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A Christmas Story 2: Official Sequel: The Direct-to-DVD Sequel You Were Asking For!
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I’m going to open this up by listing off the movies that A Christmas Story 2: Official Sequel (yes, that is the real title) director Brian Levant brought us over his bright streak of a career. Problem Child II. Beethoven. The Flintstones. Jingle All The Way (okay, hang on, this gets a pass). The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. Snow Dogs. Are We There Yet? Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins. The Spy Next Door. Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster. Do you see where I’m going with this?
You Don’t Know Jack For Facebook Is The Quiz Game’s Next Great Frontier
Kelly suckered me into this and now I guess I have to play it every day!
It’s hard to believe that the You Don’t Know Jack series is older than a lot of Facebook users have been alive. Developer Jellyvision brought us the first game almost two decades ago during PC gaming’s CD-ROM renaissance and the game spawned dozens of versions as well as a short-lived TV series starring Paul Ruebens of Pee-wee Herman fame. The series is also known for its crass humor, a factor that became apparent to the ‘rents quick: this wasn’t going to be a game that my brother and I would be playing when we were younger. So now we’re back to Facebook, a place we know oh so well, and YDKJ has found the latest rabbit to sink its claws into: the freemium game. And yeah, it works incredibly well.
Yawn: Xbox 360 Tops North American Console Sales. Again.
“You’re a regular, huh?”
Look, you know I’m an Xbox guy. So you know how much it pains me to say that I’m kinda sick of seeing Microsoft’s hardware at the top of the NPD’s sales list for the eighteenth consecutive month. That’s right, The Xbox 360 has been the best-selling console in North America for the past year and a half, essentially since FleshEatingZipper started. I’m not saying that the Xbox 360 is a bad console by any means, but this is hardly the ‘comeback kid’ win that the original Xbox enjoyed in 2004 up to and following the release of Halo 2, winning in thin margins over the dominant PlayStation 2. No, this is the sign of some deeper woes.
Buy An Amazon Kindle Fire HD With LTE, Get Treated To A Pretty Lame Data Plan
Four Hundred And Ninety Nine US Dollars
Amazon unveiled some new Kindles today, just as we predicted, and the new Fire HD models in 7″ and 8.9″ varieties are pretty interesting. While the smaller tablet will compete with the likes of its older brother and the Nexus 7, the bigger model, running at a crisp 1080p, is aiming straight for the iPad’s gullet, a market Amazon hasn’t dared to tackle before. Now they’re feeling juiced.
Xbox 360 Minecraft Players To Remain In Ignorant Bliss: Adventure Update Still A Ways Off
This peaceful haven shall see no adventure… for a bit longer.
While Minecraft has sold millions of units on the Xbox Live Arcade and broken every sales record there is to have on that platform, PC Minecraft players (browser alpha FTW!!!11!) have known for a while that the Xbox 360 version of the game is considerably gimped. Now the promised Adventure Update, uh, update, will land on the Xbox in ‘a few more weeks’ rather than the previously imagined sooner than that. The aptly named release will introduce villages, villagers, and the PC version’s quest line, all of which were introduced last year for the primary version of the game.
From The Forums… The Bad Entertainment Confession Thread
C’mon, you know you enjoy Pretty Little Liars, right? …right?
This is the thread to confess the bad entertainment that you enjoy. You know what I’m talking about. Some call it a guilty pleasure, some call it Dubstep, but whatever you call it, it is something with no artistic or social value whatsoever, and yet you still find it entertaining and secretly enjoy it. Well, you’ve kept the secret long enough. Confess your entertainment sins and God will have mercy on your soul. Maybe.
Apple, Motorola, Nokia: Every New Phone In The Universe To Be Unveiled Soon!
Nokia’s new shiny Windows Phone, the Lumia 920
This is the absolute worst time to buy a smartphone. Like I mentioned in an article earlier this year, this is the point of the year where all of the key players are announcing their new flagship devices for the holiday. If you had your eye on a One X or iPhone 4, you better wait until the prices drop even further because they aren’t going to be worth much in the next few weeks. So who’s bringing goods to the table right now? Let’s show you…
Revolution Review – “Pilot” – The Best Kind Of Post-Apocalypse
Heroes, villains, but no two-headed cows.
I’m kinda tired of the bleak post-apocalyptic wastelands that frame so many movies and games and TV shows. If there’s going to be a cataclysmic world-ending event, must everything be leveled? Must everything be completely hopeless? Well, after Revolution’s cataclysmic, world-ending event, people didn’t nuke each other off the face of the planet, they devolved into fiefdoms lined with vicious bandits and encroached on by the militiamen of new primitive nations. It’s a fantastic recipe for a crazy new Big Network sci-fi drama.
Samsung Stranded A Blogger Thousands Of Miles Away From Home
The stage at Samsung’s IFA keynote in Berlin. Photo credit: DigitalVersus
There’s been an amazing batch of announcements out of Berlin’s IFA expo, which is essentially the German CES, but the strangest one had nothing to do with product announcements. Clinton Jeff, a blogger for Indian publication Unleash The Phones, won a contest sponsored by Samsung India to bring him all the way to Germany to cover the event. He was assured he would be covering the event as a ‘professional blogger’, but when he got there, well, things got weird…
Getting FEZ’ed/N Gets His First Tattoo
Rasputin lives!
Lots of people say they want to get a tattoo, but fewer actually do it. It’s an entertaining idea: you’re going to take a symbol – an idea, a portrait, a logo – and permanently etch it into your body. And when people finally do put themselves under the throbbing needle, they rely on the tattoo artist to be the creative one and make their dreams come true. As a designer at FEZ and before, I always struggled with what I wanted. I knew that once I picked a design, it had to be exactly what I wanted because, y’know, we artists like to control the vertical and the horizontal in all formats. And then we’ll change our minds a few seconds later. Then it became clear…
