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We liked Bastion quite a bit, enough to put it high on our list of 2011’s best videogames. But when Supergiant Games announced that they’d be releasing Bastion for iPad worldwide on Thursday, some were cautiously optimistic. How well could a combat-heavy Xbox 360 game translate to a touchscreen? Pretty well, if it’s in the Continue Reading →

Microsoft and Facebook are so cute together that you almost want to pinch their cheeks. Today, Bing announced and released ‘Friends’ Photos,’ a tool that allows you to search the social giant for specific pictures that your friends have uploaded. Bing’s recent redesign includes Facebook integration, but this new tool is a singular tool, unlike Continue Reading →

We recently showed you just how badly some of Apple’s retail elite behave when no one’s watching, but surely they were taught better, right? You bet they were: Apple tells its new recruits exactly what what to think and say. How do we know? We read Apple’s secret Genius Training Manual from cover to cover. Continue Reading →

I have been a vocal advocate for the Zune HD, check my list of links below for related articles, and thus I was disappointed to receive the email you see below that informed me of several features that will no longer be available for the Zune. The one that has the biggest impact for me Continue Reading →

Twitter announced Thursday new targeting options for its Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts products that let advertisers display ads based on people’s ‘topical interests’. The new targeting options will let advertisers deliver promoted accounts and tweets to users with interests that will, hopefully, match up more closely with the content in the ads. The targeting Continue Reading →

Researchers at the University of Cape Town in South Africa have developed a pill that can wipe out malaria with a single dose. It’s a development that could save millions of lives in Africa alone, not to mention the rest of the world. But there’s a teensy weensy little hurdle that must first be overcome: Continue Reading →

Today Amazon announced that the Kindle Fire is all sold out, which is cleverly convenient considering there’s an Amazon event next Thursday. We’re anticipating new Kindle Fires in a bunch of different flavors. So what might Bezos & Co. drop on us next week? How Many Kindles? Staples’ U.S. retail chief Demos Parneros recently said Continue Reading →

Ever wish your tablet could just magically morph into an eye-friendly e-reader while reading in the sun? Amazon may be working on a double-sided Kindle product that would incorporate both e-ink and an LCD display into one device, a new patent filing suggests. The e-commerce giant has been awarded a patent where e-ink and LCD Continue Reading →

New Kindles are coming! New Kindles are coming! And Amazon is trying its hardest to build up hype. The Kindle Fire was the retailer’s hottest product since its launch. The replacement is set be announced next week, but Amazon just took to the wires to announce the original Kindle Fire is sold out. OMGNOWAY! It’s Continue Reading →

Sony Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai said on Thursday that its new gaming device Vita was mostly selling in line with its expectations, though in some places it was off the pace. Vita hit the stores earlier this year, the latest in a line of mobile gaming gadgets in the spirit of Nintendo’s Game Boy and Continue Reading →