Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is a game about the time that 50 Cent went to the Middle East, played a concert and got paid with a diamond-encrusted skull. We mention this upfront, so you can understand how difficult it is to write about this game. What are we going to say that's funnier than that? Nothing! You know what? How about we drop some truth on you: Every time we see a trailer for th
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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3 Congratulations! Your PlayStation 3 has survived the flash to firmware 2.41. Now, enjoy this lovely gift: a new redesigned Platinum Trophy icon. No, you don't get a Platinum Trophy for upgrading to 2.41 - though that would have been a nice touch, really - you just get a fancier-schmancier looking Platinum Trophy when you unlock one.In case you never had the chance to experience the raw update fury that was firmware
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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs When we first heard that Bethesda was working on a Fallout 3 game we made a pledge to ourselves that we were going to stay completely spoiler free, that we'd go into the experience fresh, with no knowledge of what surprises awaited and what mysteries we would unearth. Sadly, it didn't take long for us to remember that we worked for a video game site, and trying to remain willfully igno
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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm Rock Band 2 could provide download access to all of the tracks featured on the original Rock Band disc, according IGN Xbox 360 Editor Nate Ahearn. Responding to comments made by a poster in an IGN Insider "Grudge Match" that pits Rock Band 2 against Guitar Hero World Tour, Ahearn writes, "Immediately upon purchasing Rock Band 2 you'll have the ability to download a huge library of songs,
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Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action We're putting two and two together and getting ... Lost Planet. First we were tipped by a source close to Capcom that the company would have a movie-related announcement at next week's E3, and that it would involve someone "well known to gamers." Next we read that David Hayter, voice of Solid Snake and screenwriter for such films as X2: X-Men United and the upcoming Watchmen, wa
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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sports Confirming an earlier report, Midway has announced plans to return to the line of scrimmage this fall with its everything-but-the-license take on American football in Blitz: The League II for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. While details remain scant, the company notes that the game's story mode will be penned by ESPN Playmakers writer Peter Egan, while former New York Giants linebacker
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Sardenta sez, "I know you're aware of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle. They've got an opening in their education department for an Education Coordinator. Here's a summary:" This position supports the Manager of Interpretation and Educator resources by coordinating the training and efforts of the part-time gallery guides and floor volunteers. The guides and volunteers will provide excellent museum experiences for guided group visits to the e
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Mr Jalopy sez, "I bought a vintage Marantz quadraphonic sound amplifier at a garage sale and have drafted a black light tinged ode to the competing 4-channel formats that never really panned out. " I am not audiophile and I do not have a golden ear, but I am extremely interested in the blunt force trauma of the awesome clarity and unambiguous nature of completely rocking out. There are tons of quadraphonic albums on eBay and it is only a matter o
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John Rogers -- who wrote the superb pilot for the stillborn TV show based on Warren Ellis's excellent comic Global Frequency -- has a new TV show in the works, called Leverage. TNT has a little trailer available (see embedded video above) and I was able to see the whole thing via BitTorrent. On the strength of both, I'd say that Leverage has the potential to be the first new TV show in more than five years that I would actually put my butt on th
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Abbie Hawkins, 19, spent a half-day at work before noticing that a baby bat was hiding inside her bra. From The Telegraph: Miss Hawkins said she got dressed at 7.30am and arrived for work at the Holiday Inn Norwich North, near Norwich International Airport without noticing anything unusual. "When I was driving to work I felt a slight vibration but I thought it was just my mobile phone in my jacket pocket," she said. It was not until her lunch bre
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A University of Florida researcher is designing a flying saucer that uses plasma and surrounding air as its fuel to generate lift. The aircraft's skin will be studded with electrodes that ionize the air, converting it into plasma. Mechanical and aerospace engineering associate professor Subrata Royh hopes to have a six inch working prototype in the next year. Using an onboard source of energy (such as a battery, ultracapacitor, solar panel or any
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Aerospace engineer Robert Howard, 36, is designing lunar homes for future moon bases. He's the manager of NASA's "habitability design center" at the Johnson Space Center. From Smithsonian (photo by Robert Seale): Howard says this is a heady time to be working at NASA. In 2004, President Bush set a goal of sending humans back to the moon by 2020 and eventually on to Mars. The lunar outpost would be a training ground and launchpad for trips to the
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Researchers from the Weymouth Sea Life Centre are providing octopuses with Rubik's cubes to determine whether the animals prefer one tentacle over another, or another, or another, etc. I bet they secretly hope that one of the animals will solve the puzzle. From Nature's The Great Beyond: ?Uniquely, octopuses have more than half their nerves in their arms and have been shown to partially think with their arms,? says Claire Little, of the Weymouth
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Bruce Conner, a pioneering collage filmmaker and Beat-era assemblage artist, died yesterday. He was 74. Conner is best known for his experimental cut-up films made from found footage and TV advertisements. In the decades since his first gallery shows in the 1950s, Conner collaborated with the likes of DEVO, Terry Riley, Brian Eno, and David Byrne. From Wikipedia: Conner?s first and possibly most famous film, entitled A Movie (1958), combined his
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