HP TouchPad is the latest tablet to challenge the supremacy of Apple’s iPad but can it really beat the iPad? iPad is the reigning king of tablet jungle so far. Just in less than 16 months, up to 25 million units of iPad have been sold and over 100,000 tablet-specific apps had been attracted. [...]
Sony flipped the switch tonight to bring the last remaining piece of its PlayStation Network back online, the PlayStation Store. The company announced the service’s return in a blog post, saying that customers once again have access to the store to buy games and movies, rent movies, and download other content for the PlayStation 3 [...]
Apple’s iPad 2 will launch officially tomorrow, but the reviews are up a day early. The iPad 2 is clearly an evolutionary upgrade to the original design, having slimmed down from 13.4mm to 8.8mm, and dropped a few ounces from 1.5 pounds to 1.3 pounds. As expected, the iPad 2 now features a dual-core A5 [...]
Steve Jobs boasts that most of the new 2011 tablets are no match for the original Apple iPad, he has a point. Currently, only the Motorola Xoom (Verizon Wireless) ($599-$799, 3.5 stars) shows enough promise to compete with Apple’s tablet. RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook, HP’s TouchPad, and Samsung’s Honeycomb Galaxy Tab could also be contenders, but [...]
Epic’s oft-repeated motto for Gears of War 2 was, “Bigger, better, and more badass.” For Ruffian’s follow-up to Crackdown, it feels like the motto was, “Don’t rock the boat.” Here is a sequel that feels near identical to its predecessor in just about every way. The open world action formula is the same. The game’s [...]