Gadgets and Video Games

Brains! Braaaaaaaiiiinnnnssss! Due to nightmarish travel complications during a return trip from E3 and then a bizarre, four-day long hippie sun-cooking ritual , the author of this humble feature has been out of commission for some time — an oversight for which said author apologizes. If only the cultivation of comics was a brisk process! As you might imagine, it takes days of intense concentration, followed by a solid day of drinking, and then another day of concentration, and then, yes, another half-day of drinking. We’re back in action, though! Below are our seven favorite gaming-centric webcomics of this past week! You can (and should!) vote for your favorite after the jump, and drop a link in the comments to tell us what gems we missed out of during our accidental furlough. Consumer Advocacy (Penny Arcade) How to Spot the Doomed Characters Early (Dipswitch) All Work and No Play (Sidescroller) The Power of Teamwork (2P Start) A Dose of Fake Reality (Virtual Shackles) Prince of Amnesia (Burn the Internet) A New Business Venture (Digital Unrest) Continue reading Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is back from the dead Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is back from the dead originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:30:00 EST

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While trying to stump 5TH Cell’s Scribblenauts , it was suggested to us that we should try typing some Internet memes into the game’s interface and see if they’d materialize. Our first experiment: Longcat . As it turns out, Longcat is in the game … and he’s looooooong . Equally long, but not pictured, is Longcat’s nemesis Tacgnol

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Play Scribblenauts off, keyboard cat

Well folks, it’s Sunday night. And as promised, the second trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has hit the internet with lightning speed. And hey, there’s an exploding castle in it! A full two minutes of gameplay, ready to satiate even the most jaded and impatient of gamers (ya know, us ). Growley-voiced Eastern Europeans speaking of revenge? Check! Varied environments featuring new types of gameplay?

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Second Modern Warfare 2 trailer arrives, exploding castles and all

Hey, Netherlandian young adults! Stop all the downloadin ‘! If a recent survey of 3,500 folks between the ages of 12 – 24 (issued by Dutch television program E

If you’ve been looking for a good solution to make your laptop (or notebook, whichever term you prefer) a bit more user friendly while in a stationary location, then Logitech’s Alto Cordless may be a product you might consider looking into. I happened to notice the unit while I was in my local Costco retailer.

The unit I purchased differs a bit from what Logitech’s official description provides in the fact that it comes with a wireless optical mouse as well, it was also about 20 bucks cheaper than the listed $99 retail price. Here are my thoughts on the cordless notebook accessory. (continue reading…)

Starting Feb. 17, 2009 the U.S. Analog TV broadcasting will be gone for good. Meaning that if you don’t have a digital TV, or a DTV Converter Box your current TV will be pretty much useless. For those of you that are or will be signed up with cable or satellite service, the current set top box should accommodate the DTV Transition. For the few that don’t subscribe to cable or satellite service and are happy watching only the local channels, TV will come to a screeching halt.

(The FCC has mandated that cable carriers must support analog TV sets until at least 2012) (continue reading…)

If you are anything like myself, you have about fifty passwords that you try to remember, and countless sticky notes plastered all over your workstation. Well, thanks to a little program called RoboForm you can finally toss those post-it notes out and put your mind at ease. RoboForm is an award-winning automated password manager and web form filler. Here at GVG we are always looking for cool things to simplify our lives, and RoboForm does exactly that. (continue reading…)

Headsets for Xbox Live are a dime a dozen these days, so is it worth it to spend the extra cash on a third party headset? We recently took a closer look at Plantronics’ Gamecom headset lineup (the Gamecom X10, X20, and X30) and found that it boils down to personal preference, style, and sound quality. Here is what we determined about the three headsets within this lineup: (continue reading…)

ESPN signs a deal which will enable them to provide full length games and TV shows for your Xbox 360.

ESPN will be offering full-length NCAA football, basketball games, Summer X Games 13, and episodes of such ESPN shows as World Series of Poker, The Contender and Madden Nation. These are just a few of the selections available through your Xbox Live Marketplace, and all thanks to ESPN. (continue reading…)

 The search engine giant will, without a doubt, cause a stir in the mobile phone market with this new service. Google has announced today that they are developing a free cell phone software package. Google’s software could possibly be a direct threat to the Microsoft Corporation, being that they presently have the number one mobile operating system available to the public.

Google does not plan to make the phones themselves. Google also will not be branding the phones with their logo; instead they will be working with four different cell phone manufacturers that have agreed to deploy Google’s program into their phones. This announcement has ended the speculation pertaining to the Mountain View-based company’s cellular ambitions. These Google software packed phones won’t be on the market until around late 2008. The engineers have been busy working on this software for the past three years. This dates back to the Silicon Valley startup called Andriod Inc. that Google acquired in 2005. The mobile software still bears the Android name in acknowledgment of its heritage. (continue reading…)