Alan Wake Finally Coming To PC, Are You Still Interested?
For those who still haven’t experienced Alan Wake – and it’s been out for two years on the Xbox 360, so why not? – you’ll finally have the opportunity to kick it up a notch on your PC. The game will certainly look prettier on a nice home computer (as if it had issues with that before), the problem is the actual playing of the game. While the story and presentation were fantastic, as soon as you needed to flick sticks around and mash buttons, the experience became much less enjoyable. In fact, I kind of dreaded actually playing the game after a big cutscene.
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Lucasfilm Honoring The Tuskegee Airmen – Wells Fargo Sponsoring Film “Red Tails”
If you don’t know anything about the “Tuskegee Airmen”, or about what they did for this country, you may be a little bit surprised when you start doing some research or if you go watch this film.
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of fighter pilots from World War II who flew in the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group in the U.S. Army Air Corps who gained a great deal of fame due to the (disputed) legend that they never lost a bomber when they were on escort duty…And also for the fact that they were all African Americans who, until the creation of the 332nd, had never been allowed to fly in combat.
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Microsoft, Why Are You Still Using Microsoft Points?
We all know about Microsoft Points. They’re the annoying currency system that Microsoft uses in their Xbox Live Marketplace, Games for Windows and Zune stores. If you’ve ever bought a song on Zune or a game over Xbox Live, you’ve used Microsoft points.
What I don’t know is why Microsoft continues to force us to use them.
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Disabled Gamers Award Star Wars: The Old Republic “Game of the Year” Honors
Despite Nick’s hate of SWTOR and Keith’s hate for MMO’s in general (and the fact that they both obviously suffer from some form of mental disability for the fact that they don’t LOVE this game), the disabled gaming community has given it a huge honor by awarding it with their game of the year title, stating:
Every year there are two or three highly anticipated games released with massive hype and record-setting expectations. Most times these games fall completely flat when it comes to game accessibility, but this year one game set itself apart by including a fair amount of accessibility at launch while still meeting the public’s expectations for an amazing game.
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MPAA Openly Threatens to Pull Funding From Politicians Who Oppose Them
Chris Dodd, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, was on Fox News and publicly threatened to cut funding to politicians who don’t support what they want them to support. Seriously. Dodd’s said “Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.” Read the rest of this article…
The N5 Show! – Week 3, 2012 – iBooks, SOPA Blackout, And Costco?
Another week, another N5 Show. We chatted a little bit about it on the latest podcast and it’s cool that peeps want to see it, so here we go! Today, I’m covering Apple’s new iBooks, my desire to stop reading about SOPA and PIPA despite our position on them, and… Costco?
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Crazy List of Items Seized in Megaupload Bust Worth Over $3 Million
Yesterday after Megaupload was shut down and the Organised and Financial Crime Agency of New Zealand arrested founder Kim Schmitz and others they seized a buch of property. Now I’m not saying that I would want to be in jail right now but I wish I created Megaupload because then I would be rich enough to afford the ridiculous items that he had. I did a little math and found out the stuff on the list totals over $3,033,000! Read the rest of this article…
‘Haywire’ Review
Just think of it as a small action film. Would you give Steven Soderbergh (the Ocean’s films, The Informant!, Contagion) a hundred million dollars to build an action film around gorgeous MMA fighter Gina Carano? No, probably not. So here we are with Haywire: a stylish spy thriller redux with a lot of MMA-style fights. Does that tickle your fancy?
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“Unsupervised” Unimpressive
You’d think an animated series that features the voices of Justin Long, Kristen Bell, Fred Armisen (SNL), David Hornsby (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Romany Malco (40 Year Old Virgin), and the gang from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia helming the project would be a dream come true. Even with all of that talent, Unsupervised expels its boring mess of teenage desperate jokes we heard back in high school.
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iFixit.org: a Noble Endeavor
I received an e-mail from the folks at iFixit yesterday morning, which got me salivating for the inevitable tech porn of gadgets being disassembled to bare their wonderful innards, but I was surprised to find something very different. Normally, iFixit.com is the place to go to order repair kits for Apple Products, or Game Consoles, or Cell Phone, but today they announced a new site, iFixit.org, which is highlighting something even more special than the latest bling in a gadget – the men and women of the world who repair instead of throw away.
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