As reported on Polygon. By Arthur Gies Even if you’ve tried to maintain a total media blackout on BioShock Infinite, it would have been difficult to remain ignorant of the extended, torturous development cycle it’s been through, or the number of major creative personnel who have come and gone during that time. You’d almost think it was hard to follow up the original game, which has been lauded and held up as one of the few conscious,…
As reported on The Verge. By Chris Welch HBO’s Game of Thrones was the most pirated TV show of 2012, and early download stats following last night’s season three opener have it on track to receive that “honor” yet again this year. According to TorrentFreak, there’s been a flurry of illegal downloading activity in the hours since the hit series returned last night. At one point, a single torrent reportedly had over 160,000 simultaneous connections. But adding all the various releases together…
As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes Disney’s Star Wars films won’t begin hitting theaters until 2015, but we’ll get to see a new, George Lucas-written Star Wars saga even earlier than that. Dark Horse Comics is releasing an eight-issue series based on the original 1974 screenplay for Star Wars. The comic should be a much different adventure than the beloved A New Hopehowever, as the original The Star Wars treatment that Lucas wrote had quite a few differences: Han Solo was an alien, lightsabers…
As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris China’s media has reacted positively to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s public apology over the recent warranty issues in the country. As reported by Reuters, the state-run newspaper People’s Daily said Apple’s reaction is “worth respect compared with other American companies.” A foreign ministry spokesperson was quoted saying “we approve of what Apple said,” praising the company for “conscientiously” responding to the issues. Apple drew fire in the press over claims that it was treating…
As reported on TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK Let’s say we build a phone, theoretically. We’re not! But if we did, we could get maybe 10 million people to use it. 20 million. That doesn’t move the needle for us. –Mark Zuckerberg, Disrupt SF 2012 With today’s leaks, it’s looking like Zuck was being almost completely honest. Facebook isn’t building a Facebook Phone. They’re letting HTC do it for them. But that’s seemingly not the end goal, here. Don’t…
As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas When Michael Dell signaled intentions to take his company private for an overhaul, there were questions as to just what he wanted to do if and when shareholders weren’twatching his every move: was he going to shift attention away from PCs toward the enterprise? There’s no reason to worry, according to a staff memo that his company has published through the SEC. Dell tells his employees that the firm will “significantly increase investment” in…
As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith We might have spent a few hours toying with Samsung’s new mobile hardware, but tinkerers over at XDA-Developers have had enough time to root the Galaxy S 4, already. This means those (very) early adopters can start perusing the inner workings as soon as it arrives on store shelves. There’s a video of the process after the break and you can pick up all the necessary files (and warnings of not…
As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith It might not have the trademark, but that hasn’t stopped Apple shaving the cost of its entry-level iPhone 4 and 4S‘ to something closer to its price tag in North America. The 16GB iPhone 4S is now R$1,699 ($840), down from R$1,999, while the 8GB flavor of the iPhone 4 now rings in at R$1,099 ($544), reduced from R$1,499. According to O Globo, if you’re willing to pay upfront in full (and by phone)…