‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Review: Almost a Good G.I. Joe Movie
This is what G.I. Joe is all about.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation is probably the closest any Hollywood studio has come to making a decent movie based on a line of toys. I skipped G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the previous entry in this franchise, because it looked like a bunch of bullshit. Joes in mechanized suits battling nanomite-wielding Cobra agents? Bullshit. But that’s no surprise because the director of that movie, Stephen Sommers, is a bullshit director. Director Jon M. Chu’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation isn’t a good movie, but it proves that a legitimately decent G.I. Joe movie could be made one day.
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Facebook To Announce “New Home on Android” On April 4th. Please Don’t Be A Phone!
Seriously, I don’t want a phone!
For years now, it’s been rumored that Facebook has been making their own phone, buthey’ve always dismissed it by saying that’s not it’s their line of business. Every time they schedule a press conference, the rumors of a Facebook phone erupt once more and spread like crazy. Yesterday, Facebook invited the press to an event on April 4th to show reveal a “New Home on Android” and I really hope it’s not a phone. Read the rest of this article…
Bioware Creative Director Makes Excuses For SWTOR
Bioware…really? Really? Really? *sigh*
Lots of things happened at GDC this year. Developers and publishers got in front of tons of other developers, publishers along with twelve tons of journalists and spoke about the projects they’ve been working on, their previous work and new technical challenges they’ve faced.
Then, James Ohlen, Creative Director for BioWare, got up in front of everyone and proceeded to suck at sucking.
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FEZ Week In Review: Week 13, 2013: SimCity Highways, Battlefield 4, BioShock Infinite
Next stop: April!
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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‘Hotline Miami 2’ Is A Real Thing That’s Coming And I Want It
More senseless blood and gore? Oh yes. Oh… yes.
Hotline Miami was this close to being my game of the year of 2012 and so it brings me great joy that while the Dennaton guys were about to hop off to a new IP altogether, they’re actually bringing us a sequel that’ll take place in the 90210-themed nineties.
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Amazon Purchases Goodreads, Deal To Close In Next Few Months
It makes sense, really.
In a move that makes absolute complete sense, so much so that I wonder why they didn’t a long time ago, Amazon has purchased book logger Goodreads, which will soon join the likes of IMDB and Box Office Mojo in their ever-growing “entertainment utility” properties.
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Unreal Engine 4 Makes Next-Generation Graphics Look Real Good
Death has never looked so pretty.
It’s been two years since Epic unveiled Unreal Engine 4 and while it was classy, the demo indicated graphics that were still so many years away to matter. Well, with next-generation consoles due out later this year, Epic has ramped up their game (ha!) and brought us a massive presentation of their new Unreal tech.
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‘Strip Search’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 9 “You Are Your Brand”
Scott Kurtz arrives to troll the crowd.
This week’s challenge involved a lot of brain power and not a lot of art, which seems like it’d lead to a tame episode. Fortunately for us, the variety of responses here as the contestants are challenged to build their brand over social media was interesting as PVP’s Scott Kurtz graded them.
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Activision Shows Off Next-Generation Rendering Engine Technology At GDC [VIDEO]
![Activision Shows Off Next-Generation Rendering Engine Technology At GDC [VIDEO]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/activision-realistic-face.jpg "Activision Shows Off Next-Generation Rendering Engine Technology At GDC [VIDEO]")
Sup, gurl?
Welcome to uncanny valley, a place where humans don’t look quite like humans, which is super freaky-deaky. It’s amazing how realistic real-time CGI is getting, just as you can see in this tech demo from Activision. What’s awesome is that this isn’t super high-end hardware running this. Read the rest of this article…
Tax Day Blues? Be Thankful You’re Not Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg
Oh sure, he’s smiling now.
If you’re like me, you’ve already paid your taxes and the refund check has already made you cheer/amount due made you jeer. Honestly, most of us just have a W-2 and you can spend half an hour with a copy of TaxCut and be done. If you’re not like me, that means you’re probably rich and in the case of Mark Zuckerberg, you’ve probably got a team working for you. Why? Because the IRS is going to ask him for a billion dollars. Literally.
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