Netflix is the world’s most popular streaming service because it was the first company to achieve such incredible scale. For a monthly fee, users get access to plenty of original Netflix content as well as TV shows and movies that Netflix licenses from other studios. This simple home entertainment recipe was the obvious replacement for …
Now that we’ve covered virtually every Black Friday sale that’s either already begun or is set to begin in the coming days, it’s time to dig a little deeper to find the best deals within those sales. Over the past few days, I’ve been hunting for the best video games deals I could find (to …
Video game piracy has been an issue for developers for decades. Virtually every game on the market will make its way on to a torrent site within days of its release (if not earlier), but in recent years, another far more legally ambiguous method of acquiring games has been just as big a problem.
On Thursday night, Geoff Keighley will host The Game Awards for the third year in a row. Although others have tried and failed to establish an award show for video games in the past (Spike TV’s Video Game Awards being the most prominent), Keighley’s self-funded event is the first to genuinely resonate with the gaming community, …
Back in the day, well before you could waste hours online browsing around the web, Microsoft’s built-in Solitaire app on Windows was a game that was often in heavy rotation. If you remember those pre-Internet days fondly, or with absolute horror, you can relive it all with a new iOS and Android app from Microsoft …
Just like a wine taster’s palate or an art student’s sense of bullshit, your listening skills are something that can be trained and honed. Music software company iZotope has a fun challenge to see how well your ears stack up against the competition. As spotted by CDM, iZotope has an entire guide out that will help teach you …
In theory, there shouldn’t be any real way to improve one’s chances when playing Rock, Paper, Scissors. After all, it’s a game of chance, right? Well, that’s only partially true. Sure, there’s nothing you can do to improve your odds if you’re playing Rock, Paper, Scissors against a computer, but if you’re playing against another …
Every weekday we share an updated collection of the best free iPhone and iPad apps, but there are always plenty of noteworthy apps that don’t make the list. This week, two especially interesting games launched on the App Store, and they’re both completely free to download. If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, read …
In the long and storied history of gameshow blunders, what you’re about to see below may very well take the cake. Sure, we’ve seen contestants embarrass themselves before. And sure, we’ve most definitely seen contestants lose a lot of money before. But never before has a gameshow contestant lost so much money in such an …
Rovio on Wednesday announced that its Angry Birds franchise has surpassed one billion downloads across Android, iOS, Windows and Mac OS X, with 350 million downloads having been served in 2012 alone. The latest Birds installment, Angry Birds Space, was downloaded more than 10 million time in less than three days and a whopping 50 million times in …
