WiFi Xoom Price Announced, Entire Population Yawns
It’s official and very boring. Motorola announced this morning that it’s baby, the Xoom with only WiFi, will be traded to you for only $599 US dollars starting March 27th. Surprised? Me neither. Compare it to the iPad’s WiFi 32GB model and you’ll see both are going for the same price. Now wait a second, Motorola must have retarded the hell out of the Xoom in some other way to reach that price point, right? No sir, and that’s the good news. You’ll still be getting the 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, 1GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, a 5 megapixel autofocus camera, and a 10.1-inch display with 1280 x 800 resolution.
Now that you know, you can continue to go about your business playing Angry Birds on your iPad 2. And cover your mouth while yawning next time.
Source: Engadget
More Scrumptious Battlefield 3 Gameplay
Battlefield 3 is making me obese with hype. My gaming cholesterol is above the roof. I should blame EA. Speaking of EA, they released the second Fault Line episode of gameplay videos tagged Good Effect on Target. Pardon me as I wipe the drool away from my mouth.
Video after the break!
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Prey 2 Teaser Trailer
Gameplay? Who needs gameplay when you’ve got a Cloverfield-like live action trailer for Prey 2? There’s no information about the story other than it hints towards possibly playing as an air marshal or prisoner. We’re going to go ahead and continue to guess before making any rash decisions.
Teaser after the break!
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Game Review: Homefront – With Gameplay Video
Earlier this week we reported about the complaints regarding the advertising for Homefront, found on youtube. The game released today and I had a chance to sit down and play it as well as create a gameplay video, with commentary.
Review and video after the jump!
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Roxio Wants You To Capture Video Game Footage For Only $100
One of the most common questions I got as a gaming associate at retail was for capture cards, enabling gamers to record footage right from their consoles to upload and share with friends (or, y’know, start gaming web sites). Decent solutions usually cost in the neighborhood of $300 and a PCI-Express slot in your computer, but today Roxio unveiled the $100 Game Capture Kit that will allow you to capture footage on the cheap. There’s a catch, though…
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Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Hurricanes: “Mother Nature’s” Commercial for Celebrities
Oh boy. News has leaked that the Black Eyed Peas are one of many artists trying to take advantage of Japan’s disaster. CNN disgustingly states that they are “calling attention to the disaster in Japan”. Ok, if you don’t know what’s going on in Japan, pardon my language, you’re a fucking idiot.
The Black Eyed Peas filmed a music video for their single “Can’t Get Enough” in Japan a week before the earthquake. The BEP are now using it as a tool to get people to donate. Well, well, perfect timing for them. Do you think it’ll be number one single on the charts this week? Call it self promoting, call it savvy business practices but whatever you do don’t call celebrities who preach to us normal folk to donate, an act of “charity”.
But wait, there’s more…
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Turn SSL on for Twitter
I wrote a post a while back that you could finally turn on SSL while browsing Facebook. Twitter is no exception when it comes to securing logins and they finally allow you to turn on SSL for Twitter. The above screen shot is in your profile settings. Twitter also opted for an EV cert which makes the bar green like banks use, Facebook went on the cheap side. You can read more about this at the official Twitter blog.
10 Days Of Anime! – Ninja Scroll
The following review was written by guest contributor Sam.
English voice actor Dean Elliott plays a mercenary ninja-for-hire named Jubei Kibagami in Ninja Scroll. As his voice acting goes, it’s stupendous, but the story isn’t without its flaws.
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Implied Value: Gone to Texas
They call it the “bargain bin,” the big basket of discount DVDs of questionable quality. We assume that the paltry $5 price tag still gives these films too much credit. Is there anything of use in these wire crates worth the implied value in the word “bargain”? One man braves the bin to find out.
Gone to Texas was a made-for-TV movie originally aired on CBS, lumped in as a “Sam Elliott Double Feature” onto a DVD with another TV vehicle, Blue River. I am an enormous fan of Westerns–I’m still sorting out a long-winded, forthcoming post about the role of Westerns in modern cinema–and Sam Elliott is rightfully included among the greatest actors in the genre. A $5 two-fer has got to be worth the price of admission alone, or at least that’s what my poor mind managed to convince me when I paid for this set.
Gone to Texas tells the story of Sam Houston, a legend in Texan lore and a real frontier hero–the leader of Texan independence and American interests in the contested frontier. This is, ostensibly, what the film attempts to impart upon its patriotic and flag-waving, ruggedly individualistic American viewers–the story of a great and noble American fighting for freedom and independence. However, the real message here is that General Sam Houston is completely and utterly insane.
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Game Review: Torchlight (XBLA)
I can’t really explain why, but I could just never get into dungeon crawler games. I bought the Diablo Battle Chest back in The Day for cheap and put an hour into it before the constant clicking to do anything and everything drove me mad. I wanted to love Silicon Knights’ Too Human, but its repetitive enemies and other fatal flaws made it one of the biggest disappointments I’ve ever played. Even watching footage of Torchlight wasn’t endearing, but the 30 minutes I experienced with the demo? Well, needless to say, I pulled out the card and bought 1600 points immediately. And then bought the game with those 1600 points. (Yes, it was that drawn out).
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