I’ve been looking forward to the current-gen version of Turok for quite some time now. You can check out a Turok interview I conducted in early November to get an idea of how the game is shaping up. But now, we’re just a couple weeks away from its release, and I’ll be able to get my hands on the dino action title.

For Turok fans and for folks who are also looking forward to the title, Propaganda Games and Touchstone have released a couple of behind the scenes documentaries, called “Awakening the Giants.”

Awakening the Giants Part I

Awakening the Giants II

In some ways I think it’s unfortunate that Turok wasn’t ready for the holiday season. Mainly, I would like to have been playing the game since November. But I am always a fan of companies waiting and releasing more finished products, rather than putting out bad products early. These two behind the scenes looks are reassuring.For more, check out Turok’s official website.

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The last Bat Cave home theater I saw a little while back was impressive but this one pictured above and below wins the Oscar for best Bat Cave home theater. The pictures are from the Elite Home Theater Seats website which has a must see gallery.

[via Slippery Brick - Crave]

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We asked you to vote on what you thought the coolest gadget of CES 2008 was. Well the votes have been counted and I’m pleased to announce….. somebody cheated!

The FPS Gaming Vest had a commanding lead but out of nowhere the Computerized Chopper starting getting a load of votes. After checking logs, IP addresses and what not, we’ve got to discount at least 200 votes for the chopper, so the official Coolest Gadgets coolest gadget of CES 2008 is the FPS Gaming Vest, which just shows that we’re a bunch of masochists that like being punched when playing games.

Surprisingly we only had 10 comments on the post, one of which will win the $50 Amazon voucher and according to random.org the winner is…..

…Ian, so congratulations and I’ll be in touch about where to send the voucher to. Thanks again to everybody who voted and commented and whoever tried to rig the vote err why!

We do have more contests and give-aways planned this year and some other exciting news, so if you haven’t subscribed to our feed () yet there’s no time like the present.

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Before winning the majority of Hollywood studio support, those partial to the Blu-ray format have primarily relied on a few points to make their case: more storage and rocketing sales at the ratio of 2:1 to HD DVD. Those are bullshit arguments. As consumers, we should have only been looking at what each format delivered and in that case, HD DVD was a more stable platform with more features on almost every disc that was offered in both. It’s a moot point now, because the platform with more content deserves to win, but here’s why I wish HD DVD wasn’t on its knees:

When Wilson compared the same discs in each format, Harry Potter300, HD DVD had many, many more features. Proof is in the pudding:

The difference is still less subtle when comparing the two editions of 300:

Blu ray could technically support a lot of that functionality, according to the spec, but the trick here is that most of the spec is not and still isn’t mandatory. And even when all the Blu ray players on the market are up to the final spec, whenever that may be, the majority of the original players will still not support extras, so why would anyone develop those extras? They won’t. A stair-stepped roll out of what each player must have to be spec compliant has severely limited the Blu format, despite all that great storage capacity. And this might take a very long time to fix, if it ever does.

HD DVD, you were the people’s format: R.I.P.

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If you want to get a nice close-up view of bugs, the innards of gadgets or boogers, this EyeClops Portable Microscope could do the trick for you. Rather than forcing you to stick your eye up to an eyepiece, it’s got an LCD screen on board. It also comes with a thumb drive for storing your most exciting shots and then transferring to your computer for later viewing. It’s completely exciting, and you can get one yourself when it comes out this spring for $70. [DVICE via SlashGear]

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It’s what all the cool blogs are doing this week: Gadget Lab now has an iPhone and iPod Touch icon. Users of the most recent firmware updates should have no problems seeing it.

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Squeeze Blaster

Be the first to score a Bullseye with this soft, safe target game. Load the foam dart into the rubber shooter - take aim, squeeze and fire! Colourful fabric board has unique patented blaster system ensuring that the foam darts stick every time! Ideal for indoors or outdoor play for all the family. Age 4+ Includes: 6 foam darts 2 shooters Target Board 28.5 cms

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U.S. games company Isotx has released a free new application called CrosuS, which helps gamers keep their games up-to-date. CrosuS is compatible with Valve’s Steam service and Xfire, while searching out all the patches and mods you may be interested in for your other favorite titles.

Isotc believes CrosuS is unique, because it has an emphasis on not only keeping your games up-to-date, but also offering you a range of user-created content. Vincent van Geel, founder of Isotx, commented:

CrosuS is unique as it focuses on user driven content … It allows people who are interested in experimenting with amateur or indie stuff, but normally wouldn’t since it destroys their clean system with weird install files, to be able to … Other tools like Xfire, focus on being the best game-tool with plenty of compelling features, Steam is focused on distributing commercial games, and CrosuS is a content distribution and sharing tool for mods - games, maps, and tools.

To begin with, Isotx will not be making any money from CrosuS, but in the future, it hopes a combination of advertising and micro-payments may change that. The company also aims to use CrosuS for distribution of the company’s new games, with the first called Iron Grip: Warlord due out early this year.

Read more at GamesIndustry.biz.

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Had enough yet of gadgets in the shape of a gun? This final, majestic example of the carbinicious delicious molds an egg into the shape of a submachinegun, revolver, pistol or Robocop-like monstrosity.

Breakfast for wannabe gangbangers? The design outfit apparently behind it doesn’t actually have it for sale, so it’s possibly just a photoshop.

Product Page [Urban Trend via Billionaire Boys Club via ctothejl via complex via BookofJoe, and so on.]

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USB 3.0 could take off fast. We believe that the connectors were shown for the first time publicly at this year’s CES, and at least one manufacturer is already working the spec into their laptops. Eagle-eyed scouts at The Register spotted two USB 3.0-like ports in the Asus’ M50 laptop.

But it’s sort of complicated. The transition of USB 2.0 to USB 3.0 will increase the number of wire contacts from 4 to 5. The Register spotted ports that made room for the fifth wire contact but still sported only four, meaning that Asus was framing their system for USB 3.0 even though they weren’t technically adopting the spec just yet. Given that USB 3.0 will bring data transfers up to 4.7GB/sec, we’re fine with companies pushing this technology onto us. [reghardware]

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