Skylanders: Cloud Patrol (Activision)Just what we needed: another reason to collect Skylanders.

Now that the immensely popular toy/game franchise has conquered your game console, raided your toy store and flooded your eBay, it's taking aim at your iWhatever. On Thursday, Activision released Skylanders: Cloud Patrol exclusively on the App Store.

By Taylor Hatmaker, Tecca

If flying cars and uncannily dexterous robots haven't tipped you off already, know this: the future is here. We're living in an age when Star Trek tech is getting realized little by little, and Google's just revealed a secret undertaking that checks one more sci-fi innovation off the proverbial list.

Meet Project Glass: an augmented reality undertaking that's emerged out of the company's black ops innovation lab, known as Google X. With Project Glass, Google is taking a serious look at augmented reality. What would life be like if rather than reaching into our pocket for a phone, the data we need was fluidly woven right into our lives?

Google casts a wide net when

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If nothing else, the Final Fantasy franchise knows how to market itself. Its characters have been film stars. They've had their own TV show in Japan.

And now, they're…fashion models?

Kinect Star Wars (LucasArts)From the moment Microsoft first showed off its controller-free Kinect sensor, millions of geeky minds were immediately flooded with images of twirling lightsaber duels set in a certain galaxy far, far away.

Star Wars plus Kinect? A perfect match! We'd fling stormtroopers left and right with a wave of the hand, lob lightning around like a Tesla coil, and choke out the faithless with a crushing grip. Star Wars kid, eat your heart out.

Unfortunately, virtual Jedi knights are going to have to tangle with the Dark Side if they choose to play 'Kinect Star Wars'. Releasing Tuesday, the long-awaited game is currently averaging a decidedly dull 59 on Metacritic.

Arizona marches to the beat of its own drummer. But if that drummer gets upset and starts hollering on the Internet, he might get tossed in the clink.

After spending years targeting illegal aliens, the Grand Canyon State is turning its sights on obnoxious Internet users (commonly called 'trolls'). A new update to the state's telecommunications harassment bill could make the practice of harassing people online illegal.

PCs are a lot like televisions: No matter how new yours is, there's always something sexier hitting the market. And whether you're on the bleeding edge or prefer to stick with a system until it coughs up dust, the time will come when you'll absolutely have to upgrade.

The problem then becomes: What should you do with your old machine?

Leaving it sitting in the corner isn't exactly a good long-term solution. Eventually, you'll have to part with it in one way or another, and just as there are stages of grief, there are stages (or steps, if you prefer) that you'll have to go through as you get rid of your old, trusty bucket of bolts. And each one requires some action and thinking on your part.

In the 4.5 billion years the earth has been around, about 108 billion humans have walked its surface. In the 11 years Halo has been around, a small subset of those humans have killed each other more than 136 billion times.

As Bungie says goodbye to the franchise that brought it fame and fortune, the game developer has released some statistics detailing the dedication of its massive fan base. And the numbers are staggering.

What does Seth Green, Lou Ferrigno and the Mayan calendar have in common?

Butterfinger.

The makers of the candy bar are at it again with yet another alternate-reality game, this one concerning the apocalyptic end of all things as foretold by Harold Camping those pesky Mayans, which they have redubbed 'Barmageddon'. And no, this is apparently not an April Fool's prank.