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Shiny Toy Guns’ Second Single Off III, Fading Listening, Now Available For Your Disco Sensibilities
Get your platforms ready, y’all!
Well, this is different. After a lukewarm first single in Waiting Alone, and a bizarre-bordering-on-corny extended video for it called Loverunner, in which lead vocalist Carah is stabbed and nearly raped (seriously), we get this charming little single. It’s a better single than Waiting Alone was, but it makes me wonder if Shiny Toy Guns is hiding their bold adventurous music, like last year’s “The Sun” somewhere in the album.
Let People Know You Read FleshEatingZipper, As It Happens!
Be hip and cool today!
If you’ve been on Facebook in the past, oh, say, ever, you’ve seen the addition of OpenGraph apps. What does that mean? It allows people to share the music they’re listening to, the food they just got a recipe for, or in our case today, share what FleshEatingZipper articles you read! The more you and your friends read our articles, the more the word of FleshEatingZipper spreads! So how does it work? Let me explain…
Rock Band Blitz Review: A Successful Riff On The Series
I’ve got two analog sticks and a Miley Cyrus track.
It’s hard to believe it’s been four years since music games peaked, and I remember when it happened. I was working at Best Buy and when holiday rolled around, we spent hours receiving, unpacking, stacking, and sorting thousands of bulky plastic instrument kits for four different platforms. It was a pain in the ass. But while my retail life got easier when their popularity subsided, many developers lost their jobs when that talent pool wasn’t required anymore. On cooling Rock Band sales, Harmonix stole the Kinect limelight by coming up with the camera’s best game: Dance Central. But they haven’t left their Rock Band legacy behind and Blitz is an incredibly clever reinvention of the mechanics you loved.
Bernie Review – Too Weird To Live And Too Rare To Die
“…and here’s some chocolate muffins for a late night snack!”
It would take a quirky director like Richard Linklater (A Scanner Darkly, School of Rock) to bring this stranger-than-fiction true story to life. Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) is just the most charming man you’ve ever seen. As an assistant funeral home director, he opens the film by exposing his tricks to presenting the recently deceased, including exquisite amounts of super glue to keep eyelids and lips sealed to keep the jarring presence rigor mortis at bay. But this isn’t a macabre movie despite his occupation. He’s in the business of death, but he enjoys life so much! Whether he’s removing ruined bodies from a car wreck, presiding over a funeral service, or helping the quaint folks of Carthage, Texas with their income taxes, you can’t not love Bernie. So what happens when he murders the town’s wicked witch? The court has to move the trial for even a remote chance to be fair. The folks of Carthage just won’t convict the darling.
Polygon’s New Polygon Documentary Could Not Be More Self-Serving
Making yourself the story goes against the AP-style journalism Polygon wants to emulate.
“It just wasn’t realistic to do a thing, like, building a site like Polygon, with the backing that we have, and making the content that we have. Everybody wants to do this, no one actually can because it’s just not possible.” – Russ Pitts, Features Editor, Polygon.
The Rocketeer To Be Rebooted, Disney To Receive One Million Cool Points
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES…
The first movie we saw as a family after moving back to the United States in 1991 was The Rocketeer, a fantastic art-deco/science-fiction fusion based on the eighties comics of the same name. The title character is Cliff Secord, a race driver who happens upon a stolen jetpack, juggles his career against that of aspiring actress girlfriend (OMG JENNIFER CONNOLLY OMG), gets a cool helmet designed by his mechanic friend Peevey, and, well, adventures ensue! The Rocketeer never escaped cult status, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t 100% cool as hell.
Songpop: The Latest And Greatest Facebook Fad
Are you having Zynga flashbacks? Because I am.
One way you can tell if a Facebook game is getting traction these days is to see it plastered all over your friends’ feeds. Insert Friend Here is playing This Game, Insert Friend Here did This in That Game. The latest to crawl up the threatmeter is Songpop, a sort of ultramodern Name That Tune for you and your friends in a structure not terribly dissimilar to Draw Something. But does anyone remember Draw Something? Exactly.
PlayStation 4 Rumored To Support 4K TVs: Crazy Or Stupid?
It’s a Retina Display for sure.
Before the Xbox 360 landed at the end of 2005 (yes, it’s been that long), all games rendered at a humble 640×480 pixels or less, the realm of standard definition. with the advent of more powerful hardware, developers were finally able to take advantage of high definition resolutions, namely 720p (which is what most games run at) and 1080p (the realm of Blu-ray). Well, rumor’s getting around now that Sony’s including 4K support, which is four times as many pixels as Full HD at 1080p, in their new console slated for release next year. Excessive, much?
Avril Lavigne To Marry Chad Kroeger: 2002’s Coolest Headline
This is the coolest thing that didn’t happen for a long time!
Do you remember Avril Lavigne? Sk8r Boi? Yeah, that was a thing. Well, she’s getting married to the lead singer of the worst band in existence. Literally, they have some kind of metric that they grade these things by and they simply won the most loser points. The last time that I remember being interested in either of these people was right around college, but these two have realized there is little more they can accomplish in life… except each other.
Goodbye, Nintendo Power
Mario will live on, his magazine will not.
If you were a Nintendo fan at the peak of their powers (think: late 80s, early 90s), then Nintendo Power was probably a fundamental piece of your gaming experience on a monthly basis. (Mine was PC Gamer, because, y’know.) Equal parts editorial, fan club fare, and strategy guide, Nintendo Power was one of the first major publications for gaming and a model for others to follow, like the official publications for PlayStation and Xbox. Well, times are changing and soon Nintendo Power will cease to exist.
