Gadgets - The latest entry in the games-as-art argument, Heavy Rain is the spiritual secret to the controversial Indigo Prophecy, one of the rare "interactive storytelling" type games that has made a dent on the market since Phantasmagoria Personally, I think I would enjoy the game, but since I don't have a PS3, that's not going to happen any time soon Yahtzee is of two minds about it, understandably, calling it various names but admitting it gets much better later Anyone check it out yet?
Mobile - So in 2008, a company called Integra Communications filed for a “Nexus” trademark having something to do with voice and data telecommunications Along comes Google a year later and files for “Nexus One” Trademark office says no go I’m not really surprised at this; it’s not really their job to determine which is the better []
Gadgets - Bet you weren't expecting that headline tonight, were you? Well, it's about as literal as I could get Some enterprising boffins at the University of Rochester used a high-powered laser to etch microscopic patterns in silicon such that water overcomes its own hydrophilia and goes in whatever direction they please This is very much still a laboratory discovery, but a few years down the road, you might see this kind of thing built into chips as a sort of hybrid active-passive cooling solution
Gadgets - Some rumors are swirling regarding a possible "slim" version of the Xbox 360 And why not? The console being sold is the same one they were selling wow, is it more than four years ago now? Of course, the ones they sell now run a little cooler, and don't have an enormous failure rate, so there's that And with the pressure on from the PS3 Slim and well, a black version of the Wii, Microsoft probably wants to be one of the cool kids with the console revisions
Gadgets - When Nintendo first unveiled Metroid Prime, fans were skeptical (if not downright apeshit) For a 2D adventure game based on exploration, how could it possibly work in first person? Long story short, Metroid Prime was pretty much universally loved upon release, and now that the Metroid Prime trilogy has gone on to become something of []
Gadgets - Doesn’t this look like something you’d see in an alien’s house? It is in fact real, and is a lamp design by Patrick Jouin for MGX, a group that does lighting via 3D printing techniques We’ve posted a few times about Shapeways, which does fabrication of submitted 3D models, but these are designer
I think it []
Gadgets - Someone passed this post along to us, and since our Chinese is limited here in CrunchGear-land, I’m afraid we can’t vouch for it The video contained may, in truth, provide the recipe for a lovely London broil for all we know, so take it with several healthy grains of salt But at least the basic []
Mobile - Brands are increasingly prominent on the App Store and Apple tends to love featuring folks like Britney Spears and Coca-Cola on the App Store’s front page But who’s actually succeeding and which brands have managed to maintain high download numbers?
PositionApp, the app that lets you track how iPhone apps are doing on the App Store []
Gadgets - Every generation thinks that they are the first The first to feel this way or that, the first to make this or that revelation, the first to do and make things that we find later have been done and made since before we could record their doing and making But while these illusory and fleeting []
Gadgets - Man, two new trailers in the same day Our cup runneth over, and so forth! Anyhow, here’s the newest trailer of EA Sports MMA, which should hit stores “late 2010” That’s all in-game footage, too, so no smoke and mirrors nonsense
Featured prominently are Bobby Lashely, Brett Rogers,Cune Le, and Nick Diaz (!) Where’s Fedor? You’d []
