Dan Starkey

Want an Apple-1 Motherboard Built by Steve Wozniak? That’ll Be…

Important pieces of technological history will be up for up for grabs at the Bonham’s History of Science auction later this month. Among their pieces is an original Apple-1 motherboard that Wozniak made in Steve Jobs’ garage. It’s valuedbetween $300,000 and $500,000. Most of the other pieces up for bidding are a bit older, and…

Number of People That Lined Up for Smash Bros. 3DS At Nintendo World

There were some reports on NeoGafand other places that suggested that eager Smash Bros. customers in formed a line “at least three blocks long” at the Nintendo World store last night. Three blocks sounds like a lot, but it’s actually not as big a line as you suspect. People, on average are just a smidge…

Cost of Getting a Person to Mars in 2030s According to SpaceX Founder

Elon Musk has been labeled as somewhat of a real-life Tony Stark. He’s founded future-facing companies like Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and seems genuinely dedicated to help humanity with advanced technology. Now, he’s set his eyes on Mars, and he’s thinking big. In an interview with Aeon, Musk laid out his plan. “I think there…

Death Stars It’d Really Take to Destroy a Planet

Ever since I learned how inaccurate Star Wars battles really were, I’ve been thinking about how off the entire Star Wars universe is. I get it, in a place where people have telekinetic powers and can shoot lightning from their fingers; you can’t exactly expect things to line up with… well, physics. When I started…

Years Since the Nintendo 64’s American Release

As a child of the 90s, the Nintendo 64 was the console I remember. It had some of my all-time favorites, ranging from great-but-weird titles like Blast Corps and Pokemon Snap, to works of absolute genius like Paper Mario and Majora’s Mask But now it’s 18 years old today. If my console was a person,…

How Many American Teens and Adults Play Mobile Games

New research from the Entertainment Software Association suggests that a third of all adults and teens in the United States play mobile games. More than 20% of them said they’d never played a game before, or had stopped some time ago. The fact that mobile games have been attracting new folks has been suspected for…

Amount of Money That Will Get You 24 Valve Games

If you’ve never played Half-Life, Portal, or Left 4 Dead, you’re in luck. Valve’s complete pack, which includes just about every game the studio’s ever released, can be yours for the low, low price of $25. That is irresponsibly cheap. Dumfounding. I literally smacked my gob. In all seriousness, though, there’s a lot of great…

Number of Combatants in First Official Smash Bros. 3DS Tournament

Starting on Oct. 4th, the day after the release of the new Smash Bros. 3DS in the US, 64 entrants at 16 different locations will square off for a chance to win a trip to New York and compete for the championship. Some folks have started organizing their own unofficial tournaments, but this will be…

Misconceptions about Space Battles You Probably Believe

“In space, no one can hear you scream.” Thanks to 1979’s hit Alien, that maxim’s been part of the popular consciousness for a while now, but there’s countless films and movies that just don’t seem to get it. Mass Effect, Star Wars, Halo and plenty more play fast and loose with science so often that…

Of Hearthstone Players Are in the 10 Lowest Ranks Earlier today, Blizzard posted a few statisticson their Hearthstone blog about the game’s ranking system. Turns out the vast majority of players are on the 10 lowest ranks. That probably shouldn’t be all too surprising, but Blizzard mentioned that they’ve received some complaints from players that…

From Games You Purchased Went To Charity Learn More on Numbers Since its launch in 2010, Humble Bundle has been one of those unambiguous forces for good. The model is a simple, but powerful one: pull a few games together after they’re past the launch rush, allow customers to pay what they want, and donate…

Hours to Earn an Average Professional Deck in Hearthstone Read More on Numbers This week, Blizzard released the list of the 32 players that qualified for the next phase of the Hearthstone World Championship. Obviously these players got to where they are based on both their skill and the quality of their deck, but what…

Times Group Died Completing Destiny‘s First Raid An enterprising group of players have beaten Destiny‘s first raid. Less than 12 hours after its release, the PrimeGuard clan finished the Vaults of Glass – but not without dying quite a few times. Bungie acknowledged their accomplishment via twitter, and challenged the group to “try it on…

Smash Bros. 3DS Copies Sold in Just Three days With videosof some ludicrously long lines floating around we all knew Smash Bros. for 3DS was selling well, but until Nintendo spoke up earlier today we didn’t know quite how well. Counting both digital and retail numbers, Nintendo claimsone million copies have sold since the game’s…

(Announced) Games Slated To Appear At The Tokyo Game Show This Week The Tokyo Game Show is among the biggest games conferences each year. Focusing primarily on Japanese developers and publishers, TGS will feature 80 different games in all. I’ve listed them below, along with their platform. PS4: 28 games Astebreed Bladestorm Destiny Disgaea 5…

The OFFICIAL Number of Times Kenny’s Died in South Park In its early years, fans knew South Park as the show that repeatedly killed off one of its main characters, Kenny. It was such a common and prevalent trope that the phrase “Oh my God, they killed Kenny!” became synonymous with the show. Fans have…

Total Prize Pool for the League of Legends World Championship It’s been some time since I discussed eSports here, but with the League of Legends World Championships just around the corner, I thought it might be time to start it up again. While it’s important to realize that becoming a professional eSports athlete is damned…

Games in The Final Fantasy Series Earlier today we learnedthat Square Enix will release a Final Fantasy-branded mobile typing game. Square has released a lot of these kinds of spin-offs over the years and they include everything from action RPGs like Crystal Chronicles to the more strategic Final Fantasy Tactics… but how many Final Fantasy…

Facts About Cats Let’s face it. The internet is really just a cat-glorification machine. If you ever wanted to learn a bit of trivia about these perplexingly prolific pets, Mental Floss is here to help with a video detailing 36 cat facts. Here are a few of my favorites: The CIA trained a “spy cat”…

Weeks 3 Days 18 Hours 12 Minutes 32 Seconds to Watch Every PewDiePie Video Every time I look at the stats for PewDiePie’s YouTube channel I’m blown away. Most of the numbers I use for this blog are so large they defy comprehension, but here we have one man with almost as many views as…