Gaming
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T-REX and Muscle SAM Big Trouble in SPF5 January 2012, 11:00 pm
T-REX and Muscle SAM Big Trouble in SPF is a classic cartoon graphic adventure game in the world of wrestling T-REX and Muscle Sam are two wrestlers descended from two former legends. They have not been fighting at the wrestling [...]...
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Dovadula’s Burn4 January 2012, 11:00 pm
Dovadula’s Burn is a classic old style graphic adventure Punk bass-player PuNKKoMmANDO hates the town of DoVaDuLa’S and is determined to destroy it, but his countless attempts at doing so have always been thwarted. When the police confiscate his bass [...]...
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Game Tunnel and the Future4 January 2012, 11:49 am
After a short hiatus, I am pleased to announce that the staff behind Game Tunnel is ready to get rolling in 2012 with a re-vitalized front! My name is Chris Newton and you may know me from The Indie Game [...]...
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Trail4 January 2012, 10:15 am
"When I was a child, I thought you left a trail through the world that you collected when you die."
Trail is an experimental, minimalist platformer, which was inspired by a child's belief about death. Trail explores the idea that you leave a trail in the world as you journey through life and when you eventually die you need to collect this trail to achieve final peace....
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Indie Dev – Author21 December 2011, 9:19 am
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Free Indie Bundle17 December 2011, 1:31 pm
Call us paranoid, but aren’t there a heck of a lot of bundles recently? In the last week we have had at least four bundles launch, and that’s just the ones we know about. Of course, of all of those [...]...
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Atom Zombie Smasher17 December 2011, 8:59 am
Atom Zombie Smasher by Blendo Games is the most fun I have had on my PC in quite some time. The game is insanely addictive and very challenging. Who knew that bombarding pink dots with artillery shells could be so much fun? [...]...
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Little Big Bunch14 December 2011, 11:31 am
As was announced last week, the Little Big Bunch has now gone live, and yes we know it’s ANOTHER bundle but you can donate to charity with this one as well, so smile! Started as an initiative by GamesAid – a British [...]...
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Humble Bundle 414 December 2011, 11:27 am
Well, we told you it would be around soon with that leak this morning, but here it is, a mere few hours later; the Humble Indie Bundle 4. If you were cheeky like us and took a peek at the leak, then [...]...
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Street Fighter X Tekken and the Rules of Fight Club27 January 2012, 10:51 am
Yoshi Ono is a man as enthusiastic about his signature Street Fighter franchise as he is protective of it, but when the opportunity came to fuse together two of the fighting world's heavy-hitters to create Street Fighter X Tekken, he had few reservations......
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Street Fighter X Tekken and the Rules of Fight Club27 January 2012, 10:50 am
Yoshi Ono is a man as enthusiastic about his signature Street Fighter franchise as he is protective of it, but when the opportunity came to fuse together two of the fighting world's heavy-hitters to create Street Fighter X Tekken, he had few reservations......
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Street Fighter X Tekken and the Rules of Fight Club27 January 2012, 10:18 am
Yoshi Ono is a man as enthusiastic about his signature Street Fighter franchise as he is protective of it, but when the opportunity came to fuse together two of the fighting world's heavy-hitters to create Street Fighter X Tekken, he had few reservations......
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IGN UK Podcast #122: What Does It Mean?27 January 2012, 10:00 am
This week the IGN UK Podcast crew separate fact from fiction and tackle the rumours of Xbox 720, God of War and Syphon Filter 4, and Microsoft phasing out points. Join Alex, Chris, Keza, Stu and Tom for your weekly edification......
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Soulcalibur V DLC Announced27 January 2012, 5:08 am
The first piece of DLC for Soulcalibur V will be made available next week......
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Soulcalibur V DLC Announced27 January 2012, 4:46 am
The first piece of DLC for Soulcalibur V will be made available next week......
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Two Dirt Roads Diverged on a Muddy Track27 January 2012, 4:14 am
2012 marks a turning point for the Dirt franchise. After a sly late-year hint it was working on Dirt 4, Codemasters also announced Dirt Showdown, an arcade-centric answer to gymkhana's inclusion in Dirt 3. Where Dirt 4 will stick to point-to-point rally, Dirt Showdown is about destruction, drifting, and big crashes......
