Robotoki Employee Triggers Panic Alarm, Gets Office SWATted
Scary! Credit to Polygon, natch.
I’d fire the guy. “I’m Robert Bowling, former creative lead at Infinity Ward,” I would say, “and you’re coming back to the office to throw all your shit in a box because you’re fired. …no, I won’t write a reference letter.” I’d tell this curious, unnamed game designer at Robotoki that he was done for and his act was incredibly stupid and could’ve gotten someone injured or worse. So what did this guy do? He pressed the company’s newly-installed panic button.
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‘Strip Search’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 27 “Contractual Obligations”
Contract work is such a devil.
At some point after you start a business, you’re gonna need to read, understand and negotiate a contract. It’s not fun, so the idea of dedicating an episode of Strip Search to it sounded both necessary and harsh. After Penny Arcade signed away their entire empire early on (when it was far more of a wooden shack than a massive territorial claim) and their book rights to a guy who fled to Alaska, bringing in business maestro Robert Khoo saved their butts and built what we know as Penny Arcade today.
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‘Prey 2’ Is Still A Game, ‘Dishonored’ Guys Now Working On It
This Sam Fisher-like will live to fight another die. Maybe.
I don’t think anyone ever expected a follow-up to 2006’s Prey, a shooter with some interesting ideas (like portals before Portal), but simply didn’t gel well as a shooter, sporting an unlikable protagonist and a grim setting. When Bethesda spent a lot of money teasing the game two years ago, in which you now played as an intergalactic bounty hunter, it looked like a knock-down success. Behind the scenes though, trouble was stirring and just a year later, it looked like the game was doomed to ever come out at all. Thankfully, as Kotaku reports, it looks like the game is back in capable hands.
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Duolingo Apps Let You Learn A New Language Anywhere, For Free
I’m always right!
If you’ve never heard of Duolingo and you’ve been wanting to learn a new language, listen up. This entirely free service is now available on iOS and Android, making it even easier to learn a new language. I’ve been using Duolingo to learn German and I’m not that far – Ich einen Apfel, anyone? – but I do find the way Duolingo teaches easy to follow. Read the rest of this article…
Shyamalan’s ‘After Earth’ Expected To Bomb This Weekend With $30-40M Pull
You can’t save it now, Will.
These movies just aren’t meant to live. Both Shyamalan’s After Earth (which is really Will Smith and Gary Whitta’s) and Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion similarly-themed post-apocalyptic romps were exposed to air in the same breath. Oblivion is set to close well south of $300 million worldwide, which is far removed from the middling success of Kosinski’s previous film, the cultish Tron: Legacy. Now that After Earth is up to bat, it looks like expectations are low, lower than low, that the film will generate much of a blip on anyone’s radar. Also, the film isn’t even in theaters yet.
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‘Pixels’ Will Finally Become A Real Movie, Directed By… Chris Columbus
“There’s a lot of potential in this film.” – Me, 3 years ago, when Adam Sandler bought the rights
It’s been a long time coming, but that Pixels short film you enjoyed so many years ago now has a fate assigned to it. When an amorphous multi-colored blob busts out of a TV, it begins to turn the world and everything in it into cubic reductions of their previous forms while a cast of classic video game characters helps with things. A brilliant concept with more insane compositing, Adam Sandler bought the rights to make it a full film when it debuted in 2010 and it’s languished in development hell ever since.
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‘ Elder Scrolls Online’ Is Finally First-Person, But It Won’t Be ‘Skyrim’
Lockpicking! Now in first-person!
What happens when you make an MMORPG that takes up the mantle of the third-person perspective in a series that’s known for being first-person? Well, eventually, you change it. In the case of The Elder Scrolls Online, you’ll now be able to play the game from the series’ standard perspective.
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My Phoenix Comicon Weekend
Do you know what it feels like to be in a zombie apocalypse? I sure do. Well, sort of, I experienced the next best thing: serving alcohol and food to over 40,000 hungry Phoenix Comicon attendees. Read the rest of this article…
Tesla Unveils Supercharger Expansion Plans, World Domination To Follow
It’s funny that they skip Nebraska until 2015.
I’ve still never seen a Tesla in real-world operation, but I’m a complete fanboy. The problem is that they’re trying to sell the car to Americans, who live in a large, unpopulated country that’s probably the least ideal for a purely electric car with limited battery range. Unless you’re one of those ‘Opening In LA And New York’ yuppies, you don’t even have access to their proprietary Supercharger network, which allows you to rejuice in an hour, compared to the traditional all-nighters of your 220V garage plug.
Well, that’s all changing real soon.
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THE NIGHTLY FLO SHO – May 30th, 2013
Get ready to flo!
Cody, Kelly and N are trying out something new with a brief, sub-30 minute, nightly podcast! Today we chat about the weather, weird stuff, and weirder stuff! Heck, I can’t spoil it here, that’s too much to spoil! You could probably finish the podcast in the time it took to read this synopsis!
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