By Craig Lloyd on May 5th, 2010 at 11:12AM
Our Steam Giveaway winner is Scott from Wisconsin, USA! He’ll be getting a Steam game of his choice worth up to $25!
Thanks to all who entered! We had more than double the participants of our last comment giveaway, which is a huge success! We assure you there will be a lot more giveaways in the near future, so stay tuned!
By Tim Hage on May 5th, 2010 at 10:34AM
In celebration of The Stimulus Package PC release, Modern Warfare 2 is hosting another free weekend, as well as offering gamers double XP. You can start pre-loading now for the free weekend and the double XP actually started last night, so get playing! Now, here’s hoping that Activision will do something about the massive community of hackers in the game.
By Craig Lloyd on May 5th, 2010 at 7:47AM
Epic Vid of the Week is a weekly series that showcases an awesome video that we or our readers discover. Some you may have seen before and others you may have not. If you’ve discovered any videos that are worthy of an Epic Vid of the Week title, let us know!
What do you get when you put a vehicle in the path of a NASA space balloon launch gone wrong? Watch and find out:
By Craig Lloyd on May 4th, 2010 at 9:10PM
We knew “something big” was coming from Seagate, but we had no idea what until now. Earlier this evening, the storage company unveiled the GoFlex line of products that include ultra-portable drives, desktop external drives, an HD media player, and a media sharing device.
The GoFlex hard drives range from 320GB to 2TB starting at $100 and going all the way up to $200. These drives are special in a way that they’re simultaneously compatible with both Mac and Windows and can support USB 2.0, USB 3.0, FireWire, and eSATA through “upgrade cables” that you can purchase starting at $20.
The GoFlex HD media player seems to simply be like the FreeAgent HD media player, but will support the GoFlex HDDs. This will be priced at $130, but there will most likely be bundle packs with HDDs included in the near future.
Last but not least, the GoFlex Net media sharing device is seems to be an updated version of the DockStar, which we reviewed awhile ago. It’ll work with any USB storage device, similar to a PogoPlug device.
UPDATE: Seagate added a Flickr photo set of the all new equipment. Check ‘em out here.
By Tim Hage on May 4th, 2010 at 6:31PM
After already getting tons of post-release support, it seems Bioware has not yet stopped the stream of new content for Dragon Age because they’ve announced the upcoming release of the Darkspawn Chronicles on May 18th. Unfortunately, the only other detail released was that it will cost 400MSP when it hits Xbox Live. It’s safe to assume that the DLC will also release for PC, but it’s possible that it will cost gamers.
via [Game Informer]
By Craig Lloyd on May 4th, 2010 at 1:41PM
Just another example of why the world is crumbling before us. According to Business Insider, Zynga, maker of FarmVille and other Facebook games, issued shares the other day that put the value of the game developer at $4 billion. Of course, FarmVille isn’t the only game that Zynga has available on Facebook. They’re also the maker of Mafia Wars, FishVille, Treasure Isle, and more, but FarmVille is definitely their flagship game with over 80 million players.
via [Business Insider]
By Craig Lloyd on May 3rd, 2010 at 8:51PM
For those Americans that are confused right now, Gmail is actually known as Google Mail in the UK. Google couldn’t use the Gmail name because of a trademark issue, but now they say that the gmail.com suffix is coming back to the British territory. UK Gmail users now have the option to switch to a gmail.com address or they can stick with what they’re used to, which is the googlemail.com suffix. Any new signups for the mail service will automatically get a gmail.com address.
Google says this transition “will save approximately 60 million keystrokes a day. At about 217 microjoules per keystroke, that’s about the energy of 20 bonbons saved every day!”
via [Official Gmail Blog]
By Tim Hage on May 3rd, 2010 at 11:17AM
The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature that helps out gamers in the tough economy. How does it help? Once a week, it offers a great and cheap game ($10 or less) to keep you going until your next paycheck.
This week’s Bargain Bin brings intrigue, mystery, co-op, and sorcery to gamers. Trine is a true mash-up of many awesome genres packed into an awesome, puzzle side-scroller package. And it doesn’t hurt that the game is only $5 over at Impulse right now, so grab yourself a copy and see what I’m talking about. If you think you’re risking that $5, then read our Trine review or grab the demo and try it out for yourself!
By Craig Lloyd on May 2nd, 2010 at 9:31PM
The past week’s best news and featured content…
Review: GameSkulls GS-1 Tactical Helmet
- Do you have issues falling asleep at the keyboard only to awake just before your head smashes into the keyboard? This one’s for you!
By Lucas Carter on May 2nd, 2010 at 6:14PM
A couple months ago, Adobe blew our minds with a video sneak peek at their new feature in Photoshop CS5, Content-Aware Fill (or as I like to call it, God Mode). Content-Aware Fill gives the user the ability to seemingly remove anything out of a photo, and Photoshop would magically fill in the gap.
CS5 finally released and needless to say, Content-Aware Fill was the very first tool I wanted to try. I scanned quickly through my library of images and pulled out a photo that I took last year. I love the photo, but there’s a few things I was eager to take out.
