and Matt Stone proudly introduced the game immediately after Microsoft’s discussion of Smartglass and lauded the game as having terrible graphics and a great South-Park story.
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Minecraft for Xbox 360 Passes 3 Million Sales
That’s crazy! The $20 title released in May passed a million sales in only a few days and sales have been steady since then. Minecraft is a fun game and from what I’ve seen it works really well on the Xbox. The Mojang development team has been releasing updates and has DLC already available for free or extremely cheap. I know that as soon as it catches up to the PC version I will plop down the money and pick it up for Xbox myself. Read the rest of this article…
Shadowrun Online Launches On Kickstarter
The world can ALWAYS use more Shadowrun!
Shadowrun. First it was a very successful pen and paper RPG, then it was a video game, then it became a not-so-successful multiplayer shooter, and now…Well, now it’s trying to become something else.
Jordan Weisman, the creator of Shadowrun, launched a kickstarter earlier this year and raised $1.8 million for a new turn-based tactical RPG called “Shadowrun Returns” which will launch on tablets and PC’s. Now he’s launched another kickstarter for Shadowrun Online which will come from Austrian developer; Cliffhanger Productions who are working with Harebrained and Catalyst to create the Shadowrun Universe at www.shadowrun.com.
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The Dark Knight Rises Review – Too Tight A Wrapping
This is the end of Nolan’s series. That’s it. There is no more.
In some parallel timeline, in some weird alternate dimension, Christopher Nolan is a watchmaker. He’s surveying hundreds of intricate components as they’re assembled in a specific order and then set into marvelous operation. I’ve seen every one of his films, minus Following and Insomnia, and it’s apparent that Nolan, without the help of Inception, is in the business of making cinematic puzzles that spend their running times being assembled and set off. He may be one of the past decade’s best directors, but there’s something in his approach that leaves his films feeling hollow, soaring right under what could be considered ‘art’. (I imagine this may be similar to Roger Ebert’s criticism of video games as art.) With The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan ends his Batman trilogy just as he had planned for the better part of a decade with a really good film, but we find less free-flowing cinematic energy here and more forgone conclusion as Nolan seems to have tied off this film a bit too tightly and this conclusion suffers for it.
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Hulu Face Match Just Blew My Mind
I noticed Hulu rolled out a new video player on my account and and decided to check it out. When I dug into the settings I saw an option for “face match” with an on/off toggle and a learn more link. What is this, I got to know. Read the rest of this article…
Get the Gringo Review: Best Straight-to-DVD Release Ever?
Get the Gringo, written by and starring Mel Gibson, is perhaps the best movie ever made to miss a real theatrical release. I know that sounds like damning the movie with faint praise, but Get the Gringo is a surprisingly professional, polished movie. The catch, however, is that each person’s ability to sit through it will depend on his or her ability to stomach watching Mel Gibson on film. In fact, I suspect the only reason Get the Gringo was dumped off without a theatrical release is because of the star. I grew up watching (and loving the hell out of) Lethal Weapon, Braveheart, and The Road Warrior, though, so the man can do nothing in his personal life to make me just skip out on one of his action movies. I may not like Gibson as a man, but he knows how to make a decent movie. Get the Gringo is a grim, bloody, taut little film, reminiscent of Gibson’s work in the ‘80s, before he briefly attempted to go all family-friendly on us. Read the rest of this article…
Hacker Evolution Duality To Receive An Expansion And 3,653 Copies To Be Given Away
HACK THE PLANET!!
Exosyphen Studios, the company which gave us the best-seller “Hacker Evolution” is celebrating its tenth anniversary by announcing its first ever expansion for Hacker Evolution Duality, which includes more than 20 new levels for the game and by giving away 3,653 copies of Hacker Evolution Duality, marking 1 copy for each day the studio has been around.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Hits Blu-Ray Next Week, Never Looked As Good
The Enterprise-D wasn’t the most aggressive-looking ship, but it had the best crew!
Star Trek: The Next Generation was my Star Trek. Captain Picard was my hero, delegating and being diplomatic like no one’s business. He treated his staff as equals and while he wasn’t up for hot-rodding the ship like Kirk was, his strength was in his consensus-based management. Anyway, it’s been twenty-five years since The Next Generation debuted and it’s finally seeing its home in high-definition on Blu-ray discs. I was super excited about picking up the box set on July 24th (and various other dates around Europe) until I saw the price…
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When Did Hurdles Get So Sexy?
Guys. They like to watch the Olympics for the cool stuff like, shooting, archery and… yeah, uh… That’s right women’s gymnastics and beach volleyball. Don’t lie guys, I know, I know, I’ve put us all on the spot. Well hurdles is not something that I would think guys would be watching, that us until I saw hurdler Michelle Jenneke, who is undoubtedly the hottest hurdler on the planet. Read the rest of this article…
