Back in September of 2007, Bungie Studios took their beloved Halo series “Next Gen” with the release of Halo 3 for the Xbox 360. Making full use of the beefier console’s graphics capabilities and revamped controller design, the game revolutionized the way we battled the covenant. Now here we are, two years later, and Bungie’s done it again. Tuesday at midnight Halo 3: ODST went on sale to eager fans around the world. Overlapping events in both Halo 2 and Halo 3, this expansion takes the focus off of Master Chief and places it on a rookie Orbital Drop Shock Trooper (ODST). Gone are the days of the Overshield, invulnerability to fall damage, and the seemingly endless supply of ammunition. Make no mistake about it, the game has changed my fellow soldiers. Which begs the question: Is this expansion worthy of it’s full retail price of $59.99?
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In the weeks leading up to E3 2009, everyone already knew what games they were excited for. They knew the big first party releases, they new the big sequels, and they knew exactly what they were going to be reporting on after each of the big press conferences. But if you watch or read any of the post-E3 2009 wrap-ups, you’ll find they all have one little thing in common. Just about every single one mentioned a beautiful little gem of a game called Scribblenauts. A game that came virtually out of nowhere to impress the pants off of everyone who saw it.
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Some shows, like 24, are good for their action and suspense. Others, like LOST are good for their mystery and intrigue. There are a hand full, like How I Met Your Mother, that keep you laughing week to week. And there are a special few, like Pushing Daises, that just captivate you with their charm. There is another type of show. A little unexplainable gem. One that doesn’t necessarily excel in any one show category, yet pulls you in and keeps you wanting more. For me, that show is Lie to Me.
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Screen real estate has always been a huge issue for computer users. Generally, we tend to combat our space issues by buying bigger, more numerous monitors or by utilizing virtual desktops. Personally, I’ve learned to live within Apple’s virtual desktop feature ‘Spaces’. It’s proven to be a near perfect solution, except that applications for chat and twitter don’t work within the confines of a one application per space system. If only there were some smaller, sub-monitor, that existed only for uses like this. Enter the Nanovision mimo UM-710
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For the last few days the internet has been abuzz over the new version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone. The big thing that has everyone drooling is Google’s new Speak-to-Search feature. Well, after a little bit of a delay, the application is finally available to us. The question is, does it live up to the hype?
The short answer is no. While Google’s ability to translate your spoken words into a search query is very cool, the results provided are no more intuitive or insightful than a normal typed Google Search. In other words, asking the app “where is the nearest Apple Store” yields the same answers as typing “where is the nearest Apple Store” into the Google homepage. Yes, I can switch the searching mode from “iPhone and Web” to “Maps” and just say the words “Apple Store” (which will pop open the google maps application and show me where the closest store to my area is), but this is not what’s been pitched to me. Click here to read more »
