Before we completely wrap up our coverage of this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show, let’s get a quick summary of the more interesting devices that debuted at CES this year and are expected out in the next twelve months. To do so, we have a handy infographic with that breaks things down by category. Read the rest of this entry
The fun of the whodunit capers of mystery shows, even if they’re one of CBS’ dime-a-dozen police procedurals, is trying to match wits with the detective to figure out who the guilty suspect is. For tonight’s episode of Hawaii Five-0, CBS letting viewers vote online and using Twitter hashtags to determine what the ending of the show will be. Read the rest of this entry
I’m still trying to figure out this whole geek culture blog thing and I’m dragging you, dear reader, along with me for this ride. So today, I’m trying out a micro-sized linkdump. I’m open to suggestions on this thing, whether you love, think it needs changes or want it killed with fire.
The media focuses on Facebook and Twitter when talking about social websites but who did Forbes put on their 30 under 30 list? That would be Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp. [Forbes]
Want to know more about the upcoming Pokemon X & Y? Pokemon’s director of marketing did an interview about the upcoming game, including why a full-fledged Pokemon game hasn’t made it to a home console. [Game Informer]
Good news! A study conducted at Penn State says that being a gamer doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll die alone. Take that, Fox News! [The Atlantic]
Ever wonder if your choice of game character said anything about you? TSJ thinks it might. [The Smoking Jacket – Site possibly NSFW]
On my other site, I put together an in-depth examination of the history of the iconic Doctor Who theme music. Whovians should probably read it. [The Lowdown Blog]
I’ve never head of robot band Compressorhead but having listened to them cover some Motorhead, I’d say they’re better than 90% of the so-called “artists” making music right now. This three man robot band consisting of a guitarist with 78 finger, a bass player and a drummer with four arms laid down a damn good cover of Ace of Spades.
As an added bonus, Compressorhead’s fans are called meatbags. If you don’t get it, play KOTOR.
While CES officially runs through the end of the week, the big unveils and tech demos of the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show have come and gone. With nothing in the way of big breaking news yesterday, I thought that today’s CES Roundup would be a good time to look back at some of the more interesting news that we haven’t covered so far.
NVIDIA Tegra 4 – It’s the world’s fastest mobile processor. Can I ask what we’ll use it for?
When I mentioned the new NVIDIA Project Shield portable/handheld console on Monday, I kinda overlooked NVIDIA’s big announcement. They officially unveiled their new Tegra 4 processor which they’re promoting as the world’s fastest mobile processor.
It’s a quad-core processor with four Cortex A15 CPU cores, 72 GeForce GPU cores and 4G LTE network compatibility. It also comes with a new internal graphics processing engine which NVIDIA says gives the Tegra 4 ten times faster image processing and rendering. Just for added fun, the Tegra 4 will have 4K Ultra HD video support. So your phone will soon be able to handle higher resolution video than even your TV can handle. I’m not sure whether that’s funny or not. Read the rest of this entry
Zombies. After the last year in gaming, I could understand if you’re a bit burned out on zombies. That doesn’t mean that the creativity in the zombie game genre is all used up. I have one more zombie game for you to consider. Dead Pixels is an 8-bit style throwback game which crosses the shoot ’em up style zombie game, like the Left 4 Dead games, with some more modern RPG-style mechanics. The result is a game that intentionally looks dated but plays fresh. The question is if this is one more zombie game you should add to your now vast zombie game collection. Read the rest of this entry
The second day of the 2013 edition of CES wasn’t just a technology and gadgetry show but had a little Presidential pizazz thrown in as President Bill Clinton made an appearance at the Samsung keynote to talk about the importance of technology in the developing world. But we start with some of the biggest news for gamers to come out of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.
Steam Box – Gabe Newell actually calls Valve’s upcoming console the “Steam Box”
As for as gamers are concerned, it looks like The Verge scored the big news scoop of CES. Their interview with Valve CEO Gabe Newell shined a lot of light on to Valve’s plans for hardware going forward. Read the rest of this entry
Last week, a Kickstarter campaign was launched to fund the development of a new inexpensive, Android-based gaming console called the GameStick. The campaign has been wildly successful so far as the $100,000 goal was reached in about 30 hours.
If that sounds familiar, that’s because you may be confusing it with the Ouya, another Android-based console which had a widely publicized launch and Kickstarter fundraising drive of its own in July 2012. It also quickly achieved its fundraising goal (in less than eight hours) and received $8.6 million in pledges.
The problem with both of these consoles is that I don’t see who they’re targeting with these new consoles. The promises of low-price consoles sounds like they’re trying to target gamers who have limited disposable income. However, being on the Android mobile operating system is indicative of targeting the casual gamer who is happy to play Angry Birds or Words with Friends on their phone or tablet. Read the rest of this entry
I don’t know why but Samsung has former President Bill Clinton speaking at their keynote event at CES today at 9:00 AM PST. Click here for Samsung’s live stream of the keynote.
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