According to the BBC, major file-sharing site Megaupload has been shut down – and its founders are facing criminal charges by the United States’ federal government. Predictably, the site’s founders have been charged with violating piracy laws. Prosecutors claim Megaupload has cost copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue, despite Megaupload’s claims of
Have you found yourself playing a modern shooter/rpg and found yourself wishing it could be more like the games of your past? Well the folks at Irrational Games had the same idea and polled their fans to see what they thought. Turns out a lot of people agree and Irrational Games announced today that Bioshock
Welcome to the first episode of Trailer Park, a new show where we take a look at, analyze, and discuss new trailers. And for our inaugural episode, fellow writer James Trauben and I discuss something that’s been bothering us for quite some time. With a brand new year comes brand new things, and something big
With Mass Effect 3’s release only a couple months away, BioWare held a private hands-on demonstration of the game’s Kinect support during the Consumer Electronics Show. Mass Effect 3 uses the Kinect to allow players to interact with the game through vocal commands. This neatly avoids the potential difficulty of adapting a conventional third-person shooter
Audio and mobile device accessory manufacturer iFrogz has freed users from the need for large external speakers or headsets to augment their devices’ output with its new Boost amplifying speaker. Compatible with most mobile devices featuring an external speaker, the Boost uses Near Field technology (the first device to do so for audio) to transmit
We don’t want to live in a world of censorship. We don’t want people to tell us what we can and cannot say. We don’t want a government so afraid of its people that it threatens to restrict their voices. If I can buy a shotgun in Walmart I sure as hell want to be
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Deep within the lair of Comic Issues rests the remains all of our past recordings, including a very special topic that has never been aired. What is this topic? The only hint is it deals with the future. Which is great as
SteelSeries invited us up to their suite at the Aria during CES to show off a few new products that will be coming on the market this year. The Flux demonstrates SteelSeries’ desires to get into more mobile technology. While not as large and bold as their other audio offerings, the Flux does have portability
Maxell Corporation and Wearable Inc. demonstrated the second-generation AirStash wireless thumb drive at the Consumer Electronics Show. The AirStash 2’s press release calls the AirStash the “first and only wireless flash drive.” It uses a built-in web server and media streamer to share data with up to eight devices wirelessly within 50 meters and has