Archive for June, 2013


Anker 2.4G Wireless Vertical Mouse

Sunday, June 16th, 2013

anker-wireless-vertical-mouseManufacturer: Anker
Current Retail Price: $25.99

With the prevalence of computers in modern society, the kind of mouses and keyboards we use every day is becoming increasingly important.  Often times, especially if you use a computer to any moderate degree for school or work, you’re spending multiple hours every day interfacing with your computer, so the comfort of your peripherals, desk chair, or environment in general can make the difference between a pleasant and torturous day as well as the difference between health and chronic injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome.  Anker is attempting to assuage some of the strain related to working with computers with their new vertical mouse.  While not a brand new idea, Anker’s vertical mice are more widely available than their predecessors, and most importantly less than half of the average price of their competitors at $25.99.  Was the Anker 2.4G Wireless Vertical Ergonomic Optical Mouse able to change our perspective on mouse alignment or did it leave us with a case of vertigo?  Read on to find out.

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Best Buy Nintendo Experience E3 2013

Friday, June 14th, 2013

We attended the Nintendo Experience event at our local Best Buy yesterday and took a few videos/pictures for you to show you what it’s all about.  Basically, you come and schedule a time with one of the games with a Nintendo rep and then collect yourself some swag of varying impressiveness (from cool Luigi hats and coins given only to the first couple people to show up down to brochures, Mario Kart flags, and Wii U/Animal Crossing New Leaf pins).  Check after the jump for more videos and pictures!

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E3 2013 Day #2 Summary

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

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Nintendo has a good showing with their Nintendo Direct@E3 2013 showcase this morning.  New details were given for many of their highest profile first and third party games and the new Smash Bros. was shown running on the Wii U and the 3DS along with three of the characters being introduced in the game: Mega Man, Villager from Animal Crossing, and the female Wii Fit Trainer (hopefully the only random choice this time around in a similar vein to ROB and Mr. Game & Watch).

The rest of the details released today were as follows:

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E3 2013 Day #1 Summary

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

Perhaps the most memorable E3 conference day of all time happened today.  We’ll have a handy list of what we learned about the Xbox One, PS4, and other various sundry future game products up soon, but for now the single biggest news of the day: PS4 will not have any of the hated game restrictions of the Xbox One and will retail for a full $100 less at $399.99.

With a 500 GB HDD, a faster architecture than the Xbox One, no forced (or initially included) camera peripheral, huge indie support, the ability to share/sell used games, the ability to play offline indefinitely, and all of the long-standing benefits of PlayStation Plus (except that it’s now required to play multiplayer online *shrug*) the PS4 well and truly blew the Xbox One out of the water today, even considering the fact that the excellent-looking Titanfall from ex-Infinity Ward studio Respawn Entertainment is exclusive to the Xbox One and PC.  Unless Microsoft seriously rethinks its life and does a complete 180 on its policies, we definitely know which console we’ll be buying first for the office. 

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