Blizzard is apparently fed up with dealing with WoW account thefts. They are now offering a Keychain Token style device which generates a unique code to help prevent unauthorized access. The device generates a six-digit code which links to your account, and is needed to login. It then becomes invalid after a short time. Great…
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Paramount Pulls out of Comic-Con
Terrible news for con-goers this year. On top of actors strikes, major geek movie maker Paramount Pictures will NOT be attending. "The timing was off this year," said one Paramount spokesman. Tweet Source
IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India
Students studying computing in the UK and US are outsourcing their university coursework to graduates in India and Romania. Work is being contracted out for as little as £5 on contract coding websites usually used by businesses. Students are outsourcing everything from simple coursework to full blown final year dissertations. It’s causing a major headache…
20 million Firefox 3 downloads in a week, ~4% market share
Mozilla’s Firefox 3 web browser has been downloaded over 20 million times in the first week after its launch. Firefox 3 by itself now has almost 4 percent market share. Tweet
Superman Returns Sequel In 2009
With The Dark Knight hitting theaters in a few weeks, it’s about time something happened on that sequel to Superman Returns. It’s been awhile since we’ve heard anything, but star Brandon Routh assures the guys at Hollywood.com that it’s moving along. Routh tells them that the script is currently being written, and that he expects…
Death Race Movie Poster
Shock has a first look at the new Death Race movie poster which is now in theaters. Something about it just screams “shitty movie”. I’m surprised they didn’t try to play up the imagery of the custom killer cars instead of the generic floating heads. Jason Statham leads the cast of an action-thriller set in…
Age of Conan: June 26th Patch Notes
The latest patch notes for Age of Conan have been posted. The list of fixes, enhancements and improvements seems slightly less-lengthy so things must finally be smoothing out for developers. Tweet Source
Del Rey to Publish ‘Clone Wars’ Novels
LucasBooks and the Random House imprint Del Rey have announced that Del Rey will publish five novels that will tie-in with the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated feature film and the cartoon series that will air in the fall of 2008 on the Cartoon Network and TNT. The Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated…
Bracing for an Actors’ Strike
Labor unrest continues to dominate the landscape in Hollywood, and the possibility of a strike by actors has large movie studios planning to shut down production after Monday and has television studios rushing to complete episodes of series scheduled to return in the fall or January. Most major movie studios long ago scheduled their big…
Nvidia GeForce GTX 200
Nvidia’s new line of GeForce GPUs, the GTX 280 and 260, are like seven course gourmet meals for your computer. They blow all other graphics processors, including Nvidia’s previous high performance model, the 9800, away. But to refer to them as GPUs is a bit deceiving–their Complete Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) technology enables the 200s…
