‘Entertainment’ Archives
Titanium Blue PS3 arriving in Japan for Gran Turismo 5 release
I’m loving the new Titanium Blue Playstation 3 soon available in Japan as part of the Gran Turismo 5 release on November 3rd. Hopefully this will start a whole line of custom color PS3 rollouts instead of the prior black and white units. Maybe a pink one will make it into the rooms of young girls celebrating their sweet sixteen. [...]
Health-Risks associated with 3D Television
Manufactures are rushing to bring 3D television to the home front while using the success for movies like Avatar to bring them to the forefront. However, very little is know about the effects of watching 3D television and possible complications of medical conditions. Samsung recently issues a health warning about the potential dangers of [...]
Roku Gets Netflix Update and its Free!
Roku, the genius little device that connects your television to a growing network of entertainment media has just gotten a Netflix face lift. Adding additional features to help you navigate better, much as we have become familiar with in Netflix for Windows Media Center. The Roku comes in three flavors: The SD for $79.99, the [...]
PopCap Celebrates 10 Years with ‘Show Your Bejeweled® Love’ Contest
PopCap is celebrating 10 years of entertaining the masses with addictive game titles, would like its’ users to show their love and they will show you some love in return. Their games span from mobile devices, game consoles and personal computers and in many different variations on each. The contest starts today 4/26 and ends tomorrow 4/27 so [...]
Sirius XM Satellite Radio service coming to Android
Free SIRIUS XM App for Android-powered smartphones will deliver exclusive sports, talk, entertainment, comedy and commercial-free music channels to the DROID by Motorola and the Google Nexus One All users of the SIRIUS XM App will receive a 7-day free trial of the SIRIUS XM Premium Online service NEW YORK, April 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- [...]
Engadget: What it takes to properly convert a 2D movie to 3D
3DTVs are useless without content and while to some sports is the killer app for 3D, others prefer movies. When it comes to new movies, there's Avatar and then there's everything else -- most movies are converted to 3D instead of using 3D cameras. The company In-Three originally formed with the intent of converting classics like Star Wars to 3D -- [...]
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 DLC Sneak Peak
We have all been anticipating the release of the Modern Warfare 2 downloadable content pack but in the meantime we can still enjoy a sneak preview from Infinity Ward. Not much to say about Overgrown and Crash but check out the 3 other maps: Bailout, Storm and Salvage. Yes they remind me of a few similarities to the first Modern Warfare [...]
The Console War will end with the Playstation 3 as winner!
Don Reisinger a technology columnist for CNet’s Digital Home blog just posted finding on a recent article regarding the console wars and it looks like it will end with the Playstation 3 as the winner. In a report titled, "Taming the Waves: Games Console Life Cycles and Platform Competition," analysts from Strategic Analytics said [...]
Activision terminates two Infinity Ward key staffers
Updated: March 4, 2010 – Activision responds as “Dissappointed” by Meritless Lawsuit via Kotaku Updated: March 4, 2010 – Court papers filed by West/Zampella against Activision via Kotaku Vince Zampella and Jason West of game developer/studio Infinity Ward have been let go after being cited as insubordinate according to an SEC filing from [...]
Latest info on PlayStation Network Status
Folks have been complaining of issues connecting to the Playstation Network via their Playstation3 systems. Thanks to a date code issue with handling February 28/29 which causes the system to reset to the begin date of 1/1/2000. Affecting connectivity in such services like Netflix that use certificate validation for its service which [...]
