You may have heard about a little invention called the DVR. You may also have heard that it makes TV networks and advertisers a tad bit nervous, because fewer and fewer people watch advertisements when they can simply skip through them. Jason Kint isn’t losing any sleep over it. Kint is the General Manager of […]
It’s fair to say that America has, at best, a mixed record responding to natural disasters. The high profile failures of Hurricane Katrina still loom large, and while the response to Hurricane Sandy wasn’t the same unmitigated fiasco, such a statement is damning with faint praise. The government – some of it anyway – knows […]
A little under a year ago, Techcitement published a list of murderous robots, partially because the Powers That Be here wanted to protect the future of humanity from the mechanical hordes. People mostly laughed at the aforementioned list. Robotic research think tank Boston Dynamics, who we previously described as a “nightmare factory”, have upgraded its […]
Well, that was odd. The PlayStation 4 has been announced. Sony’s massive PR machine unveiled it yesterday in what was intended to be the big, get-excited, showstopping event that would generate enough buzz about the new platform to keep the internet salivating until launch. Instead, the whole event was met with a resounding chorus of […]
As I type this, Sony’s great big PlayStation 4 announcement event has just wrapped up in NYC. A parade of big name developers have been coming out one by one to sing the praises of the new console. Sizzle reels for new games have sizzled, and the fashion-forward game designer appears to be wearing sport […]
In case you haven’t heard, Sony is slated to unveil the PlayStation 4 tonight at 6 PM Eastern Time. Multiple outlets are reporting some advance details, and we’ll have a full rundown up on Techcitement this evening. In the meantime, here’s a cheat sheet of rumors everyone seems to agree upon. IT MIGHT BE AVAILABLE […]
Let’s not mince words: Someone has invented a video game that serves you beer. Specifically, that someone is the McKinney advertising agency, who built The Last Barfighter machine for its client, Big Boss Brewing. The Last Beerfighter is a fighting game that, instead of accepting quarters, activates when a motion sensor detects a player has […]
If you were a teenage comic book geek in the 1990s, you probably remember the slightly tentative steps that publishers like Marvel and DC took toward digital distribution of their products. Browser-based, semi-animated webcomics were a weird little ghetto within the comic book industry, a way to give some low-risk exposure to unknown writers and […]
The internet geek-comedy collective Rooster Teeth is that rarest of online animals: a group with a history longer than 18 months or so. Rooster Teeth’s ongoing series, Red Vs Blue, set (sort of, but not exactly) in the universe of Microsoft’s Halo franchise and animated (mostly) as Machinima within the Xbox games themselves, is well […]
Until recently, I lived in New York City, a town whose general stance on customer service is “death before helpfulness.” This sentiment was particularly true in the various Verizon stores I visited over the years, where the employees seemed to take a special joy in actively destroying their customers’ hopes. I’m told other carriers’ retails […]
