By Adriana Lee |
First, there was Hulu.com. Then Hulu.com begat Hulu Plus for $9.99. Then Hulu Plus issued forth a reduction to $7.99 last fall. And ever since the new, non-browser paid option was introduced, the masses cried, “Why are you charging us and still sticking in ads??”…
By Joey Davidson |
Electronic Arts has officially launched their newest digital edition of money earning plans for their core gaming audience: EA Sports Season Ticket. For $24.99 a year, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners will be able to land early, discounted and premium content for five of…
By Sean P. Aune |
In a rather ambiguous message on the official Droid Bionic Twitter stream, it seems that the phone (which likes to talk about itself) will be releasing in thirty days or less. This phone has become like a myth in how it keeps popping up and…
By Noah Kravitz |
Leaked MAP (Minimum Advertised Price) documents obtained by Droid-Life point to four new phones set to launch in the near term on Verizon Wireless. Make that three new phones and one long overdue one, as we’ve been waiting on Droid Bionic for months and months…
By Adriana Lee |
Got a Logitech Revue Google TV and a penchant for tinkering with your gadgets? Well then, you’ll be interested to know that as of today, Honeycomb can run on your box/TV set-up — and it doesn’t even need rooting. That’s the good news. The bad…
By Joey Davidson |
Activision severed ties with their long running True Crime franchise earlier this year; around the same time they announced they were done with the Guitar Hero line. The series was originally being developed by LuxoFlux. After the second installment’s basic flop, the third in the…
By Joey Davidson |
Eurogamer has supposedly learned from a source “close to the game” that Borderlands 2 will be announced by 2K Games very soon. This rumor indicates that the game will ship next year for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the PC. As Eurogamer points…
By Emily Price |
After a brief release yesterday (followed by an abrupt removal from the App Store), Skype for iPad is now available. The iPad-optimized version of the calling service lets you chat and text, including video chat on the iPad 2 using the device’s built-in front and…
By Sean P. Aune |
It looks like the folks in Canada are going to be getting some BlackBerry love next week. A trusted and proven source sent us this picture this morning, and although its blurry, you can see that the BlackBerry Bold 9900 is coming to Rogers on…
By Killian Bell |
Despite a torrent of rumors in recent months that have claimed Apple’s fifth-generation iPhone will merely be a slightly updated iPhone 4, one industry analyst disagrees. Shaw Wu of Sterne Agee wrote in a research note this week that Apple’s iPhone 5 could be a…
By Joey Davidson |
A press release from Sony was sent around early this morning concerning news of a new acquisition for the console and software manufacturer. Sony has picked up inFamous and Sly Cooper developer Sucker Punch Productions. You may already be thinking something along the lines of,…
By Emily Price |
Along with its iCloud launch for developers yesterday, Apple released pricing information about iCloud. When released, iCloud will automatically give each user 5GB of storage for free (which isn’t going to hold much), after that you’ll have shell out a little bit of cash to…
By Killian Bell |
The Americans among us will have been enjoying U.S. and Japanese PSOne imports through the PlayStation Network for some time, but those of us across the Atlantic have been left to jealously look on. But that won’t be the case for too much longer. Sony…
By Killian Bell |
Sony hasn’t exactly been highly secretive about its upcoming tablet duo — currently codenamed the S1 and the S2. The devices have already enjoyed fame in a series of teaser videos that began last month, and Sony even allowed the press to play with the…
By Killian Bell |
Nintendo’s most unique selling point for the Wii U is that fancy controller. With its built-in display, the device allows you to hand the television remote over to your other half while you enjoy your Wii games in the palm of your hands. However, even…
By Joey Davidson |
Euclideon is a company that has been working on what they call “unlimited detail” technology for video game engines. As the video above (as found on Reddit) describes, the company cropped up a year ago as they promised to bring an end to polygon counts in…
By Sean P. Aune |
We put out the call for questions last week, and as always you had a bunch of them! Jon went through and selected a handful of them to answer, and as with all episodes of Ask the Buffalo now, you can see them first on…
By Sean P. Aune |
It’s scary enough thinking that someone might get a hold of your phone data such as your contacts, who you’re calling and other identifiable personal information, but what if they were able to record your actual call without your knowledge? What would you do then…
By Adriana Lee |
Right now, it’s like there’s a war brewing to see which mystical combination of hardware, software and services will captivate the TV-loving masses. Given the recent news of the Logitech Revue Google TV getting a price drop to $99, you’ve got to wonder how well…
By Joey Davidson |
I applaud Nintendo for their decision to drop the price on the 3DS. The news came last week that the system will tumble from $250 in the U.S. to $170. That reduction by nearly a third of launch cost will be happening around the world…
By Killian Bell |
A significant update to the Apple TV certainly wasn’t something I expected to see before the release of iOS 5 later this fall, however, Apple has just pushed out iOS 4.3 for its second-generation set-top box that adds a couple of welcome new features. It…
By Joey Davidson |
As more news swells up over the recent Diablo 3 preview event put on by Blizzard, VG247 have posted the video you see above. In it is more than seven minutes worth of random b-roll gameplay footage from the Diablo 3 beta. This comes after…
By Emily Price |
Nokia is ditching its traditional product naming conventions in favor of just using numbers to name its handsets. The new numbers-only naming convention went into effect today with the launch of the Nokia 500, the companies newest Symbian handset. So, why only numbers? Nokia explains…
By Sean P. Aune |
iPhone 5 cases are running all over China right now as our own Emily Post noted the other day. What we’ve been missing, however, is any sort of comparison to an iPhone 4 case so we could get a visual idea of size differences. 9to5Mac…
