This is Why Xbox Live is Better than PlayStation Network
Many people participated in the “preview disc” program that Xbox Live was running to test out the new disc format. Microsoft sent these users a copy of Halo: Reach to use for testing purposes and you were totally able to keep the game. Read the rest of this article…
What’s it Going to be? iPhone 4S or iPhone 5?
Rumors are flying around everywhere about the new iPhone that’s coming from Apple soon. I say soon because we don’t have a date yet. Nothing from Apple at least. The latest rumor is that it’s being announced October 4th and that it will be available to buy October 5th. Also now it may not even be an iPhone 5 but an iPhone 4S instead. Read the rest of this article…
Waste Your Paycheck Friday
Today is the day when that hard work you’ve been pounding out all week transforms into physical form on a small piece of rectangular paper. Sure, you can put it in the bank but what fun is that? There are amazing gidgets and gadgets out there begging for an owner! Consider me the adoption agency and you the adoptionee. Let me show you the spread for this week!
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Springpad, Web App, Mobile App, Awesome
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Why Is Bethesda Being Such A Jerk To Interplay Over Their Fallout MMO?
This is going to date me, but there was a common expression on the official Fallout 2 boards that went “you’d have to be a FOOL to want FallOut OnLine” primarily because of gameplay/integrity concerns. Well, this week, a court denied Bethesda (makers of The Elder Scrolls and current owner of the Fallout IP) yet another injunction against Interplay, original owner of the IP, in their production of a Fallout MMO. The two have been in a persistent slap fight for the past few years, instigated entirely by Bethesda, and it seems that there’s very little rhyme or reason behind it aside from sheer malice. But first, a little back story…
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Amazon Is Pretty Much Satan
Point: Rob
Amazon.com. They are one of the many online shopping “malls” and most certainly the biggest. On Amazon, you can find just about anything you want. Food, movies, music, car parts, motorcycle parts, gun parts, books, phones, stereos, computers, desks, chairs, instruments…like I said, just about anything.
Amazon will present you the item you’re looking for, plus similar items, plus items that other people who looked at your item bought, plus items that may be of interest to you based on the item you’re looking at. It will give you tons of shipping options and, I’m told, will even whisper sweet-nothings in your ear if you ask it nicely.
What it won’t do is help the average store owner survive in this world – quite the opposite, in fact – it will bury them.
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Google+ Is Doomed
There’s an adage that the most popular posts on Google+ are either about Google+ or how it compares to Facebook. We were indifferent to the web titan’s social networking platform when it launched in July and in the months since then, there’s been nothing to change my mind. It seems to have become a shantytown for people to abandon Facebook, and ultimately their friends, for something different. With today’s unveiling of Timeline, the next big leap in how your profile there will look and function, the irrational cries against it have resurfaced while Google+, still a pale imitation of an older version of the service, looks appropriately destined for the dustbin of internet history.
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Dear Microsoft: Zune Still Exists, Don’t Skip Out On Facebook Music
Y’know, before that Facebook thing started getting big, there was a fledgling music startup by a popular software company called Zune. Within a year, it launched Social with the ability to build up a list of friends and share what you’re playing with them. Sound familiar? That’s because Facebook unveiled its new Music service that does much the same thing, including the ability to have friends listen with you in real-time. To show off this new feature, Zuckerberg showed off a new partnership with Spotify, which we’ve liked to various degrees, but it represents a huge step forward in sharing music. So while the Zune Social could’ve been all that and a bag of chips, Microsoft has essentially abandoned it as well as the brand in its virtual entirety and what a damn waste for how powerful this could’ve been for them.
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Oh Snap, OnLive Strikes Again With 75% Off Games Promo Code
Yesterday, the cloud gaming client handed out a code for 50% off all of it’s PlayPass games on facebook. Today, they’re practically handing games out for free — well, 75% free. It took some searching to do, but the promo code for today’s killer deal is Croft. Make sure to use it before 3PM PT!
Burnout Crash Review – Destruction As A Chore
As far as racing games went, the Burnout series was fine enough, but take a mixture of fast-paced arcade racing, clever urban and rural environments, and a metagame involving crashing into your opponents and you have a formula for success. The series peaked for me with Burnout 3, which featured an awesome mode called Crash (perfected from the previous game) which set up rolling vehicles in a confined area, set your car as the pinball, and forced you to get creative in the destruction of everything from saloon cars to tankers to achieve rapidly ascending high scores. Their latest iteration, Burnout: Paradise, ditched Crash mode altogether and despite receiving critical raves, just wasn’t my cup of tea. Flash forward to 2011 and developer Criterion announces a $10 Xbox Live Arcade/PlayStation Network game devoted entirely to crashing? Well, let’s just say it got my attention! Unfortunately, in this dedicated solution, they seem to have forgotten what made Crash mode so great in the original games.
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