By Craig Lloyd on Nov 23rd, 2010 at 10:36PM
As you may already know, Super Meat Boy is one of the recent highly-anticipated indie games. Now you can pre-order Team Meat’s arcade-like challenger on Steam and save yourself $5 at the same time. It’s currently 33-percent off at just $10. This is only a pre-order special, so if you feel like saving some dough, get it now!
By Tim Hage on Nov 23rd, 2010 at 9:49PM
When you get a group of awesome guys in one room, hilarity and general taunting is bound to ensue. When that room of guys sit down to a competitive high-stakes underground poker game, you get Poker Night at the Inventory. And it’s possibly the best $5 you can spend.
By Craig Lloyd on Nov 23rd, 2010 at 4:16PM
Today at Acer’s Global press conference, the company launched some new hardware in the form of tablets, a smartphone, and a laptop. They first announced the Iconia dual-screen notebook, which comes with a pair of 14-inch multitouch displays at 1366×768 each. So it doesn’t have a physical keyboard, but rather a virtual one that appears on the secondary display. The Iconia runs on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and comes with your choice of Intel Core i5 processor (480M, 560M, 580M). It also comes with up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, integrated Intel HD graphics with 128MB of RAM, VGA and HDMI outputs, up to 750GB of HDD storage, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0+HD, integrated 3G WWAN, Ethernet, two USB 2.0 ports and one USB 3.0 port.
No word yet on price or availability.
Acer also revealed a 10.1-inch tablet running Windows 7. Details on this are still a little slim, but we do know that will run some kind of AMD processor, as well as have a front-facing and rear camera, both of which will be 1.3 MP. It will also include WiFi and 3G.
The device still doesn’t have a name or a price tag slapped on, buy Acer says we should see this tablet hit store shelves in February 2011.
via [Engadget 1, 2]
By Craig Lloyd on Nov 23rd, 2010 at 11:01AM
In celebration of the upcoming holiday, PopCap Games is cutting the price of every single one of their titles by half. This means you can get great games like Plants vs. Zombies, Bejeweled, and Peggle at half their original cost! The sale ends on Monday, November 29th.
[PopCap Games via Twitter]
By Craig Lloyd on Nov 22nd, 2010 at 9:06PM
While the Consumer Electronics Show is mostly focused on…well…consumer electronics, it seems that they’re going to set aside a space for purely gaming-related products. It’ll be called the CES Gaming Showcase and numerous companies are already on board to exhibit there such as AMD, Intel, Logitech, Microsoft, and HP. One surprise already is that Nintendo will also be there despite their no-show the last 16 years.
UPDATE: It turns out that Nintendo won’t really be exhibiting their new products on the CES floor, but will just be holding secret meetings in several of the show’s meeting rooms. Read the press release here.
CES 2011 will take place in Las Vegas, NV January 6th-11th. You’ll bet we’ll be covering as much as we can.
By Craig Lloyd on Nov 22nd, 2010 at 6:05PM
Logitech has been — and still is — a solid choice for computer peripherals and accessories. We even went as far as saying that their G19 was “the highest stage of evolution currently on the market for gaming keyboards” in our full review. This time around, we have the G110 sitting in front of us. This is a keyboard that is almost identical to the G19 except for the LCD screen and a few minor features, but it also has some new features not currently present on the G19, which begs the question: Can the G110 stand amongst its big brother? Let’s find out.
By Craig Lloyd on Nov 22nd, 2010 at 4:42PM
Black Friday is creeping on us quickly and some of you are probably starting to set your alarms, plan your routes, and sift through all the leaked Black Friday ads. We want to know who’s getting up extra early Friday morning and hitting the stores and/or standing by the computer religiously tapping F5 for those Cyber Monday deals. Vote below and discuss!
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By Craig Lloyd on Nov 22nd, 2010 at 11:21AM
The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature that helps out gamers in this 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.
Flight Control is a wildly popular iPhone game by developer Firemint. Last Thursday, the game of epic plane-landing proportions hit Steam in the form of Flight Control HD. Read more about it after the break.
By Craig Lloyd on Nov 21st, 2010 at 8:21PM
The past week’s best news and featured content you might have missed, as well as a preview of the week ahead…
Editorial: Small Blogs (Like Us) Are the Ones You Should Trust
- I’m just going to throw this out there right now: We’re piss broke. Sure, we get “free” stuff from companies every now and then, and get a few ad dollars here and there that pay for the domain name and hosting, but it’s hardly enough to justify the time we spend writing and working on Tech Olive. We’re definitely not making a living off of blogging. So why are we even blogging if we’re not really making a lot of money from it? Because we simply love doing it.
By Tim Hage on Nov 21st, 2010 at 12:40PM
After reaching level 50 and opting to Prestige for the first time in my Black Ops career, I am here to tell you the ups and downs of Prestiging and to pose the question if it’s even worth your time. Take a look at the facts and make your decision after the break.