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Two Dirt Roads Diverged on a Muddy Track27 January 2012, 4:13 am
2012 marks a turning point for the Dirt franchise. After a sly late-year hint it was working on Dirt 4, Codemasters also announced Dirt Showdown, an arcade-centric answer to gymkhana's inclusion in Dirt 3. Where Dirt 4 will stick to point-to-point rally, Dirt Showdown is about destruction, drifting, and big crashes......
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Two Dirt Roads Diverged on a Muddy Track27 January 2012, 4:00 am
2012 marks a turning point for the Dirt franchise. After a sly late-year hint it was working on Dirt 4, Codemasters also announced Dirt Showdown, an arcade-centric answer to gymkhana's inclusion in Dirt 3. Where Dirt 4 will stick to point-to-point rally, Dirt Showdown is about destruction, drifting, and big crashes......
Gadgets
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Did the Galaxy S III just pop up on Samsung's support site?27 January 2012, 3:26 pm
Seriously, we can't caveat this one enough -- there is no way of knowing if this is in fact the Galaxy S III or, if it is, when it might come to market -- but, it looks like Samsungs "next big smartphone" just made a cameo on the company's support pages. Listed as the GT-i9300, the mystery device reared its head over at the Global Download Center of the United Arab Emerites site. If Sammy is to keep with its naming scheme i93XX would be a flagship device -- the i90XX line was the Galaxy S, i91X...
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Sony reveals new 3G/WiFi PS Vita bundles: free data, PSN games and memory cards for everyone27 January 2012, 2:41 pm
Sony's PlayStation Vita hasn't exactly sold like hotcakes over in Japan, so the company has sweetened the pot for the portable's potential Stateside buyers. Those who placed pre-orders will get a couple of extra goodies for their $350. To go with the previously promised limited edition case, 4GB memory card and copy of Little Deviants, you'll also receive 250MB of data from AT&T and a PlayStation Network game gratis as soon as you activate 3G on the device. Furthermore, folks buying a Vita ...
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Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast with guest CrackBerry Kevin, live at 5PM ET!27 January 2012, 2:05 pm
Just wake up from a very restful week-long slumber? First of all, we're envious of your good fortune. Second, Research in Motion made a few changes to its leadership chart. Third, you must be really hungry right about now. So grab a sandwich, come back in an hour and join Myriam, Brad, Sean Cooper and our very special guest Kevin Michaluk (yes, Mr. CrackBerry Kevin himself) as we discuss the northern news, as well as anything else that happened this week.Be sure to send questions or comments yo...
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First White House Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, steps down27 January 2012, 1:42 pm
He was appointed with a fair bit of fanfare as the United States' first Chief Technology Officer back in May of 2009, but it looks like Aneesh Chopra has decided that it's now time to make room for the nation's second CTO. The White House confirmed today that Chopra is stepping down from his position, noting that he has amassed a "dizzying array of accomplishments." Among those are his contributions to the Obama administration's national wireless strategy, a set of internet policy making princip...
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HTC Titan II works its charm on the FCC with AT&T LTE included27 January 2012, 1:24 pm
What's that? An HTC PI86100 Windows Phone with AT&T-specific LTE (bands 4 and 17) showing up in the hallowed halls of the FCC? Why, this must be the Titan II, announced a tad over a fortnight ago. Docs show that a production unit of the device, sporting the aforementioned LTE bands as well as 850 / 1900 3G (also AT&T compatible), is ready to take on its new Windows Phone competition sometime soon. Is it a guarantee that the phone is nigh at hand? Not quite, but at least it signifies th...
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OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express SATA 3.0 SSDs doubles your (MacBook) Airspeed velocity27 January 2012, 12:53 pm
It's MacWorld, which means those providers of Apple gear are busting out wares for aftermarket insertion into your objects of desire. Other World Computing's latest offering is a slender solid-state drive ready to be crow-barred into last year's MacBook Airs. The bombastically named OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSD is a SATA Rev. 3.0 drive with a promised 6Gb/s data speed at sizes of up to a staggering 480GB. Since the stock drives are limited to the 3Gb/s SATA Rev. 2.0 (but the controllers...
