SimCity Beta Videos Leaked Online, Watch While You Can
I wish I was playing it right now!
March 5th is a day that most of us at FEZ can’t wait for. This is the day the new SimCity game comes out. N is the most excited of us all, trying to get into the closed beta without any luck. The people that do get in to the beta are supposed to be reporting bugs and not videos but luckily for us, they have. These videos show how awesome the game is going to be. It still looks like the SimCity I’m used to but, way better. Read the rest of this article…
Gas Powered Games: Fund Our ‘Wildman’ Kickstarter Or Everyone Gets Laid Off
An emotionally-charged call for help.
None of us enjoy watching a well-meaning Kickstarter effort fail. Whether it’s the little guy with the great idea or the haggard ancients piecing together a new piece of RPG lore, there are plenty of success stories, but there are plenty of failures that don’t get much attention. Being a haggard ancient, the campaign for Gas Powered Games’ new MOBA/tower defense title ‘Wildman’ was already getting some attention, but only a few days in, GPG’s head honcho Chris Taylor, whom you remember from Total Annihilation, Dungeon Siege, and most recently for finishing Age of Empires Online, came online in an update to potential Kickstarter investors, nearly in tears.
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Sad That Dinosaurs Will Be Impossible, Science Wants To Resurrect Extinct Neanderthals
“Zug zug,” the neanderthal said, indifferent to the matters at hand.
You may have used the term Neanderthal to call some oafish person an idiot, but neanderthals are an interesting fragment of our own history. We’re not sure whether they descended from the progenitor of humans or whether they were a split off of modern man, but the record shows they lived in and around Europe until about 30,000 years ago. We don’t know why they disappeared, whether it was climate change, interbreeding with humans, or any number of bizarre theories, but now the tables are set: we want to bring them back.
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Mama Review: Another January Horror Movie
The camera focuses in on a car parked in an upper middle class suburban neighborhood. The door is open, the vehicle empty. The car radio, tuned into to a local news channel, announces that a respected businessman has just killed his business partners and his estranged wife. A man rushes out of a residence, two young girls in tow, and they all bundle into the car and hit the road. They drive through miles of wintery terrain until the skid off the highway; then they climb out of the vehicle and wander through the wilderness until they find a cabin. The man drags the two kids into the cabin and sets a fire. After emotionally breaking down and sobbing, he removes a pistol from his jacket and approaches his daughter. He tells her to look away. Before he can pull the trigger, however, a gangly monster composed of emaciated limbs and hair grabs him and drags him away screaming. Cue opening credits. Sounds awesome, right? Well, it kinda is. And my description is utterly inadequate to describe the awesomeness of the first ten minutes of Mama. It’s just a shame that the rest of the movie doesn’t live up to that promise.
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The Last Stand Review: Back Again
For the first time in a decade, Arnold Schwarzenegger is back in a leading role. And not only is he acting again, he’s starring in the sort of big, dumb, violent actioner that made him a household name as opposed to a horseshit like Batman and Robin or End of Days. The Last Stand, helmed by Korean director Jee-woon Kim, serves as Schwarzenegger’s carefully tailored comeback vehicle—a film that’s designed to remind us all why Schwarzenegger was able to become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars in the first place. The movie itself mostly works, but unfortunately, it also reminded me that the Austrian action hero’s glory days are behind him.
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For About $30 A Month, Kim Dotcom’s Mega Wants To Give You 4TB Of Cloud Storage
M-M-M-MEGA. Can’t stop saying it.
I love and use Dropbox every day. I couldn’t live without some place in the cloud at this point to store my data so I can access it from virtually all of my devices. After a huge legal kerfuffle, Kim Dotcom, whom you may know from the will.i.am-slash-Kanye West-endorsed Megaupload, or perhaps the epic raid on his house in New Zealand to bring said service down, is bringing us Mega, a whole new service to send your data to. And they’re giving you 50GB for free, just to start, squashing any offer from those other, larger, perhaps more legitimate offerings from Dropbox and Google.
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Journalistic Responsibility – Games And Gamers
If it ain’t ethical, STFU!
By now, the word is all over the place regarding the ambush of Rod “Slasher” Breslau by Evil Geniuses members on Inside the Game. (If not, you can find a PC Gamer article about it, including the twitch video, here)
There are a lot of opinions flying around about thow this was handled and what responsibilities journalists have in regards to reporting news. What should be reported, what shouldn’t be reported, what kinds of things we should and shouldn’t tell the public.
Of course, I have an opinion on this…And I’m going to share it.
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‘Gangster Squad’ Review: Violent Candy
A dash of that ultra-violence.
I enjoyed Gangster Squad for precisely the time it was on screen. There was no subsequent banter about its characters or its story, it simply ended and that was it. Gangster Squad succeeds because it’s a fun experience. Watching the square-jawed, ripped-from-your-typical-noir Sergeant John O’Mara (Brolin) assemble and deploy an off-the-books police team to kneecap Mickey Cohen’s (Penn) gangster operations is kind of a blast. But once the stakes raise and the tides turn and the balls bounce, the film’s flaws become a bit more apparent.
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We Will Soon Reach Peak iPhone
It appears Apple has painted themselves into a corner.
What happens when you release one phone a year with a closed operating system? If you’re Apple, you’re incredibly successful and, as analyst ABI Research suggests, you’ll hit peak demand this year. This doubles what Pacific Crest said about Apple: it’s hitting market saturation. ABI claims that Apple will peak at 22% worldwide marketshare and then stabilize. iPhone numbers will still increase on a yearly basis, but when Tim Cook has to face investors, they’ll already know what he’s going to say, which is going to be very scary for Apple.
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TSA Removing Image Taking Scanners, Replacing With Others
Don’t scan me bro.
We’ve talked about it before in articles and podcasts, the full body scanners that take naked pictures of people, are being removed. There has been a lot of backlash with these scanners, mainly for privacy concerns but also their effectiveness and safety. Currently there are 174 machines in US airports and all of them will be removed. Read the rest of this article…
