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Rett

[PAX East 2011] The Gang’s All Here

This is Bob posting under Rett’s wordpress account because Bob is an idiot and forgot his password AFK. ANYway, we’re all here in Boston; after some glorious air travel (ask Rachel about Vomit McPukerson who sat next to her) and hilarious hijinks finding our hotel (hint: it’s by a wharf), we’re warming up in a

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PAX East Omegathon 2011

With PAX East 2011 just around the corner, everyone on the internet is all a-Twitter (pun intended) about the panels, the parties, and the concerts. Except for me. For one omega-exciting reason: the Omegathon. Because randomly selected alongside 19 others out of tens of thousands of pre-regged attendees was none other than yours truly. My

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San Diego Comic Con Tickets Sold Out in One Day

If you forgot to set your alarm clock last Saturday at 9am, you missed out. All San Diego Comic Con badges are now sold out. I’m not just talking about the four-day badges without the preview night. This also includes all the single-day passes. This year is the fastest yet that the Comic Con badges

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James Huneycutt

[CES 2011] Razer Hydra is almost like playing a game bare-handed

“For RTSes, other than mouse and keyboard, the only way to play is with this,” said Sixense CEO Amir Rubin about his organization’s ambitious new motion controller. Razer’s Hydra is a motion control device developed in concert with Sixense Entertainment, Intel, and Valve Corporation currently aimed at the PC market. The magnetic sensing technology, known

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[CES 2011] Sling Media throws another strike with a strong line-up.

Senior Marketing Manager Anne Hohenberger took a moment to watch a few minutes of Scrubs on her iPhone. No great matter, except she was watching it from the CES show floor on her Slingbox PRO-HD…broadcast from her television back in San Francisco. Nearly a year after their debut release, the Bay Area-based corporation Sling Media

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MAGFest 9 Recap: Why You Should Have Been There

This is a guest reader post.  If you would like to make a guest post, send in yours to nelson[at]pixelatedgeek(dot)com.  If your post gets approved, you will receive 100 bonus points that can be traded in for loot. MAGFest, which stands for Music And Gaming Festival, is a small but rapidly-growing convention that takes place

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[CES 2011] Razer Switchblade demonstrates adaptive keyboard technology

Razer’s prototype of their upcoming Razer Switchblade mobile PC gaming device is an intriguing proof-of-concept for small-scale mobile computers aimed at a serious gaming crowd. The Switchblade’s most notable feature is its context-specific adaptive keyboard, designed in concert with game developers, which changes the keys displayed and their functions to correspond to in-game commands or

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[CES 2011] Days Three & Four Impressions

Days Three and Four at CES were both exciting and exhausting. Day Three Day Three was a flurry of frenzied activity as Huneyuctt and I rushed from interview to interview. There’s always going to be far more at the show than any one or two people can see, and the locations of kiosks are often

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