FEZ Week In Review: Week #20, 2013 – World Of Warcraft Subscribers, Nintendo Copyright, Steam Greenlight
Three weeks to E3? Criminy!
FEZ Week In Review is a series we prepared all of our original content from the past week for you to gaze at! On top of that, we go over the stories that mattered most to you in the past seven days, whether gaming, tech, entertainment or otherwise, and bring them together for you to view in one quick glance!
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‘Strip Search’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 23 “A Jungle & Some Speed”
Attack of the Manic Blurs!
This episode was pretty uneven. It’s one of the best morning challenges in the house so far, but the “people” moments that bookend it seem to go on for days.
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FEZ PLAY: Syndicate (Xbox 360) – Cyberpunk You Missed Out On
He’s not dead! I didn’t kill him yet!
Rob and N sit in for some cyberpunk-themed, Skrilex-powered action in Starbreeze’s Syndicate, the best game that no one played last year. When not ogling lens flares and dramatic bloom effects, Rob questions N’s love for Michael Wincott.
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Star Trek: Rivals (iOS) Review: Card Game, Meet ‘Star Trek’
Deceptively easy to learn and deceptively easy to master. With your wallet.
I don’t know about you guys, but after reminding myself to back the HEX Collectible Card Game, I’ve been kinda dying for a card game to get into. I’ve never played one before – no, I couldn’t even fall in with the Magic: The Gathering nerds in high school – and I feel I’m overdue. With Star Trek on my mind, it makes sense that this new Star Trek: Rivals CCG would be a good, first stab for me. While it won’t win me over in the mid- to long-term, it’s a decent enough distraction, even when it sails into MOMCOT territory.
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Amazon Passes On ‘Zombieland’ TV Series, Creator Says It Was “Hated Out Of Existence”
Let’s just pretend this never happened.
Well, that was fast. It’s been almost two months since Amazon announced it had funded a Zombieland TV series pilot and a month since it debuted. Now it’s cancelled.
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Holy Prize Money! ‘DOTA 2’ Tournament Promises Largest Payout EVER
DOTA = Draining Out The Accounts?
So… there’s going to be an international DOTA 2 tournament, right? And we know that DOTA 2 is pretty popular right? Well, apparently it is because the prize money that’s being offered up for this tournament is in the kind of quantity that nearly made me soil my boxer-briefs when I read about it.
We’re talking, like, multinational corporate CEO kinda cash. Yep, it’s like that.
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Whisper Is Instagram Plus Anonymity And Now On Android
It can get pretty heavy up in Whisper.
When FMyLife.com arrived out of nowhere a few years ago, I pored over page after page of anonymous tales for hours on end. Reading candid confessions from mundane to criminal was fascinating and voyeruristic and strange and exciting. As the site got popular (which wasn’t long) the stories became too outrageous to believe so I lost interest. Whisper, an anonymous social networking app that debuted just a few months ago on iOS is now landing on Android. So, like, what is it?
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‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Could Learn A Lot More From ‘Chinatown Wars’ Than ‘IV’
A Huang In Trouble.
With just over four months to go before its blockbuster, records-breaking release, I obviously don’t have any sway over Grand Theft Auto V‘s design. Only showed to a small batch of reporters, the word coming out of Rockstar’s gameplay unveiling a few weeks back is promising, but I need more. The Grand Theft Auto games for home consoles have become increasingly impressive on a technical basis, but they’ve always left a lot of the fun out of the equation in favor of more grating realism. Somehow I dream that GTAV adheres more to the lightweight design of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the oft-forgotten and most enjoyable game of the series, rather than the intense drama of its immediate predecessor that also ruined Max Payne 3.
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Windows Phone Finally Defeats BlackBerry To Take Bronze In Smartphone Race
I can’t even think of why I created this image, but I did at some point.
Windows Phone had a sad little debut nearly three years ago; a party that Microsoft paid billions of dollars for and no one showed up. Their strategy of taking their time to release a follow-up to their competition’s big splash -namely, the iPhone and Android – didn’t work this time. Releasing a 1.0 product against the competitions 2.0 and 3.0 products, despite having created the smartphone market with their Windows Mobile OS, seemed more backwards than ever. This time, it didn’t give them any of the success they wanted. Well, it’s been a long fight and Microsoft is still far behind, but with their competition faltering, Ballmer’s company can now claim third place in the smartphone wars.
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Nintendo’s Secret War Against YouTubers Will Cost Gamers Considerably
With Nintendo submitting Content ID requests, it’s only a matter of time before no one does Nintendo videos.
Sometimes, there’s nothing more enjoyable than a Let’s Play video. They’re not always called Let’s Play, they’re Quick Looks, they’re our very own FEZ PLAYs, they’re whatever you like. If broadcast sports or Mystery Science Theater 3000 have taught us anything, it’s that almost any form of entertainment is enhanced by color commentary. A few years ago, a bill was introduced into US Senate that would impose penalties on those who streamed copywritten material, which was construed as a government attempt to ban Let’s Play videos. While the bill’s creators have said that wasn’t the aim, it appears that Nintendo would have no issue with a variant of it as they’ve now sent out Content ID notices to Let’s Play producers like Zack Scott who rely on YouTube ad revenue to, well, live.
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