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The Netbook Will Be Dead In 2 Years, Says iSuppli
Remember these?
Remember that time when smartphones just weren’t big enough and laptops just weren’t small enough and tablets just weren’t there enough? That’s a space where companies like Asus and Acer provided tons of really small laptops, a kind of computer that no doubt inspired the Chromebook, without the guts needed to push HD video, but more than enough to be productive writing and doing some light web surfing. Netbooks thrived in this space where the iPad didn’t exist until, obviously, the iPad came to form and people realized these little Windows-powered devices just weren’t scratching that itch anymore.
‘Rise Of The Triad’s Multiplayer Is Really Fast And Crazy, You Guys
OMGFZFFZGHGHZGZZZZ!!!!
It’s just not Monday morning until Evolve PR’s Tom sends us a clever/snarky/incredibly witty e-mail for one of his games. Today’s nugget? A full eighteen minutes of Rise of the Triad’s multiplayer, which goes so fast I might need some Dramamine. It might also be too late…
‘DayZ’ Creator Off To Scale Mount Everest, Likely Due To Lack Of Zombies
The most badass vacation ever? Yeah.
Okay, it’s not quite a vacation, but while DayZ‘s Dean Hall is out on sabbatical, he’s going to be scaling the world’s tallest mountain; a feat of herculean effort. I guess he’s supposed to be working on a standalone version of that game he’s known for, but hey, why not take advantage of a massive pile of rocks while you can?
There Is A God: ‘SimCity Social’ Closing
From the fires of Hell, this game was born.
Bad mouth Maxis’ SimCity all you want, it’s clear that they had good intentions that simply couldn’t be exercised in reality. SimCity Social, however, is one of the most vicious MOMCOTs in circulation. People were actually playing this game by the millions, despite its blatantly pernicious nature, but that fell off in good time and Maxis now axing it and The Sims Social (among others) as Electronic Arts is almost giving up on Facebook games entirely.
Oculus Rift Dev Makes ‘Mirror’s Edge’ VR Ready, Looks Terrifying
Get on all fours, scale along, don’t look at anything, just take a breath, you can do it.
One advantage of having Oculus Rift development kits in the wild is that people are actually creating stuff with them. Shocking, right? Cymatic Bruce is taking requests and his latest is DICE’s 2008 first-person runner Mirror’s Edge. The game was already a stomach-turner for some with its dizzying heights and all-too-real, free-running immersion, but when you add a real VR interface on top? Oh boy.
FEZ BRO SHO: Week #15, 2013
It’s E3-tastic, with a little alcohol on the side. Just a little.
The fearsome foursome are all here with a little bit of alcohol to chat about which phone to get, PC gaming versus console gaming, employing the Ghostbusters theme at just the right time, Vine, and their E3 press conference experiences!
Cubemen 2 (PC) Review: It’s Tower Defense, All Right
In the game’s Rescue mode, you protect your own trail of cubemen while fending off another.
Was there an original Cubemen? If so, it’d be hard for me to believe there was a version of Cubemen 2 that was somehow smaller in scope or equipped with less features than it is. That’s not too much of a dock against the game because when it comes to well-done tower defense action, you can’t really go wrong with Cubemen 2.
FEZ Week In Review: Week #15, 2013 – PC vs. Console Gaming, Motocross Madness, Elysium
Half-way through April already? Criminy!
FEZ Week In Review is a series where we go over the stories that mattered most to you in the past seven days, whether gaming, tech, entertainment or otherwise, we bring them together for you to view in one quick glance!
‘The Newsroom’s Second Season Debuts On July 14th, Stars Allison Pill
That’s Allison Pill on the far right, flanking her co-stars.
Oh good, that news show that stars Allison Pill is coming back to HBO super soon! If you haven’t read my review of the show’s first season, Allison Pill plays a plucky associate producer named Maggie Jordan who still has a lot to learn about news show production!
Bizarre: General Electric Revives Agent Smith To Sell Hospital Equipment
Hello there, Mister Doctor Maaaaaaaaaaaan.
You haven’t seen strategized marketecture quite like this. To sell you on their valuable position in, I don’t know, keeping people alive in hospitals, General Electric has employed Hugo Weaving, with the blessing of the Wachowskis and Warner Brothers, as Agent Smith. An evil dude.
