Mystery Key Update: Received Another Clue and Solved the Mystery!
What does this clue mean!?!?
About a week ago we received a package in the mail with no return address and no postmark. In this package was a white box wrapped in a yellow bow. Inside that box was a key on a chain. A necklace as it turns out. There was nothing else, no note and not even a clue that told me if this was related to a game or something else. I immediately thought it was for a game, but I ruled that out when I received our next mysterious package. Read the rest of this article…
Tomb Raider Now Available – Review Is Imminent
I’m pretty sure that’s not ketchup she’s covered in.
As of about 42 minutes ago, Tomb Raider is now available to the public…Unless, that is, you shop at Tesco, who broke street date and started selling the game early…
I don’t know why companies keep doing that…I mean, you’d think getting busted and not getting any games for a while would outweigh the few extra dollars you’d make.
ANYHOOZLE…Tomb Raider is now available and the official review will be up…
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Samsung Just Watched Richie Rich, Wants Galaxy S4 Unveiling To Be Just Like That
OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY
Oh, which kid wouldn’t want to be young Jeremy Maxwell? The rich kid with the all-too-nice chauffeur is tasked with guarding Samsung’s new Galaxy S4, which will undoubtedly be the year’s best-selling phone worldwide. While it seems like there’s just a light bulb inside, Jeremy must guard it against the horrors of mild Suburbia and a pesky neighbor girl who’s “going to get you, Maxwell!” I’m glad someone at Samsung watched Macaulay Culkin films while sick and then spent all night having fevered dreams, because that’s exactly what this ad is. I’ve included it below, natch.
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Is The World Ready For ‘Portal R&D’, A Sitcom-style Web Series?
It’s funny because it’s true.
It wasn’t long into the new teaser for Wayside Creations’ new Portal-based web series that I thought I was watching a corny facsimile of Better Off Ted, a series that starred a multi-national conglomerate and its expanse of wacky experiments. Portal seems to provide plenty of material for such a series as this new show – aptly named Portal R&D – takes place before whatever crazy cacophony got Aperture’s labs shut down in the first place. I’ve included the trailer below as well as a link to the group’s original ground-breaking work, Fallout: Nuka Break.
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With 500,000 Subscribers, There’s Never Been A Better Time To Join EVE Online
Look at all those stars…
Like any online community, the more people are involved, the better the experience gets. This is true of social networks like the good ol’ MySpace, Facebook, but it holds particularly true for EVE Online where all players share the same universe. In other MMOs where a server contains a population of only a few thousand people, even when consolidation happens, you’re always going to feel like you’re amongst a crowd. With EVE, the universe changes drastically based on how many total subscribers you have.
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Getting Fired From Best Buy For Posting Pictures On The Internet: A Long, Cautionary Tale
What seems like an innocuous snap, tweet, or comment can become very severe when exposed to a corporate legal department.
Look at your social feeds: Facebook, Twitter, Path, whatever rows your boat. Find your friends. Look for when they talk about a bad experience they had on the job, like a customer that put them in a torrid mood or a manager who won’t stop doing that one irritating thing. Look for a picture of a cube-mate smiling while delicate company info hangs blurry in the background. All of these individual things may seem pretty harmless, but it wouldn’t take long for someone you know – or simply someone who has access to your comments and pictures – to build a case of insubordination against you, one that will be nearly impossible to refute. You can lose your job.
I did.
It’s been nearly a thousand days since my ten-plus year employment with Best Buy was terminated and I’ve gone to many of my friends in the media hoping to bring my story to light, not out of any sort of sense of revenge, obviously my digs are far fancier now, but as a warning to others. Companies pretend that they’re training their employees on how easily their social media policies can be violated, but there’s rarely a reprimand when such a violation occurs; the solution is usually termination. This seems particularly important in an age where we’re sharing information faster and more often than ever before. The events surrounding my own dismissal were incredibly personal and highly embarrassing, but in the end, I had to be the one to tell my story.
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FleshEatingZipper Goes For The Big Leagues: Creates Office, Adds First Employee!
Hello! You’ll be seeing a lot more of me now!
When we rang in the New Year, we promised some big changes for the site. Rob highlighted a smattering of them, but now it’s time for these designs to become real. Over the next few weeks, FleshEatingZipper is going to undergo some radical changes that will result in a lot of cool new content. By a lot, I mean, a lot. FleshEatingZipper is, after all, a bootstrap startup, which means we’re a company that’s building up our empire on our own efforts without (so far) any external support, like funding. So, here are the big changes:
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21 and Over Review: See It Drunk
So screenwriting duo Scott Moore and Jon Lucas make their directorial debut with 21 and Over. Their previous work includes The Hangover and The Change-Up so it doesn’t take much in the way of imagination to predict what the film is like. Yes, 21 and Over is a retread of the same raunchy comedy we’ve seen countless times before, but there are enough laughs here to make the movie almost worthwhile.
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Jack the Giant Slayer Review: Is This the Best Bryan Singer Can Do?
Is there any surer way to piss away a big budget than by handing control of a tent-pole movie over to Bryan Singer? Mind you, I’m not questioning Singer’s ability to generate a profit for studios; I’m more baffled by how the man can employ hundreds of millions of dollars to such generic effect. Singer’s latest flick, Jack the Giant Slayer, stolidly adheres to the definition of generic. Despite having access to a reported $200 million budget, Singer has created a movie where the CGI looks like CGI, the sets look like movie sets, the costumes look like costumes, and the props look like props. Everything about Jack the Giant Slayer is overly polished and lacking in any sort of charm or character.
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Heroes And Generals Open Beta Announced – With Trailer
The age of the MMOFPS is upon us
It seems like we’re entering the age of the Massive scale FPS. For years, the MMORPG has dominated the world of multiplayer gaming but now, we’re getting more and more first person shooter MMO’s and they are looking more and more refined, all the time.
It started a while back with the release of Planetside. After that was World War II online and then several other came along. Recently we’ve had Planetside 2 release from Sony Online Entertainment, Defiance from Trion Worlds will be releasing soon and now Square Enix has announced the open beta of Heroes and Generals; a WWII based FPS that’s looking SUPER HOT.
And we have a trailer!
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