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Halo: Reach – The Battle Begins trailer

July 29, 2010 Doug Groves Bungie, campaign, Halo, Halo: Reach, Limited Edition, trailer, video, Xbox 360, Xbox Live8 Comments

A new trailer was launched today for Halo: Reach, and this time around, it’s focusing more on the dramatic elements than the multiplayer gameplay. Although thoroughly impressed with the multiplayer beta that came out in the spring, it’s good to see some more focus on the single player story. Gamers have logged millions of hours of game time on the Xbox Live servers, but for me, the Halo series has always been about the epic space opera. There are few game franchises that manage to capture that sense of scale…

The fastest browser on Earth

May 28, 2010May 28, 2010 drsquid browser, Chrome, Firefox, google, opera, parody, share, video0 comment

Opera, the 5th placed browser, released this funny video yesterday that parodies the Google Chrome speed test videos. Opera’s usage share of web browsers has held steady at approximately 2% since it came out. However, since its release in 2008, Chromes’ share has rapidly grown, at Firefox’s expense. I am sure Opera is hoping that this video will persuade other dissatisfied Firefox users to make the switch to them instead.

A Brief History of the Modern Pixel, 8-bit Heroes, and more…

May 27, 2010May 27, 2010 drsquid Adam Atomic, Adam Saltsman, Amiga, Army of Trolls, art, Commodore 64, Dot.AY, Gaming, Gary J. Lucken, independent, indie, Jason Rohrer, Nintendo, Pixel, Pixel Art, SiD, Simon Cottee, Sleep is Death, Studio Joho, video3 Comments

Simon Cottee, animator of the pixel art cartoon Rule (created in Sleep is Death, see it after the jump) has put together this short documentary on pixel art, where he talks to SiD creator Jason Rohrer, chiptune musician Dot.AY, and Studio Joho, creators of the Dan the Man video (also after the jump) Ars Technica also recently posted a great pixel art article, 8-bit heroes: Ars explores the resurgence of pixel art. They talked to some of the field’s best artists and developers, such as Gary J. Lucken (Army of…

TCAF 2010 – Mathew Kumar Interview

May 19, 2010June 2, 2010 Doug Groves interview, Mathew Kumar, Show, TCAF, TCAF 2010, video, video games1 Comment

In the first of what will be a series of interview and panel videos from TCAF, Alex interviews Mathew Kumar, publisher of exp. magazine at this year’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival.

The Onion spoofs Google Mobile Ads: Genius!

May 18, 2010May 19, 2010 drsquid advertising, google, Nexus 1, Onion, onion news network, ONN, parody, satire, spoof, video0 comment

Will this actually become reality? Well according to this rumour, the video above isn’t that far fetched!

Next is Now: Rogers branding video

April 29, 2010April 29, 2010 drsquid Android, brand, canada, Internet, iPad, Mobile, product, Rogers, smartphone, video6 Comments

Rogers held their annual shareholders meeting today, and like many of these types of meetings, there’s some slick, well-made corporate video to set the mood. I’ve been on the editing end of more than one of these, so I know how it works. The thing is, this one from Rogers, well, kind of works. Using stats projected in urban environments, it communicates the message that the future is here… or “Next is Now” if you will. Some of the stats are somewhat odd though. I did laugh a bit when…

Blackberry OS 6 unveiled on video

April 27, 2010May 1, 2010 Doug Groves Blackberry, Blackberry 6, RIM, video2 Comments

There’s a fair amount of news coming out from the RIM camp these days, but the one thing that is probably the most important is how they’ve refreshed their OS with Blackberry 6, and the above video gives you some ideas. It’s fresh, funky and oh so modern, that’s because it features every electronics manufacturer’s favourite musical act Black Eyed Peas. At least the song isn’t the grammatically questionable “I Gotta Feeling”. Seriously though, Blackberry 6 does have some interesting new elements to it, including a much better Webkit-based browser,…

NASA captures solar flares, confirms human insignificance, all in glorious HD

April 22, 2010April 22, 2010 Danny X NASA, solar flare, video5 Comments

What you’re looking at above is awe-inspiring for two reasons; one, it’s a Gizmodo story that has nothing to do with a leaked iPhone, and two, it’s some of the first imagery and data sent back from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). In it, NASA was able to capture a full solar flare (or “prominence eruption”) in action, as well as several views of the Sun’s temperature variances and magnetic fields through several different wavebands. The purpose goes far beyond snapping pictures of the impossible, too: SDO is designed to…

AvP: Apple vs. Predator

March 25, 2010 Doug Groves Apple, HTC, lawsuit, video5 Comments

Inspired the litigation launched by Apple against phone maker HTC, Rick Kelvington of CNet’s Buzz Out Loud chatroom came up with the above trailer regarding Apple and the prior art argument. The video kind of says it all.

New Photoshop features get demoed, drooled over

March 25, 2010March 29, 2010 Danny X Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, CS4, Photoshop, video1 Comment

Adobe has released a video showing one of its new features, the “Content Aware Fill” tool. Similar to the Healing Brush tool, Content Aware allows users to paint over parts of an image to a point that they appear to have never existed at all. The video above shows this impressive new feature in a variety of common uses, but the most impressive one is hands-down the last one, in which the user fills in the missing parts of a photograph from absolute nothingness. The Content Aware tool is billed…

Ben Heck’s Bill Paxton Pinball

March 17, 2010 Doug Groves Ben Heck, Bill Paxton, mod, pinball, video6 Comments

Ben Heck is well known as a game console modder, arguably THE most well known console modder. He’s worked on dozens of projects, ranging from crafting a portable Atari 2600 that uses full cartridges all the way up to a portable version of the PS2 and multiple versions of an Xbox 360 laptop. The latest creation is less about portability though, and more about the coolness of one of geekdom’s favourite actors, Bill Paxton… Since 2005 I have been working on building my own custom pinball machine and now it…

Evil Dead in 60 seconds

March 17, 2010 Doug Groves claymation, Evil Dead, NSFW, video0 comment

Fake blood spurting out of clay figures not safe at your work? Then you can consider this NSFW. Otherwise, as anyone who knows me can tell you, I’m a huge Evil Dead fan. Alex sent me this link of a claymation retelling of the first film, which was made by Lee Hardcastle over at MissingHead. Video is