Why Have I Not Known About Extreme Pogo-Stick Sport Before Now?

Guys, I just learned this thing existed, I’m sorry. I think you already know whether any particular ‘extreme sport’ is for you because of the name alone. Extreme sport. I can’t watch regular sports, they’re too boring. Extreme sports are like those, but with Monster Energy pumping through its circulatory and a Mountain Dew at hand. They’re caricature sports, or that’s how the ads have made them out to be. The big problem I have with them is that physics and the limits of human ability have already showed us what we can do with skateboards, bicycles, snowboards, and variants thereof.

But extreme pogo sticking? This is new.

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Warface – A New Free To Play FPS – Enters Closed Beta. Includes New Trailer!

Lately, we’ve been getting hit with a lot of free to play titles. I like this. I wrote a while back about how it seems some of the developers and publishers out there have finally pulled their heads from their hindparts and realized that consumers have been getting charged way too much for games, for a very long time.

It’s not that we don’t want to buy games, it’s that paying $60 plus tax is a little painful.

So when I see that Crytek and Trion Worlds are getting ready to release yet another F2P title into the wild – one that looks really good, no less – I get a warm fuzzy feeling in my black little heart and I just have to talk about it.

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Learn to CYA if You Outsource Your Job

The Onion predicted this. Maybe this guy got the idea from The Onion. A talented software developer outsourced his work to a Chinese company. This wasn’t just one full time job he was working multiple jobs making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in salaries. I’m not sure how many jobs he was working but he was only paying $50,000 a year to the company he was outsourcing his work to. Read the rest of this article…

PlayStation 3 Finally Surpasses Xbox 360 Shipments Worldwide, Right As No One Cares Anymore

It’ll take two years. Eighteen months. Three years. Six months. What do all of these timeframes have in common? That’s how quickly Sony’s PlayStation 3 was going to surpass Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Despite launching a year after Microsoft’s console, Sony was heavily favored to quickly stomp out the competition because of its unprecedented success of the PlayStation 2, well over the counts of the original Xbox, Nintendo’s Gamecube and, sadly, Sega’s Dreamcast. Those timetables came and went, taking Sony a full six years before they could claim the crown to the now third-place Xbox 360.

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Obama Presses Assault Rifle Ban And Now Wants To Investigate Video Games, Too?

I’m not usually one to get on a political soap box and spread my personal views about these things to the whole world but in this case, I figure I’d better get this out while I’m still legally able to do so. The way things are going, it might not be too long before I no longer have the right to share my opinion and tell you that I think the people who are in charge of this country right now are a bunch of blithering idiots and it’s truly surprising to me that they have the mental acuity to open a box of Ritz Crackerfuls without causing themselves grievous injury.

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Dead Space 3 (Xbox 360) Demo Impressions [VIDEO]

Today a bunch of cool kids, including myself, got access to the Dead Space 3 demo. I was kinda surprised because their web site fucked up during the registration process and I figured all was lost. But it was not! Because I love you, I went through and recorded my adventures and present them for you. Check them out below!

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E3 2013 Will Be Here In 5 Months – What Would You Like To See?

So, we all remember the tons of fun we had at E3 2012 and now we’re scant months away from E3 2013. Last year was our first year at E3, as a group, so we spent a lot of time trying to figure out scheduling and organization and not so much time being as productive as we could have been. Going in to this year, we’re already a lot more organized and are prepped up to bring you guys a lot more news and information from the biggest gaming expo in the world and now, we’re asking for YOUR input.

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Facebook Introduces Graph Search, For Discovering Things

Remember that thing that Facebook was doing that I was telling you about yesterday? Well today they introduced Graph Search. What is that? It’s a cool feature that’s being rolled out that will easily allow you to discover things about your friends. Read the rest of this article…

My impressions of Kentucky Route Zero: Act 1

I’ve honestly played a lot of various interactive stories throughout my time playing PC games, many of which were made during the mid-to-late 90’s when 2D sprite based games and point-and-click adventures were considered mainstream. It wasn’t hard to look back and find various examples of narrative driven puzzle games or interactive stories as it were. Sure they had puzzles, but they weren’t based solely around just those puzzles. They were there to tell us a story, and give us a unique look inside the hero’s/heroine’s head. Read the rest of this article…

Need A New PC? No? Dell Realizes Its Errors, Probably Too Late

Before Dell’s growth exploded in the late 90s, early 00s, owning one of their computers seemed liked a pretty cool thing to do. You order directly through the company, they made the PC you always wanted. That’s just how they work: they buy the parts and put the thing together and ship it to you. As the number of Dell owners increased though, their customer service couldn’t keep up and neither could their margins as other PC makers began to make cheaper PCs and minimize their component costs. Despite the shifting winds toward mobile and tablets, at least on the consumer end, Dell kept doing the same ol’ thing, though. The same thing. Over and over. Now founder Michael Dell is trying to bring the company private, away from the demanding votes of shareholders who demand quarter-after-quarter perfection.

It’s probably too late, though.

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