The N5 Show! – Week 5, 2012 – Syndicate Demo, Tax Software, and Ron Paul!

Yeah, I missed last week. There was just too much we’d already covered by that point last week that I didn’t have anything further to contribute. NEVER AGAIN. I seriously had to dance the entire length of the N5 Show to make up for it. Today I cover some cool new stuff (well, when don’t I?) and I won’t spoil it for you, but you’re gonna want to see it because you’ll totally be able to relate. Congrats again to brazenisgod on YouTube for correctly picking last week’s (sigh, again, the week before’s) game, which was Marble Blast Ultra. If you can spot what game is going on in the blurry mess behind me, you need to pick up your feet, run to the nearest e-mail booth (those still exist, right?) and drop me a line as soon as possible. Or you can hit us up on the usual venues, or even the Facebook comments below. If you’re afraid of showing your face in public, you can hit up the YouTube link, too. I don’t care, I want you to win. So I can call you out. And that’s awesome.

Anyway, come watch the show after the break and the rest, as they say, is history.

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PlayLater Review – When You Absolutely, Positively Can’t Play It Now

Do you stream a lot of videos over the internet using services like Hulu and Netflix? Do you sometimes get frustrated when your favorite movie or TV show is only available online for a limited time? Are you unconcerned with video quality? Well, if you answered yes, then PlayLater may be for you.

Developed by MediaMall Technologies, PlayLater is billed as a DVR for online videos. Just like your TiVo saves television broadcasts for you to view later (and VHS tapes did before that), PlayLater saves content streamed from internet services like Hulu and Netflix on your PC for you to view later.

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‘Chronicle’ Review – The Best Found-Footage Movie Since… Ever?

Imagine you had near-limitless mental powers. C’mon now, you’ve dreamt of being able to crush your foes, assemble things, or even fly… all with a mere thought. But what if someone you knew and respected began to use them for nefarious purposes? Such is the dilemma that Steve and Matt face when the latter’s depressed cousin, Andrew, begins to use his new-found powers of telekinesis in terrible ways.

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Rockstar Goes Live With Max Payne 3 Website

So, I got an email from Rockstar earlier talking about their new website for Max Payne 3, and I figured I’d share it with all of you.

It’s loaded with screenshots, videos, artwork, news and information as well as all of the goodies detailed below.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic – Patch 1.1.2 Now On The Test Server

The good folks at BioWare have posted the SWTOR 1.1.2 patch notes so we all get to have an idea of what they’re doing for us in the future. It looks like they are working on a bunch of class balancing stuff as well as general bug fixes for gameplay, quests and flashpoints.

If you’re playing any of the character classes who are getting touched in this patch, have a good look at what they’re going to be doing and make sure you’re ready to re-spec and learn your new build before the patch hits and you’re left in a lurch.

I know I just did.

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‘Triple Town’ Review For iOS + Android – Why Aren’t You Playing This Right Now?

Yes, I’m a little late to the party. Lots of trendy kids that I follow on Twitter have been talking about this game and how addictive it is, so being naturally starved for even a quasi-strategy game for my phone, I grabbed it as soon as I heard it was available for Android. The game walks a thin line between puzzle and strategy as it’s a Bejeweled derivative at its core, but the stuff Spry Fox built around it? That’s the time-sponging twist.

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Electronic Arts’ Syndicate Is Shaping Up Pretty Nicely (Co-op Demo Impressions)

After an incredibly impressive debut, I was pretty psyched for Electronic Arts’ and Starbreeze’s new Syndicate game, a revival of the old cyberpunk-themed Bullfrog franchise that Peter Molyneux once lorded over. But upon downloading the demo, first impressions were not great. The intro movie is choppy and compressed to all hell (probably to keep the demo size within reasonable limits) and upon finding a match to fight in, the demo hard-locked the console. And yes, you had to sign a EA-provided EULA before playing the demo. Thankfully, things got better from there.

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Daria Is The Best Show MTV Ever Made

I spent a lot of time watching MTV during the summers of high school. Most of it was garbage (and yeah, they rarely played music videos even in the late 90s), but one show has endeared when the former music network’s other content has dried up and died. I don’t know how I got started, but once I caught Daria playing on some hot, boring summer day, I didn’t stop. When they would play it in day-long marathons, I was in for the ride.

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Gillette Masters of Style – Sell Out Spotlight

Do you have style? If so, could you use more? Of course you could. Everyone knows that we at FleshEatingZipper, with our varied crop of crops, would’ve been perfect for Gillette’s new ad campaigns on how much style matters, but I guess our secrets will probably never be known as Gillette decided not to do spots with us. But we know some people who might be good replacements… Read the rest of this article…

Google Wave Is Dying In My Arms

There was a time before Larry Page took over the reins at Google where everything and anything flew. It just went. If it could be engineered, Google sought it out. One of the most highly visible products was Wave, which was supposed to change the entire world forever. It was like e-mail, but it wasn’t. It was super e-mail. But as I read about it in Google’s extensive ad campaign, including a spread in Time magazine, I realized that I didn’t get the appeal at all. And apparently, neither did anyone else, because Google has been slowly killing it for the past year and a half and soon it will be dead.

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