Windows 8 Releases October 26th, Are You Ready To Upgrade?

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?

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Metro: Last Light – E3 Theater Demo

The folks at THQ showed us some really cool stuff at E3. Among the things we were shown was a closed-door, super secret, totally hush-hush, we could have told you about it but we would have had to kill you, highly classified, top secret gameplay demo of their upcoming second release in the Metro IP – a title called “Metro: Last Light”. Now, they’ve seen fit to release footage of the gameplay demo to the public.

I’ve never made it a secret that I wasn’t a huge fan of the first Metro title. It wasn’t bad but at the end of the day, it was just another shooter in a vast, dry desert of shooters and there wasn’t much to set it apart. The follow-up title, however; Well, that’s a different thing, entirely.

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Robot Rising: Finally, A Facebook Game For Gamers [VIDEO]

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.

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Sanctum On Sale For The Next 4 Hours

Sanctum, the FPS / Tower defense game from Coffee Stain Studios, is on sale for $2.49 (75% off) until 0100, PST tomorrow morning (July 18, 2012).

Read on for links and details.

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Jon Stewart Explains the Viacom/DirecTV Debacle

You’ve probably heard and/or have been affected by DirecTV pulling all 26 Viacom channels over a price increase. Twenty-six channels. MTV, Nick, BET, Spike, Comedy Central, etc. Both companies have been going back and forth fighting over “the captain’s chair on the Titanic” while the customers at DirecTV are being punished. DirecTV was even letting their customers know that while this is worked out they could watch their favorite shows on their websites. Viacom decided to pull those shows off the internet for a couple of day affecting even more people. They’re back now, FYI. Read the rest of this article…

Ha! Ha! Adult Swim’s Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law – Complete Series Review

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.

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Endless Space Review: All Of The Galactic Conquest, Little Of The Joy

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.

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You A Gamer? Need To Get Laid? Well, You MAY Be In Luck

I’m not sure if this press release covers an amazing way for gamers to score some sex or if it’s the most disturbing idea I’ve ever heard in my life but it would seem there’s a new web site which is entirely devoted to the idea of getting gamers laid.

I’m afraid to look so one of you is going to have to do it for me.

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Google is Trying to Put a Stop to Unboxing Videos

Unboxing videos. You may hate them or love them, no matter what they are made for every product out there. I don’t really know what it is with unboxing videos especially nowadays when products come with the product, wall charger and USB cable. Nothing else usually. Read the rest of this article…

Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Trailer Revealed, Makes Me Pine For The Jackson/Blomkomp Movie

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…

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