Trent Reznor And Beats Audio Making New Music Service Called Daisy, Raised $60m To Do It

In this post-Napster world, music services have become the new record store. Or CD stores, I don’t know, the music place. One of these many services is subscription-based MOG, which Beats Audio purchased last year. While it will continue to be MOG for the time being, it will shift to become Daisy – yes, that’s the real name – later this year. And who’s the Chief Creative Officer behind it? None other than Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor.

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EA / BioWare Are Changing The SWTOR Login Process And They’ve Told Me About It 4 Times

I don’t know what it is about these guys that makes them think they need to smash me with email after email every time they make a little change to the way they do things but they continue to do it.

I was told today, repeatedly, that EA is changing the way people are going to log in to SWTOR. I figure that since I got ALL THE EMAILS, other people may have missed theirs so I’ll share the info with you here.

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‘Strip Search’ Review: Season 1, Episode 1 “Artists Assemble” And Episode 2 “Fax Machine”

You’ll remember that last year, Penny Arcade launched a massive Kickstarter campaign to remove ads from their site and fund a bunch of new side projects that removing those ads allowed time for. It didn’t quite go according to plan, but the biggest product to come out of their half-million dollar haul was a new reality show called Strip Search in place of a fourth season of Penny Arcade TV. (I had a feeling they’d run out of material for their own show in good time.) The show is here, so what do we make of the first two episodes, which I’ve included below?

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Server Issues Causing ‘SimCity’ Woes, Because Of Course

I guess we should’ve seen this coming. I can’t think of a single major gaming release with a vital online component that’s been gone off without a hitch. While I’m sure Maxis’ Top Men have been working on this around the clock since SimCity‘s launch last night, it doesn’t bode well for many gamers like myself who had defended Electronic Arts’ decision to mandate an internet connection to play this game.

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Dead Space Is Dead, Joins Red Faction On Island Of Misfit Game Franchises

Another franchise with so much potential is biting the dust. Word is leaking, at least as VideoGamer would have it, that Electronic Arts has dispatched its glossy horror-becoming-action franchise to the land of its necromorphs. Cody thought favorably of the third game, I even enjoyed their mobile effort, but despite EA’s attempts to tweak it for broader audiences with more Gears of War-style action on a moment to moment basis and bundling in controversial fourth wall-breaking microtransactions, the game’s poor sales have apparently sunk the franchise.

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New ‘Iron Man 3’ Trailer Arrives, Finally Convinces Me To See It [VIDEO]

I don’t know guys, that last Iron Man 3 trailer was pretty weird. Ben Kingsley’s Mandarin drawl was a weird way to narrate the trailer, we saw Stark’s mansion blow up yet again, and it just, tonally, didn’t sit well with me. Fast forward to today when a much grander trailer is available to fill in some of those gaps left behind by that first look.

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Twitter Discontinuing TweetDeck Apps, I Can Not Stop Crying

Okay, hang on guys. *sob* Sorry, just have to compose myself a little. *sniff* So, today TweetDeck made the announcement that they would be discontinuing their app across Android, iOS, and the PC, but will maintain their web app for desktops. Despite giving the desktop version a positive note when it released, I haven’t had a reason to keep it open until recently. The loss of the Android app, however, is huge.

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Garrett Returns: New ‘Thief’ Title Revealed In Game Informer, Due Out 2014 [VIDEO]

Did you know that for many years after the release of Doom, all you could do in first-person shooters was shoot things? I know, right? When Thief: The Dark Project came along in 1998, it blew so many minds, mine included, when it challenged you to hide in shadows and cover your steps as you burgled every shiny thing that caught your eye. Set in a dark, Victorian-themed world of nightmares and the supernatural, Thief spawned several sequels (although the third game featured many of the same flaws as its sister game at Ion Storm, Deus Ex: Invisible War), but has otherwise been out of the limelight – perhaps fittingly – since 2004. Prep your arrows, thieves, we go back in soon.

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Apple No Longer World’s Most Valuable Company, Is Also Doomed

When someone, whether it’s us or some leading market analyst on CNBC, yammers on about a company’s value, one must always take in a few notes of salt. Following Steve Jobs’ death, Apple’s stock climbed through the roof to a peak of over $700 this past September, with many expecting it to hit $1,000. Of course, stocks will be stocks and much of that value was speculative. Now the price is coming right on back to Earth.

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‘XCOM’ Meets Guys In Big, Heavy Armor: New ‘Space Hulk’ Screens Emerge

Before X-COM, there was Warhammer 40,000 and there was Aliens. Well, sometime after that, the creative minds at Games Workshop decided the twain shall meet, coming up with a tabletop game (and later PC favorite) that featured men in large suits battling dastardly Genestealers in derelict space wrecks. It’s not hard to see where Space Hulk inspired a legion of games, most notably StarCraft, and while long dormant as a video game franchise, Space Hulk is coming back in a big way for PC, Mac, and iOS, complete with multi-platform play.

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