Microsoft Demos Super Fast Touchscreen Display

The iPad 3 has gotten a lot of attention for its high-definition display, but there are other factors to take into consideration when thinking about touchscreen technology. Michael Humphries, at Geek.com, notes that whenever “a new tablet gets released the main question that gets asked about its touchscreen is “what’s the resolution?” It seems to be […]

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The Problem With BioWare’s Mass Effect 3 Day-One DLC And The Importance Of Building Brand Trust

Mass Effect developer BioWare has been lambasted by fans for releasing day-one DLC (downloadable content) that many gamers think should have been included as part of the game itself. (Warning, spoilers ahead.) (Update: Read my latest in this series: New Video Shows That Mass Effect Day-One DLC Already On Disc) Casey Hudson, an executive producer […]

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Ignore The Critics: ‘John Carter’ Is Fantastic

Disney’s John Carter is a sword-and-planet space romance. If that’s what you’re after, you’re in luck. It’s fun and trendy to trash science fiction and fantasy films that aren’t Very Serious Movies. That’s what we’re seeing happen with Disney’s John Carter, a fun, campy action-adventure directed by Pixar’s Andrew Stanton, and written by Stanton, Mark […]

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Five Film Role Models For Boys

We’ve been having a little back and forth around here on the merits of Disney films about girls and the lack of male protagonists in the Disney line-up. Aziz Poonawalla (also known as Otaku Kun) wrote the first round, and I followed up here. Aziz went on to write: What I want in a nutshell […]

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Reddit Names Yishan Wong New CEO

The front page of the internet has a new CEO. Reddit has chosen to fill the online community’s top spot. Wong will oversee reddit.com, redditgifts.com, and reddit.tv. Writing at the reddit blog, Wong made the announcement, noting that he didn’t think, at first, that he would be a serious candidate for the position. “‘I’ve spent the past decade of […]

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‘Witcher 2′ Developer: ‘We Will Never Use Any DRM Anymore’

Over at Joystiq, Alexander Sliwinski reports on a surprising statement from CD Projeckt Red CEO Marcin Iwinski on that studio’s decision to abandon digital rights management protections on their future titles: “Every subsequent game we will never use any DRM anymore, it’s just over-complicating things,” Iwinski said. His presentation was hinged on how the Polish publisher sold […]

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Ubisoft Planning ‘Far Cry: 3′ Multiplayer Online Universe

I played and loved the first Far Cry game but didn’t get a chance (yet) to play the sequel. Now Far Cry 3 is on the horizon and its multiplayer components have been announced. One of the intriguing, mysterious things about the multiplayer is something that’s being called an “online universe” developed by Ubisoft studio, […]

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