Monthly Archives: September 2008

Far Cry 2 release date announced

Ubisoft has just announced that Far Cry 2 will be released on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on the 24th of October 2008. In addition to the getting a standard release though, Ubisoft has teamed up with UK retailer GAME to offer a special Collector’s Edition of the game too. It seems as [...]

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Apple announces new iPod nano’s

I can’t say I’m really surprised to see the new 4th generation iPod nano. As it was announced, 9 colors, bigger $149 8GB and $199 16GB capacity, and wider 2-inch display under the control of an accelerometer for automatic switching between portrait and landscape modes like those early Canon PowerShots and uh, oh right, the [...]

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Umbrella Today? A Super Simple Weather Report

Umbrella Today? is a super simple weather reporting service that lets you know if there will be rain, sending updates to your cell phone.

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Skateboarding Video Shot at 120 FPS on a Red One Camera

Magnum Opus Productions out of Van Nuys, CA made a really cool skateboarding video shot at 120 fps on a Red One Camera, a new high-resolution digital video camera that features high quality and performance at lower cost than traditional professional cameras. The music used in the video is “It’s Alright” by Bang Gang.

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Spore Review

Spore Platform: PC, Mac, DS If you read the Trial preview article we did sometime back then parts of this is going to sound very familiar. The idea behind Spore is this; you are God. You are omniscient, omnipresent and capable of creating a rock so big you can’t possibly lift it. Then you can [...]

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Microsoft plans app store

The guy in the photo quit to go to work for Vodaphone Following in the footsteps of US mobile provider T-Mobile and Google’s own Android smartphone platform, Microsoft is now plotting its own effort to create an online store for mobile software in the model of Apple’s iPhone App Store. The project, tentatively called “Skymarket,” [...]

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