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Left for Dead: The Sacrifice Comic Part Three Out Now – get ready for mashups

September 29, 2010September 30, 2010 drsquid Comics, L4D, L4D2, Mac gaming, PC gaming, The Sacrifice, Valve Software, Web Comics, Xbox 3601 Comment

Last night Valve released the third part of their “The Sacrifice” online comic that details the events in between Left for Dead 1 and 2, the ‘Passing’ DLC, and the “The Sacrifice” DLC (for both the first AND second games) coming on October 5th. The comic itself also fills in a lot of the backstory of the characters of Left for Dead 1, and is currently available online here. Also a few days ago on the Left 4 Dead blog Valve detailed their plan to expand how the comic will…

Child of Eden at Tokyo Game Show – Rez Super HD?

September 28, 2010September 30, 2010 Doug Groves Child Of Eden, Genki Rockets, Microsoft, Playstation, PS3, Rez, Rez HD, Sony, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Tokyo Game Show, Trance Vibrator, Ubisoft, Xbox Live Arcade4 Comments

Child of Eden, from Q? Entertainment, the spiritual successor to Rez HD (Rez remade), had an extended demonstration at the Tokyo Game show. If you’re not familiar with Rez HD, it’s ostensibly a 3rd person shooter where your hacker avatar attempts to infiltrate an advanced computer network controlled by an AI named Eden. The game itself was completely on rails, but that didn’t stop it from becoming one of the best titles released on the Xbox LIVE Arcade. What makes that game stand out is it’s balance of visuals and…

FanExpo Review Round-Up

September 28, 2010September 29, 2010 Peter Brunton Benjamin Rivers, Caanan Grall, Camilla derrico, Empty Words, Fan Expo, Fan Expo 2010, Freelance Blues, Max Overacts, Snakors Pizza, Tanpopo, The Anthology Project, Wordburglar5 Comments

Obviously with FanExpo, and then TIFF, I haven’t had much time for my usual comics review (though there’s certainly some good stuff on the stack), but at FanExpo I did get plenty of chances to read a whole load of interesting comic books. Here then, are my thoughts on a few of them. Max Overacts Four strips in, Max Overacts found it’s way into my daily webcomics feed. It’s the kind of comic that strongly recalls the early days of the webcomic explosion, when everyone was trying to recreate the…

RIM announces the BlackBerry PlayBook – BBM tablet style

September 27, 2010September 29, 2010 Doug Groves Blackberry, BlackBerry PlayBook, BlackBerry Tablet, BlackBerry Tablet OS, Flash, press release, QNX, Research In Motion, RIM, tablet2 Comments

Research In Motion’s developer event’ is still underway, but they’ve kicked it off with a bang, or so co-founder Mike Lazaridis is hoping. The PlayBook is RIM’s push into the tablet space, sporting a 7 inch display, a 1GHz dual core Cortex A9 CPU and sport a ‘flash-loving’, ‘app-rocking’ platform designed by QNX, called the BlackBerry Tablet OS. When the PlayBook was still expected to be called the BlackPad, it was rumoured that one of the big differentiators for the device would be it’s pairing capabilities. Sure enough, the preview…

The Sacrifice DLC coming Oct 5th – comic online

September 27, 2010September 29, 2010 Doug Groves DLC, L4D, L4D2, Mac gaming, PC gaming, The Sacrifice, Valve Software, Xbox 3605 Comments

Valve has announced that “The Sacrifice” DLC for both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 will be released on October 5th, 2010. The new DLC further bridges the gap between the two games, and tells the story leading up to the demise of **** (name redacted for spoilers sake). During the lead up to the release of the DLC, Valve has also started putting “The Sacrifice” comic online, with the first 2 of 4 parts now available. The DLC “The Sacrifice” will be available for the XBOX 360,…

Kinect for Xbox 360: on display in Toronto and soon Montreal

September 27, 2010September 29, 2010 Doug Groves BigPark, Dance Central, Good Science, harmonix, Kinect, Kinect Adventures, Kinect Sports, Kinectimals, Microsoft, Montreal, Rare, Toronto, Ubisoft, Xbox 360, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved7 Comments

