Posts Written by Paul Strauss

All the world’s a stage and you’re forced to be a player in BattleBlock Theater; aka “Game 3”, it’s The Behemoth’s third Xbox Live Arcade game after Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers.

Rugged yet loaded, Olympus’ 14 MP Stylus Tough 8010 offers 720p HD video and a 5x wide-angle optical zoom lens; it’s also water resistant to 33 feet and can survive a 6.6 foot drop.

Uploaded two days before Apple’s iPad unveiling, this Chrome OS Tablet UI may be a warning shot across Cupertino’s bow; it’s purely conceptual, but it’s also made by a Google employee.

Media speculation about black holes swallowing the earth is pure pseudoscience, but this press conference reveals that there are other dimensions to the Large Hadron Collider’s Secret.

Part of Sony Ericsson’s eco-friendly Greenheart line, the Aspen is the first smartphone with WinMo 6.5.3 and features a full QWERTY, 2.4″ touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth, and 3.2 MP camera.

Carried by every Alinghi team member, Wenger’s Alinghi SU1 is an 11-in-1 multitool made just for yachting that includes a grippy rubber inlay, Marlin spike, and awl with sewing eye.

Earthy, mature, and military, these Urban Haze Air Jordan 1 Retro His are dressed in olive leather and suede with plenty of perfed panels, yellow Jumpman logo, and sharp white midsoles.

They’re currently sold out, but we can’t wait to conduct cubicle combat with Cardnetic’s Penny Shooter; the business card-sized shooter has a fold-up magazine that holds up to 10 pennies.

Rock your workspace garage-band style with CB2’s industrial-styled Trig File Cabinet; it sports high-gloss powdercoated sheet steel with stainless grips and casters with front-drive brakes.

Left 4 Dead fans, eat your hearts (and brains) out: A.D. is a CG animated zombie flick with a jaw-dropping, bad-ass style we can’t get enough of; it’s directed by Ben Hibon of Codehunters fame.

The Old West-style leather label isn’t just for looks; 1860s Genuine American Vodka is made in Wisconsin with 100% American grain that’s distilled five times and filtered with Mesquite charcoal.

This Queen of the Black Marsh trailer for Dragon Age: Origins: Awakenings may be short, but it fills us in on the tesla-fied dragon; it ain’t no Disney Electrical Parade, that’s for sure.

Now available for preorder: Creative’s World of Warcraft Headsets feature THX sound, swappable Alliance/Horde lenses, and a detachable mic; they come in USB or wireless flavors.

A multi-function dial isn’t novel, but rarely is it as classy as Montblanc’s Metamorphosis; pulling a side lever transforms it from watch to chronograph via a sequence of wings and rising discs.

Spore meets Transformers with Verbatim’s Media Monster Championship; it not only lets you build your own flash drive/SD card gladiator but enter them in duels to the (digital) death.

Wacom’s Intuos line goes Bluetooth with the Intuos4 Wireless pen tablet; it works up to 33 feet away and offers a 40 square inch work area, Generation 2 Grip Pen, and touch ring.

This Ong Bak 3 trailer is light on plot but is a heavy-hitter both in terms of action and a few fan-tusk-tic costars; Tony Jaa will be all fists, feet, and fury when he arrives in Thai theaters in April.

Because even Palpatine’s No. 1 needs to do a No. 2: FM’s Everybody Poops t-shirt reveals Vader’s real ultimate power in the universe, but we hope he does it in a galaxy far, far away.

Not to be outdone by GoW’s Lost Planet 2 cameo, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, and inFAMOUS all invade Uncharted 2 with the Heroes Skin Pack, now available on the PlayStation Store.

Kinekt’s Gear Ring is sure to turn fingers as well as heads: this engineering-friendly bling is made with six tiny gears that rotate in unison when the outer rims of the ring are turned.

NSFW: the guy who created the epic Phantom Menace review is back with an epic Avatar review; if you’ve been looking for a totally un-PC antidote to Avatar’s hyper-PC themes, this is it.

Microsoft’s SideWinder X4 ain’t afraid of no ghosts: the keyboard’s anti-ghosting tech lets you press 26 keys at once and features macro recording, backlighting, and mod and profile switching.

Filmed in only 3 1/2 weeks over Christmas Break, Star Wars vs. Star Trek puts the ultimate fanboy debate to rest once and for all with an epic finale that’s literally a war of words.