About a year ago a e-book publisher in the UK decided to remove DRM from all of their books to see what would happen. A year later, nothing happened in terms of increased piracy, except now they have more happy and loyal readers. The Register takes a look at this story.

A little over a year ago, Speculative Science Fiction publisher Tor decided to do away with digital rights management (DRM) for its e-books.

The company's publisher Tom Doherty said that the time that authors were supportive because DRM frustrates readers. “It prevents them from using legitimately-purchased e-books in perfectly legal ways, like moving them from one kind of e-reader to another,” Doherty said.

ShackNews has posted up their video game releases this week, and there are a lot more titles than there has been latley.  PC gets the most releases and once again we see the PS Vita coming up dry.  I'm so glad I never dropped cash on that piece of hardware.  After you check out the releases, make sure you catch a few game reviews below.

• Anomaly 2 (download - $15)
• Helicopter Simulator: Search&Rescue (download)
• Metro: Last Light
• Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall
• Reus (download)
• Sanctum 2 (download)
• The Cold War Era (download)
• Thunder Wolves (download - $10)

• Hunters Trophy America (XBLA - $10)
• Metro: Last Light
• Sanctum 2 (XBLA - $15)

• Dust 514 (PSN - free-to-play)
• Metro: Last Light
• Star Wars Pinball (PSN)

• Super Ghouls'n Ghosts (Virtual Console)

• Mega Man 5 (Virtual Console
• The Starship Damrey (eShop)

God of War: Ascension for the PS3 is on the review bench at eTeknix today. If this isn't your thing, check out the preview and interview for Watch Dogs over at HardwareHeaven.

Fred Armisen from SNL actually uses Google Glass for the first time (not a sketch).  Interview with Tim Sweeney of Engadget.

Source: Engadet

This year at CES the big product in the TV market is 4K TV's. Sharp brought their new 4K tvs to the show but they decided to take things one step further and were showing off their 8K TV (7680x4320 resolution, or 16x the resolution of a 1080p screen). Right now 4K content is tough to find so you can imagine how tough it would be to get 8K content but like with any technology its fun to see the future. Not many specs are really known about Sharp's 8K TV but the 85" demo TV they had on the show floor was pretty amazing.

Sharp 8K TV

Another interesting product Sharp was showig off was their Web + TV split-screen unit. As TV's have become larger and larger the ability to use half the screen for web and half the screen for TV makes you able to multi-task all from the comfort of your couch.

Sharp Web + TV Split-Screen TV