Engadget Eliminates Review Scores, I Disagree

In an editorial today, Engadget’s editor-in-chief, Tim Stevens, declared that the era of numbered scores on product reviews was going away in favor of bullet-pointed pros and cons and a summation in under 140 characters. It’s hard to remember a time before their various reviewed gadgets were adorned with those color coded numbers… nah, nevermind, they were implemented a years ago as one of former EIC Topolsky’s last big moves on the site. Still, the use of numbers to denote, in an abstract way, the quality of products is of much debate among many websites. At the end of the day, I think they’re a necessary evil and I think Stevens is on the wrong track here.

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FEZcast Monthly Caucus – Gears of War 3, Netflix and More

After a long hiatus, we’re back with the FleshEatingZipper Monthly Caucus Podcast! Catch up with Nick, Kelly, Rob and Johnny as we discuss Gears of War 3, Netflix, Fall TV and more!

I know. We missed you too.

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Gears Of War 3 Launch Event Underway

I’ve arrived at the Gears 3 launch party here in Glendale, a Phoenix suburb. It is a hot, muggy night -clocking out at a sucky 90f at 10pm – but quite a few people have shown up for the pre-launch festivities.
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Game Review: Renegade Ops

It’s been a year and half since Avalanche Studios’ last game, Just Cause 2, stole my heart. Taking the open world genre and opening it up for massive gobs of fun (in one of the largest slabs of real estate in a video game ever), the game was endearing well past its niggling flaws, robbing me of many, many hours. With Renegade Ops, it seems their previous opus was a guiding light – build a fast, fun, exciting action game – and as a result you need to own this game pretty quick.

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Netflix To Begin Video Game Rentals

Well, it seems to be official…After years of rumors flying around and being dispelled time and again, Netflix will start doing video game rentals in the very near future.

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Man, Woman, Wild…Interesting…

After I wrote my article about the show “Survivor” licking fermented donkey scrot, I started looking around the interwebs for interesting shows which showcase real survival situations and techniques – a subject I have a pointed and personal interest in. I came across a few, some of which I will write about, and one of the ones I find particularly interesting is “Man, Woman, Wild”, on The Discovery Channel.

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I Never Asked For This – Top 3 Deus Ex: Human Revolution Videos [ADDED VIDEOS]

Did you know the term “deus ex” is Latin for bad ass? It’s true and we here at FleshEatingZipper can prove it. Picked fresh from the Youtube vine are three delightful Human Revolution videos depicting how fun the game can be when you’re not actually playing the game. Be indulged after the break!

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All Right, George: This Is The First (And Last) Time I’m Buying Star Wars

It should come to no one’s surprise that I grew up on Star Wars. My parents owned the original trilogy on LaserDisc and eventually VHS with the arrival of the 1997 Special Editions. I wouldn’t be what you would call the ‘casual viewer’: I don’t view the six films as merely entertainment, but as vertical slices of an epic canon. As a result, I’ve been far more apologetic of the prequel trilogy than most because it completes a necessary portion of the Star Wars arc despite being clearly inferior films. With the release of the sextilogy on Blu-ray, in high definition for the first time ever, there’s absolutely no reason to purchase any further iterations of Star Wars in a physical format. Ever.

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Movie Review: Drive

The Driver is intense. Methodical, cold, pensive, we meet him (Ryan Gosling) on task. He’s a cowboy; always on point, quiet with toothpick dangling. You give him a location and he’ll give you five minutes to do your work and get you out. After that, you’re on your own. He’s hard to mistake with that white coat – a golden scorpion is stitched on the back – that he wears to every task. The Driver’s life is simple and he’s good at it, but he’s not detached: when the girl next door (Irene, played by Carey Mulligan) and her seven-year-old son tug at his heart strings, a smile isn’t far behind. He’s human after all, doing what’s right to protect her, even if that involves the spontaneous use of acute violence.

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The Discovery Channel’s “The Colony” – Canceled…Apparently…Who knows?! Hello?

In 2009, The Discovery Channel and Discovery Entertainment released the show called “The Colony”. The show was an episodic “experiment” which involved taking a group of people, putting them in a survival situation and then ruining their lives for 10 weeks while they watched them, studied them and then ruined their lives some more while the “survivors” tried to survive in a post-apocalypse world.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like “The Colony” will survive to see season 3.

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