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So, Sony's attempt to grab cord cutter is out today. PlayStation Vue has launched in 3 US regions today. What starts as a great idea, streaming live TV with dvr features, quickly turns sour when you see the pricing. For $49-69, depending on the plan you want, gets you the equivalent of basic cable for the same price or more!!! At $30, it would be a perfect compliment to Netflix, Hulu and others, but the prices sony want for a service that ONLY works on the PS3 and PS3 right now seems like a project destined to fail. Where I am, $60 a month would net me a basic cable package with HD that includes more channels. Others may be able to snag basic WITH a premium channel for around the same or less! While the idea is sound, pricing kills it! What do you think?? Source: Sony

First, a confession. I am a Google whore. If there is one company whose products and services I completely swoon over, it’s Google. From Search to Google+, I use them all. I love the tight integration across apps and services. And all for my favorite price...FREE. I also adore Android. What a great OS! So well woven into all of Google’s services and apps that I can’t imagine using any other OS for my phone. I’ve had a slew of Android phones and tablets. All of which have done everything I could hope for at the time except for one glaring detail... I am an artist. I love to draw. At home, I had a standard desktop computer and a Wacom Cintiq 12wx drawing tablet. As an artist, there was nothing better than being able to create right in my computer. Except being able to create wherever I wanted, whenever I wanted. It’s because of this desire that I said goodbye to my Cintiq 12wx, my Nexus 7 tablet and invested heavily in a Surface Pro 2. As an artist, this devic...

Well, it's official, the Crystal Lake Slasher and nightmare of all teens by a lake at night, Jason Voorhees, will make his video game return doing what he does best. Brutally killing all in sight! Today it was announced that Jason will be joining the Mortal Kombat X cast. How appropriate for the announcement to be made on Friday the 13th! On the downside, last gen players will have to suffer with a delay. Source: Shoryuken

As the title didn't give it away, Synology has released the latest beta for its DiskStation Manager this morning. DSM 5.2 hits public beta with new features like AppArmor, SMB 3 Encryption, Docker integration and more! We personally haven't had issues with previous beta releases and can't wait to try this out! Read the full press release after the break

Last week Mad Catz announced it's coming back with Rock Band instruments, and this week we are going back to the streets! Mad Catz announced this morning that they will be bringing Street Fighter V FighSticks and FightPads to the PS4 as well as being a Premiere Sponsor for the Capcom Pro Tour! Now, with Street Fighter V speculated to drop Spring 2016, that's a long wait for both SFV and these controllers! Read the full press release after the break

HyperDimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1 is the third iteration of this game released in the US. First on the PlayStation 3 by NIS, the "Re;Birthed"  on the Vita and now the PC by Idea Factory International. With that said, instead of doing a review of the game that has been reviewed multiple times on 2 other platforms, we figured giving our impressions on the PC version would be more appropriate. So, what did we think?? Read after the break!

Well, if anyone remembers the 1st live action Street Fighter movie, then the sunject of this post would make sense. If not, it's a play on words from the 1st live action Street Fighter movie. DO NOT WATCH IT! Well, back on subject, Capcom has shown off Charlie in action for the 1st time AND a teaser for everyone's favorite megalomaniac, M. Bison (or Vega in Japan). Even better? Street Fighter V will also hold what Capcom is calling the largest beta test of it's kind! Preorder the game and you'll be able to beat up your friends online to test out the netcode and make it perfect! Read more over at Capcom Unity