2011 – The Year In Review – By Bercley Lloyd Fernando And Splash Image
Every once in a while you come across one of those things that makes you sit back and reflect a little.
This is one of those things.
Read on.
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Skype, Get Your Act Together Or We’re Leaving You
We at FleshEatingZipper have been using Skype in all in its previous iterations for the past two years. In fact, we made our start with the program, we probably wouldn’t be around today without it: it’s how we made and recorded our podcasts. We dealt with the various interface changes and so on since then, but now… now it’s hard to say exactly what we’re gonna do, now that we’ve been faced with this latest batch of Skype problems.
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PS4, XBOX 720 To Be Unveiled At E3 2012?
Rumors abound that the next generation of consoles will be unveiled at this year’s expos and between CES, this month, and E3 later this year, if new consoles are coming, these shows should be when they’re revealed.
But do they exist?
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Feeling a Little Nostalgic? Cure it with The Restart Page
This nifty little piece of the web lets you remember the restart process of a bunch of operating systems, seriously. I never thought in a million years I would want to sit through watching Windows 3.1 boot up but I did it twice just now. I’ve never seen the Next OS boot process until tonight either. This feels like it is perfectly timed also and includes startup sounds! I’ve got this huge grin on my face as I watch these and remember them perfectly! Read the rest of this article…
Is Microsoft Caving To Carriers By Removing Update Notes For Windows Phone?
One of the biggest advantages in forcing OEMs into very tight hardware specifications for their Windows Phones was that they could make upgrading super easy. Since the phones are all so similar, it wouldn’t take long to move their updates across all their devices, in a way similar to what Apple does with their iPhone and what could only be a pipe dream for Android owners. Microsoft reinforced this by maintaining a page that listed when specific phones on various carriers were getting the newest updates.
Well, for some strange reason, they’re not going to be doing that anymore.
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World Of Warcraft Gold Farming Just Got Too Big
WoW and gold farmers go together like shoes and socks, steak and potatoes, Coke and a smile, Smith and Wesson…
To say that gold farming and sales have become a problem in World of Warcraft is to say that the surface of the sun is a bit warm. The economy in that game is so utterly destroyed, it isn’t uncommon to see people asking for thousands of gold for a stack of linen, in the auction house. Linen which would, by the way, sell to a vendor for mere tenths of 1 gold.
Well, if you though gold farming was big, I have news for you. It’s gotten so big, gold farmers are now making press releases.
Yep…
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Microsoft’s Newly Awarded Patent Helps You Avoid The Hood
Microsoft was recently awarded a new pedestrian GPS patent that will give you options like avoiding rain, high traffic places, the ghetto, only indoor routes, etc. Whoa, hold on there Microsoft, the what? Here’s how Microsoft explains it. Read the rest of this article…
Upcoming F2P MMO “Age of Wushu” Has Me Curious, Skeptical
Looking around the internet at the various MMO offerings brought me to an article about Age Of Wushu, a Chinese game being produced by Snail Games and marketed as free to play. I read a little about it and took some time to peruse their well-built website and I can say 2 things struck me, right off the bat:
1) It’s pretty…very pretty.
2) I don’t get it.
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The N5 Show! Week 1/2012! Ford Focus Electric, Saints Row: The Third and more!
Here at FleshEatingZipper, I’m looking at a weekly video show in which I go over the Top 5 things on my mind. Or whatever. It could be a pretzel at some point, who knows. It could be my melting hands in the masthead there. Either way, be sure to tune in just after the break to get in on the action!
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Dear Sweet Jesus, They’re Making A Real X-COM Game!
My heart raced a little as I peeked through my TweetDeck feed waking up this morning. This may as well be the gaming announcement of the year: 2K’s Firaxis Studios (they make Civilization, you may have heard of it?) is in charge of providing us with 2012’s other XCOM game, which appears to be a remake of the original game.
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