It’s official: Lowell McAdam, the president and COO of Verizon, announced this morning that “we’re partnering…with Apple.” The iPhone 4 will be available on Verizon on February 10, and starts at $199 for a 16GB 2-year plan, which is the same pricing as AT&T. Existing Verizon customers can preorder the phone come Feb. 3.
One thing to note: You can’t switch from AT&T to Verizon and keep your same phone. AT&T runs on a GSM network (think: SIM cards), and Verizon runs on CDMA, so the devices themselves are not interchangeable. The devices will run on Verizon’s 3G network (not the 4G LTE), and because of the way CDMA works, customers won’t be able to use voice and data simultaneously.
So, PopWatchers: Does this mean there’s an iPhone in your future? Or a carrier switch?
Lost in Shadow is a videogame built on an interesting idea. In the opening cinematic, you see a mysterious figure separate a boy from his shadow. The shadow is thrown off a tower — and not just any tower, but the sort of impossibly tall anime-fantasy tower that seems to have been built forty thousand years ago by steampunk-fetishist robots from the future. (It’s a Miyazaki tower, if you will.) Playing as the shadow, you have to climb up that tower to reunite with your boy. The twist: you can only walk/jump on other shadows. The result is a platform game that should, in theory, feel like a meta-platformer: There is a three-dimensional world in Lost in Shadow, but your poor shadow can only participate in the two dimensions of light and darkness. 
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Tonight’s BCS game between Auburn and Oregon is poised to be one of the most high-scoring title games in recent memory, but here at PopWatch, we’re less concerned with hyperspeed offenses and 6’6, 250-pound quarterbacks and much, much more concerned with a far more pressing issue: Which school wins in the arena of pop culture?
