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Halo: Reach beta impressions

May 4, 2010 Doug Groves Bungie, Halo: Reach, Microsoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live2 Comments

The mulitplayer beta Halo: Reach, available for free to Halo 3: ODST owners, was released yesterday. If the beta is any indication, Bungie’s last installment of the franchise is going to be a high point. I’ve always enjoyed the Halo series, but mainly for the single player experience. Every game in the Halo franchise has had good multiplayer, which is a large reason why it’s been successful for so long. Last night, after playing Reach for much longer than I expected to, I have to say that this is the…

The People vs. George Lucas: the verdict?

May 3, 2010May 4, 2010 Doug Groves Alexandre O. Phillipe, Film, Hot Docs, review, SXSW, The People vs. George Lucas, Toronto7 Comments

Ever since the release of The Phantom Menace, Star Wars fans old and new have debated the merits of the new trilogy, and Lucas’ decision to drastically alter the original trilogy to make it more ‘modern’, not just in the effects department, but taking some rough edges off main characters. The new documentary The People vs. George Lucas, from director Alexandre O. Phillipe, is a good distillation of that debate. It offers up, in a compressed timeline, an overview of the history of George Lucas and the almost religious following…

Telus bringing IPTV to Xbox 360 in Canada

May 3, 2010 Doug Groves extender, Microsoft, Telus, Telus TV, Uverse, Windows Media Center, WMC, Xbox 3601 Comment

If the source over at gamefocus.ca is right, it looks like Telus will be bringing an IPTV solution to Canadian Xbox 360 users, which is currently being tested and should hit the market in 2011. Other than finding out that it’s Telus, as opposed to Bell or Rogers, there’s not too much new to see. It doesn’t sound like the 360 would be used to do the recording. Instead, the Telus TV HD PVR would handle the recording, and the 360 would be used as an interface for one of…

Season Finale of FOX’s “House” Shot on Canon DSLR!

May 3, 2010May 3, 2010 kingpinlei 5d, Canon, DSLR, FOX, HD, House, Mark2, MarkII, Mk2, MkII, Philip Bloom, TV5 Comments

I found out about this via DP (Director of Photography) extraordinaire Philip Bloom’s website and it simply blew my mind. And it is big news for all you filmmaker-tech-heads out there! It appears the upcoming season finale of the FOX medical TV series “House” was shot entirely on the Canon 5D Mark2 DSLR.

Bumptop bought by Google

May 2, 2010 Doug Groves Android, bumptop, chrome os, google0 comment

Toronto based BumpTop, makers of the 3D desktop interface of the same name, has been acquired by Google. We’ve talked about Bumptop in the past, as it made for an interesting UI for touch screen computers. Earlier this year BumpTop appeared on HP’s tm2 convertible laptop, as well as releasing a verison for Mac OS X. The front page of BumpTop has a letter to it’s fans, and for the next few days the free versions for will be available for download. For paid users, there is an End of…

iSealClub smacked by Apple’s ban hammer

April 30, 2010 Doug Groves app store, Apple, ban, cartoon, iSealClub, Newfoundland, PETA, rejected1 Comment

You know, it’s gotten to the point where reporting the latest apps to be banned by Apple and it’s dark overlord is pointless. It happens all the time, and often for no good reason. This time it’s a Newfoundland app maker and his variation on Whack-A-Mole, iSealClub. The main reasons I’m pointing this one out is I’ve eaten seal – not much cuppa tea but hey – and that it’s been mis-characterized in the press… Sure, Apple banned our Be Nice to Bunnies app after catching a glimpse of sexy…

Activision and Bungie announce 10 year deal

April 30, 2010July 30, 2014 Doug Groves Activision, Bungie, business, Call of Duty, cartoon, deal, editorial comic, Halo, Infinity Ward, rgbcomic5 Comments

Just some Friday Fun.

Alan Wake preview “Bright Falls”

April 30, 2010 Doug Groves Alan Wake, Bright Falls, prequel, Sam Lake, Xbox 3606 Comments

It’s just under 3 weeks until the new Xbox 360 action thriller game Alan Wake hits shelves (May 18th in North America, May 14th in the EU), making light itself your most powerful weapon against the forces of darkness. What makes this most interesting is that the game is written by Sam Lake, writer of the Max Payne game, who had a knack of capturing the right tone for that game. To follow a trend that seems to be more and more prevalent every year, there’s a prequel short film…

Freedom of the press, or license to steal?

April 30, 2010 Doug Groves Apple, editorial, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, First Amendment, Gizmodo, REACT6 Comments

By now, everybody knows the Gizmodo – iPhone 4G fiasco inside and out. It’s broken beyond the tech world to the mainstream, from the New York Times coming out in favour of Gizmodo’s journalistic rights to Jon Stewart offering an amusing but watered down spanking to Apple for becoming the “1984” it once rallied against. Of course, I’d argue that Apple is more “Brave New World” than “1984”, but that’s another story… What’s got my editorial undies all bunched is how since Gizmodo invoked the journalistic shield law as a…

Dead Space 2: “Dementia” trailer released

April 30, 2010April 30, 2010 Doug Groves Dead Space, Dead Space 2, Dementia, EA, teaser, trailer0 comment

The original Dead Space was one of my favourite games of 2008, and after a couple of quickly pulled leaks, the teaser trailer for the new Dead Space 2 is finally official. That’s it right up there. Of course, with an estimated ship date of early 2011, it’s still going to be a while before the game hits shelves for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

Steam For Mac – maybe May 12th

April 30, 2010April 30, 2010 Doug Groves Apple, Mac gaming, Steam, Steam For Mac, Valve, Valve Time5 Comments

Just a couple of days after speculating that the Mac version of Steam looks like it’s going to miss the initial April launch comes word that this is indeed the case, and will be available May 12th. For Mac users who haven’t yet delved into the world of Steam on a PC, or aren’t too familiar with Valve release schedules, don’t sweat it. It’s just another case of ‘Valve Time‘, where dates are never as they seem.

Windows Media Center in HDTVs, Xbox Live TV around the corner… dare I say “synergy”?

April 29, 2010April 30, 2010 Doug Groves Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 7 Embedded, Windows Media Center, Xbox 360, Zune Marketplace, Zune Pass3 Comments

Microsoft has talked in the past of making the Xbox 360 an ‘all-in-one’ set top device, capable of providing DVR and TV capabilities, but little substance has come from it. Now, Game Focus is reporting that according to their own trusted source, that an Xbox live TV service will be coming to both the US and Canada by 2011, and that this would work in conjunction with a major telecommunications company, which narrows it down to basically Rogers or Bell. Users will have access to live TV feeds, recording capabilities…