Alas North American Nintendo 3DS owners, the time has come for web browsing and downloads via Nintendo’s eShop. By the evening of June 6th a free system update will be available over WiFi which includes the aforementioned upgrades plus a variety of new content including a giveaway of a classic NES game. Let’s take a look at the full rundown of goodies headed our way next Monday.
June, 2011
Well come on, it’s up there, surely. Have you seen any worse? Let us know in the comments section.
Ahead of E3, here’s the first trailer for the Tomb Raider reboot. Jumping back to the beginning of her adventuring career, it finds a markedly less buxom Lara Croft onboard ship fiddling with what looks like an iPhone before almost drowning (shades of folk deliberately doing that to her in the original game) and ending up ship wrecked.
Though there’ll be more Tomb Raider news at E3, the game isn’t set to hit PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 until 2012 so it’s not surprising that the trailer is 100% CGI. Still, we’re excited to get our first look at the bloodied, broken beginnings. Jump in to see the trailer and tell us what you make of the new look Lara…
Most of us use it every day without a second thought, but did you know Wi-Fi is the invention of one of the biggest stars of 1940’s Hollywood? One of the world’s most beautiful women, Hedy Lamarr was at the centre of controlling husbands, arms dealers, Nazis, and Hollywood fame. Her life had more twists and turns than one of her movies – read on for her amazing story, and to find out how her legacy extends to Half-Life 2.
Apple stock watchers say AirPort devices – specifically the AirPort Extreme and TimeCapsule – are becoming a rare commodity at the Apple Store. Coupled with the news that iCloud will be unveiled on Monday, speculation is growing that we’ll see an iCloud-enabled TimeCapsule and Airport Extreme models hitting the shelves. Here’s why that could make sense…
Hear that clock ticking? OnLive, the streaming gaming service, is set to hit the UK this autumn but you won’t have to wait until then to reserve your gamer tag and get in line. The OnLive.co.uk site is set to come online next Thursday as the service makes a series of announcements at E3. Click through for details and to see OnLive in action…
Ok, so every other tech story on the net carries a bogus reference to Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report’. But put aside your cynicism for one second – this is the real deal!
In the video, you’ll see an amazing, transparent touchscreen data interface that recognises your finger-taps using ultrasound.
Created for Ford’s Start More Live event, Dom Baker of Wunderman – one of the brains behind it – took us through the tech…
HTC has announced a move that could exacerbate Android fragmentation even more – an SDK for its HTC Sense skin for Android. The move’s pretty major as it means HTC is trying to tempt developers to build apps that are specifically crafted to work with Sense 3.0. Read on for more details and what it means for Android fans…