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With Wii U, Nintendo Made A Console That EA Won’t Even Put ‘Madden’ On
You have to get all the points to touchdown all those field goals, amirite?
In an announcement that rivals their complete abstinence from Sega’s Dreamcast lineup entirely, Electronic Arts made clear that they weren’t bringing their NFL-exclusive Madden game to the Wii U this year. Holy crap. Wow. I don’t play “football” games, but barring the game’s special 25th Anniversary markings this year, having a console without a Madden is a tell-tale sign of its long-term vitality.
Can Kelsey Grammer Save ‘Transformers 4’ From Itself? Sure
I didn’t realize how many faces I’d posted today until just now.
The only thing more intellectually insulting than the Transformers trilogy is the fact that I paid money to see them all in theaters. Yes, like so many other millions of people, I’ve opened my wallet to see a terrible train wreck several times over. In my defense, I loved school supplies that were sparkled, shined, or dazzled, so I think I just have a ‘shiny thing complex’ for Industrial Light & Magic’s incredible showmanship. Now they’ve got Kelsey Grammer.
Why Microsoft Sucked The Fun (And Community) Out Of Their Next-Gen Xbox Unveil
Stuff he said could be really cheesy and corporate-like, but seeing J Allard involved really made you care about Microsoft’s work
In April of 2005, I was flipping through the TeamXbox forums when I saw that a few posters had caught onto a weird site called “Our Colony”. (You can see the archived version here.) With all the tell-tale signs of an Alternate Reality Game similar to the ilovebees campaign that had run the previous year for Halo 2, everyone knew pretty quick that this was something for Microsoft’s next console with a countdown that would end on May 12th. The ensuing weeks-long race to crack the puzzle of Our Colony, a weave involving the “gamem8ker” and that of a community coming together to resolve an incredible mystery seems to be lost on Microsoft now. If there’s a reason why gamers seem more cynical than ever, it’s because game companies like Microsoft are less interested in building a grassroots movement than they are preaching from an ivory tower.
If They Don’t Make ‘LEGO Breaking Bad’ Into A Real Game, I Will Stab Someone
Game of the Year.
The LEGO crossover games (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Batman, etc.) were born out of an interesting and renewed effort on LEGO’s part to start branching out. I grew up on the standard kits, so having LEGO bricks penetrate every aspect of your life doesn’t seem like a terrible opportunity. Unfortunately, these games are kinda dull and kid-oriented, which is odd considering how many of us adult-folk are still into the bricksets. But how could we change this? How could we improve them? With Breaking Bad, of course.
News Genius Proves That Rap Genius Can Explain Everything
Give me all the explanations!
If you’ve never used Rap Genius, it’s pretty amazing. Originally designed to crowd-source (perhaps overly-elaborate) explanations rap music – hardly an intellectual front – it’s expanded into a really good crowd-sourced explanation for not just rap music, but tons of music. Search for a song you don’t quite understand (who is Jesse from “Jesse’s Girl”, anyway?) and you can read (sometimes crazy) detail about it, line by line. It’s not always a professional read, but it’s a good way to gain context. So where can this formula go? Everywhere, apparently.
Would You Tattoo Your Employer’s Logo For A Raise?
I don’t know, I might…
Tattoos are pretty big, important, permanent business. Well, depending on who you are. Once you start, the addiction can start to creep in and in that case, anything goes. Chances are if you’re reading this, you might have some serious reservations about getting one if you haven’t done so already. But what if the people you work for offered a raise if you got their logo tattooed on you? Would you consider it?
Sid Meier Is Making A Mobile Game; It’s Almost Scary How Awesome That Sounds
When Meier makes a mobile game, you pay attention!
People have been making mobile games for ages, but it wasn’t until recently, with the rise of the iOS and Android empires, that publishers not called “Gameloft” took them seriously. Now, Sid Meier has announced that he’s turned his gaze to those platforms, which basically means they’ll last forever.
Why Have An Android Phone When You Can Have A Windows Phone, Says New Microsoft App
It’s handy, but only a little bit.
What was once the primary phone of my dreams is now the secondary phone of my dreams, but I have to hand it to Microsoft for trying, even as I separate further and further from their ecosystem. I’d heard about this app for a week now, but when I was able to finally dig it out on the Play Store – it’s not the first app listed under “Switch Windows Phone” – I had to give it a shot, just to see.
The World Wide Web Turns 20 Today, Why Does It Matter?
Triple-dub, yo.
Twenty years ago today, the very first web page went up on the internet. Created by Tim Berners-Lee while under the employ of particle-smasher CERN, he wanted a way to create a web of documents that could be hyperlinked together and accessed without needing another individual on the other side of the line to pick up. There’s a lot of things the World Wide Web is, but a lot it’s not. For example, the world wide web is not “the internet”, but a single way of transferring information across it. The creation of the WWW (or W3) changed the face of not just the internet, but mankind as we know it.
Here’s That Google Glass Instructional Video You Asked For
Pretty clever building the trackpad like that.
Don’t you remember getting that new toy/game/whatever as a kid and ripping out the instruction manual, filling up on all its details, and memorizing the whole thing end to end? Yep, I remember that very well. Well, since I don’t have Google Glass and you probably don’t either, let’s just go ahead and watch this introductory video as if we were wearing them right now.
