Likewise newborn Bennett Pankow joined his four older siblings in getting his own Internet moniker. In fact, before naming his child, Mark Pankow checked to make sure “BennettPankow.com” hadn’t already been claimed. “One of the criteria was, if we liked the name, the domain had to be available,”
Nothing attracts the ire of those fickle game bloggers quite like them getting their asses handed to them by a game. Take note, although some of the hardest games ever made are on this list, it is by no means a list of the absolute hardest games.
A new study hangs a big price tag on piracy, as it attempts to account for all economic losses stemming from file sharing. Once again, we find a study that trumps up the negatives and completely ignores the positives of file sharing.
With the release of their API’s, sites like Digg, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube are taking the web by storm. Here’s a look at their plans for web domination.
Microsoft has finally killed off it’s old anti-Linux “Get the facts” website that had been spreading lies about Linux for years. However, don’t think that anything has changed, the site is being replaced with another, more insidious site called “Windows Server Compare.” Take a look.
It happens all too often. You turn your back, and bam! Your iPod is gone. It’s been pinched. Jacked. Stolen. If you’re one of the victims of this gadget crime spree, how pissed off would you be if you discovered that Apple has the ability to report, disable, or at least help track these stolen goods?
Unlike the original version, the NES emulator for the iPhone works great now —except for the sound. There’s still one big problem: the lack of tactile feedback on the buttons. Natetrue, the creator of iBrickr, came up with an ingenious hardware patch: a transparent vinyl layer cut like the gamepad buttons. It seems silly, but it works….
A University of Tennessee student asks to have an RIAA subpoena seeking his name, addresses, phone number, e-mail address, and MAC address quashed. His argument: the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act bars the school from releasing the data without his or his parents’ permission.
Crytek, the team behind the upcoming Crysis, is heavily invested in console development. In fact, it appears that Crytek is especially invested in Sony’s next-gen platform. “Our PS3 development is going deeper than many people assume right now,” studio boss Cevat Yerli told GI.biz.
Pico is a computer interface that can move electromagnetic pucks, merging the digital and physical worlds. In this video see how a researcher has used his unique combination of projection, magnets and computing to help visualize problems such as determining the best place to put a group of cellphone towers. Imagine the games you could play with it!
With a swathe of announcements sure to send shockwaves reverberating throughout the BioShock internet community, publisher 2K Games has replaced BioShock’s initial limit of two simultaneous PC installations with what community manager Elizabeth Tobey calls a “5 by 5 plan.” In a stunning reversal, 2K also announced plans to release a FOV patch.
Storage options for devices such as cell phones, digital cameras, and portable media players are changing. While it used to be that you could buy a small SD card for a bit of storage, deferring to spinning hard disks when you needed more, that’s no longer the case.
