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Helpful Reminder: Power Rangers Turns 20 This Year, Our Expert Checks In
There were so many!
Haim Saban is a genius. During the eighties, the music he produced became embedded in the fabric of many a childhood – including my own – through shows like Inspector Gadget, M.A.S.K., and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, just to name a few. In the power vacuum left by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ declining popularity, Saban’s production company struck gold by importing Japanese TV shows and re-filming portions of them for American audiences. Their first? Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, an adaptation of the long-running Super Sentai series (literally: Fighting Squadron), featuring a group of teenagers “with attitude” that would fight the summoned, comical villains of Rita Repulsa, an evil witch on the moon. In a post-Captain Planet world, combining their powers (and their giant, animal-themed mechs) into a giant knight seemed incredibly logical. I spent many a recess running around the school’s playground, thrusting my hands in the air screaming ‘It’s Morphin’ Time!’. Sometimes, I still do.
CONFIRMED: System Shock Franchise To Resurface With GOG/Steam Release [UPDATE]
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Gaming’s most horrifying villain can’t come to digital storefronts soon enough.
System Shock, the cult favorite PC horror franchise, is ready for new life incredibly soon, FleshEatingZipper has learned. According to our sources, a “new development/publishing studio will be handling the release”, spearheaded with a new digital release of System Shock 2 on GOG within days, the perfect starting point for any classic PC gaming connoisseur. A Steam release is said to follow within the next month at a later, undetermined date. While the complexities of such a new deal were not revealed, for many years following the dissolution of Looking Glass Studios, the legal rights to the series have been up in the air and long-time fans have had to resort to abandonware or other, illicit means to acquire their rad cyberpunk dosage of Shodan’s madness. No longer!
TPB AFK (The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard) Review: In Which Pirates Go To Court
Why wouldn’t you?
I’m really not sure what to make of this film. The producers want it to spread across the internet – I’ve even included it below – but I’m not sure of the motive. What is this film really trying to say? The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard is a play on a statement made by one of The Pirate Bay’s co-founders in which he states that they don’t meet “IRL”, but instead step away from the keyboard. The internet is their real life and The Bay’s office is little more than an IRC chatroom. TPB AFK tells the story of these scrappy, idealistic IT workers with seemingly conflicted motives managing the world’s largest tracking site for BitTorrent feeds, many of which are used to ferry copyrighted movies, music, anything. But, what’s the moral of the story? Is piracy inevitable or is there a genuinely altruistic reasoning behind it? The film doesn’t really explain either way.
‘Community’ Season 4 Premiere Review: They’ve Ruined It.
Such promise wasted.
Guys, I’m sorry. When The Office debuted its final season last year, I didn’t have very nice words for it. While the show is a bit like a soda that’s gone flat, I can still enjoy the concluding tales of Scranton’s best paper shop on a weekly basis. All things in perspective though, I was probably too harsh because if the premiere for Community’s latest season is any indication, I hope they box this show up and toss it six feet under fast.
Wikipad Gaming Tablet Still A Thing That’s Coming Out, Will Sell At $249.99
All this can be yours this Spring…
Just before its originally scheduled launch on Halloween in GameStop stores, Wikipad indefinitely postponed the release of its $499.99 10″ Android-powered gaming tablet. Citing a critical manufacturing flaw in their first units, something they claim was “neither a mistake of our excellent design team nor a fault of our incredible manufacturing partners”, the Wikipad is now finally ready for arrival.
Dear Disney, Please Don’t Run Star Wars Into The Ground
Imagine this, but much, much more!
This article’s headline seems like a cruel joke after we spent six years putting up with George Lucas’s prequel trilogy, but Lucas had something going on in his favor: scarcity. With three years between movies and only three movies, as he claimed, left in the saga, the movies felt more epic because their quantities were less. With some recent transactions, Disney is the new owner of all these old Lucas heirlooms and have framed some grand designs for the next decade and it includes a lot of Star Wars. A lot more Star Wars. Is it really for the better, though?
Think You Can Hax? Quadrilateral Cowboy Reveals New Trailer, Blows Your Mind
Look at these displays! These are all yours!
Have you ever played a cyberpunk game like Deus Ex and wondered why you weren’t typing on a virtual keyboard with your keyboard, hacking each camera, door, and trap line by line, rather than just pushing some easy buttons? Do you really feel like a hacker when you’re hacking with a mouse or a few face buttons? That’s not real hacking, that’s for poseurs. Quadrilateral Cowboy from Blendo Studios wants you to get into the nitty gritty and script your way through and past a score of defenses. Are you hardcore enough for that?
‘House Of Cards’ Review: You’ll Be Thankful You Can Marathon This
About ten times more effective here than as Lex Luthor.
Let’s cut to the chase: this is the future. As a rule, you can’t talk about Netflix’s new political drama House of Cards without mentioning how innovative its arrival is. This isn’t the first time a show has ever been released as an entire season online simultaneously, nor is it the first time Netflix has done it, but with all due respect to Lilyhammer’s “New York Gangster Lands In Sweden” premise, this is the first time they’ve done it with a show I can make it past the second episode. House of Cards, a $100 million investment for the guys who once delivered discs in red envelopes to your door, is built for the service end-to-end. The episodes don’t feel like discrete plates of drama, they feel like casual breaks in the series’ tempo, which helps the fact that you don’t need to wait until next week to pick up the next episode. I’ll try to keep SPOILERS as light as possible.
Antichamber (PC) Review: What Is This, I Don’t Even…
GET OUT OF MY BRAIN.
It’s difficult to write about Antichamber, except to say that if you like puzzles and you’re fond of the first-person perspective, you should stop reading this and plunk down your digital dollars for the game on Steam right now. For the rest of us, let me spend a few words trying to win you over. Antichamber, the product of a single developer (Alexander Bruce), a lot of time, and plenty of love has a lot of shared skeleton with games like Portal or Fez (no relation), but it leaves a stark impression on you from the first moment you play it. You can’t shake it, it permeates your brain. You need to play Antichamber.
Facebook Knows Where NFL Fans Live, Makes A Big Colorful Map
No one likes the New York Jets?
Okay guys, I’m the last person to be writing color commentary on foot-based ball games, but this recent development is simply far too cool. There are a lot of people who believe that submitting data to Facebook is really just a way for Facebook to make money off you. To some extent, it’s true: we can target ads more effectively because we know who’s a fan of what TV series, game, or where they live. But that data can also be arranged to create the most accurate map of NFL fandom yet, a task that simply never worked before because not enough data was available.
Unless you’re Facebook.
