Boards Of Canada Has A New Album! It’s Coming Out June 11!
I can hear it being creepy from here!
If you want some genuinely creepy music, go grab Boards of Canada’s Geogaddi. Featuring all the warped analog samples you could ever want, its ripples and stretches are borderline disgusting. Of course, you know exactly who they are if you’ve ever watched a Salad Fingers cartoon, which is exactly how I got to know them nearly a decade ago.
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Should You Buy An Xbox 360 Or PlayStation 3 At This Point?
The future looms, but should you regret your purchase today?
With new consoles due out by the end of the year, there’s a lot of anxiety around spending in upwards of $500 on a current-generation console. It’s understandable. I was at the center of it all when it happened in 2001 and again in 2006, back when I worked retail, so I get the question a lot. People feel like they’re regretting a great experience by investing now instead of a year from now. Here’s a hint: you’re not.
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Why Won’t David Cage Admit He Wants To Direct Long, Awkward Movies Already?
“What do you mean you don’t want to talk to any of these people?”
I don’t get the David Cage hype. The crazy French mind behind Omikron: The Nomad Soul, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), and Heavy Rain is hailed for his attempts to transcend the genre and create more emotional gaming experiences while brow-beating his colleagues to ‘advance the art’. Notice I said ‘attempts’, because while Cage has a problem with being called a frustrated would-be director that Hollywood wouldn’t have a second interview with, that’s exactly what his work casts him as.
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The N5 Show: Week #18, 2013 – Monaco! 10 Years Of Nintendo Home Consoles!
Were you a GameCube fan? We seemed to enjoy it.
Ahead of N’s review of Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine, he sits down with fellow thieves Cody and TC to discuss the Ocean’s Eleven-like indie game and all the chaos thereof! In our second segment, we talk about the commercial non-start of Nintendo’s Wii U console and the past ten years of their consoles that have lead the company to this point. Have any fond GameCube memories? Be sure to check this out, because we certainly weren’t favorable to the Wii!
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IllumiRoom For Next Xbox Unveiled, But Can It Beat Oculus Rift?
This coffee table projection offers extended reality, but is it enough?
Originally unveiled at CES behind closed doors, IllumiRoom is Microsoft’s big new living room accessory for their next generation Xbox. The footage that leaked out, featuring splash damage and other, minor details breaching the boundaries of the TV, seemed unimpressive, but in full motion, the coffee table projector seems pretty neat… if you have the stadium-sized living room that Microsoft assumes you have.
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FEZ BRO SHO: Week #17, 2013 – Nonsense, Star Trek: The Video Game
It’s too crazy up in here!
Things get a little crazy as N tackles the Maker’s Mark a little early! When he’s not blathering about this or whatever, we talk about remaking games, Iron Man, Star Trek: The Video Game, Duke Nukem Forever: The Album, bubbles, and puppies. Sorry, no puppies this time around.
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‘To The Wonder’ Review: A Movie About People Who Stare at Things
This picture encapsulates the entire film: people wandering around through fields and staring at shit just off camera.
Am I going crazy this week? This is the first time I’ve seen a Michael Bay movie and a Terrence Malick movie in the same week and ended up liking the Michael Bay movie and hating the Terrence Malick movie. Nevertheless, Terrence Malick’s latest film, little more than a montage of people walking away from the camera while vague narration waxes poetic, is his weakest by far.
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‘Pain and Gain’ Review: Surprisingly Painless for a Michael Bay Movie
Michael Bay’s best movie since The Rock.
With Pain and Gain, Michael Bay attempts to tell his own Scorsese-esque crime biopic. The result isn’t as bad as you might expect. In fact, Pain and Gain is a pretty damn good movie. That’s partially because Bay resisted the impulse to turn this into a slam-bang action flick with constant explosions and partially because he finally found subject matter that fit his sensibilities as a director like a glove.
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‘EVE Online’, Meet Oculus Rift [UPDATED With Video]
![‘EVE Online’, Meet Oculus Rift [UPDATED With Video]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/EVEOculus.jpg "‘EVE Online’, Meet Oculus Rift [UPDATED With Video]")
All we really need are gaming pods at this point, right?
EVE Online is a pretty fun game if you can fall in the right crowd. Well, maybe fun is too strong a word considering at its most actionable, the game keeps you a relative distance from the actions involving your ship. It’s an emotional gulf that puts you at odds with a lot of the game’s universe, which has kept the player population down to its most hardcore. So how do you resolve that? Well, I guess you can play Dust 514, but what you really want is some Oculus Rift action, of course!
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FEZ Week In Review: Week #17, 2013 – Star Trek: The Video Game, Oblivion, SimCity 2.0
April’s almost over!
FEZ Week In Review is a series where we go over the stories that mattered most to you in the past seven days, whether gaming, tech, entertainment or otherwise, we bring them together for you to view in one quick glance!
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