People Won’t Stop Watching Psy’s “Gentleman”, 205M Total Views In 9 Days
Psy: *something in Korean*
Everyone knows “Gangnam Style“. Everyone. Brought to us by obscure Korean rapper Psy – obviously not that obscure in his home country South Korea – his video was the first to produce a billion views on YouTube. He suffers no sophomore slump in views, but “Gentleman” is no “Gangnam Style”. Psy’s not complaining: he made $8 million-plus on “Gangnam Style” alone.
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NYC’s Proposed Tobacco Age Sales Hike Won’t Prevent New Smokers
That’s damn near $1 per cigarette!
This is dumb; the entire argument has no merit. Well, okay, let me back up. If you haven’t heard yet, New York City officials proposed today that the age to buy tobacco products should be raised from 18 to 21. That’s right: the age to buy, not possess or consume, which would still be 18. Their reasoning is that 20 is the experimental age when people decide to become smokers, so they’ll be preventing people from starting their habit. Wrong. Read the rest of this article…
Gearbox Wins ‘Homeworld’ IP, Feelings Are Mixed
Fans took real good care of these games after they were pretty much abandoned by their publisher.
Back when Homeworld released in 2000, real-time strategy games were somewhere between Command & Conquer and StarCraft and not much further than that. Relic, who we know now for their Company of Heroes games, debuted with this ‘wagon train among the stars’ in which you must guide the survivors of your world’s destruction to their fabled homeworld of Hiigara. So, yes, Battlestar Galactica. After THQ’s collapse, the Homeworld IP was parted from both Relic and THQ and until today, had a mysterious new owner. It’s Gearbox, for better or worse.
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The N5 Show: Week #17, 2013 – ‘Oblivion’ Spoilercast!
OBLIIIIVVVVIIIOOOOOONNNN…
N is joined by FleshEatingZipper’s movie guru Russell and illustrator Cody – as well as Terrance, friend of the site – to chat about Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise. We are incredibly thorough about this science fiction epic, so only give this a listen if you’ve already seen the film. Be sure to leave your comments in the Comments below!
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‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Creates New Religion, Is Pretty Amazing
Give your mind. Give your wallet.
It just wouldn’t be a Grand Theft Auto game without a massive reservoir of well-produced satire tucked into its wings. GTAV is no doubt Rockstar’s biggest production to date (I can’t quantify this in any way, except to say it probably is), so it makes sense that in their incredible reproduction of Los Santos, they’d bring in one of the town’s wackier elements: a Scientology riff.
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Oculus Rift Might Bring Me Back To Skyrim
Fire in the disco!
Guys, I still haven’t gotten back to Skyrim. I had all the ambition of doing so in the past year and a half, I just haven’t. I mentioned it on a previous PRO SHO that I’m weary of having to open up to all the game’s mechanics without a little tutorialization. It happened to me with Fallout 3 when I lapsed from that game as well. Of course, with some handy VR technology, I might find myself incredibly interested in starting over.
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Backstreet Boys To Receive Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame, Because Of Course
Don’t you remember all those crazy millennial-era sci-fi typefaces? I sure do.
In 1998, it didn’t make much sense to me why there would be a song on the Backstreet Boys’ self-titled first album called ‘Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)’ when, obviously, it was their first album and they weren’t back from anything. I asked my fellow eighth-graders how this made any sense at all and they shrugged. Of course, it wasn’t until fourteen years later that I realized that the Backstreet Boys, despite being from Orlando, launched their empire overseas with the help of Swedish pop producer Max Martin before bringing it to America with their second album. Also, that single wasn’t pushed to retail and radio until a re-issue, so there you go.
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‘Age of Empires II HD Edition’ Is Pure Nostalgia Wrapped In A Shaky Package
I’ll give them this: Hidden Path Studios is doing a service to those who remember the Golden Era of PC gaming by doing their best to bring back a truly classic real-time strategy game. If it were perfect, I’d say go buy it right friggin’ now, but I don’t know if I can do that. Not yet, anyway.
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FEZ PRO SHO: Week #16, 2013 – Boston Marathon
Go Ninja! Go Ninja! Go Ninja Go!
The FEZ Phoenicians are in the house and we talk about some serious stuff, spending our first half talking about the recent events in Boston. In lighter news, we tackle Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, R.I.P.D., and more!
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Dead Island: Riptide (Xbox 360) Review: More Zombie Bashing Is More Better
Get ready for some shooting and plenty of hacking and slashing.
Dead Island was a big late-summer surprise when it dropped two years ago. Sure, it had a flashy CG trailer and it had been in development for half a decade, but expectations were pretty dim for this game by Techland, published by small-time publisher Deep Silver. Well, the game sold out and did so for a while. It had its issues, but its core zombie-bashing gameplay, complete with four-player co-op, was solid enough to overlook them. Dead Island: Riptide doesn’t provide any surprises this time around, but its refinements and the sheer largeness of its content will be plenty for fans and newcomers alike.
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