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  • Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: Fake Linus Torvalds competition

    Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: Fake Linus Torvalds competition

    Posted on August 26, 2009 | No Comments
    fake-linusWe all know and love Fake Steve Jobs, right? We all know that Linux users copy everything that Mac OSX and Windows do, right? So it should come as no surprise that the Linux Foundation is copying Fake Steve in their new Fake Linux Torvalds competition! Not content with a single fake Linus Torvalds, there will be four fake Linus Torvaldses (Torvaldi?)! And in true Linux geek fashion, the competition will take place on both Twitter and identi.ca, the free software micro-blogging alternative!

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  • Introducing Best Comment Ever, your new favorite contest

    Introducing Best Comment Ever, your new favorite contest

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Over at MobileCrunch, we’ve just introduced a new contest which we’ll be rolling out on CrunchGear sometime in the next week or so. Called Best Comment Ever, the premise is simple: Good commenters get awesome prizes. Each week, we’ll highlight our favorite comments; from those, we’ll pick one to take home something rad. This week, we’re [...]

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  • U.S. Soccer looks to EA Sports to help develop next generation of pros

    U.S. Soccer looks to EA Sports to help develop next generation of pros

    Posted on August 19, 2009 | No Comments
    You would think that with a population of 300 million the U.S. would be a little better at soccer than it currently is. Not that the US Mens National Team is terrible—its victory against Spain in the Confederations Cup in June was all kinds of great—but we're (yup, Royal We time) not exactly known as a “world power,” mentioned in the same breath with Italy, Germany, Spain, Brazil, and Argentina. In steps... EA? Yup, we just got word that EA Sports, makers of FIFA 10, has teamed up with US Soccer to develop and promote a series of training videos that young players can use to improve their game. Is is enough to to give some future USMT the World Cup one day? US Soccer certainly has high hopes.

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  • MMO players, the Razer Naga mouse may interest you

    MMO players, the Razer Naga mouse may interest you

    Posted on August 19, 2009 | No Comments
    MMO players have another mouse from which to choose, this time from Razer. It's called the Naga, and it's designed to “enhance your ability to control your character.” No harm in that.

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  • The joys of playing Street Fighter with your kids (and the devastation of losing)

    The joys of playing Street Fighter with your kids (and the devastation of losing)

    Posted on August 13, 2009 | No Comments
    A truly delightful tale about a parent playing against his six-year-old son in Street Fighter IV. A great father-son bonding moment, the father recoils in horror as he finds out, “Wait a minute, I'm losing to my six-year-old here. Oh, God, what have I done?”

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  • How excited are you about District 9?

    How excited are you about District 9?

    Posted on August 12, 2009 | No Comments
    District 9 sounds like it’s going to be great. We’ve gotten lots of sleepers in the past few years - think Taken and Children of Men - and this sounds like another amazing action/sci-fi film with lots of brains. The reviews are great and the movie, based on the short film you see here, has a [...]

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  • App Roundup: with a special sneak preview!

    App Roundup: with a special sneak preview!

    Posted on July 19, 2009 | No Comments
    You read that right, folks. We’ve stepped up our game on this week’s App Roundup and are going to go ahead and review an app that’s not even out yet. Pre-released apps are becoming increasingly common in our inbox, as the Apple Review process seems to take forever (no surprise, given that it’s run by [...]

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  • She’s my final fantasy: G4’s ‘Girl at the Video Game Store’ music video is unexpectedly really good

    She’s my final fantasy: G4’s ‘Girl at the Video Game Store’ music video is unexpectedly really good

    Posted on July 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh, how I wanted to hate this video. Yesterday was the thousandth episode of Attack of the Show—how did you celebrate?—and while I only caught about two minutes in between commercials of whatever else I was watching (I think it was a documentary about salt; I'm not joking), I did manage to catch the tail end of this video. It's “The Girl at the Video Game Store,” a song written by Parry Gripp; the video was directed by Michael W. Shaw, of G4.

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  • Review: Punch Entertainment kills it with Reign of Swords: Episode 2

    Review: Punch Entertainment kills it with Reign of Swords: Episode 2

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Reign of Swords: Episode 2 won’t reinvent a genre, but it will leave you wondering why more games aren’t made with the same artful precision as this is. Brought to you by Punch Entertainment, Reign of Swords 2 is a rock-solid turn-based strategy (TBS) game for the iPhone, and will provide you with hours upon [...]

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  • Is $100 cheap enough to get you to buy an iPhone?

    Is $100 cheap enough to get you to buy an iPhone?

    Posted on June 5, 2009 | No Comments
    The red hot rumor going around this hour—there will be a new rumor before lunchtime, such is our attention span—is that Apple will launch a $99 iPhone at WWDC next week. One of those highly paid analyst types said such a move, that is, a $100 price cut for the lowest end model, would increase demand by 100 percent. It's not clear how dumbed down this cheap-o iPhone would be, if it's even real, so it's hard to say whether or not it'd still be “iPhone” enough to make it worth your while. But let's assume, for the purposes of this post, that it is, indeed, “iPhone” enough, even at the low, low price of $100. Is that cheap enough to get you to buy one?

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  • Travel Honey GPS functions as a homing device, photo tagger, party favor

    Travel Honey GPS functions as a homing device, photo tagger, party favor

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments

    The last time we saw a simplified GPS homing device about, we weren't too terribly impressed. Sure, the premise was solid: press one button to lock in the position of your car (or the gold of Dresden), and it will return you to its location after your day at the mall (or after you've successfully evaded capture). But who wants to spend $80 on a glorified key fob? Not us, that's for sure. For a less pricey alternative, you might want to check out a little something called the Travel Honey. Distributed by Chinavasion, this bad boy not only functions as a stand alone unit, lighting up as you zero in on your target, but it can also connect to your PC via USB for use as a full-blown GPS unit (software not included). And if all that weren't enough, it will also log your various locations in a text file (perfect for keeping track of mileage and geotagging photos). Available now for $53.87.

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