Upsilon Circuit: One Strike and You’re Out
If you’ve ever played an online role-playing game like, say, World of Warcraft, you know that they’re generally vast, open-world games that plop your avatar down in a digital world filled with hundreds of AI characters and literally thousands of gamers (when you tally up attendance across the many servers available). In those make-believe lands […]
Smile But Don’t Touch
Ever heard of a Quokka? No? Well it’s only a cute grinning critter that’s part of the latest and greatest selfie trend on Instagram right now. Oh, and they’re guaranteed to put a grin on your mug while they’re trending away. If you check out this link you’ll see that the Quokka is a smallish […]
Where Space Travel and Reality TV Collide
What would you say if someone approached you and offered you an extended stay in a barren wasteland of sand, mudstone and rock? You’d be heading to a foreign place where the temperature averages out to somewhere around 50 degrees below zero. A vacay away, let’s say, but with no palm trees or rolling oceans […]
Whale, Whale, What Do We Have Here?
OK, you may have already seen this since it’s casually blowing up the Internet faster than Kim Kardashian when she’s trying really hard. But I thought I’d bring it to your attention just in case. Photographer Eric Smith snapped a pic of the picture above when he was out and about in the Redondo Beach, […]
Superheroes Make Super Bet
Well, the Super Bowl is over and you’ve likely read about all the many ruminations, cheers, commercials and jeers that have recently been associated with that sporting weekend event—everything from exasperated cries over coach calls to the fact that America consumed some 1 billion chicken wings during the big game. But there’s one connected story […]
Facebook Figures to Foil the Fibs
I’ve heard it said that trust is like an eraser: It gets smaller and smaller with every mistake made. And while that may appear to be true on the face of things, on social media sites it doesn’t usually seem to apply, does it? I mean, we can find ourselves burned over and over by […]
CES Shows Tomorrow’s Tech Today! (Maybe.)
It’s that time of year again, when happy techies trek to Las Vegas to get a gander at the latest whiz-bangs and whoo-yah gadgets that the tech world has to offer. The International Consumer Electronics Show for 2015 is up and running (it lasts until Jan. 9) and people everywhere are already leering at, laughing […]
Spending a Night at the Museum
There’s another Night at the Museum pic (Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb) hitting theaters this weekend. And while I don’t want to give too much away before our review comes out (we’ll release it later tonight), let me just say: Sir Lancelot and a Triceratops rampage. Maybe that’ll pique your interest. What […]
Game Goods 2014: Bob Hoose’s Year-End Picks
Right out of the clamshell box let me say that 2014 was a pretty decent year for video games. Those little digital bundles of button-mashing entertainment continued to push the boundaries of story and adventure. Thanks to the powered-up latest-gen consoles that were released at the end of 2013, some pretty impressive titles showed up […]
What Does the Internet Say About Us?
Even though the Internet has been around a relatively short while, people often pontificate about what this digital domain says about us. And that’s a complicated question, isn’t it? The Internet, after all, is such a vast collection of disparate bits, pieces, raves and rants. So what couldit possibly say about its creators? Well, when […]