Some enterprising chap on eBay with the username jaybuysthings has worked out the identity of the artist Banksy. To clarify: he’s not got any Banksy artwork or anything like that, he’s just worked it out from tax records and now will give a piece of paper with Banksy’s real name on to the highest bidder. At time of writing, bidding has hit the £1m mark. Has everyone forgotten about the Daily Mail story outing Banksy as one Robin Gunningham?
January, 2011
Are you dreading the day when the Wikipedia appeal banner makes its return? Does the phrase “A personal appeal from Jimmy Wales” give you nightmarish visions of the penetrating stare of Jimmy Wales driving you to involuntarily throw hard cash at the screen in an attempt to make his face go away? Well, turns out that banner has been tested alongside a whole host of other banners, and it’s his face that was most successful in getting you to dig deep.
Mealtime! Tuck into a veritable feast of all the latest tech news right here, right now in the lunchtime lowdown!
The Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike DLC has broken cover and you can take a look at it in a new trailer after the break. Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike will set you back 1200 Microsoft Points (don’t you just love those made up currencies?) and is an Xbox 360 exclusive for the time being. Take a gander after the break and let us know: are you planning on punting for the Call of Duty DLC?
The Blackberry PlayBook has been dogged by claims that it will be reliant on a Blackberry to really play but RIM has now denied that a need to sync with a mobile to get email, calendars and memos will make the tablet troublesome. In an interview with Forbes, Ryan Bidan, RIM’s senior product manager in charge of the PlayBook, says: “On its own the Blackberry PlayBook is a great standalone tablet. This is not a device that is reliant on a Blackberry.” Phew! But while we’ve got our Blackberry PlayBook hands on ready for you to read we’ll reserve judgement until our Blackberry PlayBook review. Click the headline to reach the comments and let us know what you think of the Blackberry PlayBook.
Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is one of the most eagerly awaited games of 2011, and while we’ve seen a trailer promising dragons (Dragons!) already, we’ve not seen a single glimpse of what the game itself will look like.
That combined with promises of it being based on the Fallout 3 engine had people worried that it would end up looking dated in 2011 even more so than Fallout New Vegas did last year. Fear not though: the first screen is out, along with plenty of juicy details, and Elder Scrolls 5 is looking mighty fine indeed.
An iPod touch 3D is at the centre of the maddest new Apple rumour. With Nintendo revealing the Nintendo 3DS tomorrow, Apple rumourmongers say that the next iPod touch will come packing similar glasses-free 3D tech and are pointed to a pile of 3D patent filings to support their claims.
The spread of Kinect has been mindblowing to watch with an unofficial Mac Kinect tool on the Mac App Store and numerous Kinect hacks but official PC and Mac drivers could arrive imminently. Sources, allegedly from within Microsoft, suggest that driver support and an SDK are due “in the coming months and will allow third-party developers to create titles that utlilise the Kinect sensor when plugged into a computer.” The rumour also suggests XNA Game Studio is involved to bring Kinect to Xbox Live’s indie games. At CES 2011, Steve Ballmer said Kinect for Windows would come “in the right time”, so the rumour doesn’t seem all that wild.
Out TBC | TBC | Microsoft (via Destructoid)