The N5 Show: Week #16, 2013 – Strip Search Spoilercast!
Let’s talk about Mike and Jerry, okay? Okay.
This week, I sit down with Cody and go over Penny Arcade’s new show Strip Search – well, not new, it’s been out for a month and a half now – and we talk over our issues with Elimination #4, our love for the contestants, and our meandering thoughts on where the show’s been and where it’s going!
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VEGA Conflict (PC) Preview: The Ultimate Space MOMCOT
Yeah, I’m about to knock off this transport of Zynthium. Watcha gonna do about it?
The bright spot of any MOMCOT is that it’s the ultimate part-time game. You can pick it up for five minutes every few hours and be done with it. Sure, it’s more efficient to fall into a regular schedule of farming/mining/harvesting your food/crops/minerals, but you can have a sincere ‘friends with benefits’ relationship with a MOMCOT. VEGA Conflict, now in beta, is a space-based MOMCOT that dares to defy convention, if only ever slightly, to capture my interest. Frankly, I love me some space games, so after a few days with VEGA, I’m happy to give my report.
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The Netbook Will Be Dead In 2 Years, Says iSuppli
Remember these?
Remember that time when smartphones just weren’t big enough and laptops just weren’t small enough and tablets just weren’t there enough? That’s a space where companies like Asus and Acer provided tons of really small laptops, a kind of computer that no doubt inspired the Chromebook, without the guts needed to push HD video, but more than enough to be productive writing and doing some light web surfing. Netbooks thrived in this space where the iPad didn’t exist until, obviously, the iPad came to form and people realized these little Windows-powered devices just weren’t scratching that itch anymore.
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‘Rise Of The Triad’s Multiplayer Is Really Fast And Crazy, You Guys
OMGFZFFZGHGHZGZZZZ!!!!
It’s just not Monday morning until Evolve PR’s Tom sends us a clever/snarky/incredibly witty e-mail for one of his games. Today’s nugget? A full eighteen minutes of Rise of the Triad’s multiplayer, which goes so fast I might need some Dramamine. It might also be too late…
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‘DayZ’ Creator Off To Scale Mount Everest, Likely Due To Lack Of Zombies
The most badass vacation ever? Yeah.
Okay, it’s not quite a vacation, but while DayZ‘s Dean Hall is out on sabbatical, he’s going to be scaling the world’s tallest mountain; a feat of herculean effort. I guess he’s supposed to be working on a standalone version of that game he’s known for, but hey, why not take advantage of a massive pile of rocks while you can?
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There Is A God: ‘SimCity Social’ Closing
From the fires of Hell, this game was born.
Bad mouth Maxis’ SimCity all you want, it’s clear that they had good intentions that simply couldn’t be exercised in reality. SimCity Social, however, is one of the most vicious MOMCOTs in circulation. People were actually playing this game by the millions, despite its blatantly pernicious nature, but that fell off in good time and Maxis now axing it and The Sims Social (among others) as Electronic Arts is almost giving up on Facebook games entirely.
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Oculus Rift Dev Makes ‘Mirror’s Edge’ VR Ready, Looks Terrifying
Get on all fours, scale along, don’t look at anything, just take a breath, you can do it.
One advantage of having Oculus Rift development kits in the wild is that people are actually creating stuff with them. Shocking, right? Cymatic Bruce is taking requests and his latest is DICE’s 2008 first-person runner Mirror’s Edge. The game was already a stomach-turner for some with its dizzying heights and all-too-real, free-running immersion, but when you add a real VR interface on top? Oh boy.
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FEZ BRO SHO: Week #15, 2013
It’s E3-tastic, with a little alcohol on the side. Just a little.
The fearsome foursome are all here with a little bit of alcohol to chat about which phone to get, PC gaming versus console gaming, employing the Ghostbusters theme at just the right time, Vine, and their E3 press conference experiences!
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’42’ Review: A Jackie Robinson Movie That’s Not About Jackie Robinson
The Jackie Robinson Story…starring Harrison Ford.
Writer/director Brian Helgeland’s 42 purports to be a biopic on the life and career of Jackie Robinson, the major league baseball Hall of Fame-r who shattered the color barrier in sports by becoming the first African American to play baseball on the professional level. The film is a well-intentioned picture that unfortunately stands as another example of what happens when a white guy attempts to tell African American history: Instead of focusing on Jackie Robinson, the story mostly centers on Branch Rickey, the executive responsible for signing Robinson with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Cubemen 2 (PC) Review: It’s Tower Defense, All Right
In the game’s Rescue mode, you protect your own trail of cubemen while fending off another.
Was there an original Cubemen? If so, it’d be hard for me to believe there was a version of Cubemen 2 that was somehow smaller in scope or equipped with less features than it is. That’s not too much of a dock against the game because when it comes to well-done tower defense action, you can’t really go wrong with Cubemen 2.
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