New Facebook Timeline Has Arrived, Here’s What Changed

Last week, I talked about how not only was Facebook bringing us a revised News Feed, but the company also (rather silently) unveiled an update to everyone’s Timeline, the most personal aspect of the service. It’s now finally hitting accounts and I’m here to show you exactly what happened so people don’t get hurt. Or you don’t get hurt, I don’t know what kind of person you are.

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Third-Grade Girl Creates Kickstarter To Go To RPG Camp, Make Role-Playing Game

When your nine-year old daughter tells you they want to make an RPG, do you tell them no? When that nine-year old girl comes to Kickstarter with a request to pay for her RPG-creating summer camp, do you tell her no? The only solution here is to help little Mackenzie Wilson fulfill her dreams of beating up her mean brothers.

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Google Now Hasn’t Been Submitted To The App Store, Says Google, Apple

Google Now is getting more powerful with each iteration, so powerful and precognitive that Google is thinking of moving the Android-exclusive feature to iOS. Now we know from both companies that despite Eric Schmidt’s comments to the contrary, it isn’t. It seems odd that Google would be so willing to give up one of Jelly Bean’s biggest features to the competition… or does it?

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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams (XBLA) Review: A Beautiful, Fun Romp That’s A Little On The Shallow Side [VIDEO]

I have to say that having been on a diet of strategy games lately, playing a bright and colorful platformer like Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams was a welcome change of pace from the moment the main menu began to animate. While it’s not going to change your mind about modern platformers, there’s plenty of beautiful game here to take in.

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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Beams In New International Trailer, Reveals Some Meat To This Film

To say I wasn’t hot for the original trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness would be an understatement. I enjoyed the J.J.’s 2009 film, but their first glimpse at its sequel was far too much flash and far too little substance, which seems like an odd descriptor for a Trek film. Now that we’re reeling ever closer to the release date, Paramount is finally dropping some bigger news on the film’s story beats and, if you pay close attention – and you will – a few frames of Alice Eve as Carol Marcus in her undies.

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Xbox Gaming To An Extreme, From Halo To Dai Senryaku, A Tour Through My Big Old Collection

Guys, in the early aughts, I was an Xbox fanboy with a lot of disposable income. The console only existed on this earth for four years, but I ended up collecting about twice as many games on it as I did on my Xbox 360 in half the time. Tha’ts not to say they were all winners by any means, but it was a physically imposing collection of games that I had to manage and ultimately traded out for cash. Never again will I grow a collection that large, at least in a physical format, so let’s see what the haul was like.

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YouTube Exceeds 1 Billion Monthly Viewers

YouTube: by far the most popular video destination on the interwebs. On the ‘Tube, you can watch everything from videos of people making drunken asses of themselves, to video game walkthroughs, political debates, music videos, reality TV, movies, and, as often as anything else, you can watch people share their opinions with the world.

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Jimmy Fallon Rumored to Take Over ‘Tonight Show’ In New York, Replace Leno

I guess Jimmy Fallon is outgrowing Johnny Carson’s old studio because NBC is currently building him a new one in Rockefeller Plaza. Rumors are spreading that this new studio isn’t for moving Late Night to, but for when Fallon takes over The Tonight Show.

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‘SimCity 4’ Reminds Us Why The Series Needed To Change

As a mea culpa for SimCity‘s disastrous debut, Electronic Arts offered a number of free titles as compensation. Reading other SimCity reviews, I caught on to a kind of collective fondness for the last game in the series, SimCity 4, which debuted ten years ago. Of course, that reminded me that it had been about that long since I’d purchased the game with its bundled Rush Hour expansion, played it for a handful of hours, and then stuffed it back into its double-wide box, never to play it again. I felt that maybe I had short-changed the game all those years ago, a strange thing since I loved 2000 and enjoyed 3000 nearly as much, but for the price of free, I was curious whether my opinion would change after so long, after I’d experienced so much.

Nope.

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Google Keep Is The Note-Taking App For Android I’ve Been Waiting For

Note-taking is something I try to avoid as much as possible. When I do feel the urge, I like my apps to be simple and to the point. I’ve been using ColorNote for over a year for lists and in general for whatever may fall into my brain. Perhaps I’m losing my mind, but I’m having a lot more moments where I gain and lose great ideas quickly, so it helps to have something on-hand to capture those. Other mobile OSes have had note-taking apps for a while, even Evernote’s been a viable alternative, but Android’s been out in the dark. Until now.

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