Better Than ‘Mass Effect’ Or ‘Halo’, ‘The Definity’ Is The Best Science-Fiction Of 2012
Last night, I was up until 1AM inserting HTML italics tags into a Notepad document as part of the finishing touches on my book, The Definity. In the publishing world, I would’ve simply handed my manuscript off to someone else and let some creative director deal with all the nitty-gritty details in regards to book covers and eBook versions of my story and I could rest at night on the piles of money that the publisher gave me. Instead, I was painstakingly searching line by line making sure that the book’s format wouldn’t “break” when someone loaded it up on their Kindle. From the cover (our artist Cody actually did all the characters and main artwork while I did layout) to design, publication, and promotion, it was a challenge to assemble this book over the past 15 months while working a full-time job and writing for the best web site in the world.
This one. That’s where you think ‘this one, FleshEatingZipper’.
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EA’s Origin Service To Add Games From 11 More Publishers
Electronic Arts‘ digital distribution service “Origin” is going to expand its base and begin offering downloads from such publishers as Trion Worlds and Robot Entertainment as well as smaller publishing houses such as CD PROJEKT RED, Freebird Games, Recoil Games, Autumn Games, 1C Company, inXile entertainment, Paradox Interactive, Core Learning Ltd. and N3V.
This move, announced today, will significantly expand their list of over 100 current titles.
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The Finder Review
I watch Bones regularly and sometime last year an episode was hi-jacked with what the industry calls a backdoor pilot. This pilot was for The Finder. It looked interesting staring Geoff Stults as Walter Sherman (the finder), Michael Clark Duncan as Walters lawyer/muscle and Saffron Burrows as the eye-candy/bar tender. They did a good job mending the shows together, Booth from Bones knows Walter Sherman from serving together in the Army and in the second episode Sweets is doing an evaluation to see if Walter can be used as a government consultant. Read the rest of this article…
Rumor – The End of Microsoft Points
A few days ago, we challenged Microsoft to do away with the annoying Microsoft Points currency system that they use on Xbox Live, Zune and Games for Windows. According to the latest rumor out of Redmond, it looks like Microsoft may be rising to that challenge and abandoning Microsoft Points.
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Rocksteady’s Next Game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Maybe.
Rumor has it that Rocksteady, the developer who redefined Batman and stealth gaming, is working on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle game. If that didn’t give you goose bumps, the dirty rumors after the break will.
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Movie Review – Underworld: Awakening
The vampires and werewolves are at it again in Underworld: Awakening, the fourth film in the Underworld franchise. Why can’t those crazy monsters just get along?
Kate Beckinsale reprises her role as the vampire Selene, everybody’s favorite blue-eyed Death Dealer. This time she’s separated from her half-werewolf lover and ends up saddled with a mysterious 12 year-old girl named Eve, who is on the run from the werewolves because of some secret that is easy to guess. As with the previous Underworld films, Selene mostly just does a lot of jumping and posing and yoga, surely, to fit into that tight leather outfit.
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BeastRig Announces Their Beastrig Line Of Gaming PC’s
So, you’ve been playing SWTOR for a few weeks now and you’re getting little tired of getting ganked into the middle of unholy shit ratchet by the zit-faced 12 year olds with their high end computers their mommy and daddy bought them for Christmas as a reward for not getting straight F’s for the sixth semester in a row, right? Well, there’s help!
Beastrig has just announced their new line of gaming PC’s for the masses.
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Rob Riggle Joins Call of Duty to Promote the Elite Service
You know when you are trying to sell something to 20 somethings you want to have catchy advertising and Call of Duty is doing that. They are trying to push the Elite service as much as they can, doing so they hired Rob Riggle, actor, corespondent and former Lieutenant Colonel of the US Marines. Read the rest of this article…
Comedy Actors I’d Like to See More Of: Ed Helms
Ed Helms – It is a travesty that most people only know Ed Helms as Stu from the Hangover films. As a staunch fan of The Office (US), for me Helms has been one of the stand-out performers since his debut in season 3, as world class suck-up Andy Bernard. His character evolution, from his original, angry salesman who enjoys suckling from the power teat, to his relationship with nemesis-turned-ally Dwight, to his cowardly, don’t-rock-the-boat office nice guy fawning after the receptionist, Helms has developed his character seamlessly, becoming one of the most loved characters in the history of comedy television. (Did I also mention he went to Cornell?) Read the rest of this article…
File Sharing Disabled For FileSonic, FileServe & More
Well, it was only a matter of time. As inevitable as it seems, file sharing websites similar to Megaupload might follow suit. After witnessing the capture of Mr. Dotcom, owners of many file sharing sites are frantically disabling that “evil” functionality — allowing the user to upload and download personal items. I can only imagine people wanting to share high resolution pictures of certain events to friends and family through FileSonic but being forced to individually attach said photos to 30 different e-mails instead. I’m still bitter.
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