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Pre-order Bonuses Could Not Save GameStop From $270m Loss Last Year
This is probably the fanciest one I’ve ever seen.
If you’re a gamer and you surf the internet, chances are you’ve been targeted by a GameStop ad. They’re not the worst, but their publisher-blessed facsimiles are pretty darn close. Blaming customers weary of a console cycle that’s gone on far too long, GameStop reported a $269.7 million loss last year compared to a $339.9 profit the year before.
GDC 13: Japan’s Indie Game Scene Rising Because Phil Fish Thought Their Games Sucked
A controversial comment stirred a sleeping giant.
It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since Fez‘s Phil Fish told a Japanese developer that modern games from his country “just suck”. Fish received a harsh wave of criticism regarding his comments, which came at the end of a screening of Indie Game: The Movie at GDC, but he seems to have survived. Now it appears someone else took advantage of the comment: Japanese developers.
‘Tactical Intervention’, The New Shooter From ‘Counter-Strike’ Creator Minh Le, Opens Today
A shooter with scenarios? Pretty cool.
Since I’m not very quick on the draw, that whole wave of fast-paced shooters that washed over us in the late nineties and early aughts was something I was able to surf over. Unreal Tournament? Quake III? Counter-Strike? Yeah, didn’t play any of those. You may find yourself in love at the sight of Tactical Intervention though, Counter-Strike creator Minh Le’s ten-years-in-the-making follow-up. Because the game’s totally not in my alley, I decided to give it a try, anyway.
The Onion’s New Video About Follower-less Twitter User Is So True It Hurts
Like me, but.. no, I guess there’s no ‘but’.
We all love The Onion, primarily because they can take a sad situation that could possibly be real and expand on it. To say The Onion’s latest piece hit close to home speaks volumes about my expectations about how Twitter works, or rather, probably doesn’t work.
Walmart Wants Customers To Deliver Other Customers’ Online Orders
Brought to you by,uh, other people.
The Walmart braintrust in Bentonville, Arkansas is at it again, this time with a real doozy of a measure. Picture this: you stop by Walmart to pick up your groceries, then at the same time, pick up someone else’s groceries and deliver them. Sure, you’re an errand boy (or girl), but you get a discount in the process. What could possibly go wrong?
M83’s Theme For ‘Oblivion’ Released, Is Magical
What a terrible bridge design!
I’d mentioned a number of reasons I was interested in Joseph Kosinski’s post-apocalyptic action film Oblivion, but the biggest may be the fact that M83’s Anthony Gonzalez was commissioned to put the score together. Now we have the first (well, second, I’ll give you more in a sec) offspring of this marriage of passions and it is wonderful.
‘BioShock Infinite’ Songbird Plushie Is Adorable, Up For Bid On Ebay For Charity
DAWWWWWWWW!
I know you guys are busy swinging through BioShock Infinite‘s Columbia, but if you could just take a moment, Alix over at Arixystix Creations has put together a neat little figure: a one of a kind Songbird plushie that’s been stuffed to the robotic feathers not with hate, but with love.
‘Metal Gear Solid 5’ Trailer Debuts, Doesn’t Make Any Sense
Guys, it’s a flaming unicorn-pegasus. From a farm.
Maybe it’s because I didn’t grow up with a PlayStation or any of the Metal Gear Solid games, but I have literally zero tolerance for Hideo Kojima’s nonsense. I haven’t even played the games, I just watch other people do it. My roommate in college? I watched him play Metal Gear Solid 2 up until the moment where they explained the entire thing with the Presidents. What? We’d seen part of this Phantom Pain trailer during the Spike VGA Awards and that seemed cohesive if not a little mindless. Now, we have the full thing.
‘Prometheus’ Sequels Stuck Because No One Knows What Came Next [UPDATED]
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A galaxy full of stars and nowhere to go.
I enjoyed Prometheus when it debuted last summer and I seem to enjoy it even more now. I could look over a few shortcomings in the narrative in my love for this first space-based science-fiction film in what feels like an era. Visually stunning, thematically interesting (if a little nebulous) with an amazing performance by Michael Fassbender as the Prometheus’ pet robot, the movie was striking to say the least. It’s no Alien, which is perfectly acceptable, but that might be part of the problem.
‘XCOM’ Shooter Is Now ‘The Bureau’ Apparently, Confusing To Far Fewer People
Well, this is going to make a lot more sense.
Oh, thank God. When 2K Marin’s XCOM sixties-era tactical shooter was unveiled in 2010, it had all of us X-COM fans in a tizzy. Here was this game with weird tar-like or geometry-based aliens (or both?) involving parallel dimensions and other madness masquerading as a reimagination of the classic franchise. Our classic franchise. Well, if these newly-registered domains are any indication, 2K may have just made the smartest decision of the year.
