Memorial Day weekend is nearly upon us, which means a large number of U.S. retailers will try their best to get you to spend time in their stores rather than enjoying a good barbecue, spending the day at the beach, or sitting in your air-conditioned bedroom playing Skyrim until you can no longer feel your eyeballs. Best Buy is one of those retailers who would like you to keep their employees company during the holiday and will be knocking $50 off the iPhone starting this Sunday.

When Best Buy says “iPhone,” this promotion is good for the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 when purchased on a two-year contract on AT&T, Sprint or Verizon. If you can’t make it to your local Best Buy this weekend due to your Memorial Day already being filled with fun and hijinks, there’s no rush as they’ll be running the promotion for four weeks.

The promotion comes at a time where rumors regarding the iPhone 5S have been intensifying, which could very well be the reason why Best Buy would like to get rid of some of its stock of iPhones in order to plan the rumored fall launch of the next iPhone.

We’re sure by now you have decided which cloud-storage service you want to trust all of your files, photos and other miscellaneous documents with, but Verizon is throwing their cloud into the ring as they have just launched its cleverly named Verizon Cloud for iOS and some Android devices.

Verizon Cloud is available only to Verizon subscribers on supported handsets, including all iOS products and most Android devices, including the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC DROID DNA. Verizon customers can have access to 500MB of free cloud storage, but will allow additional storage on a tiered price scale. An additional $2.99 a month will get you 25GB of storage, $5.99 per month gets you 75GB of storage, while spending $9.99 per month will get you 125GB of storage.

Verizon Cloud won’t only store your everyday files, such as photos, music and documents, but the service will also store text messages, call logs and contacts in an attempt to make transitioning between devices a little bit easier by seamlessly transferring information.

If you’ve been using Windows 8 ever since it was released a few months ago and have wished your current mouse was designed specifically for Windows, you’re in luck as Microsoft is announcing not one, but two mice to give you the power of Windows right in the palm of your hand.

The mice Microsoft is unveiling are its Sculpt Comfort Mouse and Sculpt Mobile Mouse. Both mice are unique in that they include a Windows button giving you quick access to the Star Menu at a simple push of a button. I mean, you could map one of the millions of buttons your mouse currently has one it, but those buttons probably don’t include a cool Windows logo, like the Sculpt mice do.
Read full post →Microsoft Adds Windows Key To Its Newest Sculpt Mice

We’ve seen some incredible LEGO creations over the years, but we don’t see many record breakers these days, which is exactly what you’re staring at now that this 1:1 scale model of an X-Wing fighter has now been unveiled.

The X-Wing fighter uses a total of 5,335,200 bricks and accurately reproduces LEGO’s official 9493 X-Wing Fighter. A total of 32 people spent 17,000 hours building the 43-foot long, 45,980-pound fighter inside of the LEGO Model Shop in Kladno, Czech Republic. Once assembled, it was shipped to New York City, where it’s currently on display in the middle of Times Square.

Creating a world-breaking LEGO X-Wing fighter wasn’t the company’s only reason for building this amazing piece as it’s also being used to promote a new three-part animated series headed to Cartoon Network called Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles. New Yorkers won’t be the only ones who can marvel at the glory that is the LEGO X-Wing fighter as it’ll be making its way out to the West Coast and will stay there until the end of 2013.

A 3D printed pizza may seem like the ultimate couch potato’s dream, but we can’t deny when a 3D printed is used to save a life, especially a baby’s life, we’ll happily wait our turn with a 3D printer if that’s what it’s being used for.

Bryan and April Gionfriddo have a 6-month-old baby, Kaiba, who suddenly couldn’t breathe due to his bronchus suddenly collapsing. The baby’s parents took him to the emergency room where it was determined Kaiba would require a splint being inserted in order to hold open his bronchial tube, to hopefully allow the tissue to grow and heal around it properly. Doctors decided to use a 3D printer to create the splint as time was of the essence in order to Kaiba to survive his ordeal.

Kaiba was first imaged in order for technicians to get accurate dimensions to then have those measurements used to create a computer model, which acted as the blueprint. With that information, the 3D printer was able to print out the custom splint doctors needed in about a day.

