Walmart Wants Customers To Deliver Other Customers’ Online Orders
Brought to you by,uh, other people.
The Walmart braintrust in Bentonville, Arkansas is at it again, this time with a real doozy of a measure. Picture this: you stop by Walmart to pick up your groceries, then at the same time, pick up someone else’s groceries and deliver them. Sure, you’re an errand boy (or girl), but you get a discount in the process. What could possibly go wrong?
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M83’s Theme For ‘Oblivion’ Released, Is Magical
What a terrible bridge design!
I’d mentioned a number of reasons I was interested in Joseph Kosinski’s post-apocalyptic action film Oblivion, but the biggest may be the fact that M83’s Anthony Gonzalez was commissioned to put the score together. Now we have the first (well, second, I’ll give you more in a sec) offspring of this marriage of passions and it is wonderful.
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Sniper 2: Ghost Warrior (PC/PS3/Xbox 360) Review: Blowing Up Heads And Having Fun Doing It
Too soon?
A while back I talked about the impending release of Sniper 2: Ghost Warrior and dropped a clip with some gameplay footage. Well, the game has released now and I’ve had a chance to play through the whole thing, popping domes, splitting wigs, making the pink mist and generally busting fools up.
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The FBI Wants To Spy On The Sites You Use Daily In Real-Time
Hand over your email password and things will go a lot easier for you!
I’m not sure if you were aware, but our government spies on us all the time. Phone calls, text messages, the internet, all of ’em. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act only allows the government to force internet providers and phone companies to install surveillance equipment within their networks for the feds to use for real-time monitoring. The government’s only problem is that it doesn’t extend to internet companies like Google, Skype and Dropbox. That may change here soon.
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‘BioShock Infinite’ Songbird Plushie Is Adorable, Up For Bid On Ebay For Charity
DAWWWWWWWW!
I know you guys are busy swinging through BioShock Infinite‘s Columbia, but if you could just take a moment, Alix over at Arixystix Creations has put together a neat little figure: a one of a kind Songbird plushie that’s been stuffed to the robotic feathers not with hate, but with love.
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‘Metal Gear Solid 5’ Trailer Debuts, Doesn’t Make Any Sense
Guys, it’s a flaming unicorn-pegasus. From a farm.
Maybe it’s because I didn’t grow up with a PlayStation or any of the Metal Gear Solid games, but I have literally zero tolerance for Hideo Kojima’s nonsense. I haven’t even played the games, I just watch other people do it. My roommate in college? I watched him play Metal Gear Solid 2 up until the moment where they explained the entire thing with the Presidents. What? We’d seen part of this Phantom Pain trailer during the Spike VGA Awards and that seemed cohesive if not a little mindless. Now, we have the full thing.
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‘Prometheus’ Sequels Stuck Because No One Knows What Came Next [UPDATED]
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A galaxy full of stars and nowhere to go.
I enjoyed Prometheus when it debuted last summer and I seem to enjoy it even more now. I could look over a few shortcomings in the narrative in my love for this first space-based science-fiction film in what feels like an era. Visually stunning, thematically interesting (if a little nebulous) with an amazing performance by Michael Fassbender as the Prometheus’ pet robot, the movie was striking to say the least. It’s no Alien, which is perfectly acceptable, but that might be part of the problem.
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‘XCOM’ Shooter Is Now ‘The Bureau’ Apparently, Confusing To Far Fewer People
Well, this is going to make a lot more sense.
Oh, thank God. When 2K Marin’s XCOM sixties-era tactical shooter was unveiled in 2010, it had all of us X-COM fans in a tizzy. Here was this game with weird tar-like or geometry-based aliens (or both?) involving parallel dimensions and other madness masquerading as a reimagination of the classic franchise. Our classic franchise. Well, if these newly-registered domains are any indication, 2K may have just made the smartest decision of the year.
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‘Dredd’ Producer Says “Probably Not” In Regards To Sequel
Don’t go away, Dredd!
There just aren’t enough Russells in the world. While he went to see Dredd in theaters (and loved it), Kelly and I waited until months later when it surfaced on VOD to see it (and loved it). Unfortunately, it appears the film’s poor box office showing has doomed any future installments in the series, as a producer on the film is not so confident about a sequel.
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‘Shackleton Crater’ Kickstarter Stopped, Moon Colonization Game Needs New Way Into Space
Looks like our dreams of colonizing the moon are pretty far out, even in our fantasies.
Guys, I feel like I let you down here. I’d read about Shackleton Crater weeks ago, I’d even read Polygon’s lengthy piece profiling the game and its creator, EA co-founder Joe Ybarra. Hell, the studio is even local to the FEZ Palace. Through all that though, something about the game just didn’t click with me – or with gamers apparently. Developer Joe Got Game shut their $700,000 Kickstarter ask yesterday after only bringing in $27,000 with two weeks left to go. It’s only now that I feel I’m really getting the game.
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