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Law firm asks, ‘Were you banned from Xbox Live? We want to help.’

CrunchGear  Nov 20 09

It's safe to say that we hear at CrunchGear think you should be able to do whatever you want with hardware that you buy. Let's take console modding. You wanna flash the drive on your 360 for whatever reason? Fine, go ahead. But don't think that you can log onto Xbox Live with said modded console, and play your misbegotten wares (or is that warez?), on Microsoft's network. It's against the TOS, it makes a mockery of the entertainment medium that you purport to support, and, well, is unfair to the other players. Full story...

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BioShock 2: Great, good, or sorta meh?

CrunchGear  44 minutes ago

So, BioShock 2. Presumably you've heard of it. It comes out today, and I really can't figure out how I'm supposed to feel.

Effectology: Uilleann pipes, field drums and guitars

CrunchGear  about an hour ago

Good old Bill Ruppert posted another Effectology video showing off the creation of Uilleann pipe and drum sounds with EHX gear and a guitar.

Warner Bros. looking to reboot Superman movie franchise. Again.

CrunchGear  just under two hours ago

Get ready for another movie franchise re-boot! Yes, Warner Bros. wants to re-boot Superman, and it wants Christopher Nolan to sorta oversee the project, but not direct it.

You don’t want to see sports in 3D

CrunchGear  2 hours ago

ESPN plans to launch a 3D channel in time for this year’s World Cup. This is the downside. Not even Newcastle deserves that.

Blaster Master coming to Wiiware

CrunchGear  2 hours ago

Holy wow. Remember this game? You were some kid named Jason with a frog. The frog turns into a monster and then disappears and you follow the frog in a battle tank called Sofia the Third (WTF, right?).

Hands-on: UMID mbook BZ

CrunchGear  3 hours ago

The original UMID mbook M1 is a mixed bag of results. On one hand it’s a very pocketable Windows XP clamshell with a 4.

Poles are shocked – shocked! – at Bioshock 2

CrunchGear  3 hours ago

Oh, Ziema Lubuska, today is your lucky day! Apparently a games blogger for Gazeta Lubulska (Circulation: Maybe fifty grandmas out in Zielona Gora, Poland) just rocked the world with his review of Bioshock 2 saying that the game is a "Shock" and asking if "this is the direction video games are heading?" While his arguments are slow-witted and dull, it's definitely giving a small paper in rural Poland a nice boost in pageviews.

CrunchDeals: ‘Total War’ games 66% off

CrunchGear  4 hours ago

In preparation for Napoleon: Total War, which is due out on February 23rd, you can get all the previous Total War titles for 66% off from Steam this week.

USB 3.0-compatible PCI Express interface card

CrunchGear  4 hours ago

USB 3.0 is just around the corner, with us having reported about more and more compatible devices in the last few months.

The HTC Scorpion may pack 1.5Ghz processor, Android v2.2, and WiMax – if it exists

CrunchGear  4 hours ago

HTC cranks out Android handsets like candy corn - and we love that. The only downside to this, however, is that each new leak has us drooling before the last leak even has time to become a real product.



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