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Do We Really Need Another Entry In The Terminator Franchise?
Reports are flying around that Justin Lin – known for directing the latter three films in the Fast and the Furious franchise, including the forthcoming Fast Five – is in the cards to direct a new Terminator film for Universal. Why do we need one of these again?
Arclight – My Zune 30 – Nears Death :(
After four long years and over 1500 miles in walking distance, my musical companion is finally giving up the ghost. Suffering a bout of harddrivefailureitis, it’s time to pause and reflect on the happy times we had together.
NPD Presents: The Top 10 Selling Games of January 2011!
For the first post-holiday month, we’re not seeing a whole lot of change in the rankings. Black Ops is going to hover at the top for a while longer (or until the next Call of Duty game comes out, which ever comes first). The obvious shocker here is Just Dance 2 outselling Dead Space 2, which is a little scary, ifyaknowwhatImean!
Why Penny Arcade Needs To Move On
It seems like it’s been a billion years since I started reading Penny Arcade (well, closer to eleven, but whatever) and back in those days, it wasn’t Krahulik’s art that sold me, but Holkins’ writing. The way that they cleverly positioned Gabe (Krahulik’s alter-ego) and Tycho (Holkins’) on contemporary gaming issues – whether it was games that didn’t work out of the box or their crusades against IGN – always connected with me. In those eleven years since then, they acquired a business manager and turned their web comic about vidya gamin’ into a multi-media empire with books, web shows, and two massive gaming conventions each year. So my question is: why do Holkins and Krahulik stick to hunting such small game when they’re fully capable of tackling bigger beasts?
The Heat Death Of The CityVille Universe – Strategies and Secrets!
You may be enjoying it now (or it may be sucking the life clean out of you), but eventually, like the universe itself, it has to run out of fuel. This is how it’s going to happen…
Zynga Valued Higher Than Electronic Arts. Yes, You Just Read That.
Per the Wall Street Journal, social games maker Zynga (Cityville, Farmville, Frontierville) has just scored an evaluation of $7-10 billion based on new investments, which trumps the current $6 billion market cap of publicly-traded gaming titan Electronic Arts. Yeah.
Goodbye, Bizarre Creations (1994-2011)
On Friday, February 18th, Activision will close Bizarre Creations – creators of the world-famous Project Gotham Racing and Geometry Wars franchises – and I will be sad. Oh, so sad.
Double Fine’s Next Production Is… a Sesame Street Game? I Have To Be Reading This Wrong…
Today, Warner Bros. Interactive and Tim Schafer’s Double Fine game studio announced Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster, which is “a truly original interactive experience” for the Xbox 360/Kinect. Uh… huh…
Parenthood: Not Just For 14-Year Old Girls. Wait, Hang On…
I still can’t tell you why I started watching this show. I have no idea. This is a show for people who love Grey’s Anatomy, not Babylon 5. Or is it? Strangely enough, after getting past the initial, seemingly pretentious marketing, I fell in love with the Braverman family. Of course, it might’ve also been because Erika Christensen is hot.
New@Redbox Review: Middle Men
Let’s put it simply: this film is (purportedly) the story of how internet pornography came about. It starts out humbly enough: two idiots – Wayne and Buck (played by Giovanni Ribisi and Gabriel Macht) – come up with a great idea on how to quickly acquire new means of satisfying themselves via the internet (“Who pays for stuff on computers? That’ll never work!”) when their old VHS tapes just won’t do. Unfortunately, what begins as an exciting, coming-of-industry tale a la Pirates of Silicon Valley quickly becomes a case of an overly-ambitious film overreaching its grasp.
