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Iron Man 3 Trailer Releases, Is Crazy Dark
Oh, it’s just Iron Man. Taking a nap. In the snow.
After a 17-second pre-trailer teaser was released yesterday, for whatever stupid reason, Marvel brings us the long-anticipated reel we’ve been looking for: the first glimpse at Shane Black’s Iron Man 3. I was on the Iron Man train – the original film, not the comics – because I really enjoyed Robert Downey Jr’s return to stardom after crippling his career. Iron Man was a simple film at its core, but seeing Downey fly around and dance with airplanes and pew pew the baddies was a trip fantastic.
Windows Surprise: Nokia Lumia 920 And HTC 8X To Be Available For Super Cheap
So Beautiful. Bom Bom. Chik, chik-chik-chikah…
I’m not sure how effective it’ll be, but why not? Nokia’s highly sought after Lumia 920, the successor to the beautiful 900, and HTC’s brand new 8X are going to be available not long after the presumed Windows Phone 8 launch next week. While Android fans will be fighting over crazy new phones like the Nexus hardware or Motorola’s RAZR line and Apple fanboys will be cycling through black and white variants of different storage capacities, Windows Phone owners are going to be getting some pretty slick, powerful and colorful phones for the Windows Phone 8 debut. For cheap.
Why Does Minecraft Run Like Garbage? Do I Blame Mojang Or Java?
Seven. Frames. Per second.
As you are well aware, we host a Minecraft server here at FleshEatingZipper and we’ve been documenting some of its progress. I play on a three year old desktop and until yesterday, things were going fine, but an update for Java 7 landed and killed Java performance across all of the various things I use it for, primarily Minecraft, but plenty of other web creations, too. Movement response in the game fell to half a second (that is, press key, wait half a second, see the action unfold on the screen) and the game became unplayable. So who do I blame for this?
‘Paranormal Activity 4’ Review: They’re Not Even Trying Anymore
“HEY GUYS, DERPY DERPY DERP, I’M JUST MINDIN’ MY OWN BUSINESS, NO SCARES HERE.”
The Paranormal Activity series has become a shell of itself. Once a promising setup, these flicks are now a sequence of minutes copied and pasted from previous iterations with a few bits altered and characters changed to keep it fresh. The scariest part of the film was about two-thirds of the way through when I had to hold in a wet cough and I couldn’t find my cough drop, buried somewhere between my wallet and car keys. Then, when I had said cough drop, the movie was extremely quiet and I didn’t want to be that guy who was undoing the paper wrapper on his lozenge while the kid was wandering the house with a laptop in complete silence waiting for a jump scare.
As far as the movie goes, let me let Paramount’s President Of Movie Development explain how things are done.
Own Interplay’s Greatest Games, Like Fallout, For Whatever Price You Want
I can’t tell you how many hours/days/weeks I’ve lost to these games.
One of the greatest features of PC gaming also happens to be one of its greatest guilt traps: cheap games available quickly. I own the first two Dead Space games and have put 45 minutes into them, total. I’ve bought others and still not put any time into them. I own so many games and don’t play them! Well now you have an opportunity to own even more games from the golden era of PC gaming with choose-your-price/Humble Bundle-style scheming. Should you be paying attention? You sure should, here’s why.
‘Bioshock Infinite’s’ Stupid Awesome Limited Editions Are Stupid, Awesome
Look at all this crazy crap you can get!
Hey guys, look: I want Bioshock Infinite as much as you do, but I’m over “Limited”, “Collector’s” and “3D High-Definition Mega-Mighty Super-Big Commemorative Definitive Avant-Garde Collector’s High-Octane Ultra Lithium Titanium Extra Special Director’s Cut Signature Edition”s in all their excessive glory. Why? Because gaming has the bad end of the stick here. What would normally be fulfilling in a three or four-disc set for a movie with hours of sprawling documentaries about how they made it, is usually just crappy tchotckes when it comes to special editions for games. Well, next year’s big early release has two largely-similar pleasures for all your Americana-devouring nerdiness!
The Microsoft Surface Launches In Eight Days, Has Three Big Problems
I honestly thought of a Pop-tart when I saw this picture. I have no idea why.
Next Thursday night, Microsoft will be spending a bunch of money bringing their in-house tablet to the world. Not only will your eyes be blasted with ads, but Microsoft will be setting up pop-up stores for hot impulse sales for Microsoft’s senses-blaring Windows 8-slash-Surface release. But despite Microsoft’s monopolistic success with Windows, their huge foray into fresh new tablet form factors, ones that don’t involve a huge desktop and a hefty monitor – is still far from guaranteed (meet: Windows Phone). They have some big hurdles ahead as they launch into the holiday season.
‘XCOM: Enemy Unknown’ Review: Who You Gonna Call?
These Floaters will be the least of your worries.
I’ve dreamt of this game for years, nay, decades. The original X-COM: UFO Defense, which holds a cherished place in my heart, was often mimicked, even by its own sequels, but never exceeded. Dreams of battling aliens as an under-supported and demoralized soldier in the X-COM filled my head as a kid. In the sixth grade I’d zone out and draw maps when I had to stop a mission half-way through. In high school, I envisioned deploying a squad to a sunny farm where heavy explosives could send a barn exploding into splinters with incredible detail. The franchise has been in limbo for so long that it was doubtful that anyone would grant my dreams the light of day, much less by the prestigious creators of Civilization. The full game is far more impressive than the ultra-tutorialized demo lent on and while this isn’t what I envisioned a new X-COM game to be after so long, I can’t hold that against Firaxis.
Well, not entirely anyway.
‘Decoding Deepak’ Review: 74 Minutes Explaining Very Little
“What do you think of this street?” “The street is both here and not here, its-” “Yeah, okay dad.”
I’m familiar with the name Deepak Chopra, but not so much about his philosophies. Half-way through this documentary, which assumes you have some sort of acquaintance with his lectures or books despite spending a good portion of time trying to explain them, I decided to discover what exactly was the big deal about Deepak Chopra. And now having seen it, I still don’t know.
New Sci-Fi Horror Game ‘Routine’ Digs The Eighties, Oculus Rift Support
There’s nothing routine here!
What if they made a game out of Duncan Jones’ Moon? What if it had all the same tantalizing, horrific traits that made System Shock 2 and Dead Space so freakish? Well, that’s what we’re getting out of next year’s Routine. You’re arrived at the Lunar Research Station to explore what happened to the inhabitants there who have suddenly disappeared. More details and teaser video below!
