By Jack McGrath |
NPD Group announced that Netflix’s share of streaming video content market has reached a definitive 61 percent. Comparatively, that’s about fifteen times the share that Apple’s iTunes movie store has reached. Does Netflix have an edge on its competitors? How will the rental service take…
By Emily Price |
Yesterday we saw a leaked Staples ad indicating the Wi-Fi-only Xoom would be coming later this month, and today we have an official press release from Motorola indicating the same thing. The Wi-Fi Xoom is definitely headed our way on March 27th. The Wi-Fi Xoom…
By Joey Davidson |
Every month, the NPD group (National Purchase Diary) releases sales figures for the gaming industry, as well as just about every other major consumer market. The group recently changed its reporting practices to only show the top 10 games physically sold; they left out the…
By Noah Kravitz |
Disasters, natural and otherwise, are an often tragic part of life. TechnoBuffalo isn’t a charity organization or even a global news site, but we’d be remiss to ignore the larger goings on in the world just the same. What’s going on in Japan is far…
By Noah Kravitz |
Insert bad pun here: Arrive has arrived. The first CDMA Windows Phone 7 device, HTC’s Arrive, hits Sprint on March 20, for $199.99 on contract. A $10/month Premium Data charge is required, too. Along with CDMA support, Arrive brings with it long-awaited WP7 Copy and…
By Joey Davidson |
“I wonder what will happen if I turn the car friction to -9…” Remove two portions of reality from Grand Theft Auto IV, add Yakety Sax and press record. The video above is about a month old, according to the upload date on YouTube. That…
By Sean P. Aune |
According to a sales sheet from a major retailer leaked to PreCentral, it looks like the HP TouchPad is releasing in June, and at $499. In other words, it seems that the iPad 2 may finally get a contender when it comes to pricing. One…
By Emily Price |
Verizon is reportedly waiving the activation fees for the Motorola Xoom and Galaxy Tablets starting March 1. Big Red currently charges a $35 activation fee per tablet when you start service. MobileBurn reportedly received an email from Verizon today indicating that it would be waiving…
By Emily Price |
Flipboard, a popular news reader for the iPad is coming to the iPhone. The free application allows you to read Facebook, Twitter, and RSS feeds like a magazine, integrating photos into stories that you can tap on to enlarge and read further. The application makes…
By Joey Davidson |
IGN has just released the world’s first look at the gameplay in Batman: Arkham City. Those of you that played Arkham Asylum may want to sit down, the game looks incredible. Rocksteady’s follow-up to what some would argue is the best licensed game of all…
By Sean P. Aune |
The Kyocera Echo will be launching April 17th on Sprint for $199.99 with a two-year contract. Introduced last month at an event in New York City, the Kyocera Echo is a dual-screen Android phone that features two 3.5-inch LCD WVGA displays. The new phone will…
By Joey Davidson |
Nintendo of America has released the first official TV spot for the Nintendo 3DS to be aired during commercials in the States. The spot is about 30 seconds long and features an Augmented Reality game, Steel Diver and Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition. The…
By Joey Davidson |
Peter Vesterbacka of Rovio, the company behind the wildly popular initially mobile game Angry Birds, spoke at SXSW this past weekend. In a series of statements connected to price and positioning, Vesterbacka suggested that mobile games are on the way up while console games are…
By Emily Price |
The HTC ThunderBolt is coming to Verizon Wireless on March 17. The ThunderBolt will be the first LTE handset on the network, and will be available for $249.99 with a two-year contract when it is released on Thursday. Last week Verizon sent out a flyer…
By Joey Davidson |
A devastating earthquake hit off of the coast of Japan at the end of last week. The devastation of the earthquake and the tsunamis that followed has been horrendous. The nation is experiencing the largest disaster it’s seen since the end of World War II.…
By Emily Price |
In an interview with Sunday Times Magazine, Bon Jovi attacked Steve Jobs, saying that the Apple CEO “is personally responsible for killing the music industry.” Jovi claims “Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding…
By Noah Kravitz |
Danger is dead. Long live Sidekick. T-Mobile just made the Sidekick 4G official, though they didn’t include a price or ship date with the press release and photo sent out tonight. Grr. Sidekick 4G is made by Samsung, based on Android 2.2, and features a…
By Sean P. Aune |
Conflicting information appeared today in regards to the Zune hardware from Microsoft. Some reports indicate that the line is being brought to an end, but Microsoft themselves are commenting while not commenting on it. According to a report from TheNextWeb, which was in turn based on Twitter…
By Jon Rettinger |
The iPad 2 has been teased, announced, launched, tested, and now it’s time to be reviewed. The iPad 2, like all of Apple’s products, is a polarizing device; either you can live within its limitations or you cannot. There is nothing revolutionary found in the…
By Joey Davidson |
The Penny Arcade Expo is the absolutely largest gaming convention tailored specifically to fans. For several years, the convention had only been made available to those living or willing to travel to the west coast. Seattle is still the home of PAX Prime. Last year,…
By Joey Davidson |
Valve’s Erik Wolpaw, writer for Portal 2, spoke with Joystiq over the weekend at PAX about the difficulty of Portal 2. According to Wolpaw, the game will be more challenging, but players will be better prepared. The trailers and gameplay footage released so far, like…
By Emily Price |
On Saturday Jon posted a video showing off the Photo Booth feature on the iPad 2, and mentioned that he thought it was something that people would more than likely open once, and never open again. I played around with Photo Booth a bit myself…
By Emily Price |
The Amazon App Store for Android will come out swinging when it launches in the next few months, scoring exclusivity for the Android version of the upcoming Angry Birds title Angry Birds Rio. The game was developed by Rovio in conjunction with Twentieth Century Fox,…
By Jack McGrath |
What games are coming out this week? Let TechnoBuffalo help you keep track with all of the new releases for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. Homefront PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 In the vein of such film classics as Red Dawn and Apocalypse Now,…
