New Unofficial Xbox Branding Identity Is Crazy Enough To Work
Get it?
You may not be familiar with Cory Schmitz, but he’s a designer who’s done plenty of work for the gaming industry, most recently with the PlayStation title Sound Shapes and the branding for Polygon. Well, after a “one-afternoon branding jam”, Cory came up with an interesting take on the next generation of Xbox branding, a wave that’s rumored to include tablets and smaller set top boxes. So how does it look?
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Elder Scrolls Online Alliances At War – Developer Video
I don’t know what that thing is but BY GOD it’s ugly!
Yesterday, Nick published an article about Elder Scrolls Online preparing for closed beta. In that article, he included the latest cinematic trailer, which shows some really serious and super violent (oh so sexy) shenanigans going on between what turns out to be 3 different factions in the Elder Scrolls universe.
That’s great, but why are they fighting with each other? I have a nice dev video that explains it all.
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Nintendo Is Out Of Touch With American Gamers
You know it’s bad when an updated Gamecube game for the Wii U creates a huge buzz in the gaming community. Nintendo is notorious for rehashing the same brand over and over again. Why must they run everything into the ground?
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Microsoft Finally Releasing The Surface Tablet We All Really Wanted On February 9th
This is actually a picture of the Surface RT, but can you REALLY tell?
Imagine a version of Windows that doesn’t run any of the programs you’ve accumulated over the years in exchange for an app store that’s still pretty small. It makes sense that Microsoft would release a tablet with that version of Windows to cater to hardware and app developers that are currently working on Android apps these days and not Windows ones, but there’s a reason why Microsoft has been hush-hush about Surface sales: because they’re probably not great at all. When Microsoft unveiled the tablet last summer, they promised an alternate, higher-end Surface Pro that was essentially the Windows you knew and loved, but in tablet form. The version you wanted. Well, it’s here.
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Adult Swim Puts Banned Dexter’s Laboratory Episode Online
DEEDEE! But seriously, cut it out.
I didn’t get Cartoon Network until I was almost a teenager, but I loved Dexter’s Laboratory. Eccentric and wild-brained Dexter just wants to build crazy stuff and is held in check by his malicious-or-well-intending dopey sister Deedee in episode after episode. They did a number of these things and then did a second run years later – which always fails in cartoons, always – but in its heyday under the watchful eye of Genndy Tartakovsky, produced an episode so harsh that they prohibited it from ever airing on the CN.
Until now.
…and I’ve got it embedded below.
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Dredd is Doing Awesome in Blu-Ray/DVD Sales!
Go buy this movie now!
Dredd is one of those movies with a bad marketing strategy. It was trying to cash in on the whole 3D hype that is going on and it came out in September which is the month that we usually see terrible movies. Fortunately it’s not a crappy movie and we gave it 9/10 saying, “Dredd is an unpretentious, super-violent, super-fun, blood-and-guts thrill ride.” Read the rest of this article…
Dust 514 Has Entered Open Beta
MMOFPS Meets MMO Space Sim. Binary Peanut Butter Cups?
CCP Games today announced they are moving forward with the development of their upcoming MMOFPS and tie in to the long standing hit MMO Space Sim “Eve Online” with the start of the open beta period for Dust 514, which we had a chance to see (and even play a little) at E3 2012.
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The Elder Scrolls Online Opens Its Doors For Beta Testers, Has Much To Prove
FILL OUT THIS FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORM!
It’s been fourteen months since Skyrim landed on store shelves and crushed all kinds of sales goals (most of that time I spent not playing it) and now Bethesda is ready to bring in the next wave of fantasy-RPG excitement to the world. Starting today, you can sign up for beta access to the series’ new MMO. It’s here, after a mundane unveiling at E3, that we’ll be able to test whether or not Bethesda can break World of Warcraft’s grip on our MMO dollars, but it faces a long, challenging road.
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Beat Hazard (PC) Review: Seizure By The Second
If you can figure out what’s going on here, you’ve won half the battle.
The first time I saw Beat Hazard nearly three years ago, I nearly had to avert my eyes because of the headache it was about to cause. A dual-stick shooter not unlike the fabulous Geometry Wars, Beat Hazard is one of a handful of games to feature levels generated by your music library. What sets Beat Hazard apart? The visual madness that starts cutting into your eyeballs as soon as your favorite song kicks into drive.
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Leisure Suit Larry On GOG? YEP!
Oh, Larry…You’re such a schmuck.
Leisure Suit Larry has just been announced as the 500th game to be featured on GOG.COM, and that’s hot because Leisure Suit Larry is one of the best adventure game series of all time, from a time before time…A time before all this…
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