And The 7th Season Of “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” Begins!
Hey gang, what’s the action? If you were too busy drinking wine out of a can, cooking rancid meat on a hot plate, or dating a retard, there’s a good chance you missed the season premiere of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. There’s no need to worry — I’ll give you the down low and whether or not it’s worth watching after the break!
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Netflix Lost More Customers Than Expected With Recent Price Hike
Look, I kind of get it, content providers want more money so Netflix ups the price. But with technology we all see things as only getting cheaper and not more expensive so when you start out with a high price tag then drop to $10/month you can’t expect people to be willing to pay 60% more for the same thing they were just getting. Read the rest of this article…
The Walking Dead Season 1 – Boxed Set Ready To Hit Stores
Zombies. The AMC show “The Walking Dead” is full of them…of course, since it’s about the walking dead. On October 4th, though, stores around the globe will also be full of zombies, in the form of the DVD and Blu-Ray boxed sets of The Walking Dead.
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Mortal Kombat Sells 3 Million Worldwide, Fighting Games Still Not Dead?
Well, so, surprise? Warner Brothers just announced that the latest installment in the Mortal Kombat series has now sold three million copies around the world. This comes after a variety of important milestones, namely it’s the first MK game released since Midway went belly up and the series was snapped up by Warner, and this is the first game in the series after the relatively polite Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, in which the violence was toned down a bit. (Can you imagine Superman being shredded to bits in a fatality? Scary.) Personally, it made sense that fighting games like Street Fighter, Soul Calibur, and Marvel vs. Capcom have done so well because they didn’t, y’know, almost single-handedly cause the formation of the ESRB rating system.
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Does America Need A Government-Run Cellular Network?
Let’s face it: wireless technology here in the US is kind of a mess. We have two largely different standards for cellular broadcast (CDMA and GSM) and with four carriers, we see a lot of duplicated phones across various providers. A company like Apple spent years developing a version of their iPhone that would work on Verizon (and soon, Sprint), but all of these variables conspire to make the job of a headset manufacturer a pain in the butt. On his podcast, and recently in editorial form, Joshua Topolsky suggests that we should socialize our wireless standards and let providers duke it out amongst exclusive phones and services. Is this the right way for America to go?
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Microsoft Dropping Flash Support in IE10
This is really another win for Apple. If it wasn’t for them being so anti-Flash this wouldn’t be happening! Not yet at least, maybe in the future but not this fast. Steven Sinofsky from Microsoft says “Many of the 62% of these sites that currently use Adobe Flash already fall back to HTML5 video in the absence of plug-in support. When serving ads in the absence of plug-ins, most sites already perform the equivalent of this fallback, showing that this approach is practical and scalable.” Read the rest of this article…
Sons Of Anarchy – Season 4 Is Heating Up
Just in case your head has been stuck in a toilet, Sons of Anarchy is back with it’s fourth season and, straight out of the gate, they’re going 100 miles an hour.
(very limited spoilers below)
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Sam Biddle Is A Fool: Everything Should Be A Game
Those kids over at Gizmodo (yes, one of those sites) are at it again! No, not a stolen iPhone to be found, this time it’s a nonsensical rant about gamification. See, there’s a new site called Badgeville that basically gives you rewards for being on the internet. In vile response, author Sam Biddle did his best to ravage the idea that people should be rewarded for ‘frilly, stupid things’. But he’s missing the entire point: it’s not about the carrot or the stick, it’s about the road it takes us down.
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The Ghostbusters Are Back! (In Theaters)
This is a test. I’m going to ask you a couple questions. Answer the first thing that comes to mind. Do you believe in UFOs, astral projection, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trans-mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis? Only if there’s a steady paycheck? Ok. Do you experience feelings of dread in your basement or attic? Only when you smoke pot, fair enough. Do you believe that the original Ghostbusters film will be returning to theaters this October? Yes? You deserve a Snickers.
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Game Review: Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Let’s be fair, even as eleven years have worked hard to ravage the mechanics it was built on, an epic task lay before anyone attempting to top the original Deus Ex, the ultimate in cyberpunk shooter/RPG greatness. I’ve made my thoughts known on Human Evolution‘s legendary predecessor and its, uh, not quite as good sequel, but Eidos Montreal (not involved with the development of either game) have worked many long years now to create a worthy follow up that wisely pulls from the strengths of both games, but in adhering so close to a winning formula, ends up inheriting some of their flaws. Still, Human Revolution is a solid title with one of the most riveting presentations I’ve seen in years.
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