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SPOILER L4D2 “The Passing” achievements released

April 20, 2010 Doug Groves DLC, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, PC gaming, Valve, Xbox 3600 comment

“The Passing”, the new downloadable campaign for Valve’s Left 4 Dead 2 is due out this Thursday, and being the generous group they are, they’ve posted a list of the new achievements that go along with the new content. If you haven’t heard anything at all about “The Passing”, and you don’t want to know anything about it until you start playing, I’d stop reading here. Some of the achievements may contain plot spoilers. If you just HAVE to know, you can read the whole list

Adobe’s Flash: Good, Bad or Just Ugly?

April 20, 2010November 6, 2020 Jason Adobe, Apple, Flash, iPad, iPhone, programming3 Comments

I have a few beefs with Flash… its security sandbox seems more restrictive than helpful. Most Flash vulnerabilities have something to do with null pointer exceptions rather than what programmers write, which one could point at and say “ah HA! Flash is bad!”. But when you think about it, what software doesn’t have security vulnerabilities? I mean, Apple recently dealt with a vulnerability that lets would-be hackers send an SMS that allows them to eaves drop on conversations and make your iPhone part of a botnet. Where was the outrage…

New Raindance Canada Workshops and Events!

April 20, 2010April 20, 2010 kingpinlei Film, filmmaking, movie, moviemaking, pitch, Raindance Canada, screenwriting, scripting, workshop2 Comments

Want to start making a film but don’t know where to start? You’re in luck! Raindance Canada –the Canadian arm of Raindance U.K.– is offering a new round of workshops for the budding screenwriters and filmmakers. I’ve attended practically all of their workshops and can tell you, the information they offer in their seminars are invaluable to anyone wanting to write, direct, or produce their own films. The cool thing is that their workshops are taught by industry professionals from the U.K. and abroad. And to top it off, they…

New Rogers 500gb HD PVR released

April 20, 2010April 20, 2010 drsquid 8642HD, Bell, Cisco, DLNA, HD, MoCA, MPEG-4, PVR, Rogers, TV3 Comments

Rogers 8300 HD PVR has been on the market for over 5 years now, and a lot of users have been wondering when Rogers would release an updated HD PVR. The 8300’s capacity and technology is definitely well past being cutting edge, and with the release Bell’s dual tuner 9241 HD PVR last year the pressure was on for Rogers to bring out something new to compete with it. Finally, after a long wait, Rogers announced the availability of their new Cisco 8642HD PVR on their Redboard blog. Strangely even…

Video games can’t be art? Why Ebert is wrong and should gamers care?

April 19, 2010April 19, 2010 Doug Groves AC II, art, Assassin's Creed II, critique, editorial, Kellee Santiago, Mass Effect II, photography, Roger Ebert, TED X, TEDx, Venice5 Comments

Back in 2005, famed film critic Roger Ebert posited that ‘video games can be elegant, subtle, sophisticated, challenging and visually wonderful”, but “the nature of the medium prevents it from moving beyond craftsmanship to the stature of art’, or, as many online at the time boiled it down, ‘Roger Ebert hates video games’. Numerous video game fans replied to that column, and to this day I’ve seen references to his ‘hatred’ crop up from time to time. This is usually when he pans a movie that a gamer liked, with…

Enter the ViewPoint Film Challenge #3

April 19, 2010April 19, 2010 drsquid Challenge, festival, Film, Filmmaker, indie, short time, Toronto, VFC, ViewPoint1 Comment

The Toronto based ViewPoint Film Challenge gives filmmakers the challenge of creating a short film based on the same script. After the success of the first and second challenges, in 2008 and 2009, the third edition of this unique film event returns – after the script is released on May 1st the directors only have 1 month to complete their film! The ViewPoint Film Challenge is all about sharing the same pages of dialogue that we provide, allowing you to focus on your own unique point of view and compare…

Apple pushes out Canadian iPad lauch, taking pre-orders May 10. Rogers announces iPad plans

April 16, 2010April 16, 2010 drsquid 3G, Apple, Bell, canada, iPad, Rogers, Telus1 Comment

On Wednesday Apple announced that, due to the popularity of the iPad in the US, the planned late April international launch of their latest must have device was going to be delayed until late May. Love it or hate it, the iPad is definitely an important device, that will change how media is consumed, and it will be interesting to see what Canadian content is available at launch next month. Although a Canadian date had not been specifically confirmed all the rumours prior to Wednesday pointed to an April 24th…

Canadian Video Game Awards finalists announced

April 16, 2010 Doug Groves Assassin's Creed II, Canadian Video Game Awards, CVGA, Dragon Age, finalists, Prototype2 Comments

Last month, we told you about the nominations for the Canadian Video Game Awards, and now the finalists have been posted for voting. The five overall finalists are Assassins Creed II, Dawn Of War, Dragon Age: Origins, FIFA Soccer 10 and Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes. Assassins Creed II has been nominated in the most categories, at 7, with Dragon Age following behind with 5. Although not nominated for Game Of The Year, Prototype appears as a finalist in 5 categories. Though I don’t find this surprising, because I…

Xperia X10 Launch Event interviews, available now at Rogers

April 15, 2010April 16, 2010 Doug Groves Anderson Teixeira, Android, interview, launch, Raj Doshi, Rogers, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Windows Phone 7, Xperia, Xperia X101 Comment

Today Rogers launched the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Android-packing phone, for $149.99 on a 3 year contract, $549 outright. It runs Android 1.6, with Sony Ericsson’s custom Timescape and Mediascape UI. It has 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4″ (480 x 854) screen and an 8.1 MP camera. Included in the box is a 16gb MicroSD card, charger and wired stereo headset, but sadly no carrying case. We should be getting an X10 to play with soon, and will post our in-depth hands-on review next week. You can buy phone today at…

Microsoft & Epic announces Gear of War 3, coming April 5th 2011

April 14, 2010 drsquid epic games, Gaming, gear of war 3, Microsoft, Xbox 3601 Comment

What has been called “worst-kept secret in the video game industry” has finally been official announced – Gears of War 3, the conclusion to the trilogy, is coming from Epic Games and Microsoft on April 5th 2011 on the Xbox 360. Cliff Bleszinski, from Epic, appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Monday night, and talked about some of the new Gears 3 features, including a playable female solider, new weapons and new aliens. He also tweeted later that the game will have four player co-op! Cliff was supposed…

Rogers confirms Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 price at launch event

April 14, 2010July 19, 2010 drsquid Android, event, Rogers, Sony, Sony Ericsson, superphone, x10, Xperia7 Comments

On Monday night, at the Revival bar in Toronto, Rogers and Sony Ericsson held and launch party for the new Xperia X10 Android handset. We were there to cover the event, and we will be posting some exclusive interviews with the President of Sony Ericsson US, Anderson Teixeira, and Raj Doshi, Rogers VP of Mobile Product Management. We also got some hands on time with the phone, and the Timescape and Mediascape UI was surprising not as laggy as some early reviews had indicated. The phone is sadly only running…

Asus O!Play Air – Firmware Updates

April 13, 2010April 19, 2010 kingpinlei Asus, eSATA, HD, HFS+ compatible, Mac, media player, O!Play Air, PC, review, set top box, WiFi, Windows11 Comments

Asus has definitely been busy. Since my last review of the Asus O!Play Air, Asus has released a few firmware updates for it. The most notable is firmware v1.09 which surprisingly adds Internet accessible content to the O!Play Air. While it still does not add Youtube support (Asus, please, add YouTube support!!), Asus has provided apps to give access to such sites as Flickr and Picassa.