XBMC on ARM

The most awesome guys over at the XBMC project have posted a teaser showing how far along the have come on the ARM port of their media player (Check the video after the break). You can clearly see the package boot up and even play back HD video. There looks like there is still some [...]

Sucker Alert: Wattgate 381 “Audio Grade” Socket

Wow, there really is a sucker born every minute, but is there anyone out there stupid enough to spend $147 on a so called “Audio Grade” electrical socket? The Wattgate 381 and claims to bring you crystal clean sound. I’m no electrician but doesn’t the quality of your sound actually come from the components inside [...]

UPDATE – Beatles Make It Into Rock Band

At the time of this post, further details were yet to be announced, but it appears official, Viacom and MTV Networks (owners of “Rock Band”) have licensed Beatle songs for their Rock Band game. This is a pretty big deal, since even major players like iTunes don’t even have Beatle songs yet. In fact, no [...]

WoW Now 11 Million Strong (and still growing)…

For all you under-rock-dwellers out there, a brief explanation of the phenomenon that is World Of Warcraft. It’s made by Blizzard. It’s a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It’s been parodied on SouthPark. It’s a big deal, if for nothing else than the cash-cow it’s created for Activision Blizzard. Well, World Of Warcraft has now [...]

Charles Barkey RPG – The Next WoW

I love a good home-brewed game. Just look at all the success that Counter Strike and Golden Eye source had. Fans of the outspoken basketball player Charles Barkley have taken a step to immortalize him with “Bakrley: Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden”. The full release is now available. The game is set in a post-cyberpocalypse [...]

WoW on the EEEPC

All of my co-workers can tell you about how much I love my Asus EEEPC. It’s the perfect little machine to carry around when you need to do some blogging and surfing. You can imagine how shocked I was to find out that I can also play WoW on it while I’m on the road [...]

WII – Like hot cakes

According to BusinessWeek Amazon reported that the 2007 Holiday Season was the internet retailer’s “strongest to date”. The hottest commodity was the Nintendo Wii, which sold an amazing 17 units a second, yes i said a second, while Amazon had them in stock. I know how hard it was tracking one down here in Toronto [...]

Tokyo’s Sewer System – Awesome

Yesterday I was chatting with Rob about some news that came across the Japanese wire regarding the iPhone. So after stumbling across the internets for some more info on the story I stumbled across these amazing pics. So this might look like it’s something that Mr. Alex Lindsay over at the Pixelcorps might have whipped [...]