He might be Mario’s less popular and less heralded brother but he still has a very nice place to live. While Mario, presumably, gets to crash at Princess Peach’s $950 million castle, Luigi has his own pretty cool and very expensive mansion that he lives in. Well, when he clears the ghosts out of there, he can live in there.
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Britain to Block Online Pornography
While the rest of Britain and the world are focusing on the birth of the Royal Baby, British Prime Minister David Cameron has made a major announcement that might get buried under baby watch. By the end of this year, the United Kingdom will require internet service providers to block online pornography unless users specifically request that they be allowed to access porn.
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Supernatural to Get a Spin-off
Yesterday’s Supernatural panel at the San Diego Comic Con had an exciting piece of news for fans of the long-running WB/CW series. A spin-off series is currently in development at The CW.
The current plan is to introduce a new character who would serve as an anchor for this new series in or around episode 20 of Supernatural’s current season. That episode would effectively be a backdoor pilot to this spin-off.
Source: TV Line
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The Avengers 2 is Avengers: Age of Ultron
At the end of the Marvel movies panel at Comic Con, Joss Whedon spilled the beans on the upcoming sequel to last year’s big blockbuster The Avengers. Rather than Thanos showing up after his appearance during the credits in The Avengers, we’re getting another classic comic villain.
Coming in summer of 2015 is The Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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DC Comics to Follow-up Man of Steel with Batman/Superman
DC Comics’ big follow-up to the massive success of Man of Steel isn’t the much-anticipated Justice League movie but a movie starring DC’s two biggest heroes. Superman and Batman will share the screen in 2015’s Batman/Superman.
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Steam Summer Sale: July 21, 2013
We’ve reached the final day of the 2013 Steam Summer Sale. There is less than 24 hours to get a hold of any games that you are interested in while they’re still on sale.
To celebrate the final day of the sale, Steam is bringing back some of its most popular sales to give you one last chance to save some money and get some great games. If only I didn’t get all the games on my wishlist before now…
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Steam Summer Sale: July 20, 2013
We’ve reached the final weekend of the 2013 edition of the Steam Summer Sale and there are still some good deals to be had.
For example I liked Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed as a kart racing game. If you want a good karting game for the PC, you could do far worse that SASRT (even if the acronym is terrible). Also, the KOTOR games are on sale. Buy them. Don’t think about any issues you might have playing an older game. KOTOR is essential gaming.
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Geek Links of the Week
The UK government is funding a revolutionary new rocket engine technology that could see spaceplanes reach orbit from a runway take-off. Basically, spaceplanes, rather than rockets, could be making trips to the International Space Station inside the next ten years. [The Guardian]
Steam sales are a great thing for gamers because we get the opportunity to play new games for a relatively cheap amount. However, these sale do play with us on a psychological level. [The Psychology of Video Games]
The Nintendo Famicon, known over here as the NES, turned 30 years old this week. Here’s a look at the history of the console that returned gaming to the living room. [Ars Technica]
The new Falskaar mod for Skyrim adds 25 hours of new content including a new area, new characters, voice overs, a soundtrack and more. Most impressively, the project was spearheaded by a 19-year-old aspiring designer. [PC Gamer]
A Pennsylvania man was temporarily the world’s richest man with a fortune of $92 quadrillion. Then, PayPal corrected its error and he was a middle class schmuck again. [CNET]
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Steam Summer Sale: July 19, 2013
Time is quickly running out of this year’s Steam Summer Sale and you can really tell. All the big deals are just being recycled at this point in the Daily Deals. Okay, that’s not news. At least it gives you a chance to make up for missed Flash Sales.
That’s not to say that there aren’t some good deals for the next 48 hours.
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Will The Xbox One Be Your Overly Attached Girlfriend?
Microsoft might have gotten rid of the online check-in DRM requirements for the Xbox One but doesn’t mean that it isn’t still watching you. We’ve all read that it’s built around advertising with the Kinect integral to making that advertising work better for advertisers. The Kinect always watching and Microsoft’s compliance in giving data to the NSA doesn’t make me feel better about it.
So is the Xbox One going to be like a clingy girlfriend? The folks at Kensington make that case in a handy infographic.
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