When the next generation of gaming is coming and why I'm not looking forward to it

his coming holiday season the Xbox 360 will be turning 7 and the PS3 and Wii will be 6 years old. The previous generation lasted only 4 years for Microsoft, 5 years for Nintendo and 6 for Sony. This console cycle, while still delivering some really great games, is getting long in the tooth.

So the question on everyone's mind is, when will the new console hardware be revealed and when will it launch?

Nintendo has already revealed their next console to break fanboy's hearts even further, the Wii U. But for the hardware anyone wants to play games on, we look to Microsoft and Sony. Microsoft took a full year lead last go around and as bad as Microsoft would like to do that again, Sony will probably make it difficult.

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New iPhone app 'Clear' wows with intuitive interface

I'm a sucker for great UI and design. Clear, from creators of MacHeist, The Heist, Classics and Twitterrific, is a to do list manager with really slick controls.

As you can see in the video posted below, Clear has a very intuitive interface for creating, managing and moving into and out of lists. For me Clear probably won't replace Apple's own to do list, Reminders, but I do hope this type of interface gets riffed on in other apps similar to how the "pull to refresh" permeated through the app store after debuting in Tweetie.

Impending via: Mac Rumors

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Toy Story Cosbabies

I really don't know where the "cosbabies" design stems from. Apparently there are many characters from Marvel, DC, etc.. This specific line is for Toy Story 3 and includes Buzz, Woody, Rex, Evil Dr. Porkchop, Cowboy Alien and Spaceman Alien. I actually am not too much of a fan of Buzz or Woody but Rex is absolutely adorable. These guys stand at about 3 inches tall and you can pre-order them now for $9.99 here.

via: Super Punch

Video game renting from Netflix is dead

It seems like so long ago that Netflix was giving "Qwikster" the axe. The horribly misguided decision to split the DVD by mail service from the streaming business rubed no one the right way and was ultimately killed before it even launched.

One small good thing to come from the Qwikster debacle was that the Qwikster side of the company would soon offer video games by mail in a similar way that GameFly does today. A little over three months after the death of Qwikster, Netflix has chosen not to go forward with their video game plans.

GameFly owns the video games by mail space now and some competition would be a welcome thing. Netflix has many more distribution centers than GameFly which means it takes a few extra days to get games than it does to get a movie from Netflix. A new rival might have pushed GameFly to add new centers or reduce pricing but sadly Netflix is no longer a threat.

via: The Verge

BlizzCon on hold until 2013

Blizzard has decided to skip this year's BlizzCon in favor of "getting Diablo III, Mists of Pandaria, and Heart of the Swarm into players’ hands as soon as possible." 

The 2012 Battle.net World Championship is still on for late in 2012 in Asia and will feature the StarCraft II and World of Warcraft Arena World Championship tournaments. 

Its near impossible to predict the moves of Blizzard but I think it is safe to say that no new Blizzard titles will launch in 2012 and none until after BlizzCon 2013. I guess the rumors of Diablo III launching in early 2012 were a bit too good to be true.

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