Phil Villarreal
Amazon Wants to Be Your Mom and Dress You Up All Nice
When you think go-to places for high-end fashion, Amazon falls somewhere between Walmart and Hot Topic. The online sales giant wants to change all that, posting itself up to be your one-stop shop for name brand vests and shoes that won’t get you sent home from work.
‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD’ Rail-Slides Into the World This June
Ah, 1999. The year of ‘The Matrix’, Y2K scares and J. Lo’s ‘On the 6′. It was an innocent time, when a Tony Hawk skateboarding game would be met with excitement rather than laughter.
‘Minecraft’ Punishes Folks Who Lack HDTVs
The moment that finally spurred us to take on even more credit card debt in the name of scoring an HDTV was when the menu text in Dead Rising was illegible on our old, boxy 25-inch standard-def set.
Will ‘Dead Space 3′ Trade Space Station Corridors for a Winter Wonderland?
Rumor has it drastic changes are afoot for the Dead Space series, which replicates the thrills and chills of the Alien movies so well that it practically feels as though Ridley Scott cribbed from the notebook of Dead Space hero Isaac Clarke. But there are so many metallic corridors you can slink through before things start to get a little old, which is why we’re pleased to hear the setting for the
‘NearBeer’ Mobile App Review
We’d like to believe we’re so psychically in tune with beer that we can sense its presence, but that’s just not the case. That’s why NearBeer exists, to show us how close we are to cheap booze at all times.
Alex Tanney, Trick Shot Quarterback, Gets NFL Tryout
Division III football players usually have as much of a shot at playing in the NFL as our dead grandma but the age of technology has opened up things a bit for anyone with an arm and a camera to turn some heads. If your arm is strong enough, your video is flashy enough and some awful team is desperate enough, anything can happen.
Vita Bundled With Free Mortal Kombat and Memory Card
Sony may be stubbornly refusing to lower the price of its slow-selling Vita handheld, but at least retailers are stepping up to toss in some awesome stuff in for free in order to make the system a sexier buy. Maybe not Kate Upton sexy, but certainly at least Mileena sexy.
‘Ash II: Shadows’ Mobile Game Review
When a game is available in cheaper and more expensive versions, it rarely makes sense to spring for the more expensive version before you start playing. Ash II: Shadows, though, is an exception. If you’re in to the genre, you may as well buy the full version upfront.
New Facebook Messenger App Update Scares The Hell Out Of Us
The best and worst aspect of email and instant messaging is that they make it easy to blow people off and give you at least a glimmer of hope that your recipient hasn’t seen your unreturned messages. Now Facebook wants to zap all the uncertainty away, updating the Facebook Messenger app so message-senders will be able to tell that recipients have seen messages.
3.9 Million People Stopped Playing ‘Draw Something’ Last Month
We never quite got the pull of the mobile game Draw Something.
Xbox 360 Fails as Hiding Place For Cocaine
Think back to the last half of whatever the decade before this one was called. You loved your Xbox 360, but probably had to keep sending it back to the manufacturer because it kept crashing.
‘Family Guy,’ ‘South Park’ Games Get Named
Games based on TV shows, especially comedies, usually turn out like blind dates — bloated, lacking personality and wastes of money that take all too long to end. But developers and publishers keep trying, so that’s why we’re getting new games based on Family Guy and South Park, despite even the series’ most devoted fans having long since given up hope that they’d be worthwhile.