Charlie Eby
Intern, Geniocity.com
Media Man: Electronic and Mainstream Arts
If birds aren’t enough, now your dog can tweet too!
I’ve never been that curious as to what my dog’s really saying. I’m pretty sure Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoon figured it out. However, I guess most people don’t think like I do. Or at least enough people to be profitable. Mattel has a new invention expected to hit stores in Fall that allows your dog to tweet on his very own Twitter page. Puppy Read more
5 awesomely useless gizmos
The year is 2010. Only five more years until we get to laugh at Back to the Future II. I’m still waiting for my flying car and self-drying jacket, but at least we can rest easy knowing our scientists are hard at work making some crazy stuff to distract us. Thanks to www.gizmag.com, I was able to search their 2010 posts and find some pretty silly stuff. Read more
Avatawesome
Wow. I mean, really wow. This movie is beautiful. Rather, this experience is beautiful because it’s more that than it is just a movie. If you see this movie, you must see it in 3D. Preferably 3D Imax, though I just saw it in a normal 3D screening. The environments are absolutely fantastic and gorgeously rendered to the point where you can feel the Read more
Guess what I forgot?
I forgot that my laptop has a broken wireless card and can’t access the internet! I couldn’t blog for the extent of my Christmas vacation! So, sorry about that. On the plus side, I did see Avatar and I will have a post up about that tomorrow. Stay tuned!
Not The Last Airbender one.
When I first saw the movie “The Last Airbender” which is the live-action version of the award-winning Nickelodeon animated series, I was wondering why they didn’t call it Avatar: The Last Airbender, which is the proper title. I quickly learned that this was because they already had an Avatar movie. At first, I was a bit peeved that some elf-like things that look like the Zora from Zelda Read more
Steam Cloud makes gaming a bit clearer.
It’s always a pain playing a game on a friend’s computer. There’s always the one guy who has inverted controls so up is down, or a PC gamer who set “c” as crouch instead of shift. You can either struggle to get used to your friends play style, or switch back the the default controls you spent so long editing the buttons to avoid. Fortunately, Valve has Read more
Sagan Sings…sort of.
Anyone who likes rap, knows someone who likes rap, or has heard that “I’m on a boat” song probably knows about T-Pain. He’s become popular because of his unique use of pitch correction, a digital process which allows singers to use programs like Auto-Tune to correct any mistakes they may have made by changing the note of a sound. This can be used to create flawless vocals on Read more
Bordering between genres
I’m generally not a big RPG guy. I’m more of a shooter fan with games like Call of Duty or Team Fortress 2 in my repertoire. Like most other twitchy, head-shot junkies (NSFW: Naughty words), I lack the patience to spend a weekend killing spiders in World of Warcraft in order to level up. This is why I was excited about the new game by Gearbox Software Read more
I now pronounce you man and pixel.
Aah, remember how romantic your first date was? Your first kiss? How about your first level up? Well, apparently that last one holds more significance for some than it does for others. Brad Smith thought of a creative way to ask his girlfriend Lisa to marry him by reprogramming a Super Mario Brothers level so a series of coins spelled “Will You Marry Me?” Lisa Read more
Mods: Internet Play-Doh
Who makes the games? The developers right? But who makes the games fun? I would say the players do that. While the developers choose what your restrictions are, but it’s the players who decide how to play. At first this meant things like glitches and secrets, with people seeing how fast they can play, or seeing if they can fight the last boss before even Read more