by Erik Kain on February 29, 2012
The two major RPGs released recently, Reckoning and Skyrim, battle to the death. Which is the better game? I’ve played and reviewed both Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in the past couple of months and I wanted to set them side by side for a moment to determine which is the [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 28, 2012
Now that I have an Xbox 360, this is excellent news: HBO has slowly been bringing HBO Go to a multitude of connected platforms, from Roku boxes to someSamsung connected TVs, and now we finally know when it’ll come to the Xbox 360. Tonight at an HBO event in , company Co-President, Eric Kessler, gave us the [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 28, 2012
The big news today is that Google+ users only spend an average of three minutes a month on the site – a pretty shabby showing compared to Facebook or Pinterest, and one of the lowest time-scores of any social network. Compare Google’s 3 minutes to Facebook’s 405 minutes, or Pinterest and Tumbler’s nearly 100 minutes [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 27, 2012
One of the big jaw-droppers at this year’s World Congress in Barcelona is the new 41-megapixel camera-phone from : the 808 PureView. The Verge notes that while the phone is billed at 41 million pixels, “as you might have surmised, this handset doesn’t take full 41-megapixel stills. Instead, it oversamples — taking the image data [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 27, 2012
Sex. Battle. Intrigue. Dragons. Yes, this latest trailer for HBO’s second season of Game of Thrones has it all. Thank goodness, too. I need to keep getting my fix until the April 1st air-date. By far the most revealing, intense trailer for the second season so far. We begin to see the sibling rivalry erupt. [...]
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We begin to see the fallout of the death of Ra and the cleaving of EzRa as the Embassytowners start to run out of datchips of the god-drug’s voice. Ariekei begin to become violent in their addiction, especially as the drug-voice wears off, runs out. The addicted Ariekei cling to the loudspeakers. We see our [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 26, 2012
Ignore the critics. John Carter looks like an awesome space-and-sorcery adventure. It may look like cheesy space-and-sorcery – a high-tech reimagining of Star Wars replete with the latest CGI – but John Carter has plenty to be excited about. I have no idea if it’s going to be a great film, but I’m definitely looking [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 25, 2012
and Starz failed to reach a licensing agreement last year and customers are about to pay the price. A hefty number of titles will go missing at the end of February, thinning out ‘s already slim-pickings. Gabe Gagliano has put together an extensive list of the titles about to go AWOL from your instant queue. [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 24, 2012
Even though didn’t start selling Windows Phone smartphones until November of 2011, it already ranks as the leading seller of ‘s mobile operating system. and are hoping that the emerging partnership will propel both companies into the highly competitive mobile industry. has been noticeably absent in the American market in recent years and is putting [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 24, 2012
The Onion has really grabbed the fake news bull by the horns over the past few years. In one short video, they manage to make fun of teenagers, Facebook, our obsession with phones, and get in a bit of a dig at the controversial euthanasia debate. You can watch more fake Onion news here. Follow [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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