When it comes to adapting popular TV and movies into video games, developers have a poor track record of producing quality results. That doesn’t mean all TV based games are bad. Occasionally a game developer defies the odds and produces something that doesn’t reek of uninspired, phone-it-in game design. In part 2, we’ll look at [...]

When it comes to adapting popular TV and movies into video games, developers have a poor track record of producing quality results. Nonetheless, it’s far safer (meaning easier) for developers to get budget based on a license than try to introduce an original IP, so the gaming industry continues to march forward turning great movie [...]

Sling Media carved the path for place-shifting and remains the dominant player, but that hasn’t stopped others from trying to get in on the action. Well, one other at least. Monsoon Multimedia, founded by the same guys who created Dazzle back in the 90s, started competing in space several years ago with their lineup of [...]

It’s really turning out to be a bad few weeks for Sony’s Playstation 3. Last week they fell victim to a massive attack from hackers who have stolen the personal information and (possibly) credit card information of their nearly 77 million users, but they’ve had to shut down the Playstation Network entirely while they investigate [...]

Fifty years ago the mere idea of being able to click a button on a remote control and have whatever you wanted to see appear on your screen instantly was nothing more than a pipe dream. Today, what was once impossible almost seems inevitable. Video on Demand (VOD) services have been around for a long [...]

It may be hard to believe, but not long ago, Roku was only device that could stream TV shows and movies from Netflix. Unlike today, where just about every single device under the sun, from game consoles to mobile phones, help ensure that Netflix streaming accounts for a huge chunk of all web traffic. Roku [...]

The modern day television has a dizzying array of image controls to help you fine tune your television’s picture quality, with the goal to give you the best visual experience possible. Unfortunately, no one knows what half of these controls do. Even a trip to the user manual is often useless, with descriptions like “Super-Whiz-Bang [...]

If you’ve spent your days and nights wishing for NBC to bring back Claire, Sylar, Peter and the rest of the HEROES for a fifth season, you may be waiting a very, very long wait. However, if all you miss is the premise that ordinary people can wield ultra-crazy super powers (along with Sprint cell [...]

It’s hard to believe it’s been a month since my last entry, and you have my sincerest apologies for the long wait. You see, for a tech writer the holiday season is both the best and worst time of the year. The Christmas holiday leads to New Years, and before we can even settle in [...]

This coming February television and technology are going to collide in a bizarre, yet totally awesome way. IBM’s Watson, a JEOPARDY playing supercomputer, is going to take on the game’s two greatest champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, over three shows airing February 14th, 15th, and 16th. It’s man versus machine in the biggest thing to [...]