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Want anti-aliasing in StarCraft II? Hope you have an Nvidia GPU.
29 Jul 2010, 8:30 pm
How long did Blizzard spend developing StarCraft II? Since 2003, give or take some time here and there when the company needed all hands on deck for World of Warcraft. So you’d think that would be enough time to figure out how to implement anti-aliasing into the graphics engine, right? You see where I’m going with this. [more]
CrunchGear | Nicholas Deleon
Here Come The Cheap E-Readers And Most of Them Will Be Junk
29 Jul 2010, 7:41 pm
With the announcement of the $99 Ocean Reader Copia Tablet we are entering familiar territory. As you probably remember, netbooks went through the same race to the bottom as ebooks and this Ocean Reader is the first of the lot to hit our shores with any fanfare. While I'm sure a mention in the WSJ is fairly important, the Copia and the Alex and the Farfenugen or whatever is next to ride down the ereader/tablet pike will enter a strange market. There are currently two - if not three - popular platforms. I'd say the Kindle is far and away the most robust followed by the Sony ereaders beloved by PDF downloaders and trailed by the Nook whose viability I'm bearish on. While a multi-purpose device like the Streak can exist in this ecosystem, any ereader that advertises itself as primarily an ereader will be sunk. [more]
CrunchGear | John Biggs
Verizon LTE USB Modem Pictures Leak
29 Jul 2010, 6:55 pm
BGR just managed to get some pictures of Verizon's LTE USB modem, which is apparently currently under testing. The modem is made by Samsung, and uses the next gen LTE SIM card. [more]
CrunchGear | Dave Freeman
$99 Copia Tablet Breaks The $100 barrier, But Who Will Want One?
29 Jul 2010, 6:28 pm
The prices, they are dropping, dropping. Yesterday had Amazon lowering the bar yet again with the announcement of a new, improved, and cheaper Kindle. Today we have news of a 5" tablet (the same size as the Dell Streak) selling for a paltry $99. It's called the Ocean Reader, from a company called Copia, and although they're marketing it as an e-reader, its 5" LCD screen suggests it's more of a tablet. Incidentally, there was actually news of a device like this at CES, but this is totally different from the hardware they showed then. They must have decided E-ink was for the birds. [more]
CrunchGear | Devin Coldewey
All Of Syfy’s Comic-Con 2010 Trailers In One Spot For Your Viewing Pleasure
29 Jul 2010, 5:31 pm
Comic-Con 2010 is all wrapped up. The cosplayers are back in their basements planning next year’s attire. The booth babes are back home waiting for their talent agency to find them another gig. And the rest of us are left scouring the interwebs for trailers and video clips of upcoming shows and movies. Well, good [...] [more]
CrunchGear | Matt Burns