Costumes, games, movies and Star Trek? Its Expo time!

If you missed the MCM Expo on the 24 th and 25 th of October, shame on you. The movie, comic and media exposition 5000 rocked the Excel centre in London’s Docklands. Again. This year’s turnout was, well, normal really and the show itself packed in more movie, media and comic titillation than an entire interweb. Shows like this happen all the time, all over the world and while they’re full of memorabilia merchants and obscure comic book artist signing their obscure comic books, there’s also i

Microsoft’s Xbox Beats Out All Other Game Consoles

Bruce Everiss submits: I am very, very glad that I am not in competition with Microsoft’s ( MSFT ) Xbox division. They really are grinding the opposition down. And it is not as if they are attacking on one front. No, Microsoft believes in being better in every single possible way. The Xbox 360 is now, by a huge margin, the gamer’s choice of consoles from this generation. It is cheaper to buy, has far more games available and has the best online gaming service on earth, Xbox Live. Little wonder

250 GB Playstation 3 coming to retail November 3rd

Thinking of picking up one of the slimmer, sleeker, cheaper new PS3 models for the family? You might want to hold off until November before taking the plunge. Numerous retailers have confirmed and started taking pre-orders for a new PS3 Slim model with an expanded 250 Gigabyte hard disk drive. That's over double the storage for games, movies, and media than the current 120 GB model offers. The best part is that the expanded storage comes at a very reasonable markup - the 250 GB PS3 will retail f

Review: Dead Space: Extraction

When House of the Dead: Overkill was released for the Nintendo Wii, older gamers rejoiced, finally seeing some more mature titles on the mostly kid-friendly console. However, it almost seemed too forced with the characters swearing and cursing to the point where you wanted to slap them in their face to shut up. Although a good game, the game just didn’t satisfy my adult, light-gun craving. It was, well, Overkill. EA and Visceral Games is hoping to up the ante a bit with their release of Dead

Total Immersion and the “Transfigured City:” Shared Augmented Realities, the “Web Squared Era,” and Google Wave

Above is an image above from Total Immersion’s augmented reality experience developed for the “Networked City” exhibition in South Korea, – “a fun scenario created for a u-City’s infrastructure and city management service” “To the naked eye, the exhibit looks like a bare bones model of a city. But when visitors put on the special AR goggles a whole new world unfolds – as graphics overlaid on the city model. ” ( Games Alfresco) “The Networked City,” is a large scale augmented v

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