See, what I did there in the title? Switch is the name of Nintendo’s new console. For the last year or so it’s been known as the NX, but now we have a reveal video and a name. We also know what it is, a set-top console you can take on the go. A lot of …
Welcome back, I took a bit of a break while I was on vacation but I’m back now with Part 4 of my Arcade Adventure (check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3). In Part 4 I’ll be talking about controllers and the difficult decisions one can face when picking the right controllers. The …
In part 1 I told you why I was getting an arcade cabinet (hint: it’s because I’m a 40 year old white guy). In part 2 I told you how I picked the cabinet. Part 3 is all about the software. At every phase of this process I have been a little surprised at the …
Welcome to part 2 of the chronicles of my journey to build my very own cocktail arcade cabinet. Now that we know how I decided on a cabinet it’s time to talk about the cabinet itself. It turns out there are more options for getting a cocktail arcade cabinet than I expected. Then once you …
CBS and Paramount released guidelines for fan films this week, it comes in the wake of the two companies going after a Star Trek fan film in court. The film is called Axanar and it raised $1.2 million with crowd funding. It’s a feature length film that takes place between Enterprise and TOS (or the new …
I turn 40 this year. With the big 4-0 approaching I’ve been thinking about what to ask for as a birthday gift. Actually I’m planning on asking for something a little bigger than usual this year so it’s a birthday/father’s day gift. This turned into quite a process for me because I want to make …
I have a first gen Moto 360. I love it, I wear it everyday and I feel naked without it. My phone stays in my pocket most of the time and I get at least a full day of battery life. I see no reason to get a Moto 360 2, especially at their current …
So the big three had their E3 events over the last few days. The last one was Nintendo on Tuesday afternoon. The three conferences were very different. I started to write a long-winded article about which was better, but I decided a run down of those conferences and the two best things from each would …
Microsoft announced two consoles today. The XBox One S which I mentioned yesterday and Project Scorpio. The S comes out in early August, but we won’t see Project Scorpio until Holiday 2017. The XBox One S is exactly what we thought it would be, a smaller console with the ability to handle 4K video (by …
Something big happened in DC Rebirth #1, one of my favorite characters was returned, Wally West. Of course New 52 had its own Wally, also a nephew of Iris West. Thanks to Rebirth we now know, for certain, that the two Wally’s are cousins named after their great-grandfather Wallace West. With Wally returning to the …