Android Ice Cream Sandwich – a Preview For the Rest of Us
ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich), or Android 4.0, is due to drop any day now, and if you read our Article on Why You Should(n’t) Buy a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon, or are wondering what it will perform like when it’s on older hardware, like the Samsung Nexus S, that’s only running a single core processor and 512mb of RAM. Well, wonder no more! Read on to see how well ICS performed.
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Stephen King’s “11/22/63” Review
I suppose if you’re going to write a narrative involving time travel, you should do something big with it, like save President John F. Kennedy’s life from a communist marksman on a bright Dallas day. At nearly 900 pages, there’s plenty of heft here and a lot of universe building. It’s obvious that Mr. King spent a lot of time and effort researching the five year span before Kennedy’s assassination and he’s ready to contrast it with our cleaner, internet-friendly 2011 just to show you how he still is. This review is going to have plenty of spoilers, so unless you’ve read the book, I’ll just say this: it’s well worth your time. It’s not a great book, but it’s a great adventure in a time long before many of us were born.
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Do Gamers REALLY Prefer Free To Play MMO’s?
In the recent past, there’s been a lot of talk about all of the players who are converting to “free to play” MMORPG games as opposed to their subscription based counterparts and now some sources are claiming that the majority of players prefer the F2P model over the subscription model.
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Why You Should(n’t) Buy A Galaxy Nexus On Verizon
Like most of the tech industry, I’d really become irritated by Verizon’s refusal to acknowledge the Galaxy Nexus’ existence in the form of a release date or a price point. It’s super cool that they decided to drop the info (well, at least someone leaked it out) a few days before it’s slated to roll out to Verizon stores, but it was a super jerk move to wait a month and a half after its unveiling and weeks after its international availability. So now that the cards are on the table, do you now rush to Verizon to buy one… or merely wait?
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Fahrenheit 451 – Coming to an E-Reader Near You
Ray Bradbury (renowned author of the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, the Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes) has finally released Fahrenheit 451 in the e-book format. Bradbury is known to have a disdain for the internet, so the news comes as quite a surprise. Read the rest of this article…
Fear Factor is Back – Sell Out Spotlight
It’s that time of the month again. No, no, not that time of the month. It’s time to highlight one of our awesome sponsors that keep us up and running in what we call our sell out spotlight. At FleshEatingZipper, we don’t want to clutter our site with ads, whether it’s pop-ups or full page ads that block content. We’re not big fans of reality television with some exceptions, Joe Rogan, I mean Fear Factor, being one of them! Read the rest of this article…
The Hangover Part 3 “Might” Be Different
This won’t come as a shock to anyone, but after grossing just over a billion dollars worldwide, The Hangover franchise is going to return with a third installment. The big question is, where will Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis end up next?
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Electronic Arts’ Stock Takes A Dip
In trading today, the technology sector did pretty well, closing on the up side by about 1.4%
Electronic Arts, however, took a bit of a bath in the market, closing on the down side by 1.1%, bringing the tech sector down, as a whole.
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Half-Life 3 Is Impossible
It seems hard to believe, but it’s been eight years since Half-Life 2 descended upon the Earth, like the Combine of goodwill, and easily destroyed every shooter genre convention and made a fan of me. Let me explain: I wasn’t a huge a fan of the original Half-Life. In fact, I hated it. Where Valve excelled in their initial iteration was in bringing a non-stop sequence of scripted cutscenes into a shooter, but in real-time as you played it, rather than pre-rendered narrative ‘vestibules’ that separated you from the action at hand. We see their influence very easily in games like Modern Warfare 3 where you’re merely the needle bobbing to a vinyl’s groove, watching as an epic story unfolds before you like a parade march just for your senses. Then Half-Life 2 came out.
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Star Wars : The Old Republic Peripherals From Razer – Pre-Order Now Available
If you’re anything like me, you love a nice, new, crisp, responsive mouse and keyboard for ultimate gaming pwnage. Well, lucky for those of us who plan on playing Star Wars : The Old Republic, Razer has announced a full suite of peripherals for the upcoming MMO and they’re now available for pre-orders.
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