1979 Asteroids video game being made into a movie
Universal Studios has secured the rights to take the classic Atari video game Asteroids to the big screen following a four-studio bidding war. While no official storyline exists for Asteroids, it will be up to writer Matthew Lopez to create a convincing story around the relatively simplistic “shoot the asteroids” video game concept.
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Facebook hails new privacy controls, challenges Twitter with statuses viewable by the web at large
New Facebook features, currently in beta, bring privacy levels to status messages and individual posted items. You’ll be able to limit your status messages and published items to a select group of friends or expose them to the entire web in a Twitter-like fashion.
Facebook’s privacy chief Chris Kelly explained during a conference call Wednesday that privacy [...]
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Gaming News Tidbits: Ladies
What an angry week it’s been! Internet protesters forgot all their rage about Left 4 Dead 2 once it came out that StarCraft II would be missing one feature in the name of security. The silver lining is huge, friends - have another look at our huge preview to remind yourself of everything the year’s [...]
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Fireworks projector lets you bring 4th of July excitement indoors
As the 4th of July rapidly approaches I know many of are planning on partaking in the local festivities that include the annual huge fireworks display. Or perhaps you are planning to have a fireworks display of your very own. Unfortunately, Mother Nature will have the final say on whether any display actually gets off [...]
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Weekly Music Game Downloads: Punk is Still Alive
It’s summer, the time for concert tours and lazy days spent improving one’s Guitar Hero score by that extra 100 points. This week’s downloadable songs have gone punk. Rock Band gets another pack in honor of the Warped Tour, while Guitar Hero World Tour gets the “Punk-O-Rama” track pack featuring some of punk’s original bad [...]
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Heinz creates world
If you work for a large company with an itty bitty break room, then you know the frustration of waiting in line for the company microwave. And heaven forbid if someone warms up something like salmon in there which then makes the whole break room, and your lunch - well, smell like fish. What if, [...]
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Facebook for iPhone 3.0: Long-overdue new features are coming, but not push notifications
If you own an iPhone, you’re probably using Facebook’s free client that’s still one of the most popular apps on the iPhone. The new version, out soon, brings a host of long overdue enhancements, but don’t hold your breath for push notifications yet.
“Facebook for iPhone 3.0 is coming very soon,” a Facebook developer who goes [...]
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Microsoft removes IE8 vomit advert from YouTube
A couple of days ago I wrote about a new series of Microsoft adverts that were only available online and promoted Internet Explorer 8.
In total four adverts were made with Dean Cain starring in all of them and proclaiming IE8 can solve many of the problems regular users have when surfing the Internet. The reception [...]
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Clever Linux folk find way around Microsoft FAT file system patent
Score one for Linux developers. Andrew Tridgell, one of the lead developers on the Samba project, may have developed a workaround which will bypass a Microsoft patent on the ubiquitous FAT, VFAT and FAT32 file systems.
For those who don’t know, Linux comes with an Ext2, Ext3 or new Ext4 file system for its native use. [...]
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What China
MMO players involved in the lucrative industry of gold farming - the selling of in-game currency for real-world money - cried that the sky was falling earlier this week when the Chinese government made an announcement that many likened to the end of the annual $1 billion industry.
The announcement read: “The virtual currency, which is [...]
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iPhone gets nostalgic with HP calculator apps
Depending on your age the terms HP 12C and 15C will either bring back fond memories or be met with a quick visit to Wikipedia to find out what I’m talking about.
They are in fact calculators from the relatively distant past with some very nice retro styling. If you happen to own one it probably [...]
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Geek.com Podcast 17 - back and better than ever
After a week off, Geek.com’s podcast is back with another exciting edition! Actually it was a rather slow news week, compared the recent month or two, but we managed to find some interesting stuff to talk about. This week’s topics include:
Seagate’s new BlackArmor WS 110 and PS 110 external hard drives
Apple’s Time Machine and why [...]
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iPhone 3GS Jailbreak purplera1n now available to download
Well, the iPhone 3GS has been available for around two weeks now and a jailbreak for Apple’s latest has finally arrived. And it has come from George Francis Hotz aka geohot, the 20-year-old who you may remember unlocked the first iPhone too.
It seems he has come back for more kudos and released his purplera1n solution [...]
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Blizzard trademarks
Blizzard has trademarked the name “Cataclysm,” lighting the Internet afire with speculation surrounding what might become a future Blizzard game.
The name was trademarked for ”computer games, online entertainment services and paper-based products,” giving it the appearance of a new intellectual property from the house of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo. The Warcraft universe has a collectible card game (a “paper-based [...]
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This Week on Geek - June 2006 - a BlackBerry reviewed, Internet tablets are still cool, Palm grows, and Conroe delayed
2006 wasn’t so long ago, right? I mean, you were still running the same OS that you are now right? (Zing!) Windows XP aside, a lot has changed since then, so let’s take a look-see back to the first week of July 2006.
Review: BlackBerry 8700c
This phone was wildly popular, and for good reason. It was [...]
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