E3 2011: Star Wars Kinect And The Second Fall Of LucasArts

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… An American gaming company named LucasArts developed fun and innovative adventure games primarily based on popular films created by George Lucas. Some where between the rise of the Playstation and anticipated release of The Phantom Menace, LucasArts reached it’s peak — the ceiling of its own empire. The E3 demo for Kinect Star Wars further proves the declining age of LucasArt’s progressive gaming.

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iTunes Match Sounds Really Cool? Maybe?

Today was WDCC, which meant Apple’s execs stormed around on screens re-igniting our passion for e-mail clients and other boring stuff (or really, just getting their iOS features to parity with Android). The big Kahuna (or Kahlua. …anyone?) personally was the announcement of the iTunes Match feature of Apple’s new cloud-storage functionality. While it’s not anything like a Zune Pass and it’s been years since I’ve used iTunes regularly, it got me thinking: who are they pitching this to, really?

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E3 2011: Microsoft Press Conference – or – How To Paint By Numbers

A Call of Duty demonstration. A brand new dash optimized for Kinect, Kinect Sports, Dance Central. Cliff Bleszinski on stage for a Gears of War 3 demonstration. Forza Motorsport with Kinect functionality. I’ve just described the bulk of Microsoft’s E3 2010 press conference. …and their 2011 show as well.

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Facebook Party Gets Crashed by Over 1,500 People

Damn this sucks for one German teenager who forgot to set the privacy for her 16th birthday party in Hamburg, Germany. The public party event went viral and over 15,000 people confirmed to attend. When her parents found out that their daughter Thessa’s part was public they public cancelled it, hired private security and called the police. 100 police showed up and blocked the home but that didn’t stop over 1,500 people from partying in the streets in front of the home. Read the rest of this article…

Lost in Translation: I Don’t Wanna be a Crappy Housewife [LYRICS BELOW VIDEO]

Hi, my name is Tonje. I’m a little pretty girl trapped inside a grown ups body!

*sigh* This little gem, I Don’t Wanna be a Crappy Housewife, comes at you straight from Norway by Tonje Langeteig. I’m sure English is not their first language or really even used, to me it sounds like the lyrics were translated into English using Google Translate or Babelfish. The song is not as catchy as Friday but it has that whole club thing going for it and even some crappy rap lyrics like “you woke up one morning and thought you were young, but no no no your youth was gone, you dont wanna be a crappy housewife no, thats why right now to the disco you go…” Read the rest of this article…

X-Men: First Class Reviewed

I sat down today (finally) and watched the latest in the X-Men franchise. Read on after the jump to see what I thought about the new film.
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Sony Criticized By Congress For Data Breach – Focus Turned To Internet Security

Sony, who was expected to get manhandled by The U.S. Congress regarding the huge security failure, which resulted in the theft of information from as many as 100 million customers (according to Sony) only took a minor beating after a number of other cyber attacks which targeted Google, Lockheed Martin and others.
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Phoenix Comicon – A Week Later. The Photobomber Saga

I was originally going to write this article about comicon and my view of it a week after the fact.

When I was going through the photos we have in our dropbox account, though, I started to see a theme developing…

Keith, you sly fucker…
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E3 2011: Prototype 2 Trailer, Flawed And Uninspiring

What do you get when you mix awful voice acting, unoriginal SFX/score, sub par animation and graphics together? A prototype of an independent game? Based on Activisions new trailer, no — you get Prototype 2 instead. Bring some leather to bite down on after the break. You’re going to need it.

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E3 2011: New XCOM Trailer Arrives, Intrigues

Oh yeah, I’m one of those guys. To say I’m hesitant going into 2K Marin’s reimagining of my favorite game of all time would be an understatement. It’s not that I’m genuinely opposed to the reinvention, or the removal of the hyphen (X-COM is the classic term), or even the bizarre, geometric baddies. Nah, it was the fact that Marin was giving us yet another art-deco, 50’s era game after two Bioshock titles. Can we move on a little? (Or maybe it’s you fighting blobs, maybe that, too.)

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