Left Field: Tribes Ascend Announced
Shit’s getting real today, folks. Hi-Rez Studios, the company who brought us Global Agenda, has announced it’s new game — Tribes Ascend. That’s right, that awesome multiplayer game that you played back in high school is now coming for vengeance to the Xbox 360 and PC this year.
Announcement trailer after the break!
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Pre-Order L.A. Noire From NewEgg And Get $10 Off!
After cleaning up the mess from watching the investigation and interrogation gameplay video yesterday, I might have stumbled on to something worth mentioning to you all. Word on the circuit has it that Newegg.com is offering $10 off the game if you pre-order from them. Sounds pretty enticing, doesn’t it perps?
Promo code after the break!
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Movie Review: Battle: Los Angeles
I really wanted to like this film. I did. I was imagining this would be Hollywood’s first genuine attempt at an X-COM film in which humanity must band together to form a militarized response against a hostile alien threat. Instead, Battle: Los Angeles is a mostly unsatisfying look at what could’ve been an epic alien warfare film.
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FEZcast Entertainment Wrap-Up 03-10-2011
Just in time for the rise in gas prices, FleshEatingZipper brings you the brand new, fully redesigned 2011 Entertainment Wrap-Up Podcast! All electric, with front and side impact airbags, full surround sound and all new discussions about Take Me Home Tonight, Rango, The Adjustment Bureau, Death of a Ghost Hunter, Japanese Game Shows and more!
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PROTIP: Charlie Sheen Isn’t Really Dead But You Just Got Pwnt lolz!
Yep. If you clicked on one of those video links on facebook, you opened up a box of whoop-ass on yourself!
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MIT Media Lab Gets 40,000 New Logos
Usually when one thinks of a logo, they think of a single form crafted by millions of dollars and an artist’s deft hand. MIT’s Media Lab, responsible for such ground-breaking ideas as the One Laptop Per Child project and other interesting tech projects, decided to freshen up the ol’ identity and come up with a mathematically-generated logo. Consisting of three black square “projectors” and their intersecting gradients, the logo is generated individually for each new business card or slab of signage. Check out a video of the algorithm and branding in place at the source.
Source: Fast Company
3 Games Telltale Must Make
Telltale Games has brought the old “point and click” adventures back to the fore front of gaming. With compelling story lines, memorable characters and fun gameplay, there’s no need to pick up that carbon copy of Call of Duty anymore. Games like Back to the Future, The Walking Dead and Jurassic Park make it only natural to want more from the company that seems to turn everything they touch into gold. Here’s my triage of cinematic adventures that need to be developed by Telltale!
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L.A Noire Gameplay Series – Investigation and Interrogation…I’m Moist.
OMGIZZLES!!!
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PlayStation Plus Users Getting Cloud-Based Save Storage Tomorrow
Tomorrow, the PlayStation Network will be down for a whopping 11 hours (which if you haven’t updated your PlayStation 3 in about two weeks is par for the course, ifyaknowwhatImean) largely in part to add cloud-based storage for game saves. There are some size/access restrictions, of course and it’s only for Plus subscribers, but this is a great step in the right direction for any console. Does anyone else dread their hardware failing and losing all of their save content? I know I do. It seems that now consoles are trying to go the way of Steam (or Google-based contacts for phones) by keeping the content safely tucked away on a remote hard drive on the internet rather than only solely in your console or on a memory card. The sooner that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo make this a ubiquitous feature across all of their games, the better.
Source: Giant Bomb
X-COM: UFO Defense Is The Best Game Ever Made, Period.
The whole world seemed to be on a collective alien/UFO/mysterious kidnapping high in the early 90s. From The X-Files to “investigations” by Unsolved Mysteries and Alien Autopsy, we all seemed hellbent to believe that there really were aliens out there. This game was described to me by a friend over dinner (after watching The Lion King, bizarre, right?) as a strategy game in which you built a team of soldiers and sent them around the world to combat alien threats. Seventeen years later, X-COM is now long-departed from an era of novelty in strategy games, standing alone, having withstood the test of time and executed so well that it simply couldn’t be replicated.
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