Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster – Demo Impressions
Hey, hey! I grew up on the stuff! I was watching Sesame Street loooooong before they put all their eggs in the Elmo basket (Grover FTW, fools). I don’t remember learning a whole lot from it because of the fractured, drawn out way it taught, so maybe I’m a genius because I watched it for years. I don’t know. I’d had my doubts about Double Fine developing the game, not because I didn’t think they could do it, I’ve loved Tim Schafer since Full Throttle, but because I figured this was the bottom. Frankly, none of their games have been successes, much less big ones, and this may be the only way that Double Fine will ever become a household name. So, uh, how’s the game?
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Amazon To Destroy iPad In One Move? That Easy?
It hasn’t been that long since I mocked Amazon for imminently announcing a new tablet to the world based on an older version of Android based purely on their weight in the Kindle space. Well, today the online vendor that we all know and love brought us not one major tablet announcement, but several geared directly at undermining Apple’s iPad share. Will Cupertino be able to release $500 tablets after this when Amazon is filling out the range below? We’ll certainly see. Key points after the break!
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New Girl – Same Old Stuff
Fox’s debut sitcom New Girl continues tonight. The show stars Zooey Deschanel from (500) Days of Summer as “an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys.” Hey, thanks for the logline, Fox.com! That sounds hilarious!
How offbeat and adorable is Zooey Deschanel as Jess Day? Wow. How much time do you have? The first episode is an absolute assault of offbeat adorableness, starting with the cringe-worthy credit sequence of Zooey making various “cutesy” faces at the camera. Still watching?
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Diablo 3 – Gameplay Video #2
As promised, we are going to keep bringing you Diablo 3 videos, right up until launch.
I spent some more time with the Wizard, and here’s what I have, so far.
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Gears Of War 3 – Horde 2.0 Strategies
Gears of War 3 has been out for a week now and everyone and their mother is now on a mission to get to level 50 in horde mode, one of the more popular Gears 3 multiplayer modes and claim the achievement (I understand there’s 2 if you make it through all 50 in one sitting). The new version of the horde mode is fast, furious and brutal and if you’re not prepared in the later stages of the game, you’re in the stew in a really bad way.
So what’s the best way to make it through the levels and how are you supposed to deal with those pesky bosses?
I’ll tell you, after the jump.
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Terra Nova – TV Review – Dino Damage!
In the opening shots of Terra Nova, we’re shown an Earth on the brink of collapse: a sky full of deadly brown smoke, people being forced to use rebreathers indoors until they get into oxygen-friendly safe zones and, y’know, dystopia. It’s like Al Gore’s greatest dream accomplished, this is what you have done to the Earth, humanity! he would say. Jim Shannon and his family are enjoying the rare treat of an orange when the five-oh stop in and find his young, third child (which is strictly verboten in the 22nd century, it turns out). Shannon goes to prison and through some trickery, ends up back with his family on their way through a time portal to Terra Nova. On the other side? A trip back 85 million years. And dinosaurs.
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iPhone 5 To Be Unveiled On October 4th, Still Not Be As Cool As Android
Well, it looks like it’s finally here: Apple is set to unveil the next iPhone in just over a week. Now, we’ve talked about this thing before and there’s been plenty of leaks, but now we’re going to see the real deal and odds are, we’re going to see new CEO Tim Cook unveiling the thing. He’s not quite the stage presence that Jobs was, but I guess we can take the old lug! At this point, it remains to be seen whether this is going to be a single-model unveiling or perhaps several, but Apple has a long way to go if they want to beat Android at this point.
Source: This Is My Next
Pan Am – TV Review – Not Quite Airborne
In the 60s, Pan Am wasn’t just an airline, it was the airline. In a tribute to that period, ABC’s new drama uses the Pan Am name to interesting (and perhaps cheap) effect to thatch a world-trotting, Cold War-era plot line. The stars here are the six crew of the Clipper Majestic, on her inaugural flight in the pilot episode, and their intertwined adventures told through a series of flashbacks and coincidences. But how much can a show rest its fate on the stories of four airline stewardesses?
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Amazon Kindle Fire, iPad Killer?
Short answer, no. Lets break it down. Last week Amazon pretty much announced their tablet was coming and it would be unveiled on Wednesday. Today we learned that it would be called the Kindle Fire and rock a custom version of Android. Read the rest of this article…
Indie Game Review: Super Smash Land
Anybody who’s anybody has played the original Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 64. And you’d all be lying to me if you’ve never had your hands caress the plastic frame of a Gameboy. So what would happen if those two were matched together on a dating service? I’ll tell you what would happen — nothing. They’re incompatible. However, Dan Fornace had the brilliant idea to develop a “demake” of Super Smash Bros. for the Gameboy. Wait, what?
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