WE'VE MOVED!

We have moved over to the new website, thank you for waiting for us. I hope you enjoy the new site. Please visit the link below.

techture

Moving

I apologize for the lack of updates, however, soon I will be moving techture to my own web host. I will provide the link soon.

Please bear with us.

Jailbreaking Legalized for Mobile Phones

Major news for those of us who have, or considered, jailbreaking a piece of tech we own; we aren't criminals for that action anymore.

Light-Speed Computing A Step Closer

My father and I have been having this conversation for many years. Read a few old sci-fi books, and you'll see numerous references to instant computing via light waves. It seems like a few engineers at Intel are taking their leisure reading to heart in this ongoing endeavor.

Old Habits Die Hard

In our hustle of flashy electronics, gaming, and just plain working too much, it's pretty easy to miss "little" tidbits like this. Those major maladies we still suffer from as a species are actively being hunted, and in cases like this, we're using an old and sometimes flawed tactic to do it; the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Free iPhone/iTouch Apps of the Day

Digital Heist - Download in AppStore

Alright, this game is pretty awesome. Turns out some Russian hackers digify you and put you in the "mainframe of the United States Federal Reserve". Help them get the money, and they let you out. Don't, and well, they don't.

 It's pretty simple, you have to get from one end to the other by tilting your device to avoid little square pegs in the middle. I don't know what they do, I haven't touched one yet. I'm assuming they're bad however. Anyway, once you get the money, the alarm sounds and you have to go back where you came from. Sounds simple, but it's really fun, give it a shot. I don't think I'll get bored of this one any time soon.

More after the jump.

[Music] AKFG - Magic Disc

Excited! One of my favourite overseas bands just happens to be Asian Kung Fu Generation. I'm sure you've heard of them, if you like anime and what not I suppose. Anyway, they've come out with a new album; Magic Disc! Can't wait to hear it! 

According to Kurosaki from Nipponmedia.net, the bonus track, “Solanin” / SORANIN is the theme song for a movie of the same title.

View the track list and trailer for the movie after the jump!

Nerds Are Just Another Form of Homosexuals, Apparently.

The last thing I want to do is give publicity to ignorant hateful people such as this, but apparently, the Westboro Baptist Church(Warning: Very hateful unabashed language and actions toward homosexuals are posted on this site, visit at your own discretion.) are going to protest Comic-Con. (And I went and searched for it for you so you and took a screenshot so you don't have to visit the site.) For the simple reason of:

Yep. Because apparently, people are worshiping false gods according to them.

To go and protest where people are just going to have some harmless fun for a weekend, all for nothing, because they think some of these people are going to hell because they like their comic books; just screams publicity stunt. But then again, this is Westboro I'm talking about here. They've done countless things like this in the past. Shame they're still around; it's people like this that give reputable Christians and Catholics a bad name; and I can say that without being either.

But now, they're also going to demonize adults and children alike, who spend their free time reading comic books? Sure, they go to cons to buy and sell them, dress up like their favourite character for a day or two, but then a good majority go back on home, back to work, to their families, to their churches, and continue living their lives, as what I'm hoping, to be good people. Free of the so-called worship, this church is saying they do.

Don't get me wrong, there are people who take things too far in their life, become obsessed with them, but that can happen with almost anything,  even religion.

This instance, to me, happens to be the pot calling the kettle black. 

They should be going after the real abomination here: The Platypus.

(via blastr)

This Would Probably Sell Better Than Real Sonic Games.

Normally I don't see much fun, or use in ROM hacks, but I found this one very interesting. It's one of those hacks that makes collecting rings in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 bad for you, forcing you to run around the stages just to avoid rings. The game itself is intact, which makes it harder, since the stages are designed to help you actually collect them. 


I won't spoil it for you though. Have a watch for yourself. 

If you find it as funny as I did, and want to try it yourself, you can get it here.

[My2Cents] Crackdown 2

I was one of the very few people that picked it up the first one for the actual game, and not the beta for Halo 3. I enjoyed the first one, I did really. But I have a horrible problem when I play sandbox games unfortunately; I tend to just run loose in the city and rampage or collect orbs, so I hadn't actually beat Crackdown. So with the help of a friend, we sat down two nights before the game came out, and beat our games(since he hadn't beaten it either). Turns out I was only four bosses away; whodathunkit? 

[My2Cents] Sin & Punishment 2: Star Successor

Alrighty. So, I pre-ordered my copy of Sin & Punishment 2; after finally picking it up last night, I popped it in to play this evening. 

Kevin Butler is my hero

In what I feel was the best feature of all of E3, one simple speech summed up what I rant incessantly about to my friends; we play games because we are gamers. All of us. Casuals, hardcore, hobbyists, all of us. Don't bash one another, embrace our common hobby.

