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“Does it play Crysis?” is almost on its way out as a meme. That’s because Crytek has shown off Crysis 2 at GDC this year, with a not-surprisingly stunning video showing off the capabilities of not only the game, but the latest iteration of the underlying engine, CryEngine 3. Even...

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The new Prince of Persia, due out in May, helps fill in the seven year gap between The Sands Of Time and Warrior Within, as seen in the new trailer, which has both gameplay footage and developer commentary. From the looks of it, it’s very much in the...

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt, while speaking at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, announced that Google’s Chrome OS is still under construction, and on track to be released in the second half of this year. Chrome OS is a lightweight Linux based OS that uses the Google Chrome web browser as the...

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Remember OnLive, the cloud gaming service that promises to handle all the computational power of video gaming at their servers, requiring only a browser plug-in (Windows & Mac) or MicroConsole? Yesterday OnLive announced that the service will officially launch for US consumers (well, the 48 contiguous States) starting June 17th...

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Announced today at the 2010 Games Developers Conference, the latest version of OpenGL is available to developers for use. A cross-platform system for rendering graphics, OpenGL and it’s variants, such as OpenGL|ES for mobile devices, basically deliver the 3D goods on just about any platform. OpenGL 4.0 builds on past iterations,...

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Engadget managed to get a hands on of a couple of Windows Phone 7 games built with XNA Game Studio 4.0. Although they weren’t allowed to take any video of the games in action, they said it did work, including unlocking achievements. The more impressive of the two...

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The 1st Annual Canadian Videogame and Digital Arts Awards is set to take place May 5th at the Vancouver Convention Centre and will in essense kick off GDC Canada.  This is definitely a good thing, as with the ELANs moving from Canada to the US, there’s definitely room for an...

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This is the new TRON: Legacy trailer. It’s very cool. There’s little else to say. … Actually, there is. It IS very cool looking, other than the Mouse House logo at the beginning. The stream above is courtesy of Joystiq, because although Disney put an HD version on...

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As anyone who plays Rock Band knows, Harmonix has consistently put out new tracks every week for over two years, and have branched out into other musical genres.  This may be the first time in it’s history that both an original artist and cover have seen the same track released...

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Every spring, the SXSW music festival invades Austin Texas.  In the early days, it was purely a musical affair, but since then has also grown to include both film and interactive festivals that run more or less concurrently.  Twitter, for example, launched at SXSE interactive in 2007. As part of it’s...

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The above is the latest (and last) in the Pure Pwnage Production Blog videos before the TV series starts on Showcase this Friday. This time round Jeremy gives stand up comedy a whirl. Don’t forget that there’s a screening of the first 3 episodes of the TV series...

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In 2008, on Doug’s suggestion, I picked up a copy of the year-old Orange Box for the 360 on a whim. (Said whim was spurred on by Doug’s claim that if I didn’t buy it, there was something seriously wrong with me.) Turns out, he was right, as Orange...

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Adobe’s Photoshop, which has become the industry’s leading image manipulation tool, recently turned 20, and Adobe has posted the above documentary on their site that’s somewhat interesting. It’s also just a smidge hyperbolic, as I can think of a lot of other events that did more to “spawn… a...

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The news broke this morning that Apple is suing smart phone manufacturer HTC, maker of  many popular Google Android and Windows Mobile devices.  In their 700 plus page ITC filing, Apple lists a whole slew of specific HTC devices running both operating systems, including the Nexus One, HD2, Touch Pro,...

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The widespread PS3 errors have been narrowed down, as expected, to a clock-related bug, at least that’s what Sony believes. In short, if you own an older “phat” PS3 (aka not the Slim), Sony is recommending that you do not turn on the console at all untill they announce...

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Late yesterday, reports started appearing across the social networks and message boards of PS3 owners losing trophy information and the console being unable to play game discs. At first it was suspected that this was due to an outage of the Playstation Network (PSN). Most users reported getting...

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Dave was at the Canadian International Auto Show and got a demo of Ford Sync which provides in-car entertainment and communications via wired or bluetooth connected devices....

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Well, this doesn’t spell good news for the future of WebOS.  Palm’s ‘re-entry’ into the smart phone market has been less than spectacular.  In fact, even with the launch of the ‘Plus’ versions of their Pre and Pixi devices, Palm still hasn’t managed to pull out of a sales slump. Palm,...

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More news from Canadian carriers today, as Bell, Telus and Rogers have finished the trials for inter-network video calling.  Each of the ‘big three’ had their own video calling solutions, which allowed 2 way video between customers on the same carrier, which severely limited the functionality. This development suggests...

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(UPDATE: fixed incorrect URL and graphic – where’s that editor-in-chief when you need him? Oh yeah…) With services and pricing structures being almost identical between the ‘big three’ Canadian wireless carriers, it’s hardly surprising that Rogers has followed Telus’ lead, and has introduced a new DRM free music service. ...

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Really, the image says it all, but even with the switch from hit web series to TV show, the gang at Pure Pwnage are keeping the premiere screening tradition alive. You can catch the first 3 episodes of the new TV show on the big screen at the Bloor...

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Rogers bringing the Android 2.1 packing Acer Liquid e is an interesting development on a couple of fronts.  It’s the first time a North American carrier to bring an Acer smart phone to market.  It’s also the first official phone to be running 2.1 Android in Canada, although Telus’ recently...

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Mobile World Congress is the biggest cell phone event of the year, and in this first look at it, we talk about Microsoft’s newly announced Windows Phone 7 Series, which makes a clean break from it’s Windows Mobile past....

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It’s not very often that the technical quality of a video game’s screen shots make it worth discussing, but these shots of THQ and 4AG’s Metro 2033 warrants it.  THQ recently put out some new screens of the game rendered using Nvidia video cards with DirectX 11 support, and the...

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Recent interviews, as well as leaked developer docs for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series help put together some interesting pieces of the puzzle left in the wake of the Mobile World Congress announcement a few days back. A few of those questions included multitasking, backwards compatibility and partner customizations....

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Telus has announced, a couple of days ahead of schedule, the availability of the Motorola Milestone, which is better known as the Droid in the US. The phone features an 854×480 screen and despite a rather thin 13.7 mm packs a slide out QWERTY keyboard. It’s also part...

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Before jumping into the proper review, let’s get one thing out of the way.  If you haven’t yet played the first Mass Effect, you will be missing something from Mass Effect 2.  In the same way that The Empire Strikes Back is a better movie than Star Wars, not seeing...

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Probably the most anticipated event at Mobile World Congress has finally passed, and with it, Microsoft has announced a whole new direction with it’s mobile platform, which has been rebranded Windows Phone 7 Series.  Although WP7S devices aren’t expected to start shipping until near the end of the year, the...

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I used to buy a lot of comics, having a pull at my local comic store of anywhere between 5-10 floppies a week, but as the years have gone by I have a) become lot more selective in my choices, and b) decided to wait for trade paperbacks to come...

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Introduction The enormous success of the iPhone, since its release in 2007, sent a lot of phone competitors back to their drawing boards to create a competitor that included one of the iPhones primary features, a large touch screen. Though none of them would admit to trying to create an iPhone...

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