Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action
Larry Hryb - Xbox Live’s Major Nelson - has dropped a bomb via his blog. Er, rather, he delivered news of a dropping in price of the Avatar-supporting Bomberman Live. As of Tuesday, December 16, the game will be on sale for 600 (.50), down from 800 (). The special [...]
Remember all those disc-scratching issues early Xbox 360s were known for? It turns out that Microsoft was aware of the problem from the start…and did absolutely nothing to rectify the situation. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Joseph Tartakoff:
"A document unsealed in a lawsuit last week suggests that Microsoft employees knew before putting the Xbox [...]
If you’ve missed the first (and quite lengthy) video to Star Wars: The Old Republic, you’ve missed out on BioWare and LucasArts describing exactly why you should use the force online once again.
Star Wars: The Old Republic has currently been announced only for the PC and has a release date TBA.
Star Wars: The Old Republic [...]
Google’s Gmail recently added a feature where that allows you to change up the look of your email page — trick it out to different color schemes and looks.
In my opinion, this PDF viewing feature is even better than that…
…because sometimes, you just want to have a peek or view it without having to download [...]
Sony’s PlayStation Home is helping the company differentiate the PlayStation 3 from the competition. Sony is so bullish on the online service that one executive feels that it will eventually be a system seller. Computer and Videogames quotes Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Home service manager Dan Hill as saying:
"No-one else is doing anything of this [...]
Today, we reported on a very sad, tragic story about a teenager in Ohio who allegedly murdered his mom and shot his dad — and the fiasco is being blamed on Halo 3..
Well I’m going to give you a happy Halo story.
Boy lives in Florida. Girl lives in New York. She befriends his roommate as [...]
The creators of Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions) debut their latest creation involving Jack Black and an action-adventure ascendance to rock glory on the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Brutal Legend is coming Fall 2009.
Brutal Legend Debut Trailer
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Bid on an original drawing by comic and toy legend Todd McFarlane! All proceeds from the auction go to the Child’s Play charity!
It’s the Holidays. That means it’s time to do something nice for a change. You know what you should do? You should give money to charity. There’s this organization called "Child’s Play" and [...]
REI, the outdoors equipment retailer, and Zumobi have partnered together to develop a free ski report app for Zumobi, which is a widget-like user interface for small applications on Windows Mobile and other mobile devices. Windows Mobile users in need of checking the latest slopes conditions can download the application directly from Zumobi.
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If you’re looking for the Swiss Army knife calculator, then look no further than Panoramic Software’s Calc Pro. The calculator is officially replacing 1-Calc from OmegaOne as my default favorite calculator. Calc Pro offers a unit converter, time converter, statistics calculator, financial calculator, scientific calculator, standard calculator, graphing calculator, and world currencies conversion with downloadable [...]
So the newer smartphones come with innovative sensors, but so far there hasn’t been a lot of applications that fully utilize the hardware. While the number of applications for Windows Mobile that integrate the GPS and the various sensors–like the accelerometer–isn’t nearly as plentiful as the iPhone, independent developers are starting to showcase their development [...]
Ian Dixon has posted a video showing how the Windows Media Center SideShow Gadget works on the SideShow Developer Preview for Windows Mobile. The gadget is not a native Windows Mobile app, yet works quite well. Take a look at the video to see how you can use a Windows Mobile device to browse your [...]
TouchFLO 3D provides some innovative features that lets you have quick access to your email, weather, contacts, SMS, and limited agenda viewing. This means that some classic Windows Mobile users will miss the Today screen, which allows you to view more upcoming appointments and the ease of customizing the Today screen with quick launch icons [...]
No longer can the iPhone touts its large storage space as a reason that it is better than other devices. With the standardization of mobile memory formats, we get to enjoy the ever-increasing capacities of microSDHC memory cards. Over at Amazon.com, they’ve got a 16GB microSDHC card selling for about . That’s [...]
I’ve reviewed several Bluetooth GPS devices here at pocketnow.com over the last year. Though each device has its own unique features, I’ve recently been introduced to a GPS device that takes some significant steps to distinguish itself from the rest of the field. Read on to learn more about the Columbus V-900!
Overall Rating:
The Good
Navigation and [...]
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Apple
Apple released two new Get a Mac ads, just in time for the holiday season. The two ads, entitled “I Can Do Anything,” and “Tree Trimming,” are animated, and very amusing.
In the I Can Do Anything ad [direct video link], PC shows off what he can do [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Can’t believe we didn’t think to ask of this before Namco gave it to us, but here it is — there is already an official version of I Love Katamari (otherwise known as Katamari Damacy) right there on the App Store [...]
Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, Jailbreak/pwnage
iPhone Alley is reporting that the Mac OS X 10.5.6 update is causing problems for the jailbreaking community. According to a recent post at the site, if you place the iPhone in DFU mode (similar to a restore mode), your iPhone will be unrecognized by a Mac running 10.5.6.
DFU [...]
Filed under: MobileMe
Alongside the OS update to 10.5.6 released today, Mobile Me has also undergone a service update.
The Mobile Me improvements includes the following:
Contacts, calendars and bookmarks sync automatically within a minute of the changes being made on a computer, another device or at www.me.com.
Resolved issues causing contacts to temporarily disappear on the iPhone [...]
Filed under: Hardware, Humor, Peripherals, Odds and ends, Found Footage
Remember the remote-controlled dog treat dispenser from a few weeks ago? Now Pete Raumann has come up with Pete’s FishCam, which comes complete with an iPhone interface so that he can remotely watch his fish swimming around in a nicely appointed aquarium.
It’s more than just a [...]
