Oculus Rift Unboxing & Review - VR Begins

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Oculus Rift Unboxing & Review - VR Begins

May 23, 2016 /
Virtual reality. Like the internet, it's something that mankind conceived of in the earliest days of modern technology, even if it wouldn't be realized until much later. For the internet, 'later' came a solid thirty years ago, although it wouldn't reach mainstream popularity for another ten. With the advent of the Oculus Rift, that's where we are again: the dark ages of something world-changing in its formative stages, impressive for where it is now, but most exciting for where it's going to be. As it ...

Oculus Rift Unboxing & Review - VR Begins

Amazon Fire 5th-gen Review - The $50 Tablet That Could

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Amazon Fire 5th-gen Review - The $50 Tablet That Could

February 01, 2016 /
The 5th-gen Amazon Fire is an interesting little device, simultaneously ambitious and barebones. While the prospect of a $50 tablet is itself nothing new, in the past this price point was exclusively the domain of Chinese knockoffs and barely-functional toys for small children. But when a name like Amazon steps in, things are immediately a bit different. Amazon has already proven itself as a budget hardware manufacturer with its excellent Amazon Basics lineup, and now the Fire brings the same spirit into ...

Amazon Fire 5th-gen Review - The $50 Tablet That Could

Sword Art Online: Lost Song - An Ode to SAO (Review)

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Sword Art Online: Lost Song - An Ode to SAO (Review)

December 02, 2015 /
It's a bit hard to believe that what began as a formerly Japan-exclusive low-budget PSP title has now become an annualized multi-platform series for all regions, but here we are: Sword Art Online is just that popular, whether or not you are of the opinion that it deserves to be. And truth be told, following a painfully mediocre second anime season and two pretty 'meh' ports of the pretty 'meh' game that was Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment, it was something of a mystery as to how Bandai Namco felt it ...

Sword Art Online: Lost Song - An Ode to SAO (Review)

Mobius Final Fantasy Hands-On Review — The Oddest Duck Yet

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Mobius Final Fantasy Hands-On Review — The Oddest Duck Yet

July 11, 2015 /
Though it's not available in the west and Square Enix has not announced any intentions to make it so (though it probably will—just look at Chaos Rings 3), yesterday I had the opportunity to go hands-on with Mobius Final Fantasy, recently released in Japan on iOS and Android. The game was pushed as a full-scale console RPG on smartphones, but in the end it looks and plays more like a tech demo for the new Unity 5 engine than a direct companion to previous entries in the Final Fantasy series. The combat is ...

Mobius Final Fantasy Hands-On Review — The Oddest Duck Yet

BenQ MH630 DLP Projector Review

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BenQ MH630 DLP Projector Review

July 06, 2015 /
While TV sets slowly limp from 1080p to 4k and by and large have yet to come down to equilibrium pricing, projectors have also gained popularity as TV alternatives, but with one caveat: most affordable projectors aren't even up to full HD yet, if HD at all. In recent years cheap LED projectors have given projectors new life on the home user market, but at the cost of brightness, pixels, and most advanced features considered standard on higher-end models. Not to mention that while these days practically all ...

BenQ MH630 DLP Projector Review

Motorola Nexus 6 - Bigger Really is Better (Review)

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Motorola Nexus 6 - Bigger Really is Better (Review)

May 27, 2015 /
Well, it's that time of year again: Google I/O time, where one of the most important companies of the 21st century takes to the stage to talk about what's next for their many properties—most importantly to some, Android. While rumors have circulated predicting the cessation of Google-branded Nexus devices and it's unlikely we'll see any new entries to the product line over the next few days, there's still plenty to love about the most recent Nexus products, specifically the Nexus 6. Following a troubled ...

Motorola Nexus 6 - Bigger Really is Better (Review)