An Experiment Gone Awry

I try and keep up to date on as many tech and gaming sites as I can, and recently, I ran across Sony's partial admission of failure regarding the PSPGo. Before I continue, I'll state flatly that in theory, the PSPGo is a great device and I want one. In execution, however, Sony dropped the ball, and they are owning up to it, if only through PR double-speak.

Sonic Colors! (Hooray?)

Despite Sega's past transgressions of where they announce a Sonic game, crap in a bag, and then neatly place it onto my doorstep, with a brightly coloured label displaying the words, "NEW SONIC GAME!", I find myself crawling back to them in hopes that one day, some how, they would end up giving me what I wanted. So far, from what we've seen of Sonic 4, they're getting close to it. But then out of the blue(heh, yeah you know you like that), yesterday was announced that they are making another new Sonic game: Sonic Colors. 

Watered Down

There was a video on the TV at my local Gamestop that gave me pause recently. I heard an edited brief of the following the Splinter Cell Conviction release trailer that details the intentional "accessibility" of the newest title. The video in full is just below.

New Sh*t to Watch!

Finally, been waiting for the new anime stuff to crop up. To be honest. looking at this list, I'm only interested in one of them at the moment though, Osaka Hamlet. Looks interesting to me as it's not in it's "typical" anime style. What about you guys? See anything interesting?

via [NipponMedia.net]

Zeldathon!

I love charities. I love especially, charaties that are cool, and of course, involve video games. I like to see video games be involved in the world in good ways, instead of always smeared as they are, but that's a whole new article.

Anyway, Zeldathon!

Join Sam Wolfe, the dashing rogue, Will Alvarez, the troubled poet, Art Lansing, the bespectacled villain, Travis Johnson, the eccentric diplomat and Ethan Toolis, the giant with the heart of gold, as we play through all of the classics...

That's from the blog of a group of guys who are, right now, playing through all the Zelda games, in hopes that you will donate to them, and they, in turn, will donate the money gained through this, to Child's Play, a charity organaization developed by the creators of Penny Arcade.

Not only is this an awesome act of charity, it's apparently a school project as well. That's a great and commendable accomplishment, to try and make ones own charity and actually succeed in doing so. I encourage anyone reading this to stop on by and maybe help out a bit, if they can. You'll being helping out in more ways than one.

Fun with Punnett squares and playing the odds

I seem to be finding a lot of interesting videos lately. I'll share this one as it seems relevant to the "logic" debates I often find myself in. Sometimes something simple is the easiest way to explain the potential end of the world as we know it after all.

UR Doin it Right

First off, I'm new to the blog scene, so forgive my first few posts; I'm trying to find my legs.

I am often at odds with my peers due simply to the fact that I over-analyze everything. This trend does, however, have its advantages. I'll demonstrate by taking my first few outings into positive territory; Media Molecule is doing it right.

Enslaved!

Finally! I remember seeing this back in the September 2009 issue of Game Informer(link's to some pretty neat screenshots of the game). It's supposed to come out sometime this year(2010) on Xbox 360 and PS3; published by Namco Bandai. I love these type of games, to be honest, and so when I saw this, I became really excited.

Paying for Wii Online?

So yeah, apparently Shigeru Miyamoto said in an interview, that free online gaming with the Wii could change. Pay for online with the Wii? A ridiculous thought, to be honest. It doesn't even offer enough with the free online gaming. There are barely any titles that would even benefit from this, I can probably count them all on one hand. But then again, that's purely my opinion.

Using Friend Codes the way they do, isn't very optimal, they would more than likely have to perform a complete overhaul of the entire online system. And as much as I would like to see them do that, I think it would be for naught. 

It'll be very hard to convince people that the Wii is a viable online gaming plaform, espesially since it's already been established that it's not. I think gamers have already concluded, if you want to play an online game, you do it with PC, PS3, or 360. After so many years of giving us the same thing, over and over again, it's really hard to change how people view you. 

That said, I'd love to see what they think, they could do, to change this.

via [Gaming Center Online]

Kicking it Off With Something I Like

So, finally, Final Fantasy IX is coming to the US PSN. Soon, anyway, according to the PSN Blog. No actual date has been announced unfortunately. In anycase, this Final Fantasy happens to be my favourite one. It had a versatile cast of characters, who had depth and were more relatable than that of VII or VIII's, in my opinion.

One of the things I loved so much about IX happened to be Zidane. He was peppy, happy-go-lucky, and had an all out good view on life, for the most part. After VII and VIII, he was a breath of fresh air, all things considered. He never whined, or complained, he simply went ahead and did what he thought was right, and I commended him for this. Granted by the end of the game, he became slightly more downtrodden, but without spoiling anything, he certainly had every right to be.

Since this isn't a review or anything, just simply something I stumbled across, and wanted to kick this place off with something, I'll end it here. I hope there are others who share my excitement in the fact that Final Fantasy IX is coming to the PSN soon.

Anyone?

via [PSN Blog]