So I Just Tried Installing IE9 And…
Yes, that is the first thing that I saw. Maybe it was because I was using Google Chrome to download it or maybe I sabotaged the install somehow. I restarted my computer, opened IE 8 and wen’t to the download site. This time instead of telling me to pick my version of Windows Vista either 32 or 64 bit, I was instead greeted by the download IE 9 for Windows 7 64 bit. Yay, that’s me! Read the rest of this article…
Book Review: David Kushner’s “Masters of Doom”
Long before Bulletstorm and Gears of War, long before Unreal Tournament and Halo, before deathmatches, WAD files, and the ESRB rating system, there was id. I’ve wanted to pick this book up for a while, even though I never really played Doom or Quake growing up, but it was my obligation as a PC gamer in the late 90s to know who these guys from Mesquite, Texas were. id Software was a champion of industry in my youth and even if they’re no longer the Kings Of The World they were back then, and their engines are no longer being licensed left and right, the journey of id Software and the birth of the first-person shooter is an incredible read.
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What’s This? An iOS Sale?
You can thank plate tectonics for this one, fan boys. For 48 hours the popular app developer, PopCap, will be throwing all of it’s iOS games under a truck enticing you to donate to the RedCross if you haven’t already. Smart move PopCap. I can help save the Japanese from starvation and play Peggle at the same time? Where do I sign up?
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Saturday Morning Winning Videos of the Week!
First things first you need to check out the video above, this is the one we talked about in the Entertainment Wrap-up this week. The company behind the music video writes songs and makes music videos for spoiled kids with wealthy parents. If your’re done partyin and partyin and partyin with the first video check out a great winning recipe from Charlie Sheen. Read the rest of this article…
Movie Review: Paul
Don’t you remember the 80s? No, I’m not talking about New Wave music, purple mohawks, or Ronald Reagan; I’m talking about the legion of movies and TV series involving an alien that crash lands on Earth, bonds with a kid and his family, avoids government authorities who want to cut him up for science, and hitches a ride back to his home planet. E.T., ALF, Mac & Me – everyone was infatuated with the stupid things. And of course, they were the first thing that came to mind about twenty minutes into Paul, a film in which an alien crash lands on Earth, bonds with two nerds, avoids government authorities that… Oh, sorry, spoilers.
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FEZcast Entertainment Wrap-Up 03-18-2011
If you like wraps then you’re going to love the delicious FleshEatingZipper Entertainment Wrap-Up! Indulge in the tasty discussions about Rebecca Black’s “Friday,” Battle Los Angeles, Drive Angry, Netflix original programming, Womb Raider and more!
This FEZcast Wrap-Up is like an explosion of flavor in your mouth!
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Jack’s Back! LOLZ!
Disbarred-for-LIFE former anti-video-game lawyer Jack Thompson is at it again, threatening people about violent video games.
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AMD – DirectX SUCKS (Too Much Overhead, That Is)
The CPU / GPU Developer and owner of Radeon (formerly ATI) has gone on the record saying that the DirectX API is the source of many a woe in the game developers world.
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Game Review: Killzone 2
There was precisely one moment where I thought Killzone 2 would break out of its polished, brown husk and show me a transcendental experience worthy of its pre-release hype. In a siege piece near the end of the game, I had pushed forward against the Darth Vader-ish Helghast with my AI soldiers, fighting in the multi-tiered grounds before a massive palace. At a point, I had taken higher ground, wiping out four Helghast soldiers and creating a new forward position for our march. The Helghast swarmed in, and we were forced level by level back to a landing below. The fight ebbed and flowed and I felt a stalemate come on against these unrelenting foes. Later, I found an underground tunnel which brought me beyond the Helghast barricade and the fight behind me immediately evaporated, as if a flipped switch had dismissed my opponents into oblivion.
This epitomized my time with Killzone 2.
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Movie Review: Limitless
Don’t you kinda hate it when you watch the trailer for a film and in the studio’s attempt to sell you on the concept of the film, you get that gut-twisting feeling they may have told you everything? I thought Limitless would be one of those films. Thankfully, it isn’t. Writer Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is a bit of a bum. He’s living off a book advance that currently amounts to a document with a word count of 1. He’s sloppy, his girlfriend is leaving him, and he has a hard time connecting dots in simply explaining the concept of his book to others. That is, until he meets his drug dealer of a brother-in-law, Vernon…
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