Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

17 Sep 0

Internet + Taxes = Teh Lo$e

So it appears like the US Government wants to fuck up even further are already paltry broaband penetration in this country thanks to an expiring bill. Congress would pass a new bill in its place which would levy taxes on internet access for cable, dsl, and other various means of access the great WWW. If [...]

20 Sep 0

Prices per Region on Consoles

Consider the following quote: Given different costs of living, the price of an Xbox 360 is not the same in San Francisco and Topeka. How do you deal with that? Moore: It’s more expensive in Topeka. But we don’t just look at the console cost in isolation. We look at what it takes to be [...]

21 Aug 0

Video Games as an Alternative View

Danny Ledonne created the controversion Super Columbine Massacre RPG! The game is sick and twisted, yet somehow it’s brilliant and engadging. Why? It explores the horrible tradgedy from alternate perspectives very much like Film. People have made films about the Columbine incident and they’ve won Oscars and film festival prizes [most notably Michael Moore's Bowling [...]

14 Aug 0

Lego Game Art

What’s cooler than videos games or Legos? Videos games AND Legos! The New Gamer | Journal – Lego Art technorati tags:legos, video, games

11 Aug 1

A Pic A Day for 3 Years

This is totally awesome. 3 Years of pictures in 1 minute. 1 Pic a day for 3 years. Update: Looks like the vid is dead…it was very cool while it lasted.

10 Aug 0

What was Sega thinking?

And you wonder why Sega is no longer making hardware? It’s because they tried shit like this. The funniest thinga bout the video (hit the link) is the game shown (Eternal Champions) was one of the first Genesis games to use all 6 buttons on the new game pads. The activator only supports 3 buttons. [...]

4 Aug 0

Digg’s Kevin Rose worth a lot. Why?

Business Week estimates Digg.com is worth some 200 million dollars with founder Kevin Rose of TechTV fame worth 60 million. I’m curious what made the site so popular in the first place as there were other similar sites that were launched like Pikuru which never took off. Was it sheer word of mouth? Or did [...]