Back in September of 2011, reddit was pushed out of the nest, leaving Condé Nast and striking out on its own – sort of. Reddit remained under the ownership of Advance Publications, the parent company of Condé Nast. But the powers-that-be decided the site would be better on its own. With its newfound independence, reddit […]
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Gaming industry giant EA is facing a boycott and a hatemail campaign for including gay characters in its games. But this is only one piece of a complicated puzzle. Two separate issues are at stake when we talk about EA’s recent bad press. First of all, the hatemail itself. There is no doubt in my […]
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Gaming industry giant EA is facing a boycott and a hatemail campaign for including gay characters in its games. But this is only one piece of a complicated puzzle. Two separate issues are at stake when we talk about EA’s recent bad press. First of all, the hatemail itself. There is no doubt in my […]
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Via AMC Theatres, for the Star Wars fan who can’t get enough Easter cheer: Happy Easter everyone. Follow me on Twitter or Facebook. Read my Forbes blog here.
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Dungeons & Dragons Online is a free-to-play massively-multiplayer-online-role-playing-game. It’s getting a massive new expansion June 25th with the addition of Menace of the Underdark, which opens up the first MMO adventures in the Forgotten Realms universe. Specifically, Menace of the Underdark pits players against the denizens of the deep: drows, driders, poison-spewing green dragons and […]
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David Coldewey at TechCrunch caught a glimpse of the future. The new e-Ink Kindle will apparently let you finally read in the dark without the help of extra lighting: The device I saw was crudely camouflaged in a sort of cardboard enclosure, but the screen was clearly visible. With a tap, a slider popped up […]
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You’ve got to admire people who choose to live their dream, and dress the part: The cops seemed to handle it all with an appropriate sense of humor. Which is nice to see. After all my writing about police abuse, I half-expected Batman would get tasered. Like this guy. At the end of The Dark Knight […]
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German magazine PC Action reports that the cult-hit console title, Dark Souls, is coming to PC this August and will include “new bosses.” One expects From Software’s “Prepare to Die Edition” will bring improved graphics to the consoles’ more graphically powerful PC counterparts, and much-needed frame-rate relief to Blighttown – though you’ll still have to […]
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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, former Senator and current MPAA chief Chris Dodd said he was “confident” that Obama supports the entertainment industry’s attempts to crack down on online piracy, and that he’s sure that the president is “using his good relationships in both communities [tech/media]” to push talks forward about replacement legislation […]
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Tom’s Hardware breaks down some of the rumored specs of the PS4 and Xbox 720. The PS4 (Orbis) “may feature custom chips based on AMD’s A8-3850 APU and Radeon HD 7670 discrete GPU.” “According to the APU’s off-the-shelf specs, it packs a quad-core 2.9 GHz processor an an integrated HD 6550D graphics core,” writes Kevin Parrish. […]
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