Morale at CNET is plummeting over CBS’ edict that any product/company involved in litigation with parent company can’t get any good coverage from CNET. In other words, CBS is starting to take editorial control of CNET. [Jim Romenesko]
NVIDIA made a big splash at CES with their Project Shield handheld gaming device. Did you know, however, that the project was only about a year in the making from initial concept to being a showstopper at CES? NVIDIA detailed the development process on their blog. [NVIDIA]
MIDI turns 30 years old this week. Who didn’t love a good MIDI song growing up? [The Verge]
With the Sim City beta weekend done and dusted, the uber geeks at Mental Floss looked at the history of Maxis’ Sim franchises. [Mental Floss]
So what is the best Final Fantasy game of all-time? I’m not endorsing this list because FF8 is massively underrated and FF10-2 isn’t even on the list. (Shut up. I liked it.) I just want to remind myself to try to get finish an FF6 retro review before Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (-3) comes out. [Kotaku]
One of my favourite games of 2012 was Hotline Miami. There wasn’t much in the way of a deep plot or fantastic graphics. It was just an excuse to unleash some old school death and destruction on the forces of (relative) evil.
But what would happen if Hotline Miami crossed over to unleash chaos and death on other classic games? It might look a little like this.
That video above says it all. Sony has decided to hold a massive PlayStation event in less than three weeks’ time. Investors and the media have been invited to this press conference.
All signs point to this being one of two things: Either Sony has purchased the exclusive rights to Crash Bandicoot and handed off development of a new trilogy to Naughty Dog or PS4! PS4! PS4!
Sorry, I’m trying not to get excited. While this generation of console hardware has performed admirably and has played host to many an excellent game, after seven years, it’s time to move on. When a cellphone (okay, smartphone) has more horsepower than the major home consoles, it’s time for an upgrade.
We’ve done a few video game reviews here on et geekera but we haven’t really explained what the scores mean. Sure, the scores at the end of the reviews are a reflection of the content of the rest of the review but we haven’t expressly said what constitutes a full endorsement and what is a game that must be avoided at all costs. Read the rest of this entry
The Canadian national nightmare is finally over. RIM has finally officially announced the launch of its much-anticipated BlackBerry 10 operating system and the first two phones to use their new OS, the BlackBerry Z10 and the BlackBerry Q10.
Oh, and Research In Motion decided that now was a very good time to rebrand the whole company. From today, RIM is dead. Long live BlackBerry! I mean, RIM has changed its name to BlackBerry. Makes sense. Everyone called it that anyway. Read the rest of this entry
It’s probably a little late to do a 2012 year-in-review but we’re going to give you one more look at last year. There were some big milestones in science in 2012 from the discover of the Higgs boson to a NASA rover landing on Mars and more. To remind you of some of the year’s big science discoveries, we found this handy infographic. Read the rest of this entry
When we say that we’re a geek blog for geeks and want to take the word geek back, we aren’t kidding. That’s why it’s our duty to warn you about THE FAKE GEEK GIRL!
Okay, this is just a fake movie trailer for done in the style of a drive-in B-horror-movie but who doesn’t love the campish awesomeness of vintage B-movies.
Another iOS port to PC. I’ve had such good luck with iOS games that why shouldn’t I pick up another iOS game ported to PC. After all, it’s not like Death Rally was an over-priced, under-performing game or Super Hexagon made me physically ill. Oh wait…
That brings me to the latest iOS port to make it Steam and subsequently make a dent in my wallet. 10000000 (that’s “ten million” because developer EightyEightGames doesn’t believe in commas… or spaces) is a puzzle-RPG hybrid that sees you fight your way through a dungeon with the ultimate goal of scoring 10,000,000 points in a run. When you find that tidbit of information, the game’s title makes a lot more sense, doesn’t it? Read the rest of this entry
As much crap as BioWare has taken over Mass Effect 3 (and Dragon Age 2 and Star Wars: The Old Republic), we sure as hell pay attention to every little thing they do. Yesterday, producer Mike Gamble and director/producer Casey Hudson tweeted a couple of promotional images from the upcoming Mass Effect 3 DLCs. Read the rest of this entry
The world of social media has a new toy to play with to share short video snippets. Last Thursday, Twitter announced the launch of a video sharing service called Vine. This allows users to create and upload six-second long videos and share them on Twitter and Facebook.
The mainstream splash wasn’t big but it was noticeable. That’s likely because the Vine mobile app that allows you to create these videos is currently available for iOS only. If Apple’s share price is anything to go by, being all in on Apple isn’t quite the best business strategy. The developers haven’t officially announced any plans to launch the app on Android or the other major mobile operating systems.
However, Vinepeek has been profiled a couple of times by the mainstream media. BuzzFeed has already dubbed it the most addicting new website on the internet. Vinepeek is an unofficial/unassociated site that provides a steady stream of Vine videos for you to watch. Apparently it’s both entertaining and voyeuristically creepy.
Vine isn’t the first short-form video tool. Tout boasts 15-second video run times and has numerous high-profile users including various celebrities, news agencies and TV shows. Vine might be the new kid on the block but they’re not the only one and are certainly an underdog to the well-established Tout.
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