By GuyCopes(view all posts by GuyCopes)
at 12:56PM Thursday July 14, 2011
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Product Review
This week we're back on the review trail (
No, not Crysis 2...soon, soon) taking a look at the newly released 2012 edition of
EA Sports popular College Football Title. I've had my hands on the game for a few days now and was able to dive into several modes to give you detailed feedback. Full disclosure time: I am a huge College Football fan (
Go Noles!) and an unabashed fan of EA's NCAA Football Series. As a result, I am also a harsh critic of the game as I expect it to be one of the best sports sim games every year.
So with that out of the way, here's my breakdown of NCAA Football 12.
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By BeckyHarks(view all posts by BeckyHarks)
at 12:48PM Friday January 13, 2012
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Newsworthy
Facebook, Inc, recently launched a brand-new ad format, called a
"Featured Story," which dumps paid content - rather than updates
from Great Aunt Lynn about her recent biopsy or one of those
internet memes - squarely into our news feeds. Worse, these paid
advertisements (a.k.a. "news feed) shows the actions of the
Facebook users friends and these ads are front-and-center on our
Facebook news feed.
Great. More ads.
I've been mildly annoyed by the ads (read: "Sponsored Stories") on
the sidebar of Facebook, but have been able to tune them out. Now,
when I'm blearily checking to see if I've gotten any response to my
"Which Disney Princess Are You?" post, I'm bound to accidentally
click a Featured Story.
You know what? I'm sick of ads.
Because I have to sell my firstborn son in order to see a movie
these days, I do it perhaps twice a year.
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By GuyCopes(view all posts by GuyCopes)
at 7:58AM Tuesday January 10, 2012
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Stuff We Like
This week sees the start of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. CES 2012 looks to debut a few hotly anticipated electronics items. Among these will be a a slew of tech dedicated to the video game community.
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