Jack Reacher Review: Limited By the Script
A man drives a white van to the top of a parking deck. He casually parks, deposits a quarter in the parking meter, and pulls out a rifle. He positions himself on a ledge overlooking a nearby park and methodically picks off a handful of people. Then he climbs back into his van and drives away during the ensuing panic. Local police scour the scene, uncover a mountain of forensic evidence, and soon arrest James Barr, a former Army sniper once accused of murdering four military contractors in Iraq. Do the authorities have their guy? Of course not. This is Hollywood after all, and no crime is solved in a Hollywood movie until a renegade with a chiseled jaw has beaten the hell out of at least half a dozen guys and tore ass through a major metropolitan area in an American muscle car. That renegade here is Jack Reacher played by Tom Cruise.
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Check Out The Onion’s Year in Review
The Onion is great. They are the only place I read besides FleshEatingZipper of course and where I get all of my news. Since it’s the end of the year and stuff, everyone is putting out their reviews and best of. The Onion didn’t disappoint with anything they put out this year including their Year in Review video. Read the rest of this article…
Gifting A Wii U This Holiday? Nintendo Says Rip Open That Box And Update It First
Imagine enjoying your Wii U on Christmas Day, but only after an hour of updates. Would you enjoy that? Would you?
In a message sure to never be received by your loving grandparents, Nintendo took to its Twitter account to recommend that anyone giving their beloved family or friends a new Wii U console should update their console first. It seems a little weird that the console manufacturer least associated with seamless online experiences would recommend that customers… wait a minute, this makes complete sense.
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Developer Gauntlet Thrown Down. Make 12 Games In 12 Months!
One game, one month. 12 games, 12 months. Start coding!
A group of independent game designers has issued a challenge to the indy developer world out there. Make 12 games in 12 months! Is this even possible? SURE IT IS, according to indy developer “Breakdance McFunkypants” who set out to create 12 indy titles in 2012 and made it happen.
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FEZ/PLAY: Max Payne 3 (Xbox 360)
Grgggrggg I’m Max Payne ggrrgrgrr
I decided to dig out my copy of Max Payne 3 that I keep on tap just so I can… I don’t know, start playing again? MP3 was a pretty epic game, but unfortunately, it just wasn’t Max Payne enough. Well, I’m granting you a one-off opportunity to see me play Max Payne 3 again before it’s inevitably buried at the bottom of my pile of junk. No spoilers, this is just the first level. It’s all I can take, really.
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It’s The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine
Just one way out.
At the time of this posting, we are nine hours into December 21st, 2012, the fabled rejuvenation of the Mayan calendar and final historical reference to any definitive end of days. We enjoy this so much because we wonder how we would handle ourselves in such a scenario where people relied on us more than ever. What if we needed to be sturdier, craftier creatures than our neighbors? How smart are we? Could we truly survive the apocalypse? Let’s go over a few scenarios.
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This Is The End: Seth Rogen & Jay Baruchel’s Post Apocalyptic Horror-Comedy Trailer Hits the Internet
OHMGEE!
I don’t know how long Seth Rogen & Jay Baruchel have been working on this movie but I can tell you it’s been a while. In 2007 a trailer for Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse hit the internet calling it a horror-comedy short film. Now five years later we’ve got an updated title with more names attached to it. Read the rest of this article…
Triple Station Cash Tomorrow And Double XP This Weekend
Double XP Weekend and Triple Station Cash? OK!
That’s right, folks, Sony Online Entertainment has announced and confirmed that tomorrow, Friday the 21st 2012 will kick off a double XP weekend for Planetside 2 and will also be giving users triple Station Cash.
YAY, TRIPLE STATION CASH!!
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Nokia, Stop Wasting Your Talent And Make An Android Phone Already
I rock at Photoshop, guys. Photo credit: Wired
It’s been nearly two years since Nokia announced, before a truly precipitous change in fortune, they would be abandoning their once insanely popular Symbian OS and embracing Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform full-time for all of its smartphones. The coup, lead by newly-installed CEO Stephen Elop – and coincidentally, former Microsoft VP – seemed to be a huge leg up for Steve Ballmer’s camp as Windows Phone had failed to gain any market traction. Well, after two years, Microsof’t’s mobile platform has still failed to gain traction. So it makes sense that I plead, before Microsoft’ sinks Nokia’s boat entirely, that the Finnish phone giant should really take a stab at Android. It really, really should.
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Fuel Overdose (PSN) Review: Combat Racing With A Really Bad Anime Fever
It’s a post-apocalyptic combat racer, guys. Really!
After the apocalypse, combat racing will become the sport of choice. I can tell because no other machine gun-spewing, rocket-launching racing game feels right unless it’s set in some tragic version of paradise. Fuel Overdose is a pretty solid car combat game that has the unfortunate attribute of being poorly presented in nearly every facet.
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