See This: Get Your Badge On With Egoraptor’s New “PokeAwesome 2”
Deranged? Oh yeah.
A year in the making, as he says, Egoraptor brings us PokeAwesome 2, the long-awaited (I don’t recall getting a newsletter about it) sequel to PokeAwesome. The guy’s amazing and his incredible animation and delightfully perverted story will have you playing this short flick over and over.
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CityVille And Other Facebook/Social Games Need A New Genre: The MOMCOT
CityVille is a MOMCOT.
With the rise of Facebook and other social games, mostly strategy titles, like CityVille, War Commander, and Cafe World, we’ve encountered a new breed of game that’s never existed before, one that pines for your dollars in ways never before seen or lets you live with waiting hours for a vital resource to recharge so you can continue to play the game. We’ve come up with so many different ways to brand them, but nothing so distinctive as to accurately pinpoint what kind of a game they are until you’ve already invested far too much time – or potentially given out your credit card number. From the same guy who brought you the November Release Death Schedule – or NeRDS – to describe the onslaught of games during the holiday comes MOMCOT, the new name for what we commonly call Zynga-likes.
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New ‘The Hangover Part III’ Trailer Reveals Movie Potentially Tolerable Entertainment
You mean it’s not another retread of an already old plot device? Wow!
Because it’s a movie that’s coming out soon, Warner Bros. is cycling out all kinds of promotional material for The Hangover Part III, including a new trailer a mere month after the big unveil. They didn’t sell me then, they might sell me now.
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This Handmade Version Of Fallout Monopoly Is Pretty Rad
Pretty slick!
Fallout is one of my favorite role-playing game series, Monopoly is my favorite board game. Put them together and change up the rules a bit and what do you get? This lovely custom version of Fallout Monopoly that a man spent eight months building for his wife.
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Kik Messenger Hits 50M Users, Doesn’t Give An Eff About The Competition
It’s true!
Communication is vital for any company, particularly a startup like ours, so in our earliest days, we knew we needed a good cross-platform communication tool. Kik Messenger filled in and we’ve been using it ever since. A mere five months after adding app “cards” to their messenger to share sketches (usually of poop and butts) and videos, Kik is now reporting they’ve hit 50 million users.
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A 7″ Tablet Won’t Save Microsoft’s Surface
This, but smaller.
Google has seen some success with their seven-inch tablet. Apple did the same. It’s a comfortable size just beyond the realm of a smartphone, so why not? So who, once again, is late to the party when it comes to consumer trends? Why, it’s Microsoft and the rumored seven-inch version of their Surface, a device with the common complaint that it, at over ten inches, was far too big.
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Samsung’s New Galaxy Mega Phones Are Over-Sized, Under-Powered, Budget-Minded?
At 5.8 and 6.3 inches, these things are crazy big
Perhaps I’m crazy, but when a phone goes up in size, I assume that it’ll receive a spec upgrade to go along with it. Beyond Samsung’s upcoming 5-inch Galaxy S4, even beyond their 5.5-inch Note II, the company is bridging the gap to their tablets with two new phones, dubbed Galaxy Megas, that are obviously compensating for something.
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Warframe (PC) Preview: What ‘Dark Sector’ Should Have Been Years Ago
I am a space ninja. Hear me slash.
Remember in those early days after the Xbox 360’s announcement when Digital Extremes was demonstrating their upcoming science-fiction shooter, Dark Sector? The same Dark Sector that turned into a third-person action title and didn’t exactly receive the best reviews? Well, Digital Extremes is going back to the original plan, but now as Warframe, a free-to-play shooter that casts you as a ninja in futuristic battle armor, complete with cooperative modes so you can play it with friends! Read the rest of this article…
Kickstarters, And Why They Are Good And Wholesome
Give us money for…stuff…
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about how the Kickstarter program is being abused to foster never-before-heard levels of evil against the human race. I still hold that opinion and while I think the vast majority of the Kickstarters out there are absolute shit, from time to time someone gets it very, very right and when they do, we all win.
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Windows 8 And iPads Are Killing The PC, Quarter By Quarter
Looks like Microsoft’s Bing revenue. *ba-dum-psssh!*
Shipments of PCs slipped 13.2% last quarter, the biggest drop recorded in the nearly twenty years that IDC has been keeping track of such things. The desktop alone has seen declining shipments for years (the majority of PCs shipped are laptops) and now it’s the PC in its entirety that’s heading out the door while companies like Dell and HP scrambling to fix its consumer hardware divisions. Will this industry ever recover? Probably not.
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