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As you shove your way through the crowd in a baseball stadium, the lenses of your digital glasses display the names, hometowns and favorite hobbies of the strangers surrounding you. Then you claim a seat and fix your attention on the batter, and his player statistics pop up in a transparent box in the corner of your field of vision.
Despite year-over-year sales declines putting a recession-fueled wet blanket over the entire industry, video games are still a big business, and a hit-driven one at that. Hence, much of the attention falls on a handful of commercial superstars each year, from Halo 3 to The Beatles: Rock Band, leaving plenty of worthy games languishing in obscurity.
That’s why it’s pleasing to see critics and gamers alike praise Warner’s Batman: Arkham Asylum, a new action/adventure game about the famed caped crusader.
Wired.com recently got a chance to test the Newcastle DraughtKeg, a 5-liter self-contained mini-keg of Newcastle Brown Ale.
Shaped like an actual keg, only much smaller, the DraughtKeg contains an internal CO2 pressurization system. All you have to do is attach the included plastic tap, hold a glass under it, and lift the lever on top.
Verdict: This is an excellent, convenient way to serve up more than a gallon (1.33 gallons, to be precise, or about 10 pints) of delicious beer.
There are some caveats.
Pull the average guy out of the collective American gaming community and youll probably have a fat 35-year-old whos also feeling the blues. At least, thats what the academic mash-up of the CDC, Emory University, and Andrews University asserts as a hypothesis.
Serious Business
Its easy to believe something, especially when the results of a scientific study confirm common sense. Consider:
Yes sirree, thats one plus and two very big minuses.
Terminator Salvation came out earlier this year, and if you liked it (or maybe loved it), then this new USB drive might just be the perfect thing for your desk. It’s a licensed T-600 face, and it’s from the latest movie. And while getting a USB memory stick that can stare back at you might not be the best idea for some people, it’s obviously something to get if you are a fan of the movies. And by fan, we mean you quote the movies on a day-to-day basis, kind of fan.
Japan has a thing for USB drives, and they have a knack for making them look as ridiculous as possible. Appar