Ever wonder what the first-person, role-playing epic Borderlands might look like had it launched in 1989? Gearbox Software is offering a glimpse with a “demake” called The Border Lands, a 16-bit version playable on PCs. Players use the arrow keys to move and the spacebar to fire, holding down to aim at targets. Watching from […]
Two Facebook insiders have sold massive amounts of shares awarded to them during the highly-anticipated IPO in the last two weeks. Earlier this week, Peter Thiel sold $400 million worth of shares in the company. Adding to that, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz sold 900,000 shares in the course of the last six consecutive business days. […]
Drobo has refreshed its 12-bay storage drive aimed at businesses by incorporating SSDs into the system. The B1200i now uses a small number of SSDs alongside normal hard disks and Drobo’s automatic data-tiering software, boosting performance by up to a claimed 300 percent compared to its previous incarnation. The unit is aimed as primary storage […]
A new discovery has been uncovered in Pokemon Black & White 2 despite the fact that the game has been out in Japan for some time now. One of the most recent discoveries is how the game’s breeding system has been changed from previous Pokemon games. Here’s what has been ascertained by Siliconera: Each Pokémon has a single pre-designated ability […]
The first of two upcoming films surrounding the life of Alfred Hitchcock, HBO’s The Girl is set to air on October 20th and casts Toby Jones (Infamous, The Hunger Games) as the master of suspense, offering a darker look at the relationship between him and The Birds and Marnie star Tippi Hedren, played by Sienna […]
NBC’s upcoming spinoff of The Office, titled The Farm, has landed another talent in actor/comedian Matt Jones, Deadline reports. He’ll play Zeke, the cousin of Rainn Wilson’s Dwight Schrute. Best known for his recurring role as Brandon Badger Mayhew on AMC’s Breaking Bad, Jones has also appeared on the big screen in Kevin Smith’s Red State. […]
Hammer has launched its own YouTube channel and is giving horror fans a sneak peek at The Quiet Ones, currently in production. Directed by John Pogue, the film stars Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, Erin Richards, Olivia Cooke and Rory Fleck-Byrne. Inspired by true events, The Quiet Ones tells the story of an unorthodox, but charismatic […]
Following yesterday’s comments by Ben Affleck that he is not working on the Justice League movie comes word that The Matrix trilogy helmers Andy and Lana Wachowski may be in contention for the job as well. According to Moviehole, “Warner Bros are apparently jazzed with “Cloud Atlas”, and love that it’s as much a spectacle as […]
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has approved Japanese broadcaster NHK’s Super Hi-Vision system as the standard for 8K video. The format proposal was unopposed by other broadcasters during a consultation period, which allowed the ITU to send letters to its members late last week, confirming it as the adopted standard. Super Hi-Vision consists of a […]
Known for its Swiss Army knives, Victorinox Swiss Army North America revealed that it will stop supporting software (secure.exe) and security certificates on its line of secure USB flash drives. The current ones are due to expire on September 15 on the Victorinox Slim, Secure, and Presentation Master products. This means that any saved information […]
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