by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] The more I read about the RealDVD lawsuit (which I blogged last week), the more I feel like I’m listening to a broken record. Haven’t we heard this all before? Most recently, Wired pointed out how RealDVD is like a bong shop. After all, RealDVD clearly has a notice […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Last night, Google announced the beta launch of its AdSense for Games program, which will focus on placing ads in casual flash games as well as some larger titles. This move doesn’t come as a huge surprise, since Google bought AdScape Media for $23 million last year. In fact, […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Last night, CBS’s geektastic sitcom The Big Bang Theory featured the MMORPG Age of Conan. Without giving too much away, I’ll just say that it explored the perils of game addiction in a humorous way. Like the rest of the show, it’s not framed in a way to mock […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] Far be it for me to suggest anyone read anything offline, but if one were were to do so, I would definitely have to suggest Neal Stephenson’s newest creation: Anathem. Just from the title it sounds imposing. In a way it is, because it’s a tome of 900-plus pages. […]
Used to advertise movie posters included in the Sunday edition of the Brazilian Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, the following 4 illustrations of long-dead movie celebrities were made using only simple fonts. The result is, shall we say, rather surprising. I’ve included the first picture below, and if you want to see the other ones, […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] The idea of a space elevator isn’t exactly a new one, but CNN just published an article speculating that it may happen within our lifetimes. Apparently this “new space race” is being measured in stories rather than miles–one hundred thousand of them. Hundreds of engineers from all over the […]
Marketing agency CNK Promotions just came out with a bunch of incredibly cool-looking promotional flash drives that promise to make you the center of attention pretty much everywhere you go. Just check these out, and tell me that you honestly wouldn’t like to have one hanging on your keychain. Now if that’s not an amazing […]
I’m sure most of you noticed, we’ve been down on and off for the past 3 days. 2 weeks ago, I decided to move GAS to Dreamhost’s new VPS hosting solution. This new service promised to allow a site to run on a fixed amount of protected memory and CPU time. [GAS] got moved on […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] I was a child of the eighties, and the first computer that my parents bought was a Tandy CoCo, on which my mom taught me to type when I was seven. That computer also jumpstarted my love of videogames, since hours of playing Maniac Mansion revved me up to […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] As it has been out for a month and sitting near the top of the NY Times Bestseller List during that time, you may have already heard of Brad Meltzer’s The Book of Lies by now. However, what you might not know is what this book has to do […]