At this weekend's party, surprise your friends with a playlist of everyone's favorite pop songs with an 8-bit twist. Every child of the '80s and '90s will appreciate synthesized sounds reminiscent of marathon Nintendo sessions. We found 8-bit renditions that are so good, you can't stop yourself from jumping up to dance to the electronic beats. Check out hits by Gotye and Flo Rider that are still Read more

Jon Snow in the snow? Yes, please. In the latest Game of Thrones season two production diary, the crew heads to Iceland to shoot scenes that would be North of The Wall. Fun fact: there won't be any CGI effects used to create this area of Westeros, as the barren, freezing, and windy landscape of Iceland is exactly what the doctor ordered. Let the countdown begin for season two! Read more

We've been waiting for Kinect to acquire some practical purpose in everyday life. Sure, we love the virtual sports, and the dancing games make for adorable celebrity home movies, but we've got to be able to do something more with the amazing motion sensor technology! Mobile app developer Chaotic Moon harnessed the power of Kinect along with the unreleased Samsung Windows 8 tablet to create a Read more

The traditional Doctor Who Christmas episode is set to air Christmas Day, Dec. 25, at 9 p.m./8 p.m. Central on BBC America. As the episode's name — "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe" — suggests, it has a plot reminiscent of the C.S. Lewis novel, with the Doctor leading a family away from their normal lives and on a Winter adventure. The BBC released a tense prequel to the special Read more

ICYMI, Google aired its first Google+ TV ad over Thanksgiving. The one-and-a-half-minute spot makes the case for sharing certain information with certain people and shows how easy it is to create new circles in order to keep your work, personal, and "epic bro" lives separate. Check out the video below and tell me — are you still using Google+? Read more

I hadn't seen the new Mario Kart 7 ad until this morning, but by the looks of it, it's probably CGI, right? Wrong. The ad for the latest title to hit the Nintendo 3DS is bright, shiny, and fun, just like the game itself, but it's made up of real cars and real drivers, as evidenced by a new behind-the-scenes clip from the ad team. Check out the official ad above, then get a glimpse of the making Read more

LucasFilm has released yet another clip of outtakes from its Stand Up to Cancer campaign, which encourages fans to snatch up some sweet shirts in order to fund cancer research. Good news — there's yet another shirt you can buy, this one featuring Darth Vader who urges you to never underestimate the power of Stand Up to Cancer. I can't get enough of these celebs goofing off in front of the Read more

There's no way around it, we've fallen for the upcoming Nokia Lumia 800 phone. With the beautiful cyan and magenta colors, 3.7-inch screen, and Windows Mango OS, we can't wait to get our hands on it when released in 2012. After spending years under the smartphone market radar, Nokia is pulling out all the stops in the months leading up to the Lumia's arrival. The company just released this Read more