Considering the almost complete absence of love in the commercial marketplace for Moorestown and Moblin — and the fact that there’s no sign of MeeGo building serious momentum just yet — we’re sure that Intel would’ve just loved for the drop-dead-sexy GW990 to serve as the platform’s crown jewel for 2010. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen, because we’ve just been able to confirm that the 4.8-inch beast (and potential Dell Mini 5 foil) has been wiped off the product roadmap. Though we don’t know exactly what happened, the fact …

Telltale just held a small little meeting here in San Francisco where they revealed just what the hell this iPhone full of erasers was all about. Telltale unveiled a new game, along with a new initiative called the Pilot Program. Telltale is all about releasing quirky little titles that others won’t touch, and the Pilot Program is their way of getting even weirder concepts out there.
Puzzle Agent is the first new title to be featured in the Pilot Program. It’s an adventure puzzle game in the style of the Professor …

Lost Planet 2 is coming out soon and will include a ton of features as this exclusive trailer for the game reveals. The Lost Planet 2 package will include an arena, training mode, a ton of over the top weapons and more! We also get to see Albert Wesker, Frank West and a Servbot in action!
Lost Planet 2 will be out for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on May 11. For more on Lost Planet 2, check out our recent preview and interview on the multiplayer. Be sure to …

In this corner: a multi-million dollar NASA-sponsored space balloon, crashing magnificently in the Australian desert. In the other: an dark SUV of indeterminate make and model. I’m not a betting man, but I’d say the smart money’s on the balloon. More »

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We were hoping that earning a merit badge in “video games” would involve something a bit more video gamey than explaining “why it is important to have a rating system for video games,” or working to create “a schedule for you to do things that includes your chores, homework, and video gaming.” But that’s exactly what the Boy Scouts of America requires of its young padawans to get a belt loop in the subject. Well, in fairness, you also have to “play a new video game that is approved by …

We’re quite smitten with Hello Games’ Joe Danger — you only need read our latest hands-on impressions to glean as much — so you can imagine we’re anxious to take the final product for a few laps around the track. According to recent statements from Hello Games’ co-founder Sean Murray (via Eurogamer), it may be available for download as soon as late May or early June.
Murray said that his team has their “fingers crossed” they’ll be able to meet the proposed release window. “We’re in 100 percent full-on crunch at …

Droid, Milestone, Eris, Moment, Spica, even the Hero, all have had their Eclair, one way or another. G1 and myTouch 3G? Not so much. But don’t worry, Android early adopters, because Cyanogen‘s got your back. Most all the bells, whistles and hardware-accelerated graphics of Android 2.1 are coming to the HTC Dream, Magic and Sapphire in CyanogenMod 5.0.7, and you can see a video of a T-Mobile G1 running the new build after the break. Twitter buzz indicates the ROM will be out any minute now; the dev himself tweeted …

Apple has acquired Siri, a company that makes a virtual assistant app. Siri was inspired by DARPA’s CALO — the Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes — project. Originally designed to help streamline military personnel’s activities, the consumer app focuses on helping you find things like restaurants, making use of speech recognition to boot. Essentially a smart search, there’s plenty of speculation of course as to what this means about the direction that Apple might be taking… and that direction seems to lead towards Google-y territory. Now we don’t want …

With so many key players leaving Infinity Ward following the studio’s co-founder’s dismissal — along with a bevy of related lawsuits — things aren’t looking good for the developer.
According to analyst Mike Hickey of Janco Partners, Infinity Ward as we know it may not be around for much longer.
“We expect Infinity Ward studio will be essentially closed after their next map pack released,” he says, “with development work on Modern Warfare 3 spread between two studios not historically tied to the franchise.”
The closure of the studio wouldn’t mean …

If we know you at all (and we think we know you pretty well) you’ll probably be amused and titillated to learn that Vodafone has announced that its first Vodafone-branded Android phone will be available this May. The Vodafone 845 — which we first saw in an FCC filing a couple weeks ago — certainly is, in the UK idiom, a “budget blower.” Featuring Android 2.1, a 2.8-inch (240 x 320) touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel camera, 128MB RAM, and 512MB storage, there is nothing too terribly wild here, but you know what? …