Sold: Pre-Order ‘Grand Theft Auto V’, Get 1600 Microsoft Points
I want to play this NOW!
Anticipated by everyone except for N (haha!), Grand Theft Auto V comes out September 17th and I can’t wait. I’ve been eating up all the content that’s been thrown at us, but one thing that has really piqued my interest was this particular pre-order offer from the Microsoft Store. Read the rest of this article…
Gaming Industry Makes #TeamBoneless A Trending Topic, Prefers Boneless Chicken
Uh, so wow.
Well, so this happened. In a dispute with fellow editor Tim Turi, Game Informer’s Dan Ryckert decided to take their fight to the public. What started as a mere Google Docs poll between how people prefer their chicken wings (boneless, obviously) quickly became a trending topic propelled entirely by the games industry.
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FEZ Week In Review: Week #14, 2013 – SimCity Oddities, BioShock Infinite, StarCraft 2 Reviews
First week of April, rhymes with maple?
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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‘Strip Search’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 11 “Street Art”
Painting a pineapple Maki is more clever than you think.
We’re now into day four of the Strip Search competition and this graffiti art challenge is pretty clever. Everything I know about spraypaint art can be traced back to Jet Set Radio Future, which features a number of pieces based on bizarre and wonderful typography, something that the artists didn’t chase here. That’s fine because despite these guys being new to the process, their pieces still came out pretty well.
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Why I Loved LucasArts
Hello there, old friend.
“Here,” dad said, swiveling to the opposite end of his elbow-shaped desk and grabbing a booklet, “you’ll need to read this before I let you play.” It was the instruction manual for LucasArts’ Star Wars: X-Wing, a complicated space sim that was loaded to the gills with commands. In those days, a joystick was a fixture of PC gaming. When LucasArts combined it with an array of keyboard controls to manage your fighter’s energy, throttle, and targets, they allowed Star Wars to become so much bigger than I ever imagined it could be while the films worked so hard to make it smaller.
Once the industry’s golden standard for quality, innovative games, LucasArts fell off with the release of the prequel trilogy and never recovered its glory. Sure, they did great things with Star Wars, but they had some other clever ideas, too. These were the games that played an incredible role in my appreciation of video gaming and cemented my love for PC gaming altogether.
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‘2 Guns’ Trailer Appears From Nowhere; Marky Mark And Denzel Star As Undercover Bank Robbers
Starring 2 Chainz! …I’m kidding.
I didn’t even know this movie existed, but after a glimpse of the trailer, I’m on-board. Wahlberg and Washington star as undercover bank robbers that don’t realize they’re undercover until after a successful operation. When things go south trying to dismantle a Mexican drug cartel, they’re disavowed by the government and on their own, because that’s how things ought to be, right?
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Verizon, HTC, Will You Please Stop Screwing Me And My Thunderbolt?
More like BLUNDERBolt
A while ago, I wrote about the Ice Cream Sandwich update Verizon finally pushed out to owners of the HTC Thunderbolt and how miserably it affected the performance of the phone. It has since gotten worse, taking long periods of time to start applications and even longer to get the phone application to work. So long, in fact, that incoming calls often roll to voice mail before the phone app starts and allows me to answer.
And it seems most Thunderbolt owners are complaining of the same problems.
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Now That Roger Ebert Is Gone, Let’s Talk About People Being Inappropriate
You’re guilty of being an asshole!
Listen, I know that, from time to time, everyone has little lapses in judgment which lead to them looking like a raging asshole in front of everyone. It can’t be avoided. Just the other day, for example, I listened to a woman in the store talk about the really good sex she’d had with her boyfriend the night before, while a five or six-year old little girl listened on.
Faux pas, much?
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Verizon CEO Says They Can Drop Contracts Too, If Customers Demanded It
Where do I demand this?
At a press event today, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said his company would be willing to drop contracts if customers demanded it. This, of course, is a response to T-Mobile becoming the “Uncarrier” by not requiring a contract for people that pay full price for phones up front. Read the rest of this article…
Can’t Marathon 6 Star Wars Films? Just Watch Them All At Once!
All of these things, happening at once.
Sometimes you’re just too busy to tackle the arc of Anakin Skywalker end-to-end, which takes hours and hours and you’ve got other things to do. Perhaps, just maybe, you don’t want to deal with the individual… issues of those prequel films. Don’t fret! Before the inevitable takedown notice, you can watch all of Star Wars playing in full 1080p! Why, I’ve even included it below!
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