By Roy Choi |
Last Week, Senior Mobile Editor Todd Haselton reviewed the Nexus 4 and gave the phone a TechnoBuffalo rating of 8.5 out of 10. Today Jon R. delivers the companion video review, where he talks about the latest Nexus flagship phone. The LG-manufactured Nexus 4 is…
By Brandon Russell |
The future is cloud-based. We’re all beginning to rely on streaming music from Internet radio services, and more. We, as consumers, are being shepherded into using cloud-based services and it’s a future built on mobile data, smartphones and a constantly on-the-go lifestyle. Who has time…
By Eric Frederiksen |
More and more frequently, games are being made by a bunch of studios rather than just one. Different studios work on different parts and someone in a dark room with weird magic stitches them together and hopes players won’t notice. Call of Duty: Black Ops…
By Brandon Russell |
Looking back, Apple’s decision to introduce an upgraded iPad with Lightning port wasn’t wholly unexpected. Despite the presence of the company’s previous effort, which was only on the market for eight months, it was a necessary update that needed to be made before a crucial…
By Todd Haselton |
The Nexus 4 is Google’s first smartphone to run pure Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The operating system offers a few features that the previous iteration of Jelly Bean didn’t, and the phone itself packs a serious hardware punch. Still, it doesn’t come equipped with 4G…
By Joey Davidson |
Remember ModNation Racers? Remember how much you liked United Front Games’ surprising racing title built around user-creation? Good. Now, forget ModNation Racers. Sony took the LittleBigPlanet brand and slapped it on a karting title. Meet LittleBigPlanet Karting, developed by the same guys behind ModNation, United Front Games. Does this new console karting…
By Ron Duwell |
Four years have passed since Criterion Games delivered their first open-world world racer, Burnout Paradise, to a lot of head-scratching praise. They kept their patented high-risk racing mechanics intact, but many were confused and turned off by how poorly streamlined the experience was. Racing fans sometimes…
By Todd Haselton |
Verizon’s DROID DNA was rumored long before its release. In fact, I joked a bit with the PR team before it was launched about how we all knew the 5-inch smartphone was going to be announced earlier this week. I’ve had the review unit for…
By Eric Frederiksen |
Part 4 is the best time to get into something, right? It worked with Star Wars.For whatever reason, I never got into the Halo games. I never really had anything bad to say about them, but they just never caught me. I did play through Reach, but Halo 4 is the…
By Jon Rettinger |
We recently brought you the written review of AT&T’s Nokia Lumia 920 and, now that I’ve had some time with the phone myself, it’s time to bring you our video review. Nokia placed big bets on the device by pricing it at just $99 with…
By Eric Frederiksen |
Assassin’s Creed III is so close. So close to being Game of the Year material, and so close to being what anyone who loved Assassin’s Creed II knows the series is capable of. So much of it works, but more of it is broken than it should be.…
By Brandon Russell |
It’s amazing what a little light can do to alter the landscape of an entire market. Here we are thinking, “Ok, the e-reader is on its last legs. Time for the tablets to come in and clean up shop.” But these old stalwarts are alive…
By Ron Duwell |
References are always nice when they pop up in any form of entertainment. They are a cheap gag designed to provide an easy laugh, a quick break from the story you are invested in, as you remember a happy moment from your past. Who doesn’t…
By Todd Haselton |
Nokia’s at it again and it’s placing big bets on the Lumia 920 as an exclusive on AT&T for just $99 with a new two-year contract. Is the company’s latest Windows Phone device a large improvement over its other efforts? Can it woo more customers…
By Joey Davidson |
In what’s turned out to be one of Nintendo’s best games for 2012, players will guide Mario through the paper craft world of Paper Mario: Sticker Star in order to, you guessed it, save Mushroom Kingdom.This turn-based, classic RPG-esque game, tasks players to use logic, timing and a little…
By Joey Davidson |
There are going to be and have been a lot of wonderful games available at retail during 2012. Covering just about every genre under the sun, the gaming industry is a wonderful place this year when it comes to titles. I’m here, unfortunately, to tell…
By Todd Haselton |
I’ve spent the last several days testing and playing with one of the first flagship Windows Phone 8 devices that will hit the market in the coming days. It’s called the HTC Windows Phone 8X and, while we only had access to the international version, it…
By Joey Davidson |
RollerCoaster Tycoon fans freshly equipped with a Nintendo 3DS might have once thought that this year would bring unto them a portable entry in an amazing series. RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D promised such a thing. Too bad it fails on almost every level. This is just plain lazy. n-Space, the…
By Todd Haselton |
I recently met with the CEO of a high-end speaker company called Libratone to discuss his latest and most affordable product yet, the Libratone ZIPP. It uses AirPlay, which means you can wireless play audio from any number of iOS devices directly to the speaker.…
By Jon Morrison |
Even with the impending arrival of the iPad mini, Apple’s iPod touch lives on, and in a big way. The Cupertino-company wasn’t content to just slap a faster processor and camera on-board; it went all out, and basically combined the most recent three iPhones into…
By Joey Davidson |
The Walking Dead from the team at Telltale Games is slowly but surely becoming one of the best gaming experiences of 2012. Each episode has been a great work of fiction, character development, stress and depression. The air that wafts over this first season of five episodes reeks…
By Ron Duwell |
Given the option to become God, how would you treat the people you lorded over? Would you be a loving God, caring of his subjects and meeting their needs? Would you be a ruthless, cold-hearted God, building the civilization to its holding point only to…
By Eric Frederiksen |
While I was playing through Resident Evil, my wife tweeted the following: “When my husband starts holding a one-sided conversation with a video game he’s playing, that’s when I know it’s really making him angry.” You guys, I had a really long conversation with Resident Evil 6.…
By Joey Davidson |
Arkane Studios, a developer built with a team of gaming industry veterans, has created a wonderful world of revenge, choice and stealth. Dishonored puts players in the boots of Corvo, a guard to the Royal Empress of Dunwall. Dunwall is a strange whaling city where whale…
