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The $500 Million Powerball: Living The Collective Fantasy
It’s all yours if you want it enough.
Some people call it an idiot tax, others call it escapism, but when the lottery hits record pots, it becomes a collective fantasy. Even if you’re not regularly enlisting your dollars to clean up your parks and improve your state, you’ll whip out a twenty or a debit card to purchase those little strings of numbers that, if your prayers come true, will grant you more power than you could have ever possibly imagined. With Powerball raising the price on tickets this year, these euphoric moments happen far more often, highlighted by the massive Mega Millions draw back in March. These moments just can’t come often enough.
Nintendo’s Wii Mini: The Last Hurrah Of An Empire
It definitely looks prettier than the original model.
When a console gets old and prepares for the silver years of its life, it gets repackaged. That old design isn’t gonna work anymore. The price has to come down. You didn’t really need all those features, so out they go. The most successful console of the generation got a stealthy redesign and a Canada-only release date of December 7 for $100. At this point, are there any bets on it outselling its successor?
‘Gemini Wars’ Review: Evokes Sins Of A Solar Empire, Performs Poorly
This screenshot is more interesting than anything actually in the game.
The space strategy genre was tailor-made for me. Build massive fleets, conquer the galaxy, refresh. It seems so easy in principle, but why can no one make a good one? Why are developers so content to throw imagination out the window and set poorly-constructed real-time strategy games against starfields and nebulae while little, multi-colored icons plug each other with little lines of laser fire? Have we learned nothing in twenty years? Gemini Wars is yet another title by a small-time developer playing with my emotions, failing to provide the goods.
Wii U First Week Sales On The Light Side, Down 33% From Wii Launch
I’m in your stores, bogarting your palettes.
Nintendo came out today to exclaim their biggest hardware week in some time this week with 1.2 million units sold. Between three major platforms, it sounds like a big deal, but as a separate deal, especially as the launch week for Nintendo’s newest (and only sixth ever) new home console, the numbers weren’t quite so rosey.
‘The Walking Dead’ Review: Season 3, Episode 7 – “When The Dead Come Knocking”
You seen my brother Daryl? Or my other brother Daryl?
Another exciting episode of The Walking Dead shambled onto our televisions tonight, but does it work well enough on its own or is it just a tease for mid-season finale due next week? Let’s look! As always: SPOILERS!
Happy Thanksgiving From The Staff Of FleshEatingZipper!
GOBBLE GOBBLE
Are you a turkey fan? Well, tomorrow peeps like you are gonna be gobbling up the gobble gobble and other stuff. Me, I’d just be happy with a big bowl of stuffing. I don’t even like turkey. Anyway, while you and yours are celebrating company, we’ll be doing the same, but we’ll be working on Planetside 2, Forza Horizon, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Halo 4, probably episodes of Parenthood, and some other genuinely awesome stuff.
We’ll see you guys on Monday!
Love,
Your pals at FEZ
How To Destroy New Angels’ New EP? The Omen? Garbage.
Everyone’s face is blurred out because they’re trying to disassociate from the band? I mean, it makes sense.
I like Nine Inch Nails, you should, too. As a bigger fan of Trent Reznor’s “The Fragile” and beyond, the minimalist sound of his Ghosts album makes far more sense to me than to someone who loved his overproduced work earlier on, namely on The Downward Spiral. Have you seen a video of him during his Downward Spiral work? Dude was caked up on drugs and swirling around the place with his bandmates. I think the floor was even coated in weird fluids for whatever reason. Well, anyway, Trent Reznor and his band, formed with wife Marqueen Maandig and long-time producer Atticus Ross (along with another dude whom I didn’t research), was pretty hot on their first EP, but their latest release, The Omen, another EP, is a far cry from that. What are they doing over there?
The Xbox Nexus: Is The World Ready For Multiple Xboxen?
This, but, like, smaller.
If The Verge’s claims are believable, then there might be some upset in the Xbox Kingdom, at least amongst the fanboys. If you’re old enough, you might remember when Microsoft unveiled two Xbox 360 SKUs at Gamescom in Germany seven years ago, known as the ‘Core’ and the console proper. After launching a console that had a hard drive in every single unit, the idea of fracturing the user base amongst people who both did and didn’t have hard drives seemed like a strange form of blasphemy. Well, maybe the strangest is yet to come…
Engadget Reveals New Web Site, Shines Brighter Than The Content
No, I’m not a fan of the typeface in the highlight box being different than everything else.
Yesterday, Aol’s big tech blog unveiled a major redesign that, admittedly, is probably the best thing they’ve done since Topolsky and crew left. The content is still pretty light, I’m not a fan of ripping out review scores, and they’ve been chasing features other sites have actually done proper, but this part they got pretty right and you should check it out for that part at least. What did they improve? Well…
Are You Skipping The Wii U?
Nintendo’s finally reaching out to core gamers, but are any going to sink their dollars into it?
Y’know, when the Gamecube launched, I had a little bit of enthusiasm for it. The Xbox broke my trepidation on buying a console as a gaming machine (PC GAMES FOREVER YO) and the thought of playing a new Mario game and Eternal Darkness was a pretty interesting draw. The console didn’t do fantastic and Nintendo lost more of their stead against the competition following the disappointing Nintendo 64. I skipped the Wii, but Nintendo seems to be trying its best to lure me back with games like ZombiU, but why isn’t it working?
