By Sean P. Aune |
ColecoVision was where those of us who skipped the Atari 2600 usually started our console gaming lives. On this week’s episode of Tech on the Range I made a reference to the ColecoVision controllers, to which Jon Rettinger immediately joked that many of you were…
By Joey Davidson |
Welcome to the newest episode of Tech on the Range. This show will feature three staff members from the TechnoBuffalo team as they discuss a central idea in an almost random fashion. This week’s panel consists of Sean Aune, Joey Davidson and Jon Rettinger. You…
By Brandon Russell |
Didn’t a phone come out this week? A pretty big release, right? Ah, yes, the iPhone 5. The device has reportedly exceeded Apple’s expectations once again, which is wholly unsurprising. Among the average consumers, it’s certainly the biggest release of the year (just ahead of the new…
By Sean P. Aune |
Remember the original iPhone? No … you probably don’t. Buried deep in the history of the iPhone from Apple is the fact that the company announced the original iPhone without yet owning the rights to it. You see, the very first product ever launched with…
By Joey Davidson |
Welcome to the newest episode of Tech on the Range. This show will feature three staff members from the TechnoBuffalo team as they discuss a central idea in an almost random fashion. This week’s panel consists of Sean Aune, Joey Davidson and Todd Haselton. You…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple had this event to unveil this phone and some other goodies that will maybe sell in the millions. After months (or more than a year if you count rumors in 2011), the Cupertino company finally unveiled the industry’s worst kept secret. The iPhone 5…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the introduction of the iPhone 5 this week, is there a better time to look back at the original iPhone beng introduced? Whatever your feelings are when it comes to the war of smartphone operating systems and physical design, you have to admit that…
By Joey Davidson |
Welcome to the third official episode of Tech on the Range. This show will feature three staff members from the TechnoBuffalo team as they discuss a central idea in an almost random fashion. This week’s panel consists of Sean Aune, Joey Davidson and Todd Haselton.…
By Sean P. Aune |
It never ceases to amaze me to see how far Amazon has come. I can’t remember exactly when I placed my first order with Amazon … wait … that isn’t true! Excuse me while I pull up my account! And there it is – you…
By Joey Davidson |
Welcome to the second official episode of Tech on the Range. This show will feature three staff members from the TechnoBuffalo team as they discuss a central idea in an almost random fashion. This week’s panel consists of Sean Aune, Joey Davidson and Todd Haselton.…
By Brandon Russell |
It’s been a whirlwind at IFA 2012, with some pretty big announcements coming out of the annual event. While the show doesn’t grab media headlines the way a CES does, manufacturers have shown off some pretty impressive wares, which gives us a perfect excuse to…
By Joey Davidson |
Welcome to the innagural regular episode of the first podcast recorded and produced by the team here at TechnoBuffalo. Which team here at TechnoBuffalo? This one… The first episode of Tech on the Range features what will become the semi-regular panel of Sean Aune, Todd…
By Sean P. Aune |
Oh, Nintendo … what were you thinking? There have been a slew of stupid gaming peripherals over the years, but what the heck was Nintendo thinking in 1987 when it actually ponded releasing a knitting machine accessory for the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). This image has…
By Joey Davidson |
This is it. This is episode #0 of Tech on the Range, the first podcast from the TechnoBuffalo staff. This show will be anchored by three members of the crew. The standard lineup will almost always involve Sean Aune and Joey Davidson. Sean’s the Editor-in-Chief…
By Joey Davidson |
The big features being touted this year, aside from online play, are presentation and the new physics engine. We’ve decided to record a gameplay video that shows off both of those new tweaks in Madden NFL 13 in full. Or, semi-full. Whatever, it’s five minutes of…
By Brandon Russell |
Nintendo 64 USB Controller The Nintendo 64 controller, sixteen years after it was first introduced, still looks strange, foreign. And wholly unusable and uncomfortable. But it’s actually still one of the best controllers you’ll ever use. It’s unusual trident design and surprisingly precise joystick made…
By Sean P. Aune |
In this day and age of walking into a Walmart and seeing bins filled with $5 DVDs, it may be hard to realize there was a time when buying pre-recorded media was treated as a special event. Ah, Time-Life, what would we have done without…
By Brandon Russell |
Boomer Action Figure While not the most threatening of special infected in the Left 4 Dead series, Boomers have a reputation for being annoying — and horrifyingly grotesque. Perhaps their best trait (if you can call it that) is that they’re easily the most satisfying…
By Sean P. Aune |
Ah, fax machines. One of those devices that everyone very clearly had a love/hate relationship with, and still do. Our own Adriana Lee wrote up this week how she had a recent battle with these relics of yesteryear, and it got me all nostalgic for…
By Joey Davidson |
This time around, we’re taking a look at the brand new, open world effort from United Front Games and publisher Square Enix. Sleeping Dogs released this past week for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC platforms.…
By Brandon Russell |
Spy Hawk Embrace your inner spy, and wreak havoc on Jim from down the street with the Spy Hawk. What kid doesn’t want an RC glider with built-in 5-megapixel camera? Kids these days have access to some pretty phenomenal toys. The Spy Hawk has the…
By Sean P. Aune |
As vaporware goes, one of the finest examples might be The Phantom gaming console. Who knew the name would turn out to be so true? At E3 2004, Infinium Labs caught everyone’s attention with a new console called The Phantom. The idea was that it…
By Sean P. Aune |
Why has the Final Fantasy series never been able to recapture the success of Final Fantasy VII? Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada recently said of the chances of a remake of the infamous Final Fantasy VII: We’ll make a Final Fantasy VII remake once we’ve…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the introduction of Mac OS X Mountain Lion this week, it felt like a good time to look back at another major Apple OS release: Mac OS 9. Last year we took a look back at the introduction of Mac OS X – which…
