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Rogers Galaxy S Captivate finally available

October 25, 2010October 26, 2010 Doug Groves Captivate, Galaxy S, Galaxy S Captivate, Rogers, Samsung, smartphone, superphone3 Comments

It’s been a LONG time coming, but Rogers has finally made the Samsung Galaxy S Captivate available. Originally announced back when Sammy made the big Galaxy marketing push in August, it’s taken quite some time for the Captivate to hit Big Red. The Captivate ships with Android 2.1, but will get an update to 2.2 Froyo sometime between November and ‘early 2011’. The Captivate features Samsung’s 4 inch Super AMOLED scree, a 5 MPixel camera with 720p video recording and a 1GHz processor, and will start at $149.99 on some…

Rogers Samsung Focus: Hands On Video

October 25, 2010November 9, 2010 Doug Groves hands-on, Microsoft, Now hub, Samsung, Samsung Focus, smartphone, Super AMOLED, superphone, video, Windows Phone 73 Comments

When Windows Phone 7 launches in North America in early November, Rogers will be carrying the Samsung Focus, which is the thinnest of the launch devices. The Focus is very much in the styling of Samsung’s Galaxy S Android phones, including the absolutely stunning 4 inch Super AMOLED screen. One of the other traits the Focus carries over from the Galaxy S line is the light, plastic body.

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Halloween Video Playlist-3

October 23, 2010October 26, 2010 Pete Chapman Blue Velvet, creepy, David Lynch, Fleischer Brothers, Halloween1 Comment

Everyone can knock off a list of their favourite horror films including the people who swear up and down that they can’t stand the genre. Everyone has something that creeps them out throughly and somewhere in all of the thousands of miles of footage, from the Lumiere brothers first experiments to what’s playing at the cineplex this Friday, there are moments that “get” even the most jaded and discerning filmgoer. People love to share these moments as much as clips of baby’s first steps or cute stunts their cat does…

Halo Ballet: Dance Dance Evolved?

October 22, 2010October 25, 2010 Doug Groves Bungie, Halo, Halorinas. Xbox 360, machinima, modern dance, The Music Gallery1 Comment

Miguel of Spooky Squid fame just passed on this link to the premiere of the Halo Ballet. Yes, as in the Bungie developed video game. This Sunday at The Music Gallery in Toronto, modern dancers will perform live choreographed machinima via networked Xbox 360s. X AVANT Festival — “Dance Dance Revolution™” featuring Halo Ballet™ + The Aperghis Suite + The Plunder Suite Modern dancers take on John Oswald, Georges Aperghis and the Halo™ video game environment Halo™ Ballet: Inspired by machinima — the repurposing of 3D graphics engines from video games…

Bell Samsung Galaxy Tab: Hands On Video

October 22, 2010October 28, 2010 Doug Groves Android, Android 2.2, Apple, Bell, Canadian, ebooks, eReader, Froyo, Galaxy Tab, google, Google Android, hands-on, iPad, Kobo, North American, Rogers, Samsung, tablet3 Comments

Although no official launch dates are announced, the Samsung Galaxy Tab is set to appear on both Rogers and Bell here in Canada, probably by the end of November. We had a chance to get our hands on one, and came away suitably impressed. The Android based tablet, seen as the second mainstream device in the tablet behind the iPad, sports a 7 inch 1024×600 display using Samsung’s Super LCD screen technology, making it about half the size of the iPad. Unlike the silver back of the European version, Samsung…

Gamercamp Lv2 – For Love Of The Game

October 21, 2010October 26, 2010 Doug Groves Brandon Boyer, event, Gamercamp, Gamercamp Lv2, Hand Eye Society, Mathew Kumar, Toronto, TORONTRON2 Comments

Gamercamp Lv2 marks the return of the festival that celebrates indie gaming in Toronto. Last years inaugural event sold out, and this year looks like it’s going to be even bigger. Spanning 2 days, Gamercamp kicks off at the Toronto Underground Cinema with a number of keynotes from developers and some short films on video games, curated by Brandon Boyer. Gamercamp 2010 is jammed with badassery: over two days, we’ve got 25 speakers, blazing new demos, 3 arcades including the amazing Torontrons created by Hand Eye, and even a PJs…

SteelSeries to help WOW addicts grind with ‘Superior Ergonomics’

