Every Single Article Written by N - All 1343
Star Trek: The Next Generation Hits Blu-Ray Next Week, Never Looked As Good
The Enterprise-D wasn’t the most aggressive-looking ship, but it had the best crew!
Star Trek: The Next Generation was my Star Trek. Captain Picard was my hero, delegating and being diplomatic like no one’s business. He treated his staff as equals and while he wasn’t up for hot-rodding the ship like Kirk was, his strength was in his consensus-based management. Anyway, it’s been twenty-five years since The Next Generation debuted and it’s finally seeing its home in high-definition on Blu-ray discs. I was super excited about picking up the box set on July 24th (and various other dates around Europe) until I saw the price…
Windows 8 Releases October 26th, Are You Ready To Upgrade?
You can not return from whence you came!
Microsoft officially announced today that their latest and greatest version of their industry-standard desktop (and now tablet!) operating system will be available in upgrade and OEM form on October 26th, 2012. But are you ready to make the move, yet?
Robot Rising: Finally, A Facebook Game For Gamers [VIDEO]
![Robot Rising: Finally, A Facebook Game For Gamers [VIDEO]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/RobotRising.jpg "Robot Rising: Finally, A Facebook Game For Gamers [VIDEO]")
3D graphics and Diablo-esque gameplay in a Facebook title? Whaaaaa…
Are you tired of cartoony, energy-based 2D Facebook games that treat you far more like an object than anyone who could actually enjoy a genuine gaming experience? We agree, and so does developer Stomp Games, a division of Chinese Tencent’s Boston office. Their first game, Robot Rising, is currently in deep beta (you can apply on their web site) and not due out until later this year, but it already looks extremely promising.
Ha! Ha! Adult Swim’s Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law – Complete Series Review
Dangly parts!
When I was in high school, the cool kids were playing Grand Theft Auto III and watching Adult Swim: a bunch of crazy late night, “mature” shows on Cartoon Network, y’know, a kids’ network. I didn’t get into it until college, but between Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Futurama reruns, some passable anime, and their other original content, I was sold. My favorite show was Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, another satirical re-envisioning of Hanna Barbara’s rubbish old cartoon programming after the success of Space Ghost: Coast-to-Coast, the progenitor to all this madness.
Endless Space Review: All Of The Galactic Conquest, Little Of The Joy
Don’t get zealous on the scroll wheel, or you’ll quickly zoom out to this stunning, yet ultimately useless, view of the galaxy.
There’s an episode of The Pinky and The Brain where, completely drained of ideas after endless nights of attempting and failing to conquer the world, Pinky inspires Brain to build a paper-mache replica of the world, lure people onto that fake planet with free t-shirts and… well, I won’t spoil the rest. The two mice toil to create this new planet, which looks like ours, but is matted down with newspapers. It’s not until Brain concocts a special seed that the illusion is complete and this new ChiaWorld (this was the mid-nineties, forgive them) becomes a spitting image of our planet, at least from the surface up.
It’s bizarre to me that after twenty years, with all of the insight, technology, and money we have, no one has been able to replicate the charm and presentation of Master of Orion, the greatest galactic conquest simulator ever built. Oh, people have made larger and prettier galaxies, they’ve ramped up the simulations, they’ve added multi-player, but no one can replicate what really made that game tick. Despite simplifying the approach, Endless Space sadly joins a vast belt of ChiaWorlds that are close in appearance, but don’t adequately replicate the experience.
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Trailer Revealed, Makes Me Pine For The Jackson/Blomkomp Movie
Hesitant recruit looking for Master Chief for inspiration. PST.
One of the most disappointing non-events in the past decade of gaming was that the Peter Jackson-produced/Neil Blomkomp-helmed Halo film fell right through the cracks. Microsoft disappointed everyone because they just wouldn’t foot the bill for the project themselves (despite sitting on billions of dollars in cash reserves then and now), expecting other studios to put up the funds for the project’s big budget and then agree to an intensely binding creative vision that Bungie and Microsoft would oversee. Well, no one bit (at least not for long) and that project, along with years of progress and millions of dollars invested, flushed right away in an instant. I hate Microsoft for it. But, it seems Microsoft has been infatuated with that dream ever since…
Windows Phone Flagship Lumia 900 Cut To $49.99, A Sign Of Things To Come?
Rasputin Loves It!
Here’s the thing: the Lumia 900 is a really good phone. It’s the first major device out of Microsoft’s relationship with Nokia and just like the original Xbox’s early drastic price cut to compete with PS2, the two Windows Phone partners launched the new phone at $99.99 to get the phone (and its platform) out to millions of new customers. The problem is, halving the price after two months is a little scary.
Should I Buy A Nexus 7? You Tell Me!
Mine would be lined with Babylon 5 and Parenthood items and paraphernalia.
Usually in an article like this, I’d pose the question to you, the reader, and then supplement it with a generalizing answer. In much the same way I get star struck when a famous person I know steps in the room (I’m taking medication, for those concerned), I get super giddy when quantities of a new piece of tech or gaming fall through and people are left scrounging for an opportunity to get their hands on one. It happened with World of Warcraft in 2005, it almost happened with both a second-generation iPad and an HP TouchPad last year (I was against the GNex before I was for it). Now the Nexus 7 is slowly leaking out via rare online vendor and I’m pondering the questionable purchase again. At $199.99 (or rather, $249.99 for the 16GB version), can I go wrong?
Bro, EA Wants You To Play Medal Of Honor: Warfighter’s Multiplayer, yo!
Oh, it’s all quiet and recreational until someone gets the Osprey.
We didn’t get to see as much of Medal of Honor: Warfighter at this past E3 as we would’ve liked, because EA forgot our invitation, but we don’t feel too terribly bad about it anymore. The guys who created Medal of Honor, which made this whole pop-action military fighting genre popular, went on to do Call of Duty, but then came back to do, uh, something. Meanwhile, the Medal of Honor team has struggled to bring a winner to the fold while Call of Duty continues to win the hearts and minds of gamers. Well, we have a big heart for the underdog (as ironic as that sounds), and we’ve included the new multiplayer trailer for the game’s Fire Team mode and a new Vietnamese setting.
It’s A Great Time For PC Gaming: Steam’s Summer Sale Begins!
Sweet, sweet nectar pools in Steam’s store.
If you play games on that e-mail machine you call a gaming computer, you know how wonderful Steam is and we sure do, too. Well, now that it’s summer, it’s time for a Steam summer sale, with deals changing daily and awesome discounts on packs of games as well, many reduced between 70-80% and available for downloadable fury at the click of a button. Let’s take a look at a few of them going on today…