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Verizon-bound ZTE V66 slate gets photographed, looks just like you imagined27 January 2012, 12:29 pm
It wasn't long ago that we first crossed paths with the ZTE V66 tablet, though at the time we were unfortunate to only meet its dull black-and-white renders. Those of you unfamiliar with the tab won't have your jaws dropped by its innards, which are expected to be missing out on the Ice Cream Sandwich treatment. Aside from the OS letdown (still, it's not as bad as shipping with Gingerbread), the V66 is pretty standard fare for a modern tablet. It'll be running on Verizon's speedy LTE network, s...
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Insert Coin: Dash car stereo gives your iPhone a new home, away from the cupholder (video)27 January 2012, 12:04 pm
In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. We're pretty fond of new ways to integrate smartphones with car stereos here at Engadget, which is why we're particularly intrigued by a new Kickstarter project called Dash. Unlike MirrorLink, which reflects a phone's interface onto a larger touchscreen, this nifty creation puts the smartphone ...
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The Love Box is an analog video mixer, house of mirrors for your iPhone (video)27 January 2012, 11:39 am
There's something romantic about hacking the iPhone, especially when it means finding ways to personalize the massively popular handset. Apps like Instagram may help you realize artistic talent, but software just doesn't get those creative juices flowing like an old-fashioned piece of hardware can. Despite its taboo-sounding name, The Love Box isn't an adult toy in the traditional sense, instead serving as an analog video (and stills) mixer for your iPhone 4 or 4S. Consisting of a wooden box an...
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Oh Great: Chunks of Fukushima's Corroded Radioactive Uranium Could Survive in the Ocean for Years [Science]27 January 2012, 4:40 pm
Last march when the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant was disastrously damaged by a tsunami, plant technicians used seawater to cool the meltdown situation. At the time, that was probably the best way to avoid an even worse situation. More »
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USS Enterprise Coffee Table Is Furniture's Final Frontier [Star Trek]27 January 2012, 3:40 pm
When I was a in middle school, I built the bridge of the Enterprise in my parents' basement out of old computer parts. It wasn't this cool, but I was pretty proud of my level of Trek fandom. Now, Inhabitat found something that tops that level of Trekkie swag: a coffee table modeled after the USS Enterprise. More »
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What Playing in a Dog Park Looks Like from a Dog's Point of View (Hint: Awesome) [Video]27 January 2012, 3:00 pm
I've always wondered what the world looks like from a dog's point of view. After watching this video, now I know. Kelsey Wynn outfitted his Great Dane, Bishop, with a GoPro and took him to the dog park to play. You get to see everything Bishop's see and it looks so freaking fun. More »
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The Best Time to Change All Your Passwords [User Manual]27 January 2012, 2:38 pm
February 1 is change your password day. But don't make it a one-time thing. Password changing should be a routine you practice regularly. Like hand-washing, or trolling Facebook. Especially ones you've shared. More »
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This Centimeter of Dried Glue Is Apparently Worth Thousands of Dollars [Video]27 January 2012, 2:20 pm
This glob of dried glue kind of looks like Homer Simpson. Kind of. The thing is that this insignificant blip in the scheme of humanity is about to sell on eBay UK for a metric crap ton. It's at £151,000 with two days to go. More »
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The iLuv Alarm Clock with iPod Dock and Bed Shaker Is Your BEEP-BEEP-WAKE-THE-F*&K-UP Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]27 January 2012, 2:00 pm
I know that my alarm clock is the devil. It doesn't matter which physical clock I'm using. There's a spirit that moves from clock radio to cellphone to travel clock and channels evil at my motionless body. My subconscious is so sure of this that it wakes me a few minutes before the alarm goes off whenever possible. More »
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Droid Razr Maxx Gets an Insane 8+ Hours of LTE Battery Life [Android]27 January 2012, 1:45 pm
If the Droid Razr Maxx is anything to go by, idiotically terrible battery life on LTE phones might be a thing of the past. Laptop Mag ran battery tests on all of Verizon's LTE models and the Maxx crushed everything by a crazy margin. More »
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WSJ: $100 Billion Facebook IPO Happening Next Week [Rumors]27 January 2012, 1:23 pm
The Wall Street Journal's golden box of anonymous sources has rattled once more, this time with news that Facebook is finally going public. Now that's cooler than a million dollars. More »
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The Seven Best Auroras From the Biggest Solar Storm In Seven Years [Video]27 January 2012, 1:20 pm