The ongoing drama in regards to the Xbox One’s questionable methods of handling used game sales is one that is still going quite strong even days after Microsoft flip flopped on the issue mere moments after the console was debuted. Today, we’re hearing a new rumor from a source outside of Microsoft that may finally shed some light on how the Xbox One will handle used games.

According to a number of retail sources, Microsoft spent some time this week to brief a number of key retail partners on how the company plans to take their cut, as well as give a cut to a game’s respective publisher, when a used game is sold. When an authorized retailer has sold a used game, Microsoft’s cloud-based Azure pre-owned system will kick in to mark that title as being sold. This will result in the game’s original owner to have the title completely wiped from their hard drive.
Read full post →Xbox One Used Game Sales Fees May Profit Microsoft, Publishers [Rumor]

Just last week Sony confirmed the existence of their popular racing game, Gran Turismo 6. Interestingly enough the game was revealed for the PlayStation 3, instead of the PlayStation 4 which many assumed would be the console of choice. Sony did not rule out the possibility that Gran Turismo 6 could arrive on the PS4 in the future, but at the same time Sony has since stepped forward to explain why they decided to choose the PS3 as the console to debut the game on, rather than the PS4.

Speaking with the PlayStation Blog, SCEE CEO Jim Ryan stated that the PS3 still has a lot of potential that Gran Turismo 6’s developer, Polyphony Digital, will be able to make use of. That and the fact that the PS3 has a proven track record of about 70 million units sold will ensure that the game will be able to reach a wider audience quicker than it would with the PS4 whose sales figures remain to be seen. According to Ryan, “And the other factor is that on PS3 we have an install base of 70 million units. On PS4 on launch day we’ll have an install base of zero units […] There’ll be plenty of games to help drive PS4–not least DriveClub in the racing genre from Evolution Studios, a studio with a fantastic pedigree.”

While a specific release date for Sony’s latest console, the PlayStation 4, has yet to be revealed, it will be launching in 2013 that much we know. In case the 2013 launch was still a bit hazy for the rest of you guys, Sony seems to have confirmed it themselves thanks to a newspaper ad in which the bottom clearly states, “Coming 2013”. The ad was spotted in The Metro newspaper by Future’s James Jarvis, although to be honest we would have much appreciated a specific date. There has been some speculation surrounding the release of the PS4 console, with some pegging dates in November as a possibility, which was further fueled in an interview in which it was hinted that a release by November would be a possibility as well not just for the PS4, but for Microsoft’s Xbox One console too. Either way we’ll be keeping our eyes peeled for more info, and hopefully Sony will have more to share at E3.

We’re sure that there are many Final Fantasy fans out there who are sick of waiting for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn to exit beta and make its way into their hands. Well the good news is that if you are one of those fans, the 27^th of August 2013 will be a date you’ll want to mark down on your calendars because it seems that that is the date that Square Enix has revealed to be when gamers will be able to get their hands on the game. Technically we guess this is a re-release since the game was originally released a couple of years ago, but due to bugs and poor response, Square Enix has gone back to the drawing board and came out with A Realm Reborn.

There will also be a Collector’s Edition of the game that more ardent fans of the game can pick up. The Collector’s Edition will sport a limited edition box designed by FF artist Yoshitaka Amano. It will also come with an 80-page hardcover art book, a CD soundtrack, 5 art cards, a physical movie disc that shows the events leading up to A Realm Reborn, and the game itself. It will also come with digital goodies such as a Helm of Light, a Coeurl Mount, the Behemoth Barding armor and a baby Behemoth Minion. So, who’s excited at finally being able to play the game?

Last week it was reported that Google’s next-gen Nexus 7 tablet could be going on sale in summer, and according to a new report from Digitimes, it seems that a July release could be possible, assuming of course the report is to be believed. According to Digitimes, electronics manufacturer Elan Microelectronics has begun to ship the touchscreen circuit boards which are meant for use in the new Nexus 7 tablet. Supposedly things have been moving along pretty well and this is apparently ahead of the tablet’s rumored July launch. Of course this is hardly official news, not to mention Digitimes’ track record is somewhat spotty at best. Either way with the success Google has had with the Nexus 7, we wouldn’t be surprised if the company had plans for a successor, although a question of when remains to be seen. Take it with a grain of salt for now, but we’ll keep our eyes peeled for more info and with July only a couple of months away, we won’t have to wait too long to see if this rumor pans out.