Netflix announced that it now has all seven past seasons of the irreverent FX sitcom It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia available for U.S. members. The wildly inappropriate show, now in its eighth season, may be the perfect antidote to all the sappy holiday fluff appearing on TV this time of year. The show follows the exploits of “The Gang,” the [...]
Tim Cook has been making the interview rounds this past week, and in one of them the Apple CEO implied that his company has jumpstarted its work in the realm of television. “When I go into my living room and turn on my TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years,” he said on [...]
Riot Games’s League of Legends might have more players than World of Warcraft, and more than any other game in the western nations it’s turning e-sports — competitive video games as a spectator sport — into a real thing that people get excited about and pay for. It’s not the only player, of course. We reported recently that Twitch.tv, a streaming video [...]
14 years after its original release on the PC platform, classic role-playing game forefather Baldur’s Gate has finally arrived on Apple’s iPad. The game was delayed several days in by bugs discovered in Apple’s authentication process even after the Windows desktop version became available, but it’s now in the Apple App Store. As long as you have an iPad 2 or [...]
In an interview with The New Yorker, Trent Reznor detailed his plans for building a new streaming music platform through a partnership with Beats by Dre. The collaboration between the Nine Inch Nails frontman and the company bearing the name of legendary hip-hop artist and producer Dr. Dre was first announced earlier this year, and now Reznor has divulged some [...]
Spotify held a big press event in New York today to make a whole slew of major announcements, the most notable of which is that Spotify is on the cusp of finally launching an Rdio-like web-based player, after months of requiring you to download software to play music from its service. The web player will let you stream the music [...]
Barnes & Noble calls its entry-level e-reader the Nook Simple Touch, and to compete with Kindle and the like, the company just dropped the Simple Touch’s price down to $79 from $99 on Sunday. That’s $10 more than the basic Kindle, but the Paper White has a touchscreen, while the Kindle does not. Not that long ago, Barnes & Noble [...]
DC Comics has literally doubled its digital comics sales over the past year, and the publisher is going all in on digital platforms like Kindle, iTunes, and Nook by offering individual episodes for download. DC Comics claims this makes it the only major comic publisher to offer its weekly comics on all the major tablet and reader platforms. These issues were [...]
When Lost creator J.J. Abrams took over the Star Trek franchise and rebooted it with 2009′s conservatively named Star Trek, he brought back a bloated franchise that hadn’t made much cultural headway in about a decade. Now the sequel Star Trek Into Darkness is imminent (May 17, 2013 is the release date) and the first trailer is on the web. It’s dramatic, explosive, [...]
We don’t know if you’ve heard this yet, but apparently a global bacon shortage is imminent. While realistically no one’s expecting expecting bacon to disappear from the face of the planet, it was enough to inspire Parks and Recreation‘s reluctant city government bureaucrat Ron Swanson to record a PSA about the coming savory apocalypse. The YouTube video is just a [...]
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