Stories written by Doug Dobbins

Over a month ago, the viral marketing for Man of Steel started to ramp back up with a message from Michael Shannon’s character, General Zod. The original video was a message for the people of Earth and for Superman himself, Kal-El. Now, the messages have returned and are appearing in different languages when users visit the official Man [...]

MSI has unveiled the new and refreshed GX70 and GX60, the world’s first AMD Richland A10-5750M powered gaming laptops. The new processor also increases battery life and CPU performance in both the 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch models. Both models are driven by the A10-5750 processor, with 750GB of hard drive space, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, a [...]

This week’s round of Steam weekly deals includes Sleeping Dogs for $12.50, Rochard for $2.50, Strike Suit Zero for $10, and the Unreal Deal Pack for $10. The Unreal Deal Pack includes Unreal Gold, Unreal 2: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor’s Choice Edition, Unreal Tournament 3 Black and Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year [...]

A brand new trailer for Sniper Elite v2 has been released, showing off some of the features you can expect to find in the Wii U version when the game launches on May 24th. Quick selection of weapons via the gamepad as possible, as well as a view of the entire map of a given [...]
May 21 2013 | Posted in
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Teyon has just announced the release of its newest title, Groove Heaven which will be released in America and Europe on the Nintendo 3DS eShop on May 23, 2013 for $3.99 and €3.99 respectively. In this rhythmic puzzler an angel, Rhymi, must deliver a letter from the Devil Lord to a little angel who [...]
May 21 2013 | Posted in
3DS,
Video Games |
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Sony’s Japan Studio followed up last week’s mysterious ‘Panopticon’ trailer with a second offering today, unveiling the project a a Vita multiplayer action game called Freedom Wars. The trailer also revealed it’s coming to Japan sometime next year. The new trailer is an embellishment of the first one, providing more context. Panopticon seems to be [...]

Battlefield 4 has announced via its Facebook page that the game will launch on October 29 of this year. In addition to versions on the PC, Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation 4, the team has also confirmed the game will be coming to Microsoft’s newly announced Xbox One console. The Xbox One [...]
May 21 2013 | Posted in
PS3,
Video Games |
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Ricky Gervais’ how Derek will makes its Netflix debut Sept. 12 at 12:01 a.m. PT. All seven 30-minute episodes will be available at launch. All Netflixerswill be able to watch the show, except for viewers in the U.K. The show already aired on Channel 4 there and was recently renewed for a second season, so [...]
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Google made it known to its array of merchants that it is discontinuing the Google Checkout functionality, and migrating some existing users to Google Wallet. In a blog post announcing the move, Google called the Wallet product “a platform that enables merchants to meet the demands of a multi-screen world where consumers shop in-stores, at [...]
May 21 2013 | Posted in
News,
News/Reviews |
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Boost Mobile today announced a new mobile wallet application for its Android smartphones. Boost Mobile Wallet is a mobile banking service targeted at the underbanked that lets Boost Mobile customers send money to people in 135 countries, pay bills, top-up prepaid wireless accounts, transfer funds between accounts, as well as deposit checks directly from the [...]