On Wednesday, January 26th, Sony and Zipper Interactive invited the OCModShop crew to their offices in Redmond, Washington to take a look at the new SOCOM 4 and let us ask questions. Not only did we get a full tour of the game, but they had a lobby all decked out with multiple stations for us [...]
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Wil Wheaton Awesome Hour @ PAX Prime 2010
Wil Wheaton once again talks with the folks at the Seattle PAX. Wil talks about gaming, how much he sucks at Scrabble, and not being a dick. There’s a great Q&A where Evil Wil Wheaton explains why he broke up Leonard and Penny. Click on the video for the Wil Wheaton Awesome Hour in its [...]
Brink Info from Richard Ham
If the gaming industry had something like IMDB, you would see Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, Fable 2, The Sims and the Syphon Filter, just to name a few, under Richard Ham’s bio. Later this year, Richard will add creative director of Brink, a new first person shooter being developed by Splash Damage [...]
Cooler Master Choiix C-HL04-KP Air-Through Stash Notebook Cooler Review
Laptops are annoying. They are generally slower than desktops, come with less memory and smaller hard drives, and seem to overheat almost at a whim. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t know what I would have done without my netbook when I was stuck at the Pittsburgh airport for twelve solid hours, but they are [...]
Noctua NF-S12 FLX Fan Review
Generally I’m a big fan of international products. My favorite band is from Finland, my favorite television personality is from Scotland, and my favorite actor is from England. It seems that things made in the USA these days don’t really last as long as they used to. Of course, if Toyota keeps things up the way they have [...]
3D TV is Coming
Listening to Lenny Lipton tiptoe through the history of 3D content production and viewing technology, he almost convinced you that 3D TV is finally just around the corner. Oh sure, the internationally renowned author and inventor acknowledged that there were still a few obstacles to overcome – like standards — but after more than 40 [...]
Babes of PAX 2009
Everyone is saying how PAX is the new E3. PAX has grown so large over the past few years that the actually sold out of badges. PAX is now so huge that there will be two events per year: at Boston in March and Seattle in August. Many new vendors have signed up, including many [...]
Resident Evil 5 for PC Preview
There were several vendors at PAX 09 that were showing off Resident Evil 5 for the PC. Of course, the Capcom booth was featuring the latest zombie shooter, and nVidia was showing how it worked with their exclusive 3d technology. I spoke with the Microsoft rep at the Games for Windows section about how the [...]
SteelSeries Xai Gaming Mouse
Readers who keep track of me (yeah, both of you) know that my favorite gaming mouse of all time is the SteelSeries Ikari laser mouse. Not only are there great professional touches, but the mouse is simple to use and provides effective features not found in any other gaming mouse… but still it could be [...]
A Deep Look at the State of the Internet
The Internet wasn’t developed to be a dangerous place. It wasn’t developed for spammers/scammers which Australia-based Marshal’s Threat Research and Content Engineering Team estimates will represent up to 90% of the email by the end of the year. It wasn’t developed for you to use to buy/sell stuff on eBay, Amazon and the tens of [...]
Piracy as Free Advertising
“My whole life I felt like an animal.” – Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (20th Century Fox – 2009) Purloined Copy – One way or another an early copy of X-Men Origins was illegally uploaded to the web. While the copy circulated the Internet and is undoubtedly being saved/shown in various corners of the [...]
Kellogg’s Star Trek Breakfast Cereal Review
The new Star Trek movie revisits the adventures of Captain Kirk, Spock, and all of the characters of the original 60s television series. Some have wondered if J.J. Abram’s new movie will appeal to the younger audience, who are the primary demographic of movie-goers… Well wonder no more! I bring you Kellog’s Star Trek Limited [...]
Rock Band Unplugged for the PSP!
It seems like after several long years, the PSP is finally coming of age. Last month, Sony released Resistance: Retribution for the PSP (read our review here). This is one of the first games on the PSP to make extensive use of the internet, and Sony’s Playstation Network. Sony is finally starting to flex its [...]
Create a Custom Boot Logo for Windows
If you are a desktop customization kinda guy, one of the first things you’ll want to figure out is how to create a customized boot logo. There’s a little utility that you can use to create the boot logo formats. First you’ll need to download the Vista Boot Logo Generator (download here) utility, which we’ll use [...]
Watchmen Movie Review
In an alternate 1985, where Nixon is president, The U.S. won the Vietnam War, and costumed heroes have been banned by an act of the Senate, a superhero is killed. The death of the mercurial entity known as The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) sets a string of events into motion that will soon see the [...]
Consumers Need Voice in Driving Products
On any given day you will find a group of engineers or programmers huddling in the back room, sitting in the corner of the coffee shop, or gathering around the most recently divorced individual’s kitchen table to plan the next major new company built on breathtaking technology. The hard fact is…we really don’t need more [...]
Attack of the iPhone Clones
“Victory? Victory you say? Master Obi-Wan, not victory. The shroud of the dark side has fallen.” – Yoda, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) You can forgive the news reporter who mistook President Obama’s Shaka wave for a sign to call him during the inauguration. The connected candidate — who took communications [...]
RIP EGM, Microsoft, Midway Sucks
Happy New Year to all! Welcome to the first Wrath of El Pato for 2009. I hope everyone had a good Christmas and had Santa show up at their door loaded with presents. I got a pink slip! It was so nice of him, let the job hunt begin! It’s been so long since I’ve [...]
GlacialTech Altair A381 Home Theater Case
We review so many Home Theater PC cases that sometimes they all start to look alike. Many of them try to mimic the look of either a home theater amplifier or DVD player. Due to size constraints, many manufacturers opt for the amplifier, which allows the consumer to use standard-size PC components. Some of the [...]
GMC AVC-K1 Muse Media PC Case
The GMC Corporation (not to be confused with General Motors in the USA) is a Korean company that has produced some of the most innovative case designs in recent memory. OCModShop has had a chance to review some of their creations in the past, and each of their designs has provided a good shot in [...]
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