Archive for December 2009

Okay, I know. Bug fixes aren’t the most exciting thing in the world, but bear with me on this one. There are a few essential updates to Left 4 Dead 2 …on Steam, and if you’ve been victim to one of these glitches, you’re probably jumping for joy. The first

I must start out this post by saying that I rarely trust artist’s renderings of gadgets before they’re released, as they’re almost never what the real thing looks like. That said, this new media player LOOKS pretty slick from the concept renders, but I haven’t found any photos of the…

Retro gamers, If you’re looking for some nice background music for your holiday parties, you might want to check this out.

Chiptune musician Rush Coil has put together this full-length digital album of classic Christmas tunes, rearranged with the inimitable sounds of classic 8-bit sounds of 1980s video games. It’s…

At least, the Mega Man mod for Doom 2–yes, Doom 2…–is adorable in theory. The little blue guy himself is pretty adorable, sure, and the color palette we’re treated to here certainly makes this the most cheerful death match. But look deeper. You’re one Mega Man killing other

Now I’m not really sure how many times Jakks Pacific can go back to the well on this one, but they’ve recently released yet another update to their popular Namco Pac-Man… TV Plug-and-Play games.

The latest (fifth) revision to the system could be the best design yet, inspired by retro

Unless something awesome happens, this will be our first and last post about the CrunchPad, TechCrunch head Michael Arrington’s nearly-there web tablet. Yesterday, Arrington announced on TechCrunch that the project “self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication.”… Goddammit. Some things are just too good to be true.

How’d you like three giant surveillance cameras staring your down in the face every time you walk into your living room? Well, here ya go.

Designed by Sweden’s Humans Since 1982, the Surveillance 100 doesn’t capture video at all. Instead, the head of each one of these security “cameras” is…

…or the daily crank, as the machine puts it. Says maker Blake Fall-Conroy, “Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage).” Obviously the machine stops doling out money as soon as you stop turning the crank. I think $7 is slightly…

The Professor Layton series may not be quite… as big in the western world as it is in Japan, but that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate a good puzzle–or a cracking good Nintendo DS case. This booklike case not only offers protection for your handheld… it intellectualizes it, too! Who