October 20, 2010October 25, 2010 drsquid Blizzard, BlizzCon, Cataclysm, Ergonomic, Gaming, mouse, PC gaming, Steelseries, World of Warcraft4 Comments

With Cataclysm, the latest expansion for World of Warcraft, coming to destroy many peoples lives all over again on December 7th, SteelSeries has decided that if you are going to be grinding for 72 hours straight, at least you can do it with the best MMO mouse you can buy. The SteelSeries World of Warcraft® Cataclysm MMO Gaming Mouse (now that’s a mouthful!) is the second WOW mouse that they have produced, and improves on the ergonomics and button layout of that mouse, yet still keeps the trick glowing suit…

2010 Toronto Zombie Walk – UPDATED

October 20, 2010October 23, 2010 Doug Groves Bloor Cinema, event, GWAR, Oderus Urungus, Return of the Living Dead, The Von Drats, Toronto, Toronto Zombie Walk, zombie walk0 comment

Just a friendly reminder that the 8th annual Toronto Zombie Walk is only a few days away, starting Saturday October 23rd at pm. The mass of undead corpses seems to grow every year, and with that, the Zombie Walk now requires registration (online registration now closed – see the site for in-person registration), mainly for city logistics purposes. Although you can register on the day, your best bet is to register in advance to save time before the event. If my number is any indicator, they’ve already surpassed 6000 officially…

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood multiplayer interview

October 19, 2010October 22, 2010 Doug Groves Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Christophe Grandjean, DLC, interview, Microsoft, multiplayer, PC gaming, PS3, Sony, Ubisoft, Ubisoft Montreal, Xbox 3600 comment

Now that PS3 owners have had the pleasure of trying out the Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood multiplayer demo, Ubisoft has taken to showing off the different modes more openly, and discussing their plans going forward. The main challenge in multiplayer was to find game modes that actually work with the franchise. To keep in the spirit of the franchise, the players are actually Templars training in the Animus, running through various simulations, which represent the different multiplayer modes. We had a chance to talk with Christophe Grandjean of Ubisoft Montreal about…

Zombie Satellite Galaxy 15 -ALERT!!!!

October 19, 2010October 20, 2010 Pete Chapman rogue, satellite, sice, space.com3 Comments

Zombie Satellite Galaxy 15 is not: -an early Eighties Italian/German Alien knock-off starring Klaus Kinski and Udo Kier with a dubbing script written by John Shirley. -an Anime series based on a Manga series with a huge, rabid, cult fan base but you’ve never heard of it because the American translated version is called “Undead Space Cadet Zero“. -a Sigue Sigue Sputnik/ Powerman 5000 mash-up, tribute band that played at the Bovine Sex Club: once. The set lasted fifteen minutes but it was awesome. No, Zombie Satellite Galaxy 15 is…

SwagBag winner announced

October 19, 2010October 22, 2010 Doug Groves Caanan Grall, Camilla derrico, Fan Expo, Fan Expo 2010, Max Overacts, Nick Thornborrow, Robert Kirkman, Snakors Pizza, swag bag, Swag Bag 2010, SwagBag 2010, Tanpopo, The Anthology Project, The Chubby Bounty Hunter, The Walking Dead, Uyugomiak, winner1 Comment

We’ve taken all the entries from the site, Twitter and Facebook, put them in the hopper, and asked random.org to give us an answer. The SwagBag goes out to Matthew Goddard, who appears to have found us via The Comic Warehouse, from his comment. Congrats Matthew, and we’ll be in touch shortly. Here’s a list of what Matthew has won: The Waking Dead: Days Gone Bye trade paperback, to get prepped for the launch of the AMC series, and just one of the best ongoing comic series in recent memory….

Another Green World: a Lurker’s Guide to Gliese 581g

October 15, 2010October 20, 2010 Pete Chapman Annalee Newitz, astronomy, Gliese 581, io9, PhysOrg11 Comments

“The Gliese 581 system exerts an outsize fascination when compared to many of the other exoplanetary systems that have been discovered to date.” That quote comes from the paper that started it all, “ Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M3V Star Gliese 581”and that is probably its least controversial statement. Since late September, the news of a possible “second Earth” has spread and is now resting comfortably in that space where it is an item of casually conversation; a vague, “oh yeah that thing”, sort of thing….