There was some speculation late last year about the possibility of Minecraft legos finding their way to toy stores and eager fans of Notch’s indie hit. The toy has finally gotten a release date, Edge reports: The Minecraft-inspired Lego set will be released this summer for $34.99 / 34.99, but can b
If you keep up with the decrepit pageantry and hilariously Gossip Girl-esque drama of classic rock reunions (why wouldn’t you?), you might have heard that due to mitigating circumstances, Black Sabbath’s upcoming reunion tour has been downgraded to “Ozzy and Friends.” Weirdly enough, the “and Friend
Software studio Impending has an amazing post of what Apple can be doing to deal with scams and cloners who steal ideas. They list a host of potential fixes but this one caught my eye: Better Education of App Store Customers: Much like the fashion industry, the App Store’s plague of knockoffs create
Explaining to your friends exactly why you play games can be a tricky proposition, but Dutch agency 180 Amsterdam does so beautifully in this new spot for the PlayStation Vita. The ad is directed by Cary Fukunaga (who won the Sundance Dramatic Directing award for Sin Nombre), and I found the bit on
Even if videogames rot your brain, they may still be able to improve your vision. While normally this type of improvement comes from “getting glasses or eye surgery — somehow changing the optics of the eye,” Daphne Bavelier of the University of Rochester in New York states that “action video games t
Yesterday, Rihanna and Chris Brown released two songs that they made together, effectively ending any public ill will that existed between the two following Brown’s brutal assault upon Rihanna, his then-girlfriend. Objectively, they are not very good. To take a further objective standpoint, these tw
Shouts out to Kotaku for catching that Sony has patented some motion-sensing technology that is explicitly similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect: The patent is for a “USER-DRIVEN THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE GAMING ENVIRONMENT”, which would involve plugging a camera into a PlayStation and using it to
Good morning! Here’s the newest in gaming. -There’s going to be a free-to-play Simpsons game. -There’s a full trailer out for the new Doctor Who game adaptation. -Supernatural MMO The Secret World has been delayed till June 19. –The Last Guardian continues development with some help from the west. -