On January 22, an M8.7 class flare helped cause the biggest solar storm since 2005. Airplanes had to change routes, and the power grid and satellites were affected. It also caused some of the best auroras ever seen. More »
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Ubergizmo
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Wii U name might be rebranded27 January 2012, 10:27 am
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Reprogrammable magnetic fluids lets you feel virtual keyboard physically27 January 2012, 10:27 am
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Apple drops a gear, overtakes Samsung as largest smartphone vendor in the world27 January 2012, 10:24 am
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US blogger given life sentence in Ethiopian prison27 January 2012, 10:24 am
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BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9531 is CDMA version of P9981 BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9531 is CDMA version of P998127 January 2012, 10:17 am
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Microsoft looks at Kinect laptop27 January 2012, 10:17 am
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BlackBerry 3G+ Playbook in the works?27 January 2012, 9:39 am
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Qualcomm owns a game studio, will release flagship title annually27 January 2012, 9:36 am
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Samsung Galaxy S3 shows up on Samsung’s website, launch under review27 January 2012, 9:15 am
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Science
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Space weather center to add world's first 'ensemble forecasting' capability27 January 2012, 4:39 pm
Leaner, greener flying machines for the year 2025 are on the drawing boards of three industry teams under contract to the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project....
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New ideas sharpen focus for greener aircraft27 January 2012, 4:37 pm
Leaner, greener flying machines for the year 2025 are on the drawing boards of three industry teams under contract to the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project....
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NASA study solves case of Earth's 'missing energy'27 January 2012, 4:32 pm
Two years ago, scientists released a study claiming that inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth's heat and measurements of ocean heating amounted to evidence of "missing energy" in the planet's system. Where was it going? Or, they wondered, was something wrong with the way researchers tracked energy as it was absorbed from the sun and emitted back into space? An international team of atmospheric scientists and oceanographers set out to investigate the mystery....
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Mars-bound instrument detects solar burst's effects: RAD measures radiation from solar storm27 January 2012, 4:27 pm
The largest solar particle event since 2005 hit Earth, Mars and the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft traveling in-between, allowing the onboard Radiation Assessment Detector to measure the radiation a human astronaut could be exposed to en route to the Red Planet....
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NuSTAR spacecraft arrives in California27 January 2012, 4:23 pm
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Jan. 27 after a cross-country trip by truck from the Orbital Sciences Corporation's manufacturing plant in Dulles, Va. The mission is scheduled to launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean on March 14....
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Mind over matter: Patients' perceptions of illness make a difference27 January 2012, 3:27 pm
Whenever we fall ill, there are many different factors that come together to influence the course of our illness. Additional medical conditions, stress levels, and social support all have an impact on our health and well-being, especially when we are ill. But a new report suggests that what you think about your illness matters just as much, if not more, in determining your health outcomes....
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New information for flu fight27 January 2012, 3:27 pm
Influenza virus can rapidly evolve from one form to another, complicating the effectiveness of vaccines and anti-viral drugs used to treat it. By first understanding the complex host cell pathways that the flu uses for replication, researchers are finding new strategies for therapies and vaccines, according to a new study....
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Making memories last27 January 2012, 3:24 pm
Researchers discovered that a prion-like protein plays a key role in storing long-term memories....
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New drug release mechanism utilizes 3-D superhydrophobic materials27 January 2012, 1:09 pm
There is a new mechanism of drug release using 3-D superhydrophobic materials that utilizes air as a removable barrier to control the rate at which drug is released....
