Our hero, The Science Guy himself, Bill Nye, survived the first round of eliminations on Dancing with the Stars. Now that we’ve spared him the embarrassment of being eliminated first, we can keep him going until ABC stops counting our votes. You can vote now to keep him safe in next Monday’s elimination.
Valve Announces “Steam Machines” but No Details
Monday’s surprise announcement of the SteamOS was followed by a logical second of three announcements. Yesterday’s big Steam announcement was Valve telling us what we already knew. Valve is working on Steam branded hardware to bring gaming to the living room.
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YouTube is Rolling Out New Google+ Powered Comments
Reading the comments under YouTube videos isn’t particularly viable. It’s probably the most Mos Eisley place on the internet this side of ignorant Tea Partiers on Twitter. Now, YouTube is overhauling their commenting system using Google+ to help power the new comment structure.
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Microsoft Unveils Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 Tablets
Even though Microsoft wrote down the value of their Surface tablet inventory by $900 million back in July and slashed the retail price of their tablet offerings to try to increase sales, they haven’t given up on their entry into the tablet market. On Monday, Microsoft launched their second salvo in the tablet market by unveiling their new and improved Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets.
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Comic Book Pull List for September 25, 2013
So I finally got a chance to see those 3D villains covers that DC has done for Villains Month and they look pretty damn good. So good, in fact, that my local comic book store can’t keep these issues in stock. Even with all the issues coming out this month, they have literally no unsold issues of DC’s villains comics. I’d say that this was a successful promotional event. Give us an update about how these comics are selling at your comic book store by dropping us a line in the comments.
Anyway, time for my comic picks of the week. With DC’s Villain’s Month wrapping up, you can learn about the Secret Society which had been a key part of the first five issues of JLA. However, the Secret Society issue isn’t a JLA title but in Justice League #23.4. Speaking of villain comics, while Thanos is occupying most of the Marvel-verse’s attention, other villains are using the opportunity for a big score in Infinity: Heist #1. If you’re looking for something different, Image has a sex comedy for you with Sex Criminals #1.
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BlackBerry Sold for $4.7 Billion
Just when you thought BlackBerry might be dead after their weekend from hell, it looks like that a consortium of buyers still see some life in the old girl yet. A group led by BlackBerry’s largest shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings, will buy the outstanding shares of BlackBerry in an all-cash deal totaling $4.7 billion.
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Valve Announces SteamOS
Valve promised us three announcements this week. People are hoping for things like the long-awaited Steam Box, an official debut of the Source 2 engine and, as always with a Valve announcement, Half-Life 3.
However, Valve’s major announcement caught everyone completely off guard. While we were expecting hardware or a game, we instead got a new computer operating system that Valve calls SteamOS.
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BlackBerry and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Weekend
Just when you thought that BlackBerry was turning a corner and making a comeback with the launch of BlackBerry 10 earlier this year, it turns out that the only way they can make news is when things go catastrophically badly for them. BlackBerry stole the Friday and Saturday headlines from Apple’s launch of the iPhone 5S with announcements of $1 billion in inventory write-downs, a massive staff cut and the failure to launch of BBM.
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Haven: Survivors Review
Last week on Haven, things almost got reset to the way they were in the series premiere. Audrey was thrown into a new situation without knowing what was actually happening but it all seemed so perfectly natural. Nathan isn’t the police chief. And Marion Caldwell was killing people with her weather trouble.
This week on Haven, it’s back to the status quo. No, Audrey’s not back in Haven yet but we’re back to the Trouble of the Week format of episode. At least we had some other happenings in Haven to liven things up.
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Geek Links of the Week
The man who lead Nintendo from being a toy company to one of the biggest video game companies in the world, Hiroshi Yamauchi, died this week. [Venture Beat]
Netflix wants to be bigger than HBO but can they if their plan is to produce just five original series? [IBR]
Which version of Grand Theft Auto V looks better and performs better? [Digital Foundry]
And while Faux News is trying to blame violent video games for the shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington by a man who was hearing voices, Al Jazeera is asking if Grand Theft Auto’s trademark controversy has passed it by and now its just another video game. A critically acclaimed video game but a video game that doesn’t stand out from the crowd solely on the basis of controversial content. [Al Jazeera America]
Someone ranked the best fonts. Sounds like fun. [The Observer]
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