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Found satellite images of Haiti after the earthquake through Gizmodo.  Even with all the technology we have, there is still a lot of work to do.  Even with various forms of powers of prediction, we still can’t prevent much.

THIS PHONE IS REAL.  So I’ve been following Gizmodo’s Liveblog of the android press event right now and they’ve finally gotten to the details I desperately wanted to hear about.  The phone ships TODAY.

So we haven’t done much recently.  At all.  We’ll try to get back to writing posts about the exciting things that are going to happen in 2010.  As a final note, I would like to mention that the way you should say “2010” is “twenty-ten.”  That is all. Thanks – hope everyone has a good [...]

So fall is finally here, and that means the fall lineup has finally been introduced.  Well, after watching a good amount of first episodes, I have to say that my expectations for this season are fairly bleak. 

Earlier today, Verizon Wireless and Google announced that they were going to partner up!  Even better news is that before the end of this year, Verizon is planning to release two Android phones!

As you may have known, school has started for both Jacob and I recently.  For me the first week has just passed and going forward from here, our schedules will be packed pretty tight. So some things I have been planning to do are videos and LOTS of them.  To accomplish this, I have purchased [...]

So apparently yesterday in Japan, there was some ad on YouTube saying that the release date would actually be announced today.  Some people were able to figure out how to manipulate the ad to actually display the date, and thus presented it yesterday leaked as December 17, 2009. 

So GameTrailers has released a trailer revealing BioShock 2’s multiplayer gameplay.  After watching the trailer though, I wasn’t thoroughly impressed with any of the aspects of it. 

The immensely popular Grand Theft Auto franchise will be making its debut on the iPhone via Chinatown Wars, which was originally a Nintendo DS game, now coming to PSP and iPhone. As expected, the graphics look sharper and cleaner than on the DS, other improvements have not yet been announced, but this will be exciting [...]

A new expansion has been announced for World of Warcraft entitled Cataclysm.  This expansion will introduce two new races, Goblins for Horde side and Worgen for the Alliance side. The level cap will also be raised to 85 and there will finally be more race combos, so you can play as a gnome priest, a [...]

So last night I was able to grab the new Wolfenstein by id software and published by Activision.  I sat down and played straight on through with maybe a 20 minute break in the middle, so I’m going to try to put everything I thought about this game now while it’s still fresh. I guess [...]

Sony has announced at GamesCom a PS3 slim that is debuting the first week of September! The slim will boast a significantly smaller form factor which is over 30 percent smaller, lighter and more power efficient than its old bulky version.  Not only that, but it will include a 120GB hard drive.

Following Valve’s classless update for Team Fortress 2, Valve continues to offer value with this weekend’s killer Steam deal.  Everything Half-Life is 66 PERCENT off this weekend folks. To celebrate, I am randomly selecting 2 people from the comments for a FREE copy of Half-Life Complete paid by ChenZen. Winners will be announced later this [...]

So we’ve been experiencing almost 12 hours of downtime since we last saw many of you, if you’re actually still with us.  First, our webhost was having trouble their SQL servers last night, which prompted us to just wait for it to fix and come back up.  Then, this morning – after confirming that the [...]

QuakeCon is live and in full effect, some major news has already been coming out from the convention.  Following Kotaku’s liveblog converage of John Carmack’s keynote, I was able to gather some juicy details. Here are some of the highlights: Wolf3d & Doom Resurrection dropping to 99 cents and $2.99 respectively through Sunday. Wolfenstein RPG [...]

[Brian Lam] has recently confirmed the existence of the Apple Tablet.  He had gotten an encrypted message from someone who wanted to give him the scoop on the device. Brian recounts his whole tale of getting in contact with his source, ‘[redacted],’ and what [redacted] says, but here are the details you probably want to [...]

Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling Microsoft Word, which is its word processor that is included with MS Office.  It was found that the software had violated i4i Inc’s patent on “manipulating a document’s content and architecture separately,” or in other words, the ability to open documents containing custom XML.  In addition to not being [...]

Doodle Jump is a game from Lima Sky [$0.99- iTunes Link] with a highly addictive but simple premise.  You try to get the highest score as possible, in this case trying to get your doodle as high as you can. If you ever played the ‘Bells’ game with the jumping bunny [Orisinal Bells], it is quite similar to [...]

So the other night I went with Misfire and Kaisuri to 8 on the break.  This is the local arcade that is near our houses.  Actually, it’s the only arcade near our houses, but they’re usually stocked with a few of the newest games out there.  The place is kind small and the interior resembles [...]

Finally push notifications for gmail have come via a third party applicationgpush which is now available on the App Store. The application will notify you when a new email has gone through to your gmail account through sounds/vibrate and text pop up alerts.

So today my dad needed me at home to help him construct a new vinyl shed in the backyard.  The entire process took about all day, but it was nice to be outside in the nice weather and actually accomplish something.  The way that people manufacture “do-it-yourself” construction kits is pretty ingenious.  It’s almost like [...]

Kojima today announced at the Microsoft keynote that Metal Gear Solid would be coming to Xbox360 in a form of a completely new game staring Raiden.  This is quite exciting news for the Xbox people wanting to get some MGS action.

Valve unveiled the sequel to Left 4 Dead, which is coming in November, with a debut trailer.  The first game only just came out less than half a year ago, sequel a little too soon, don’t you think?