‘Ender’s Game’ Trailer Is Here: Pew Pew, Explosions, Etc.
Don’t be sad, Ender.
Guys, I don’t know anything about Ender’s Game. Okay, I do a little: it’s Halo. Rather, Halo riffed off it. Fine, I’ll look it up. Let’s see here. Holy crap, this book is almost as old as I am. Have they seriously been sitting on this super-important science-fiction property for that long? I mean, this is the reason people know who Orson Scott Card is, aside from the whole gay marriage thing, right? Well, whatever the case may be, that movie is finally here and they’ve got a trailer for it, so that’s all that matters.
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‘Strip Search’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 20 “Training Day”
Forrest Gump would be proud.
Thus begins a new day, the seventh, when all things are meant to rest. Or something. I hated PE class because most anything we had to do made me look like a doofus, so those feelings flew right back up into the forefront of my mind as the six scared contestants are prompted to play Ping Pong.
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How To Make A Better Strategy Game: 4X Edition
While it predates the term, Civilization is the 4X genre’s most popular game.
Strategy games have been around for thousands of years. We’ve played them in all of their various forms, but before we had StarCraft, we had Chess and Carcassone. There came a time when the bustling utility of the computer allowed for more sophisticated fare that didn’t require tons of custom paperwork, massive table tops, a complex set of dice and the inefficient industry of the human calculator. One of the most popular genres to emerge from this new computer gaming was the XXXX strategy game, which isn’t short-hand for extra-dimensional porn, but the perfect way to produce a game of a massive scale – like building an empire – without bogging you down in minutiae. With developers continuing to push out 4X “tribute” games that fall way short of their influences, I’ve decided to step back to explain what makes those games so special, rather than rag about what makes these would-bes inferior. Read the rest of this article…
The Sims 4 To Be Released In 2014? Whoopidy Doo!
Like The Sims 3, only… Ok, like The Sims 3
Yesterday, Electronic Arts sent out a press release letting us all know that they are planning to release The Sims 4 in 2014. N wrote an article earlier talking about the fact that he never really enjoyed The Sims.
I have a slightly different take on the franchise.
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Tesla’s Electric Cars + Google’s Self-Driving Tech = Profit!
The future is here, just a few dollars more than you’d pay for.
While our nation’s streets and highways aren’t quite the violent, ultra-fast transit lines of I, Robot (or even the dash cam-friendly roads beyond the Iron Curtain, for that matter), automobile accidents still kill 35,000 people per year. How do we avoid these? In many, many cases, you need to remove the human driver from the equation. Tesla’s Elon Musk is a big proponent of that, too, but he doesn’t want the marketing to replace humans to sound so brusque.
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‘SimCity’ 3.0 Update Will Finally (Finally!) Fix Traffic, Goes Live This Week
Will we finally embrace that idyllic suburbia?
While we wait for SimCity to get fixed, Maxis is still busting their buttons to get it done. They’re still not nowhere near Game of the Year contender, but they inch just a little bit closer with every major patch.
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Electronic Arts Will Make ‘Star Wars’ Games In Exclusive Deal, Can’t Be That Bad?
This announcement makes my head hurt.
Do you know Electronic Arts? The company with the talented developers and the dreaded management? The company that was voted worst of the year for the second consecutive time and their CEO resigned? The one that launched SimCity and hasn’t come close to fixing it? Microtransactions? Well, they’ll be the only ones making Star Wars games for a couple years.
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Stop Pirating Photoshop And Pay $49.99 Monthly, That’s Adobe’s New Plan For Creative Cloud
It’s how creative how they did it. See? See!
CS out, CC in. No longer the Creative Suite, a big expensive box you pirate pick up from a specialty retailer, Adobe announced today that they’re done with the box strategy; they want to move everything to the cloud. This also means you’ll save money buying Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator and all those other Adobe tools you love. Seriously, it’s true.
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The N5 Show: Week #19, 2013 – ‘Iron Man 3’! Cloning Games!
That masked is all messed up!
N sits down with Film-Critic-In-Residence Russell, Cody, and TC to discuss the recent release of Iron Man 3, (which we liked!) and its record-breaking weekend. In our second segment, we talk about cloning games and how different a game has to be to be considered a new twist on the formula. Join us!
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FOX Cancels ‘COPS’, Which Goes To Spike TV
What does one do when they come for you?
I didn’t know you could cancel COPS. I thought it was an inexorable institution, a bobbing marker to verify that TV still existed. FOX created the show, arguably the first in the reality TV genre, twenty-five years ago and they’ve produced over nine-hundred episodes of it. Well, FOX is done with that.
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