Pay $200,000 For Your Virgin Galactic Flight? They Start Next Year!
It looks like Star Trek, but Spaceport America, Virgin Galactic’s inaugural departure/destination, is real.
Can you believe it’s been almost eight years since Burt Rutan’s Paul Allen-sponsored Scaled Composites won the Ansari X-Prize with SpaceShipOne, the first commercial vehicle to visit space? It has. It’s also been that long since larger-than-life British billionaire Richard Branson started hocking flights to space licensed from that same award-winning design. You may have socked away the required $200,000 for a ticket to sub-orbital spaceflight, but you’ll still need to wait another year before you can make the trip.
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Samsung Electronics, My Monitor Died, Why Must You Make Me So Sad?
To the left, success. To the right, complete sadness.
A funny thing happened when I got home last night: my second monitor wouldn’t work. At all. I switched between my VGA and DVI inputs, switched out cables, uninstalled and reinstalled drivers, and *shiver* used a Samsung live chat to determine that my monitor was, in fact, dead. But I can’t send it off for repair because of… what?
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Formspring Hacked, You Might Want to Change Your Passwords
On Wednesday Formspring was notified that about 400,000 password hashes of users were posted online. This was only password hashes and didn’t contain usernames or any other information. “Once we were able to verify that the hashes were obtained from Formspring, we locked down our systems and began an investigation to determine the nature of the breach.” said CEO Ade Olonoh “We found that someone had broken into one of our development servers and was able to use that access to extract account information from a production database.” Read the rest of this article…
EA Brings Us 20 Minutes Of Dead Space 3
In snow, no one can hear you scream…
I can only presume that this twenty minute slice of Dead Space 3 is what we would’ve seen at E3 had EA not forgotten our invitations. Regardless, they’re now unveiling a huge chunk of their new snow-bound Dead Space sequel and it seems the more things change, the more they look like Gears of War. Wait, hang on…
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Planetside 2 Command Center – With Beta Announcement
Planetside 2 won HUGE at E3. Check out the talk of the beta!
Sony Online Entertainment has released a new video featuring art director Tramell Isaac and creative director Matt Higby, wherein they discuss the beta, the creation of the game, Planetside 2 at E3 and more.
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Frag Dolls Open Casting Call, Right Now!
The Frag Dolls, the gamer girls that kick-ass in video games, are looking for a new team member and it can be you! That is if you are a girl. I was super disappointed when I saw that stipulation also. I thought maybe I could wear a wig but it would be hard for me to disguise my deep manly voice and I’m too lazy to shave my neck beard. If you are a girl and you read our website and you like to kick-ass in videos games then take a look at what is required for you to become the next Frag Doll. Read the rest of this article…
Angry Birds Trilogy For Xbox 360, PS3, 3DS Is Simply A Bridge Too Far
Look, I get it. Rovio is trying to conquer the world. They’ve made exactly one successful franchise, populated it with similar titles, and they’re taking their success all the way to the bank and beyond, to the burger joint behind it. But the Finnish game-maker knew there was still virgin territory to exploit Angry Birds in, and they’ve found the final frontier: home consoles. Excited? Woo…
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Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope Review: More a Pleasant Commercial than a Documentary
I’ve never been to the San Diego Comic-Con, but I’ve wanted to go ever since I was kid, reading blurbs about the convention in the pages of Batman, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Uncanny X-Men, and any other comic book title I could place my grubby little hands on. So it goes without saying that Morgan Spurlock’s Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope piqued my interest. I enjoyed this movie, but I’ll add the caveat that it will probably appeal exclusively to comic nerds and pop culture junkies. To everyone else Comic-Con Episode IV is just going to come off as pornography for geeks, which it probably is in all fairness.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops II Villain Trailer
Call of Duty: Black Ops II or CODBLOPSSQUARED (I just made that up) is approaching release soon, really soon, November even. Teaser trailers will be released to get everyone excited for the game and even though Call of Duty has it’s haters it’s always breaking sales records. I know I’m excited for the game and I really hope it has a better single player story than the first Black Ops. Read the rest of this article…
Penny Arcade Launches Epic Kickstarter Project: Itself. We Explain.
Penny Arcade takes to crowdfunding once more, confuses the masses.
Reading Mike Krahulik’s Twitter account over the past few hours, it would seem that their Kickstarter pitch is getting more people confused than excited. The artist half of the Penny Arcade duo (you may have seen them on the televisions) was sincerely apologetic as he clarified what their comic syndicate was trying to accomplish: returning to the site’s desperate good ol’ days when they relied on tips and donations to stay alive and went ad-free. Now a (relatively) big company with a dozen employees, a Kickstarter to keep the page ad-free seems a bit peculiar. Let me explain to you, as best I can, what the duo are trying to do.
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