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How Google's New Privacy Policy Could Affect You27 January 2012, 4:00 pm
You’re on the way to a meeting. Traffic seems to be slowing. A text comes in: “You’re going to be late. Take the next exit for alternate route.” It’s from Google. [More]
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Primitive Attraction: Magnetized Moon Rock Points to Lunar Core's Active Past26 January 2012, 1:01 pm
The moon of today is a static orb with little to no internal activity; for all intents and purposes it appears to be a dead, dusty pebble of a world. But billions of years ago the moon may have been a place of far more dynamism--literally. [More]
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Race and Religion at the Ballot Box: Building a Better Bias Detector26 January 2012, 12:00 pm
The color of a candidate’s skin failed to sway voters to depress the lever for either Obama or McCain in the 2008 election, immediate analyses of that contest seemed to suggest. Some pundits hailed it as the first postracial election. [More]
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Children May Be Exposed to Higher Chemical Concentrations Than Their Mothers26 January 2012, 6:00 am
Children living near DuPont’s plant in West Virginia are exposed to much higher concentrations of an industrial chemical than their mothers, according to a newly published study. [More]
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Has Petroleum Production Peaked, Ending the Era of Easy Oil?25 January 2012, 3:31 pm
Despite major oil finds off Brazil's coast, new fields in North Dakota and ongoing increases in the conversion of tar sands to oil in Canada , fresh supplies of petroleum are only just enough to offset the production decline from older fields. At best, the world is now living off an oil plateau--roughly 75 million barrels of oil produced each and every day--since at least 2005, according to a new comment published in Nature on January 26. ( Scientific American is part of Nature Publish...
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Tame Theory: Did Bonobos Domesticate Themselves?25 January 2012, 10:50 am
Time and again humans have domesticated wild animals, producing tame individuals with softer appearances and more docile temperaments, such as dogs and guinea pigs. But a new study suggests that one of our primate cousins--the African ape known as the bonobo --did something similar without human involvement. It domesticated itself. [More]
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Why the Supreme Court GPS Decision Won't Stop Warrantless Digital Surveillance25 January 2012, 10:10 am
On January 23 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that law enforcement authorities do not generally have a right to affix a GPS tracking device to a suspect's car without first obtaining a valid warrant. Of the many things that can be said about the case, which has been called the most important Fourth Amendment test in a decade , perhaps the most sobering in the long run will be this: the decision is based on technology assumptions that are rapidly becoming irrelevant. [More]
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The Scientist: Jim Hansen Risks Handcuffs to Make His Research Clear24 January 2012, 11:00 am
Editor's note: Climate Query is a semi-weekly feature offered by Daily Climate, presenting short Q&A's with players large and small in the climate arena. Read others in the series at http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/query/climate-queries . [More]
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Women Feel Pain More Intensely Than Men Do23 January 2012, 7:00 pm
When a woman falls ill, her pain may be more intense than a man's, a new study suggests. [More]
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How Do You Start a Fire With Ice?27 January 2012, 3:34 pm
You’ll need a sunny day, a frozen lake, a sharp knife, warm hands and some dry leaves or wood....
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Psychics on the Moon and Incoming Sun Spit27 January 2012, 2:52 pm
This Week in Discovery News we've got psychics on the moon and the sun is spitting radiation right at us!...
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Hunting Pluto's Dangerous Rings27 January 2012, 1:46 pm
If there is a ring system, it could spell doom for the speedy New Horizons probe when it flies by in 2015....
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Can You Choose to be Gay?27 January 2012, 1:32 pm
'Sex and the City' star Cynthia Nixon says that she chooses to be gay. What does science say?...
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Cold Plasma Layer Detected High Above Earth27 January 2012, 1:00 pm
Cold, electrically charged particles have long been suspected to exist tens of thousands of miles above the Earth's surface, and now satellites have detected such ions there for the first time....
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Bus-Size Asteroid Buzzes Earth in Close Flyby27 January 2012, 10:27 am
The newly discovered asteroid came within 36,750 miles of Earth when it made its closest approach at 10:30 a.m. EST....
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See the World as a Shrimp Views It27 January 2012, 10:14 am
A specialized camera allows people to see the world as reef-dwelling animals do....
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NASA Welcomes Our Surgical Robot Overlords27 January 2012, 10:10 am
Using a pioneering surgery technique developed for hospitals, could NASA fix satellites in orbit?...
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Your Privacy On Google: Don't Panic, Do Think27 January 2012, 9:53 am
Google's plan to merge the data it collects from its users isn't actually a radical shift....
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