The Interactive

Trent Reznor and Beats by Dre to launch new streaming music service

Anna Washenko — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:54:01 +0000

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 [...]

Trent Reznor and Beats by Dre to launch new streaming music service | The Interactive

Past seasons of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia arrive on Netflix

Anna Washenko — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:17:43 +0000

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 [...]

Past seasons of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia arrive on Netflix | The Interactive

League of Legends leads the eSports charge, classic scandals in tow

Pawel Kowalczyk — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:00:04 +0000

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 [...]

League of Legends leads the eSports charge, classic scandals in tow | The Interactive

The Nook Simple Touch goes for $79 instead of $99 now

Samuel Axon — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:23:17 +0000

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 [...]

The Nook Simple Touch goes for $79 instead of $99 now | The Interactive

First Star Trek Into Darkness trailer blows up the internet

Samuel Axon — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:10:19 +0000

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, [...]

First Star Trek Into Darkness trailer blows up the internet | The Interactive

Download Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition for iPad on the App Store now

Samuel Axon — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:36:07 +0000

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 [...]

Download Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition for iPad on the App Store now | The Interactive

Apple CEO Tim Cook drops biggest hint yet about a TV revolution

Anna Washenko — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:00:26 +0000

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 [...]

Apple CEO Tim Cook drops biggest hint yet about a TV revolution | The Interactive

Spotify announces a web player and much-improved song discovery tools

Samuel Axon — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:52:03 +0000

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 [...]

Spotify announces a web player and much-improved song discovery tools | The Interactive

The iPad finally got an official YouTube app this week (again)

Samuel Axon — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:15:35 +0000

When Apple removed YouTube and Google Maps from the iOS 6 software update for the iPhone and iPad, people weren’t thrilled. But even though those apps aren’t packaged with iOS devices by default anymore, Google is slowly catching up by releasing downloadable versions in the Apple App Store. This week, a version of the iOS YouTube that supports both the [...]

The iPad finally got an official YouTube app this week (again) | The Interactive

iTunes 11, the biggest update in years, arrived as a download today

Samuel Axon — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:32:53 +0000

Apple launched iTunes 11 on Macs and Windows PCs today. It’s the biggest change to the music and video app since 2003, with a totally different, iPad-inspired interface and a much greater emphasis on the iCloud digital storage locker system for the content you buy through Apple’s online stores. This new version has been in development for months; we first [...]

iTunes 11, the biggest update in years, arrived as a download today | The Interactive