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The Resident Evil 6 Trailer Is Here

January 19, 2012 in Geek Squad

For more than a decade plus, Capcom has created and reinvented the survival horror genre with Resident Evil and now they’re tossing out the third next-gen version of the well received series with RE6, the first game in which both original game hero Chris Redfield & RE2 & 4′s Leon Kennedy will both be chief characters.

While full blown details of the game have been kept underwraps, we do know the series has advanced a full ten years after the events of Raccoon City, Leon is now in Tall Oaks, a setting similar to RC while Chris finds himself in China. All in all, there are zombies, new mutations of the T-virus and a hell of a lot of weapons. The game hits all current generation consoles on November 20th, 2012. Watch the trailer below.

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MegaUpload Shut Down, Facing Piracy Charges

January 19, 2012 in Geek Squad, News

Got Dammit indeed. Less than a day after Swizz Beatz of all people was found to be the CEO of file sharing giant Megaupload the site was shut down today and seven people including the companies founder Kim Dotcom were arrested and charged with five counts of copyright infringement and conspiracy. No word if Swizz is among the seven.

[via NYT]

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Swizz Beatz In Trouble Over Megaupload

January 18, 2012 in Geek Squad, News

What’s more perplexing: Swizz Beatz being the CEO of file-sharing site Megaupload or that on the day half of the internet is at war with the government in terms of censorship & piracy, this story breaks?

According to the New York Post, Swizz Beatz is in hot water with Universal Music Group after a video featuring UMG artists such as Kanye West and others appeared on YouTube supporting the file sharing site. UMG has been against music piracy from the get go and asked YouTube to take down the vid citing that the performances were “unauthorized”. MU countered with a lawsuit of their own.

“We have never received any word that any artist has [individually] filed a take-down . . . [we have] legally binding agreements with the performers that appear in the video . . . They promised that they had the rights to enter into that agreement and it’s not interfering with any third-party rights.”

Watch the video below:

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Apple’s iPad 3 Reportedly Arriving In March 2012

January 16, 2012 in Geek Squad, News

Like clockwork, almost a year after the iPad 2 hit the market from Apple the company is set to release the third version of the popular tablet in March. The iPad 3 is set to have a high definition screen, a faster processor and compatibility with the next generation of wireless networks according to Bloomberg. However since all of the new features aren’t necessarily groundbreaking, it shouldn’t spark as much drive and demand as its predecessor did.

But it’s an Apple product and the items essentially sell themselves these days. Since it’s introduction in 2010, the iPad has become Apple’s second biggest revenue stream after the iPhone and has generated over $25 billion in sales.

[via Bloomberg]

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Meet The Notorious S.I.R.I.

December 14, 2011 in Geek Squad, Laugh Out Loud

As an iPhone guy, I already have issues with updating a 4 to a 4S when the 5 is on the horizon. Especially when the main selling point is a built in advisor named Siri who has a history of saying ridiculous things. “Sh*t Siri Says” is easily a great morning pick-me-up but “The Notorious Siri” takes the cake. An Apple device reciting lyrics of the great Christopher Wallace? Sign me up.

Here’s how the creator set this all up:

My hack for the Music Hack Day 2011 in London, a 24h Hackathon for all things music.

SiriProxy is used to intercept the communication with Apple’s servers. Notorious Siri then sends Notorious B.I.G.’s Hypnotize to the device.

Siri’s speech synthesis is synced to the beat using the timestamps obtained from the Echonest API which were then manually tweaked, to smooth out delays in the text-to-speech engine.

Boom. Now watch below and prepare to think it’s 1997.

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The Grand Theft Auto V Trailer

November 2, 2011 in Geek Squad

It’s been ten years since Grand Theft Auto III changed every single thing I thought about video games and now that Rockstar is coming back with GTA V to the city of Los Angeles and an absolutely gorgeous trailer, color me psyched up. Catch the trailer above courtesy of Rockstar Games.

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The Throne Go Into The Streaming Concert Business

October 25, 2011 in Geek Squad, News

With their highly publicized tour kicking off in Atlanta on Friday, Jay-Z & Kanye West have discovered yet another way to add to their coffers and also revolutionize how people view concerts. Starting October 24th (yesterday), they’ve teamed up with ad agency GlobalHue to launch VOYR, a subscription-based streaming site where you can catch the entire 26-date tour plus exclusive access and then some for only 4.99/mo.

Hit the jump to see how VOYR will work.

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The Steve Jobs Special On “60 Minutes”

October 24, 2011 in Geek Squad, Interviews, TV

Before he was set to leave the earth, Steve Jobs handpicked his biographer Walter Isaacson to trace his life all the way from the beginning. Searching through idiosyncrasies and more, Issacson detailed his findings to 60 Minutes. With the Jobs’ biography going on sale today, Issacson used the platform to educate the public about the legend through anecdotes and stories unheard before. We get to learn how Jobs’ dealt with never meeting his biological father, his adoption, his knack for “perfection” and why Apple products don’t have an on or an off switch. You can catch part one above and hit the jump for part two into the life of modern technology’s most cherished mind.

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Is This The Death Knell For The Blackberry?

October 13, 2011 in Geek Squad

True story, I gave up on RIM and Blackberry more than a month ago when my Bold decided to take a crap on itself and decide it couldn’t stay on longer than 2 hours off of a battery charger. Watching RIM’s founder make apology videos can only spell more trouble for the company following yesterday’s massive outage that stripped access away from over a million BB users.

As a fan of their exclusive BlackBerry messaging system (BBM), it pains me as a former Crackberry owner to watch the company become unable to revolutionize the cellphone game while media giant Apple (and my current cellphone provider) continually keep raising the bar. In an area where competition is key, RiM has found itself being overshadowed by the Android as the second biggest cellphone name only behind Steve Jobs’ pride and joy. Once upon a time, it was hard to fathom such a thing occurring but Droid kept advancing on technology where BB’s latest version of the Bold just now included both QWERTY & touch screen capabilities. We may have to pour out a little liquor for them.

Watch the apologetic video from RIM founder & Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis after the jump.

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Drake & Michael Jordan Discuss NBA 2K12 & The Greatest Team Ever

September 30, 2011 in Geek Squad

NBA 2K12 is the cure to the lockout blues. If David Stern is threatening the cancellation of an entire season then NBA fans are pretty much on high alert about the situation. With 2K Games already geared to go for another victory lap, the G.O.A.T. himself Michael Jordan appears in the commercial buildup to the product along with Drake.

Drake saying the 2010-11 Miami Heat were the greatest team ever though? I’m shocked Michael didn’t snatch his ACL out right then and there.

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