EA To Release 3 Themed Expansion Packs For Battlefield 3
As many of you already know, we weren’t terribly impressed with Battlefield 3 when we had a chance to play the demo and were likewise fairly unimpressed with the final release of the game, as were many.
EA has announced, however, that they are rolling out 3 expansions to the game and, after reading a bit…well, I’m still not impressed but is there hope on the horizon?
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The Skin I Live In Review: The Best Skin In The World
Pedro Almodovar builds a queasy, unsettling thriller with equal parts melodrama and horror in this modern day mad scientist flick starring Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya. The Skin I Live In holds the distinction of being one of the few movies I’ve seen that is genuinely repulsive while not relying on an excess of gore or freely flowing bodily fluids. And I kinda dig it.
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Should X-COM Fans Be Mad?
I suppose it was inevitable: whoever wound up with the X-COM property and the desire to do something with it would ultimately fall under the pendulous blade of the long-time fans, like me. It’s not that I don’t have faith in 2K Marin and Firaxis, the dual studios in charge of the series’ reboot, but it comes off as a cruel joke when the developers explain that they are ‘long-time super huge mega fans’ of the franchise and they proceed to show you something that isn’t like what you were a long-time super huge mega fan of in the first place. With 2K upping the ante on the released media for these two titles – XCOM and XCOM: Enemy Unknown – it’s easy to see how the X-COM fanboy’s ire might be inspired (they even cut the hyphen out of the title in a JJ Abrams-reboots-Star Trek-fashion!), but should we be so quick to judge and trample these games? Is 2K jabbing a wasp’s nest by trying to re-invent X-COM nearly twenty years after it changed the world?
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LulzSec In Jail, So Now What?
Today, the FBI announced that they had found and arrested the hackers behind LulzSec, a group that had spent the latter half of 2011 shutting down large web sites and causing what may end up being billions of dollars in damages on a whim. The arrests took place as early as last June when the Bureau brought in Hector “Duck Face” Monsegur (above) to serve as a double agent and track down the others in the group. As Sabu, leader of LulzSec, Hector now faces up to 124 years in prison for his crimes, all committed for the lulz. But with this massive operation now out of the way and some of the most vile hackers known on the internet now in custody, where does that leave us?
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21 Jump Street Five Minute Long Form Red Band Trailer
Back in November I told you about the 21 Jump Street movie coming out March 16th and how much I wanted to see it. I really want to see it and the red band trailer just hasn’t been enough to hold me over for another week and a half. Luckily MTV got their hands on an exclusive five minute long red band trailer. It’s pretty much the red band trailer but longer and it is funny as hell. Take a gander! Read the rest of this article…
2011 A Record Breaking Year For Video Game Sales
The PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA), a not-for-profit, industry-led consortium dedicated to driving the worldwide growth of PC gaming, today unveiled its third annual “Horizons” research report. Prepared exclusively for PCGA members by market research firm DFC Intelligence, this timely report covers 2011 year-end sales figures and encompasses major aspects of the PC gaming software industry worldwide through 2015.
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Assassin’s Creed III Officially Announced, Trailer & Screens Inside!
Awww yeah! The newest installment of Assassin’s Creed will take place during the Revolutionary War. The game will release October 30th of this year and I can’t wait! One of the things that will be interesting is how Ezio Ratohnhaké:ton, with his American name of Connor, will be hiding in plain sight with the clothes he wears. I swear I better be able to wear the same pimped out cloaks I’ve been wearing in the previous games. Read the rest of this article…
Ten Minutes Of Disney’s ‘John Carter’ Make Me Want To See It Even Less
Before the lashing begins: I love Andrew Stanton, the director of this long in utero film. John Carter is a legendary property that’s passed through multiple directors over the decades. Stanton, for those not in the know, is the Pixar wizard who brought us Finding Nemo and Wall-E. Fellow alum Brad Bird graduated to live action filmmaking recently and ended up with Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, which was a great action flick, so how does Stanton do with John Carter, due out this Friday? Well, not good, if this “promo” video is any indication (included after the break!).
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Installing Windows 8 Consumer Preview on a Virtual Machine
So Windows 8 Consumer Preview has been released and you want to try it out? You can download it and format your hard drive or dual-boot but those options are no fun, right? Well luckily I will show you how to set up a virtual machine and install Windows 8. If you’ve ever installed Windows you will be able to do this even if you don’t know what a virtual machine is. Read the rest of this article…
Valve Making A Gaming Console Is The Stupidest Idea Ever
This morning, Joshua Topolsky screamed across the internet his site’s latest exclusive: apparently Valve is producing (well, co-producing) a console based on the online gaming service we all love. There’s a lot of excitement around the platform’s rumored GDC unveil, which is mere days away now, but while the internet was collectively hooting and hollaring, I was shaking my head in frustration. A Steam Box is a terrible idea that I hate it to death.
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