The Paintball Guns of Community

If you watch Community, you better be, then you may remember last year’s ‘Modern Warfare’ paintball episode. They stepped it up with a new challenge in ‘A Fistful of Paintballs’ with some new guns. I asked myself what kind of paintball guns do they use on Community? So, I did some research and put everything together for you because you’re reading this and that makes me happy! Read the rest of this article…

Sony Can’t Catch a Break [UPDATED]

Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is down right now. Sony says on their site “In the course of our investigation into the intrusion into our systems we have discovered an issue that warrants enough concern for us to take the service down effective immediately.” SOE handles all of Sony’s MMO games like DC Universe, Everquest, Star Wars Galaxies and Planetside. Sony is promising an update later today, we’ll see.

UPDATE: It looks like almost 13,000 credit cards were compromised. Check out the SOE website for more details.

UPDATE 2: Damn Sony, well it looks like it was actually over 24 million credit cards, names, addresses, emails, genders, date of births, login ID and hashed passwords according to the Wall Street Journal…

Twitter Just Bought TweetDeck

Back in February we heard that UberMedia (UberTwitter, EchoFon) was buying TweetDeck for $30 million and today TechCrunch is reporting that Twitter counter offered with $40-50 million. This is smart for Twitter since TweetDeck is widely used and if UberMedia owned them that means they would have the highest market share on how people interact with Twitter. Usually I won’t post rumors but this looks legit, the full announcement is supposed to be in a couple of days.

Urban Riot Asks You to Fight for Cash

Are you addicted to text based RPG’s like me? Well you should check out Urban Riot, the first and only game that allows you to put up or shut up and fight for cash. Urban Riot started out as Internet Mobster two years ago and has since then moved to Facebook and re-branded as Urban Riot. The game is really simple and doesn’t take a lot of your time, removing some of the aspects I hate in other games like Mafia Wars. Read the rest of this article…

White iPhone IS the Same Size as Black iPhone, Calm Down

Man the internet was abuzz when it was said that the white iPhone was thicker after using lead from a mechanical pencil to be the judge, because we all know that those are straight and accurate measuring devices. Well Consumer Reports decided to see if it was true using um, a more professional device. What they found when they used their professional calipers was that it was in fact the same size as the black iPhone. Now case manufacturers can rest assure they don’t need to make two different model cases.

[IMG Consumer Reports]

Awww, Gearbox Hooks Couple Up

This was incredibly nice of Borderlands developer Gearbox. Ben and his girlfriend Tora are huge fans and when Ben reached out to Gearbox they made the very cool and funny video above to help Ben out. Want to know what she said? Well watch the video after the jump, ok fine she said YES, I can’t keep surprises.

Ben came up with the idea after finding out that he and his girlfriend both at huge fans and actually the same level. He didn’t mind if Gearbox said no because he still wanted to tell them how much of a fan he is. Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox “was one of the biggest pushers of the idea, saying ‘we really need to do something on this.'” Ben visited Gearbox a few times to work on the video with Adam Fletcher and Chris Faylor. Read the rest of this article…

Google Offers is Live Now

A few months back there was a rumor that Google was trying to buy Groupon for $6 billion and that Groupon turned them down because they wanted to go public. Well after that Google started working on their own version and now is the day that it launches. Currently it’s only offered in Portland, New York City, Oakland and San Francisco, Groupon expanded the same way. Read the rest of this article…

T-Mobile Rolls Out $80 Unlimited Plan

T-Mobile announced today their new single-line unlimited plan for $79.99 with a two year agreement. This is UNLIMITED voice, text and data for any smart phone like the HTC HD7 or the myTouch 4G. What’s the catch? Read the rest of this article…

IE10 Platform Preview, Uggghhh…

Didn’t Microsoft just release IE9? Well get ready for IE10 with native support for HTML5 and CSS3! Microsoft makes such a big deal with browser releases because they still haven’t copied Chrome and how they just update you without telling. So we are going to have a 5th version of IE that is supported, yay! Download and video demo after the jump. Read the rest of this article…

The House of Representatives Wanted to Know if the Government Was Shutdown

This is one of those LOL stories. Zach Seward, a WSJ editor, created the website isthegovernmentshutdown.com. That’s not the funny thing though. What’s funny is the top 10 ISP’s for traffic, #9 was the ISP for the House of Representatives. In the top 50 referral traffic were the following government agencies: the Senate, the Navy, Homeland Security, the Justice Department and Health and Human Services.

[via: TechCrunch]