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City of Steam Preview And Alpha Key Giveaway [UPDATE: Giveaway Over!]
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The ruggedly handsome Tiffix out in the suburbs!
It appears that, lately, we’ve become awash in free-to-play games. Let’s face it: people want to play for free, those same people are getting over the idea that ‘free’ means ‘garbage’, and with rich gaming engines like Unity, small developers are able to build epic experiences that only large teams could build years ago. Enter City of Steam, a new freemium web-based MMO (read: not tied to Facebook) that takes place in a sort of post-steampunk world. And guess what? We’ve giving away access for the game’s next Alpha wave next weekend.
The Ocean’s 11/12/13 Trilogy Review – Some Clever Heists In A Pinch
They sure did bring in a ton of people, didn’t they?
One cool part about using the Nexus 7 to consume content, as it was intended to, is its easy access to super cheap video rentals almost every night. I took the opportunity to brush up on the Ocean’s 11 trilogy, which for the past decade had been Soderbergh’s “commercial” movies sandwiched between his quirky experiments like Bubble and The Good German. The Ocean’s films often received a brow-beating for their lavish use of their ensemble cast, including George Clooney and Brad Pitt as the ringleaders of the operation, as the cinematic equivalent of a celebrity circle-jerk, never minding that the original film featured Sinatra and the Rat Pack in virtually the same function. Thankfully, Soderbergh’s films were a bit more substantial than that.
Why Penny Arcade’s Kickstarter Didn’t Work
The Kickstarter’s been an interesting adventure, but it’s obviously way short of their intended goals.
With only five days left, Penny Arcade’s Kickstarter experiment to ditch their ad model and free up their time to work on Penny Arcade content looks to be coming to a somber, underwhelming finale. Despite the webcomic empire’s popularity, the epic fanfare, and coverage by Forbes and Fortune (our site excluded out of modesty), it’s been passed up left and right by other Kickstarters for the crowd’s dollar and has spent most of the month-long campaign barely matching the contributions of its first few days. There’s still a great chance that it’ll ramp up at the last minute and they’ll still walk away with at least three quarters of a million dollars, but the lack of excitement around the fundraiser is crisp in the air. It’s clear from here that there just wasn’t enough planning in this venture to reward the company the full million dollars they dreamt of. So what went wrong?
HTC G1 Owners Rejoice! Jelly Bean Is Now (Sorta) Available!
Ha! Ha! Take that newer Android owners!!!!
While most of us are still waiting for our port of Jelly Bean, the first Android phone, HTC’s G1, has had the lovely new OS (that comes standard on the Nexus 7) whittled onto it by the crafty fellows over at XDA-Developers. Yeah, it’s nuts.
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Spotify Radio Needs Some Work, Pandora Fans Need Not Worry
*uncontrollable dry heaving*
I’ve had my share of suggestions for Spotify since they stole my heart from the Zune Pass after nearly half a decade. Don’t get me wrong, I think Spotify is a solid service (even if listens keep disappearing from Facebook, but sigh) and I applaud that they’ve been working on stuff, but Spotify’s newer Radio feature need some lovin’, yo.
Introducing Megafan Central, Where FleshEatingZipper Readers Are Rewarded!
The intersection of Megafans and FleshEatingZipper.
You may have already noticed it on our Facebook page, but we’ve added a new hub for our biggest fans on Facebook. That’s right! Let me explain. So every time you like one of our Facebook posts, every time you share one of our articles, and every time you comment on our page, you get points. The more you share the FleshEatingZipper love, the more chances you’ll have to top the leaderboards! And don’t think the leaderboard bragging is all you’ll get, we’ll also start giving out prizes to our top sharers as well! Stay tuned to this space and we’ll be keeping you updated!
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Leo Laporte Refuses To Let Ex-G4’ers Sessler, Pereira On TWiT, Says They’re ‘Tainted’
Laporte seems lost.
The G4 absorption of TechTV was not a happy one. Here was a ‘hip with the kids’ network devoted to gaming devouring a respectable channel with tons of tech-related content. The path was complicated, but many of the TechTV staff left on word that they’d have to relocate from their San Francisco home to Los Angeles, among them Leo Laporte, who would later form the This Week in Tech network of video/podcasts. Leo seems like a real nice guy, but a recent remark about his former labelmates came across as quite uncouth.
LOL Review – Miley Cyrus’s Magnum Opus
Sometimes life is just, y’know?
It’s tough to be Lola, who is Miley Cyrus, a realistic representation of an American teenager. She’s a powerful feminist and sexually independent, just like Miley Cyrus. It’s tough to have relationships and ‘go with the flow’ when the world is changing and your life is so complicated and boys are all… Well, LOL isn’t about Laughing Out Loud, like you think you’d do to this movie. No, it’s about Living Out Loud, and Miley shows us how life really is.
Rebuild Review (Android) – Defend Against The Zombie Hordes Without The Towers!
Welcome to the fortress town of Colorado Spring! Yeah, there was a character limit.
As you’ve read before, I’m dying for good strategy games for my my Nexus 7. So along came Rebuild, a turn-based strategy title based on a previously Flash-only game. Up front, Rebuild is a pretty easy recommendation and with a constant requirement to balance your actions as you expand your town into the zombie-infested wilderness, you’ll easily find yourself buried in it, too.
Who Charges More Than $2.99 For Android/iOS Games? Crazy People.
Charging Nintendo DS prices for Android games is absolutely ridiculous.
When I was a kid, I didn’t buy video games. I take that back: I did, but only when Christmas and birthday cash rolled around, but acquiring video games was mostly me nagging my parents to buy them in an era long before I had a job. Of course, back in 1996 new Super Nintendo titles, like the fantastic Yoshi’s Island, were still going for $69.99, which translates to about $100 in modern dollars. Can you imagine paying $100 for a video game these days that wasn’t loaded with tons of online tokens and other cheap tchotchkes? How things have changed…
