Gabe Newell called Windows 8 a “catastrophe”, and with what look to be two OS’es slapped into one and the fear of a walled-garden approach mounting, it seemed like he was right. But perhaps this comment also set off some…
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[VIDEO] A Quick n’ Dirty Dive into Chaos Rings (Android)
Tagged with: android, chaos rings, ios, square enix, video
Posted in Games & Gear, Reviews & Impressions, Video
Posted in Games & Gear, Reviews & Impressions, Video
Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant – Will all of your games survive?
Remember when upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 or XP was a daunting task, requiring you to run through a gigantic online list of what applications–and of course, more importantly, games–would and would not work with the new OS?…
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII — 20 Entertaining Hours of Boredom (Review)
Love it or hate it, Final Fantasy VII was a landmark title for Squaresoft, the Playstation platform, and videogames in general. It set a standard for communicating story through high production values and connecting its players to its characters. Cloud,…
Tagged with: cloud strife, crisis core, final fantasy, final fantasy vii, psp. square enix, Reviews, zack fair
Posted in Games & Gear, Reviews & Impressions
Posted in Games & Gear, Reviews & Impressions
Android Jelly Bean: Usable on the Droid Bionic
Last week, I wrote about how my summer ROM flashing adventures breathed new life into my Droid Bionic, a phone that has gotten a “raw deal”–as admitted, word for word, by Motorola Mobility’s VP for product management, Punit Soni. As I…
Tagged with: android, bionic, custom ROM, droid, Droid bionic, ice cream sandwich, jelly bean, Motorola
Posted in Technology
Posted in Technology
Coffee Ramble.
Al and Austin typically email about random games, tech, and their respective daily news topics as a morning ritual for sanity’s sake. Here’s their vomit for November 16th, 2012 (reverse chronological order).
Motorola Lapdock (for Droid BIONIC)
One of the features touted for Motorola Android phones that were released between Fall 2011 and mid-2012–the Droid Bionic and the Droid Razr iterations–was Webtop, software which allowed for the phone to run in a barebones “Desktop” mode when connected…
My DROID Bionic: A New Lease on Life
The technology upgrade circus is an expensive assault on the mind that exploits one’s hunger for more, one’s mentality that even though–as wise sage Louis CK says–things are actually pretty awesome in reality, nothing seems good enough for us. We…
Tagged with: android, Droid bionic, ice cream sandwich, mobile, Motorola, phones
Posted in Editorials, Technology
Posted in Editorials, Technology
Final Fantasy VI – SNES Review
It’s difficult to pinpoint one defining aspect that makes Final Fantasy III (known as Final Fantasy VI when not plugged into Super NES consoles) stand out among most other Japanese role-playing games. Perhaps it’s this lack of a single defining…
Tagged with: final fantasy, final fantasy iii, final fantasy vi, SNES, super nes, super nintendo
Posted in Games & Gear, Reviews & Impressions
Posted in Games & Gear, Reviews & Impressions
Deus Ex – Windows PC Review
It wouldn’t be entirely appropriate to call Deus Ex purely a first-person shooter, any more than it would be to call it purely a role-playing game or a stealth game. The truth is that Deus Ex is a little bit…