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LittleBigPlanet 2 review: It’s a whole lotta fun

February 10, 2011September 26, 2012 Deborah Chantson LBP 2, LBP2, LittleBigPlanet 2, PS3, PSN, review, Sackboy1 Comment

Well, here I am, finally writing the review of LittleBigPlanet 2. And the delay in my writing is actually attributed to having so much fun in playing the game, that there just aren’t enough hours in the day. ANYWAY, I have to admit that I wasn’t as jazzed about what I saw at the media launch party on the tester screens. I played a top-down view rodent racing derby type level and then got physically stuck before passing the controller to someone else. Oh … but then to have the…

Clint Mansell to score Mass Effect 3

February 10, 2011September 26, 2012 Doug Groves Clint Mansell, Mass Effect 3, Pop Will Eat Itself, score composer, soundtrack, The Quietus2 Comments

In an interview with The Quietus, Clint Mansell let it slip that he’ll be scoring the third installment of Bioware’s Mass Effect franchise. Mansell is one of the best film composers working in Hollywood today. His work includes being the ‘go to’ composer for Darren Aronofsky, director of Pi, Requiem For A Dream and Black Swan. As the soundtrack for Requim so deftly illustrates, Mansell isn’t afraid to draw from a wide array of genres and styles to arrive at something unique. This blending of genres is nothing new for…

Bell admits to overstating customer data usage

February 9, 2011February 10, 2011 Doug Groves Bell, CRTC, UBB, Usage Based Billing1 Comment

In a case of extremely bad timing, The Star’s Moneyville site is reporting that Bell has been overestimating the data usage of some customers and charging them with data overage fees. This has forced Bell to take the data tracker offline for the time being.

Batman: Arkham City comics fill the gap between games

February 9, 2011February 11, 2011 Doug Groves Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, Batman, Carlos D'anda, Comics, DC Comics, miniseries, Paul Dini, PC gaming, PS3, Rocksteady, Xbox 3602 Comments

I was really late to the game when Batman: Arkham Asylum came out in 2009. Even though it was a commercial and critical success, with most saying it was the best Batman game of all time, it struck me as faint praise, given what had come before. Last fall, I finally got around to picking it up, and I loved everything about it. The game captured the spirit of Batman better than anything outside the comics. Even if it were stripped of the Dark Knight’s trappings, the gameplay was fluid,…

Science

Saturday Morning Science 001

February 5, 2011February 10, 2011 Pete Chapman Cassini, Heinlein, manned space flight, NASA, Obama, Saturday Morning Science, solar sail, space shuttle4 Comments

Welcome to the first installment of a new rgbFilter feature: Saturday Morning Science. Its title comes from a piece of short hand that our editor, Doug Groves would use to describe some of our previous science articles: as in, “This one is a kind of read-it-over-Saturday-morning-coffee kind of piece.” The idea of a weekly science review was our response to the general “Twitterization” of science reporting that a regular website/blog can easily fall into. How many times can a new Earth be discovered, a silly thing be done to some…

Federal court kills Tory Wind Mobile decision

February 4, 2011February 10, 2011 Doug Groves canada, CRTC, Federal court, Globalive, government, legal, Public Mobile, Wind Mobile0 comment

It’s been a busy week for the Federal government and the CRTC. The latest is that Federal Court judge Roger Hughes has struck down 2009 Tory decision to overrule the CRTC when it comes to Globalive, best known as new mobile carrier Wind Mobile. The appeal to Federal Court was launched by new entrant rival Public Mobile, which claimed that the government had overstepped its bounds in allowing Wind to launch even though it didn’t meet CRTC Canadian ownership regulations. The judge has instituted a 45 day stay, which lets…

Duty Calls walkthough video

February 4, 2011February 5, 2011 Doug Groves Bulletstorm, CoD, demo, Duke Nukem, Duty Calls, FPS, Friday fun, humour, PC gaming, PS3, video, Xbox 3600 comment

Maybe it’s my lack of enthusiasm for the Call Of Duty franchise, or ‘real world’ first person shooters in general, but the above parody hit the nail on the head. On a related matter, if you haven’t yet tried the demo for Bulletstom, I can’t recommend it highly enough. The general mayhem in the demo suggests that unless Duke Nukem can bring his A game in the humour department, over the top FPS fun may have a new king.

Usage based billing debates are wrong… and here’s why

February 3, 2011September 26, 2012 Doug Groves Bell, CRTC, Jean-François Mezei, legal, net neutrality, Primus, Tony Clement, UBB, Usage Based Billing8 Comments

[Ed Note: this article was updated with new information] The Canadian government has once again promised to overturn a CRTC decision if the CRTC doesn’t do so itself. This time around, it’s the the contentious Usage Based Billing ruling that would have crippled 3rd party ISPs from differentiating themselves in the marketplace. It’s rare for the government to step into CRTC affairs, but with the UBB issue growing in public awareness and a deadline looming less than a month away, they’ve pulled out the big guns. After all, it was…

Android 3.0 Honeycomb event video

February 3, 2011September 26, 2012 Doug Groves Android, Honeycomb, marketshare, Motorola Xoom, Nvidia, tablet, tegra, Tegra 2, Xoom5 Comments

On Wednesday, Google held a major event to showcase its new Android 3.0 OS aka Honeycomb. The new OS is aimed squarely at the growing tablet market. The new design offers a cleaner look for Android, as well as a number of new features including the web accesible market.android.com and a new push on gaming. inclduing reusable “application fragments”. If I were the conspiratorial type, I’d say that Google is deliberately attempting to redefine ‘fragment’ in the context of Android. More seriously, the OS was demonstrated running on the Motorola Xoom tablet, powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 2 dual core chipset.

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Toronto Rally to “Stop the Meter”

January 31, 2011February 5, 2011 Pete Chapman Bell, CRTC, MP, Stop The Meter, throttling, UBB6 Comments

Tired of having nothing to be politically passionate about like your Egyptian and Tunisian friends? Tired of worrying about Seasonal Affective Disorder during the height of Seasonal Affective Disorder season? Tired of being pushed around by Big Telco Money and Small Minded Lapdog Bureaucrats at the CRTC? Tired of rhetorical questions starting with the word “Tired” and using caps to make Tired Cliches look like Big Concepts? Of course you are and so am I. Together we can go to the next paragraph.

Canalys shows Android overtaking Nokia in the world

January 31, 2011September 26, 2012 Doug Groves Android, Apple, Blackberry, google, iOS, Microsoft, RIM, stats, Windows Phone 7, WP71 Comment

The latest US numbers from Canalys show that Android has now surpassed Nokia as the best selling smartphone OS in the world. Though it started off slow, Android grew from 8.7% of the market in Q4 2009 to a massive 32.9% in Q4 2010. The big drop was for Nokia, which plummeted from 44.4% to 30.6% in the same timespan. All other smartphones saw a drop as well, with Apple’s iOS dropping less than a percent, while RIM dropped almost 6%. Since Windows Phone 7 launched in the middle of…

Dead Space 2 review

January 31, 2011September 26, 2012 Doug Groves action, creepy, Dead Space 2, EA, horror survival, PC gaming, PS3, review, Visceral Games, Xbox 3602 Comments

The original Dead Space made a bit of a splash when it first launched: a science fiction horror survival game that provided a unique environment, lots of scares, and a solid story. The universe that the creators crafted was well fleshed out and expanded upon with an animated film, comic books more. While none of ancillary media was required to enjoy the game, it was clear from the start that EA and Visceral Games wanted to build this into a long lasting franchise. Enter Dead Space 2, which continues the…