Backed Or Whacked: Reading And Writing Through Crowdfunding

Editor’s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column looks at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals. Follow him on Twitter @rossrubin. An ancient and once-sacred bond between [...]

Mega Man 2 OST now available through Capcom

Capcom’s ongoing quest to make all of the original NES Mega Man soundtracks legally available in the US continues this week, with the release of Mega Man 2‘s official soundtrack over at the Capcom store. The 42 track album (!) [...]

Google Glass Attracts Three Major Backers – Glass Collective to Offer Seed Funding to Developers With Ideas to ‘Shape the Future Through Glass’

Google Glass is not just grabbing the attention of technology geeks — companies with money to throw around are also taking notice. Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have formed ‘the Glass Collective.’ According to the [...]

Virgin Mobile offers $100 rebate to T-Mobile turncoats, now through May 31st

In the wake of T-Mobile’s recently unveiled Simple Choice plans, Virgin Mobile is capitalizing on the shakeup by playing a value card of its own. Now through May 31st, the Sprint-owned MVNO is offering $ 100 credit to all T-Mobile [...]

Ford’s Jim Buczkowski cruises through the Engadget Questionnaire

Every week, a new and interesting human being tackles our decidedly geeky take on the Proustian Q&A. This is the Engadget Questionnaire. In this edition of our weekly question and answer, Ford’s director of electrical and electronics systems Jim Buczkowski [...]

Mass Effect series for PC on sale via Origin through March 12

The last iteration of the Mass Effect series went on sale one year ago this week, and to celebrate, EA is offering a big sale on all three versions of the game over on Origin. You can grab the original [...]

The Walking Dead season two peers through a fall 2014 release window

These ain’t no 28 Days Later zombies: Telltale’s The Walking Dead season two has a tentative launch window of fall 2014, studio CEO Dan Connors tells Eurogamer. Season one concluded in November 2012, and recently writer Gary Whitta outed a [...]

Apple patent would have devices sense a squeeze through metal

Apple likes to build devices using metal. Unfortunately, the material isn’t usually conducive to touch, in the literal sense of the word — capacitive touch doesn’t always register on a metal gadget, and you can often forget about a response [...]

Mozilla to bring marketplace to Firefox OS, allow payment through network operators

Mozilla has just announced live at its MWC 2013 event that it’s going to offer a marketplace for its fledgeling Firefox OS, and that you’ll be able to pay for apps directly through your mobile operator. That differs from payment [...]