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Nelson Abalos

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Team Fortress 2 Uber Update – Day 1: Mobster Monday

Team Fortress 2 is getting a huge patch soon and a new “Meet the Medic” cinematic. I really wish Valve’s cinematics team would team up with Pixar to create a TF2 movie of some sort. In traditional Valve fashion, the company will be announcing new additions and changes to the game throughout the week. In

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Nuu MiniKey – iPhone 4 Slide Out Keypad [Gadget Review]

When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone, many people were skeptical about the on-screen virtual keyboard.  Most were already used to a physical keypad. This is especially true for Blackberry users.  While many iPhone users have trained their thumbs to accept the virtual keyboard, there are still some that need the real thing.

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Jessica Nigri Reveals Costume for Comic Con 2011

At E3, you’ll never know whom you’ll bump into.  While watching some game trailers at the Activision booth, we met up with Jessica Nigri. Jessica was nice enough to reveal her new costume that she is currently making for this years San Diego Comic Con. Want to know who she’ll be cosplaying as? Watch the

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[E3 2011] OnLive Pushes Cloud Gaming Innovation Further

OnLive invited us to their E3 booth to show us its newest advances in cloud gaming. In the past, many gamers were very skeptical about the service.  How could a cloud-based gaming service come with no lag? When using OnLive, the data needs to go from the OnLive wireless controller, to the micro-console, to your

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[E3 2011] Star Wars Kinect – Hands On Impressions

After seeing the Star Wars Kinect demo, Monday morning during Microsoft’s Press Conference, I was really skeptical about the game.  It looked like another motion controller gimmick game. It wasn’t until Jess and I got onto the E3 show floor to play it first hand at the Xbox booth that made me think otherwise. The

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[E3 2011] Last Day of Booth Babe Photos

It’s a tough job to stop an E3 booth babe from pretending to understand what they are selling and take a photo of them, but someone has to do it. This year, that someone was me. The last day of E3 was a bit lacking on the booth babe population than the days before. Hence

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[E3 2011] Trailers from this year’s E3 summarized in one video

While at E3, I never noticed there was a theme among all of the trailers that were shown.  FirstPlay (UK) noticed it and created a music video mash up of the theme using Lonely Island’s “I’m On A Boat” track. Stay tuned to the site because we’ll be producing our own video montage of our

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