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What Does Star Wars: Episode VII Look Like?
Could Thrawn be a major antagonistic force in this new sequel trilogy? Probably not. Photo Credit: Steve Argyle
Guys: in case you didn’t know, Star Wars happened today. George Lucas learned that he was, in fact, mortal, and decided that the franchise would be best place in the hands of Disney to the tune of four billion dollars. In the same breath, Lucas, new Lucasfilm president Kathleen Turner and Disney announced that work would begin on a new sequel trilogy, consisting of the New Republic’s adventures following the fall of Vader, Palpatine, and the second Death Star. Few details are known at this point, primarily because Lucas is probably still making them up, but where will they go?
Disney Interactive Has Lost $1.25B In The Past Year And A Half
It’s all Goofy’s fault.
Disney just can’t figure out how to make non-Disney games. For years, the company’s animation business had been over a barrel following Katzenberg’s departure, but Pixar eventually righted the good ship. Unfortunately, their game publishing business has not been so successful, having lost money for the past 18 consecutive months, ultimately bleeding $1.25 billion from the parent company.
Google Just Unveiled The Holidays’ Best Tablet: The Nexus 10
Sexy and you know it.
I almost feel sorry for Microsoft at this point. Two years ago I was pining for a Windows Phone, but then they failed to release it for my carrier. When they finally did, I wasn’t about to trade my Epic for it. Then I said my first tablet would feature Windows 8, but then Google brought us a $200 Jelly Bean device in the Nexus 7. Now Google and Samsung bringing us a fantastic new tablet that’s gonna put a mobile Windows 8 further into my rear view mirror. Forget the iPad Mini, the Nexus 10 is gonna be the tablet to gift this holiday, yo.
‘Hotline Miami’ Review: Release Your Inner Psychopath [UPDATED]
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I’m just gonna leave this here…
Don’t you remember being a kid in a video or book store (back when those still existed) and happening upon that eerie or disturbing sleeve, one that informed you that you’d be in trouble if your parents caught you looking at it? The one with the bloody eyeballs, the huge cleavage, or the big pink text that contains ‘sex’ in it? Hotline Miami is that, in game form, for adults.
‘Forza Horizon’ Review: A Forza Remixed Is Racing Perfected
The Lamborghini Aventador has been my faithful steed in Colorado high country. Not in real life, though: these roads would eat that machine alive.
While late to the game compared to its platform competitors, Microsoft has been making really good racing games for a long time. Early on, it was Monster Truck Madness for Windows 95, then came the Xbox with Project Gotham Racing and later Forza Motorsport. With the shuttering of Bizarre Creations, it seems that Microsoft wasn’t terribly interested in putting out racing titles that weren’t either high-end simulations like Forza or braindead Kinect stuff, but Microsoft has a powerful hand in Forza Horizon – the accumulation of all of that they have learned – and it is a masterwork.
‘The Twelve’ Review: More Epic Dystopian Vampire Fiction That Doesn’t Sparkle
[insert numeric joke here]
My Biggest Problem With Windows 8? App Developers
Do I really need Hulu Plus to play Parenthood in a native app instead of a Chrome window? Really?
I’ve been using Windows 8 for approximately fourteen hours already and I have to say I’m enjoying my experience, in a ‘this is crazy awesome to explore’ as well as a ‘this makes things so much easier’ way. There are definitely some downsides to the OS, like, ‘where the hell is this setting?’ and ‘stop doing that!’, but I’m finding my way around these for the most part as I get used to the new operating system’s quirks. My biggest issue with Windows 8 doesn’t really have to do with the OS, it has to do with the developers making apps for it. Or rather, not making apps for it.
What If Apple Doesn’t Break Records Next Quarter?
What if Apple’s spaceship lands? And stays there?
In case you didn’t know, Apple’s doing really well. With net margins near 25% – pretty good for a company making most of its skrilla on hardware – and incredible popularity, it seems that Apple can’t do any wrong. Today, Apple released new Q4 numbers that were, just like last year’s, disappointing by measure of most analysts. Like any best-intentioned company on Wall Street, Apple’s stock price is levied on the expectation of never-ending growth and ever-accelerating performance. In a post-Jobs era, how long can it last?
Are You Ready For XCOM: Enemy Unknown DLC?
Want to play a game of Lucky Hit?
This announcement came two days ago and the only explanation for why I haven’t reported on it yet is that it has boggled my mind. Downloadable content for an X-COM (or XCOM) game? Bizarre. Knocked me flat on my ass. When you have an expansion for a game like Civilization – not coincidentally, made by the same people – you get access to whole new civilizations, techs, and so on that would augment future play-throughs. If you’re half-way through Enemy Unknown right now, you might get access to this if you’ve bought it, but if you’re done with the game, do you dare dive back in?
The Temptation To Upgrade To Windows 8 Is Now Irresistible
This could be what I’m staring at in a few days, but cooler.
When I was a young sprout, at the tender age of seventeen, I said I wouldn’t upgrade my version of Windows until I’d bought a new computer. I looked forward to a new box with a shiny 1GHz processor, 256MB of RAM, and 50GB of hard disk to throw my expanding collection of art and music onto. Instead, I bought Windows XP in October 2001 and got a free stick of RAM, which brought me to that 128MB RAM total, just enough to run the OS in the first place. Like many things, I’m skeptical until the product is about to land and the marketing push is at its extreme. Of course, being able to purchase it on impulse doesn’t help things.