If you’ve been hearing about Microsoft’s Kinect for the Xbox 360, but haven’t yet had a chance to see it in person, you can get an early hands on right now, as long as you’re in Toronto. To help promote the launch of the full body interface, Microsoft has leased a storefront and filled 2 storeys with Kinectified Xbox 360s, to give the public a chance to go hands on, as it were. Covering 2 floors, there’s a variety of playable demos, including Kinect Sports from Rare, Your Shape: Fitness…

Sharp Galapagos tablets to run Android, not called tablets

September 27, 2010September 28, 2010 Doug Groves Android, e-reader, Galapagos, media tablet, Sharp, tablet4 Comments

It looks like Sharp is the latest to enter the tablet game, announcing their new Galapagos 5.5 inch and 10.8 inch tablets e-book readers running Android. Galapagos is also the name of the e-book/newspaper service that will come with the devices, which will delivers over 30,000 newspapers, books and magazines when the service launches in December (Japan only for now). Sharp’s decisions to not mention the Android operating system in it’s press release, as well as marketing these as e-book readers, and not tablets, are both curious to say the…

Adobe Demos It’s Plenoptic Lens and Software

September 26, 2010September 28, 2010 kingpinlei Adobe, Bladerunner, demo, Plenoptic Lens, video8 Comments

From the realm of cool news, Adobe recently demoed a radical technology involving a Plenoptic Lens and a new software that will find it’s way into Photoshop eventually. Basically, this new lens (with software help) allows still pictures to be focused and re-focussed AFTER the picture is taken. That’s right! AFTER the picture is taken, you can manipulate the depth of field to pretty much anywhere within the picture. How does it do this? The Plenoptic Lens is basically made up of a whole bunch of tiny little lenses. The…

Learning from Clippy: an interview with Clifford Nass

September 24, 2010September 27, 2010 Pete Chapman book, Clifford Nass, Clippy, Dawkins, Durkheim, interview, The Man Who Lied To His Laptop, transcript14 Comments

As a follow-up to our review of Clifford Nass’ book, The Man Who Lied to his Laptop, we were offered a chance last Friday (Sept. 17) to interview Professor Nass via telephone. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation. RGB Filter-I must confess that I’m daunted by this interview because your book has got me thinking… “Should I sequence my criticism following your suggestions in The Man Who Lied to His Laptop? Should I play the personality type “Critic” or “Side Kick” in my presentation? Should I alternate…

A Long and Winding Road – Rogers Samsung Galaxy S Captivate pre-order live

September 24, 2010September 29, 2010 drsquid Android, Android 2.1, Android 2.2, canada, Captivate, Galaxy S, google, launch, pre-order, Rogers, Samsung, smartphone, superphone7 Comments

After many weeks of no new information Rogers has finally announced their pre-order program for the Samsung Galaxy S Captivate. When you pre-order you get a free Bluetooth headset, and there is a contest to win a Samsung 55” TV, Blu-ray player and Camera. The pre-order promotion ends on October 20th, meaning that the release of the phone should be the 21st. Originally announced by Rogers to be coming ‘soon’ at the beginning of August by, the Captivate’s release date has been unknown until now. As the weeks passed by…

Wind Mobile launches it’s first high end Android Phone

September 24, 2010September 27, 2010 Doug Groves Android, Android 2.1, Eclair, google, Motorola, unlocked, Wind Mobile, XT7202 Comments

Wind Mobile has finally launched its first ‘high end’ Android based phone, in the form of the Motorola XT720. Priced at $450, with an instant rebate bringing it down to $430 until the end of September, the XT720 runs Android 2.1 on top of a Cortex A8 processor, and sports an 8 Mpixel camera (auto focus and flash), with a 3.7 inch capacitve screen. In many ways, the XT720 is comparable to other high end Motorola Android devices, such as the Milestone, but with a better camera and no physical…

Videotron bring 120Mbps internet to Quebec City

September 24, 2010September 25, 2010 Doug Groves cable, high speed, Internet, Quebec City, Videotron2 Comments

Videotron’s new Ultimate Speed 120 Internet is rolling out in Quebec City today, making it the fastest residential internet access in Canada. At $159.95 (or $149.95 with a TV bundle), it’s not cheap, but for that price you’ll be getting 120Mbps download speeds and 20Mbps upload, which rightly sounds impressive. What’s not so impressive is that your monthly download capacity is limited to 170 GB, which is lower than some $30 DSL plans in the country. When you look at the numbers, that boils down to almost a dollar a…