First Look at Nintendo Switch

Okay, enough of me being excited that I guessed exactly what the Switch would be, let’s take an actual look at the promotional video Nintendo put out today:   So, what do we see here? Let’s break it down. The video starts off with a guy playing a Zelda game at home, on his TV. […]

Soyuz MS-02 Launch Replays

Soyuz

What rocket launch article on Xadara would be complete without a companion article on the launch replays? In this case, as mentioned in the last article we have a beautiful day launch of the Soyuz booster and the MS-02 spacecraft. This booster didn’t launch from “Gagarin’s Start,” the normal pad that most Russian manned flights […]

Digital Homicide: The Full Story

So on the subject of good old video games, I’ve been wanting to cover the more prominent subject on Steam recently of a company known as Digital Homicide. Oh, the drama and chaos they have caused, all because the duo that made up the production studio simply don’t know how to complete a game. Oh […]

Antares Flies Again

For the first time in nearly 2 years, an Antares rocket launched from the launch facilities on Wallops Island, Virginia, carrying a Cygnus cargo craft to the International Space Station. While a pretty straightforward launch of a somewhat plain seeming booster, this launch was a critical moment for Orbital ATK, creators of Cygnus and Antares, […]

XadaraCast Episode 1 Is Out Now!

[UPDATE – THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN ABANDONED. THIS IS A LEGACY POST] After a very long wait, tons of delays, and retake after retake, XadaraCast episode 1 is finally out. Sadly, it just isn’t as good as I was hoping it would be, but I still got it edited together and uploaded. The Podcast is […]

Jim Sterling and I Feel The Same Way About Virtual Reality

Game Journalist Jim Sterling released a video in his Jimquisition series this week which discussed, quite critically, the current state of, and concept in general of virtual reality. I wrote earlier this year about some of my criticisms of the entire idea, and practical application of VR on a whole. To sum it up, because […]

The Launch of Apollo 7

48 Years ago today, Apollo 7 launched on the first manned flight of the Apollo Program, and the first manned flight on a Saturn 1B rocket. This mission, a planned 2 week stay in orbit testing the Apollo Command / Service Module system with a crew, was the mission originally planned for Apollo 1. 18 […]