Liveblogging Here We Come
I just wanted to let everyone know that we now have the capability to liveblog! If you don’t know what liveblogging is, it’s an article that is rolling updates on a live event. Like live TV and radio we give you commentary on the event but just in text and image form. Read the rest of this article…
FEZCast – Live From Phoenix Comicon ’12
From the floor of the 2012 Phoenix Comicon, we bring you the FleshEatingZipper 12 minute flashcast! Don’t miss the shortest live podcast from the center of the action as we talk about the first day of Comicon, from crazy Cosplay costumes to crazy homeless people. Read the rest of this article…
Curt Schilling Is An Asshole
He's not smiling so much now.
Companies close. People are laid off. Families are displaced. Careers are lost. With all of capitalism’s successes, there is a dark side to failure that can affect us all in ways that are incredibly intimate. It’s simply part of the game. In 2006, former Major League Baseball pitcher and board game/MMO enthusiast Curt Schilling founded Green Monster Games (later 38 Studios) to produce games that he wanted to play. Six years later, the company was closed abruptly with nearly four hundred jobs lost in a debacle that has the entire gaming industry buzzing. So what went wrong?
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SOE Releases Another PlanetSide 2 Video – YUMMY!
Yes, folks, PlanetSide 2, the upcoming MMOFPS title from Sony Online Entertainment has been given another treatment with another video, this one showing off aerial combat and strafing sexiness.
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SOE Celebrates The 9th Anniversary Of Planetside With New Comparison Screenshots
On May 20, 2003, Sony Online Entertainment launched Planetside, the biggest and most interactive FPS in history and the first of a new genre of MMO – the MMOFPS or Massively Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter.
Planetside was hugely successful and set a very high standard for first person shooters to come. Now, 9 years later, and with the announcement of Planetside 2, Sony Online Entertainment has released a series of screenshots, comparing the old with the new.
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The E3 Rumor Mill Is A-Churnin’ – Here’s Some Of What It’s Spitting Out
Every year, the coming of the E3 Expo generates tons of hype and a vast array of rumors and predictions.
As I write this, E3 2012 is only 2 weeks away. The rumors started hitting the internet months ago but the closer we get, the faster they are generated and, at this point, they are dripping out of the woodwork.
I’ve already done an E3 predictions article, followed up by another written by Nick and in many cases our predictions are fairly divergent. Those predictions are based on rumor, speculation and a bit of research, in most cases. The rumors we run across are…well, they’re rumors. We don’t know who started them, or when, or how, but someone started them and once they take off, they spread like wildfire.
So since we’ve already gotten our predictions out of the way, let’s have a look at some of the other unconfirmed goodness which may or may not grace us at E3 2012.
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Doritos Locos Tacos – The Definitive FleshEatingZipper Review
I’m not sure who’s responsible for combining one really cool thing with another, but they need to get on it more often. Taking Nacho Cheesier Doritos chips and converting them into a taco shell seems almost as cool as adding Star Wars to LEGO. Oh, sure, these have been out for a while – heck, I’ve even had a few – but I don’t think we could really examine the food’s impact on society until we’ve had multiple exposures. So how awesome is the Doritos Locos Taco? Well…
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Building Oceana: The Verge’s Minecraft Pyramid – Final Week
The completed outer casing of Oceana
This is part of an ongoing series chronicling the construction of Oceana, an epic Survival-built megastructure on the Vergecraft server. Be sure to check them all out!
Week One – Week Two – Week Three – Week Four – Week Five – Final Week
This was a red letter week for our favorite digital pyramid as we hit several major milestones in its creation and step into a whole new phase of construction. Now that Oceana is complete as a structure, we shift toward the individual modules that will make the pyramid a self-sustaining city. So what did we get done this week? Let me show you…
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Max Payne 3 Review: Not The Rock Star I Was Hoping For
Max Payne 3 is a pretty good game. It’s lathered in world-class production values, amazing graphics, some pretty tight controls, and it’s a pretty competent shooter in its own right. The first game in the series since 2003’s Max Payne 2: The Fall Of Max Payne by previous developer Remedy, this entry is instead produced by an amalgamation of Rockstar’s studios. This seems pretty coincidental considering Max Payne 3 feels like an amalgamation of other games and movies, rather than a solid creation in its own right. Oh sure, it’s a pretty good game, as I mentioned, but I didn’t buy it to indulge in the Houser brothers‘ love letter to international crime thrillers, I bought it to continue the Max Payne lore. So how does it do in that regard? Not quite as well.
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Battleship Review: “You Sunk My Battleship!”
NASA fires some radio messages out into space. Some aliens attack Earth. We really don’t know what they want, but what the fuck does it matter? The writers didn’t care; the director didn’t care; the core audience for this movie won’t care. Why? Because…explosions. Explosions and Brooklyn Decker’s tits. Battleship represents everything that is wrong with Hollywood: It’s loud, it’s dumb, it’s obnoxious, and it’s expensive. It’s a Michael Bay movie without Michael Bay’s name in the credits.
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