Monthly Archives: May 2012
Early access Metal Gear Rising demo included with Zone of the Enders HD
Posted by max at May
Now that Platinum Games has saved Metal Gear Rising from certain doom and slapped another crazy word on the title, we’re all anxious to check out Metal Gear Rising: Reveangence. If you’re also one of those people looking forward to grabbing Zone of the Enders HD Collection, Konami has some synergy planned. During Konami’s pre-E3 [...]
Category: Gaming
Sony’s PlayStation Vita has a YouTube app headed its way by the end of June
Posted by max at May
Assuming all that gaming, Facebooking and Tweeting isn’t enough action for your PS Vita, Sony announced tonight it will get a YouTube app by the end of the month. Considering the built in web browser doesn’t handle HTML5 or Flash video, native apps are still necessary to fill out its video streaming lineup. The company’s [...]
Category: Electronics
Two Tribes invites seven-year-old to design Edge level, warms hearts
Posted by max at May
Two Tribes received a request for EDGE swag (Two Tribes made the PC/Mac version of the iOS game) from the father of a six-year-old superfan about to turn seven. Instead of simply handing over some material, however, the developer invited Zias to come in and build a level in Lego, which would then be put [...]
Category: Gaming
Google image search results crammed into picture dictionary
Posted by max at May
Though not quite a replacement for Mountain View’s ill-fated dictionary, this 1,240 page tome contains the first Google image search result for each word in a run-of-the-mill dictionary. With a PHP script, London-based artists Felix Heyes and Ben West scraped the image from each search and compiled an alphabetically ordered PDF brimming with 21,000 images [...]
Category: Electronics
Battlefield 3 receives major update next week, no mention of ‘Premium’
Posted by max at May
Battlefield 3‘s next major update will occur across platforms on June 4 (June 5 in Japan for PS3). The update includes reduced suppression, support for colorblind players and an extensive list of other changes. Not mentioned at all in the update notes: the effect of the Battlefield 3 Premium package, which EA will officially detail [...]
Category: Gaming