Ben Thornsberry 
By now you are hopefully one of the millions of adults that went to the theaters to see Marvel’s newest movie starring the merc with the mouth, Deadpool. If you haven’t, be warned, there are minor spoilers ahead that will be talked about. Entertainment Weekly caught up with Stan Lee at The Big Bang Theory’s … Read more
With Tom Clancy’s The Division beta coming to a close this weekend they released some numbers to let everyone know just how successful the trial run was. More than 6.4 million players jumped online to download and explore the desolate streets of New York City in The Division beta which makes the largest beta for … Read more
Killer Instinct was a launch title for Xbox One back in November of 2013 and to this day still has a prominent following of people who love fighter games. The game has over 20 playable characters and with the start of season 3 in March they will be adding the Arbiter from Halo into the … Read more
SMITE, the third person MOBA made by Hi-Rez Studios, has been a hit on computer and more recently on Xbox One. The game came to Xbox One in alpha early last year and it seems like they are repeating this with PlayStation 4 starting early this year. This will be the first MOBA to be … Read more
In an attempt to provide consumers with more options for viewing cable television the FCC has just approved a proposal to eliminate anti-competitive barriers that have been in place for years. The “unlock the box” proposal will allow for more competitive solutions to deliver cable to TVs across the country, whether that is through hardware … Read more
Starting tomorrow there will be a new Xbox One dashboard update rolling out that will add some welcomed features and bring some missed ones back to the Xbox. The biggest feature coming back, that I’ve been enjoying on the preview program, is the ability to see who and how many people are in a party. … Read more
Due to the holidays and the Smite World Championship the updates for SMITE on Xbox One have fallen a little bit behind their usual time frame of being released shortly after the PC patch. Today is the last of the season 2 patches adding the new Japanese pantheon with their first god Amaterasu making her … Read more
In a blog post on Tuesday, Gigantic developer Motiga announced that they are unfortunately having to temporarily layoff a significant percentage of their studio due to their financial situation. Currently in closed beta, the free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) Gigantic is currently being tested on Xbox One and PC. “Though we are in active and … Read more
You wake up on a beach with nothing but an odd chip embedded into your forearm. Looking around you quickly find out that you’re on an island that is also inhabited by dinosaurs and need to do something survive. You start picking up rocks off the ground, hit a tree to get some wood, and … Read more
Go is an ancient Chinese board game dating back over 2,500 years. It is a simple to learn strategy board game played on a 19×19 grid where players take turns placing a black or white stone down. If you surround all of the opponent’s stones in a group then you capture them and remove them … Read more
Passwords are a way of life now, from checking your email, your bank account, your social media, or just logging into your computer at home. Chances are you will run across a time that you have to put in a password at least once a day and this isn’t a new phenomenon. Since this has … Read more
Xbox One had a complete overhaul of the UI recently and changed a lot of features and removed some others. Mike Ybarra, Director of Program Management for Xbox, announced a list of additions that will be added for the Xbox One Preview which will give us a glimpse of what everyone will see coming to … Read more
Today Verizon announced their new sponsored data program coined FreeBee Data. According to Verizon FreeBee Data will help engagement with mobile content from businesses on their network. FreeBee Data from Verizon will act like a combination of T-Mobile’s music freedom and Binge On programs allowing for content providers to sponsor data that will not count … Read more
ESPN, or the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is now starting to branch out from conventional sports and has started covering eSports. eSports have been on the rise over the past few years but has never been covered by any major networks such as ESPN. With the fan base expanding and tournament prizes getting larger … Read more
Halo 5: Guardians was released Tuesday on Xbox One after much anticipation to see where 343 Industries was going to take the saga with their second installation apart from Bungie. Like many Halo fans we couldn’t wait to get our hands on this and played hard through the week to bring you our Halo 5: Guardians review. Story … Read more
You walk out of the Hoth Rebel base to see two massive AT-ATs in the distance slowly closing in. Looking up you see a battle between X-Wings and Tie Fighters taking place as AT-ST are quickly advancing on your position. You run through the snowy trenches as you activate links allowing Y-Wings to target the … Read more
If you recall from Back To The Future Part II Marty McFly travels to the future to a specific date which was October 21st, 2015. The future was full of people who dressed odd, flying cars, hoverboards, automatic lace-up shoes, and odd looking bottles of Pepsi Perfect. Pepsi, who has always been involved in pop … Read more
Since first playing with Google Cardboard I thought one of the best implementations for the VR gear would be in the classroom which is where it is headed. The Google Expeditions Pioneer Program is designed to bring schools into a new era of virtual reality field trips allowing students to go to exotic locations that … Read more
Up until now malware on an Android device has mostly been relegated to users downloading and installing apps from unknown sources. Google has had some issues with malicious apps on the Google Play store in the past but recently they’ve maintained a pretty good system for detecting and preventing any apps with malware from appearing on … Read more
Sunday was a long day – my friend and I drove from Phoenix out to LA to attend the memorial service for the recently passed away Joe Philley. If you played Ingress you probably know who Joe is. He was the community manager who was always keeping an eye out for everything Ingress related. He loved Ingress … Read more
Earlier this year in June YouTube announced that it was going to dive into the video game streaming service to compete with Twitch. Google did try to purchase Twitch last year but Amazon ended up winning out on that deal. Since then, they decided to just make their own service with a few different features … Read more
Have you ever been wearing a watch to have the unfortunate luck of looking down at the time and then realized you looked at the wrong side of your wrist? Do you want an Apple Watch but don’t want to stop wearing your trusty analog luxury watch? Do you have a spare $112,000 laying around … Read more
Wireless charging has been an awesome convenience for smartphone owners with compatible devices. It is always nice to be at your desk and be able to drop your phone on a charging pad to top it off while working without having to worry about fiddling with wires. Some phones have neglected to include it in … Read more
Keeping up with the speculation for HBO’s Game of Thrones, there is new fuel being added to the fire. The HBO show has a store on their website with a specific section titled “In Memorium” for those who have been killed off along the way. One character who is notably missing from this section is none other than … Read more
Lately I’ve been smitten (see what I did there?) by a multiplayer online battle arena game, or MOBA, called SMITE. It is a free to play game on PC and is now in open beta on the Xbox One. I’ve been playing it for a few months on the Xbox One with no prior MOBA knowledge … Read more
Samsung is doing something that no company has done before; they are adding a wireless charging pad to the base of their new SE370 monitor. If you’re like me, you hate wires and appreciate wireless charging – and this would be a nice addition to any workplace or desktop setup. It is, of course, going … Read more
Google has decided that it would be better for both the mobile web and for users to retire their app download interstitials for Google+ when viewing the plus page on a mobile device. We’re all familiar with those sites with these annoying interstitials but for those who aren’t, they are those full screen ads asking users … Read more
Performance enhancing drugs have been an issue in regular sports and there have been strict guidelines put into place for most major sports such as football, soccer, basketball, and baseball. However, esports has yet to put anything into place up until now. The Electronic Sports League (ESL), the oldest and largest of the esports organizations, … Read more