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    This Week: Dan and Adam break down NASA’s game release for the moon base, a brand new Duke Nukem, Fable III episodic, Rock Band senior designer leaves for smaller pastures, Sega to revive Saturn games, Dan and Adam feel strongly about Microsoft’s GameRoom, Mario Party…without Mario and friends, and comparing Xbox Live Gold [...]

    This Week: BP can read the future, Microsoft moves to the battery business, HP officially owns Palm, the cable of the future, the scam behind LCD price-fixing, electric car drivers have bright future, Lucasfilm accuses the makers of Spyder III of copying their lightsabers, and solid proof of Dell’s “legendary” customer service. Be [...]

    This Week: Adam joins Dan and John in the original Basement to talk about Hulu’s final Premier version, Kinect coming to TVs and more, Seaman announced for the 3DS, suspected features for Windows 8, WiFi for your devices with Ozmo, Google Me officially announced without any details, porn receives its own domain, and [...]

    This Week: From three camera angles, Dan and John talk about jet mounted telescopes, Adobe’s digital publishing platform, The Oatmeal schools you yet again, del Toro drops The Hobbit, the next Apple TV, how to get to Neptune on a budget, and Europe’s new electric vehicle fueling stations.   Be sure to check [...]

    This Week: The whole gang talks about upcoming uses for webOS, Disney to close Star Tours, the laser’s birthday, how Google StreetView has piggybacked WiFi from homes for years, a Virgin Galactic competitor for half the price, and Jupiter’s missing belt. Be sure to check us out LIVE every Tuesday night, 9:00PM (CST) [...]

    This Week: Dan, Adam, along with guest John Amos discuss the pending Roller Coaster Tycoon feature film, a possible new look for the PSP, the new Scribblenauts, Steam now for most computer platforms, and of course recent and upcoming games like the awesome Super Mario Brothers Crossover and Red Dead Redemption. Be sure [...]

My first impressions of the Gdgt live event.

  This Week: The FCC allows Hollywood to swtich off your audio ports for streaming, and the future of TheBasement, including an all new show coming this summer! Be sure to check us out LIVE every Tuesday night, 9:00PM (CST) at live.tothebasement.com! Have a topic idea for a future show? Email us at 20min@tothebasement.com.

Following months of trailers, promotions, Iron Man 2 one sheetand kids  running around playing with the merchandising efforts, the actual product, that being Iron Man 2, the comic book movie sequel finally premieres. We now cut through the media buzz and find that Tony Stark ran into battle requiring a fresh battery.

 In the sequel to the 2008 blockbuster, we follow Tony Stark, Robert Downey Jr., 6 months after revealing to the world that he is the technological superhero. The US government wants to secure Stark’s technology and weaponize it further. Industrial business rival Justin Hammer, of Hammer Industries, played by Sam Rockwell (Moon, Choke), also wants the Iron Man weapon. Meanwhile in Russia, a former Soviet scientist, who partnered with Tony’s father on developing the arc reactor, dies, leaving his son Ivan, played by Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler, Sin City), on a vengeful quest to thwart Iron Man’s throne of solidarity and security. Closer to home, Tony appoints his sidekick, Pepper Potts, portrayed by Gwyneth Paltrow, as CEO of Stark Industries all while not acknowledging any of their sexual tension and hitting on the new personal aide, Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow, played by Scarlett Johansson (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Ghost World), and finally working with agent Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D., Samuel L. Jackson, on developing the “Avengers Initiative.” Most of all, our main character has found that his arc reactor-powered heart is actually poisoning his blood and he needs to reinvent his energetic wheel immediately. In his Drunken Tony Stark / Iron Man hitting on Peppermoments of vile weakness, Tony’s pal, Air Force Lt. Col. James “Rhodey” Rhodes, where Don Cheadle (Brooklyn’s Finest, Ocean’s Eleven) take the character over from Terrence Howard, clutches the auxiliary Iron Man suit and morphs it into the mighty War Machine.

Photo courtesy PreCentral.neAfter a long time of people wondering the fate of Palm and its magnificent webOS, a future is set in stone. HP, the computer company who isn’t unfamiliar with the PDA field, will be buying Palm shares at $5.70 each, for a total of around $1.2 billion. Check out the press release for [...]