The pencil drawn animation style of the music video for A-Ha’s Take on Me is iconic. Every knows it. So what would it look like if someone did a Take on Me video using eleven Doctors, some iconic moments in Doctor Who history and a lot of running? A little like that video below.
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Hold On To Your Wallets! The Steam Holiday Sale is Underway!
Has your wallet sufficiently recovered from the last Steam sale that only ended three weeks ago? Well, too bad. It’s time for the annual Steam Holiday Sale. If you missed any of the deals from the Autumn Sale, they’ll be back again here. The only difference between the Autumn and Holiday Sale deals is that there’s more time during this sale for flash sales, daily deals and community picks. Otherwise, the discounts will be the same.
As always, I’ll remind you at the start of the sale that you shouldn’t buy anything until the end of the sale unless it’s a daily deal, flash sale or a community pick. If something you want isn’t popping up on there, wait until the end of the sale to buy it.
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EA Facing Two Investor Lawsuits Over Battlefield 4
I know that Battlefield 4 launched with more than its fair share of bugs and might earn EA yet another Worst Company in America award but I didn’t think that it would be this poorly received.
Two law firms are currently investigating whether a class-action lawsuit can be launched on the behalf of EA investors as a result of statements made by EA officers about the game, their knowledge of the state of the game and the impact that had on the company’s share price.
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Twitter Working on Tweet Editing Feature
If there is one feature that Twitter doesn’t currently have that we all wish would be added, it’s the edit button. A quick fix beats the heck out of deleting and tweeting again with the correct spelling, username, etc.
Matthew Keys of The Desk says that three Twitter employees say that the social network is currently developing an edit function and is working on fine-tuning the feature’s functionality.
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Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe Review: Back to the Future
The first video game that I remember playing was Shufflepuck Cafe on my dad’s old Macintosh SE. Sure, there were other games on there but nothing quite captured my attention like Shufflepuck. It might have been in black and white but the graphics looked fine, it had sound (which was a rarity on that computer) and it was just fun to play. I may have poured more hour into that game during my childhood than anything on my NES.
So when I saw this homage to the original Shufflepuck Cafe pop up on Steam, I had to pick it up, if only for nostalgia’s sake. Fortunately, Shufflepuck Cantina didn’t stop at recreating the original in colour but added some depth to the original.
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Sony Denmark Teases New Crash Bandicoot Games
I’ve been banging on for months now that I’ve been wanting a new Crash Bandicoot developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation 4. Recent rumours have suggested that Sony Computer Entertainment has quietly reacquired the Crash IP from Activision and a recent Facebook post by Sony PlayStation Denmark has all but confirmed the return of the iconic marsupial to the PlayStation family.
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Comic Book Pull List for December 18, 2013
Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? You have about week left to do it. I think I’m done but it’s all down to shipping that’s already a week behind schedule. Why do I mention Christmas shopping? Because I think this is our last pull list before Christmas. Unless, I’m wrong. This is my first year writing a geek blog.
Anyway, this is our pull list post so here are our recommendations for the week. Harley Quinn’s new series gets properly underway in Harley Quinn #1. I haven’t been keeping up with recent issues of Superior Spider-Man but the Superior Venom has arrived in Superior Spider-Man #24. And Zoey is back on the air in A Voice in the Dark #2.
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Building (Critical) Consensus: Gran Turismo 6
Did you know that Gran Turismo 6 came out a week-and-a-half ago? I slightly forgot that it was coming out this year. I was going to get in touch with SCE PR about getting a review copy but it completely slipped my mind. And I find that kind of funny because I’m a big fan of the series. My biggest problem with GT is that GT5 had terrible load times and took up an obscenely large chunk of my PS3’s hard drive space.
As a game, the Gran Turismo series is a bit niche in its focus. If you’re looking for a driving simulator, you won’t do any better than Gran Turismo. The driving physics and the attention to detail are second to none. However, the focus on the driving experience tends to come at the expense of the actual gaminess of the GT series. The menus are a little hard to navigate. The career mode is a little grindy. But pushing for the extra tenth each lap is just one of those great feelings in gaming and I’ve never found a game that’s captured that like Gran Turismo.
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38 Studios Auction Brings in $320,000 But Not for 38’s IPs
We’ve been following the story of the failed 38 Studios on and off for the last year or so and it doesn’t look like the drama surrounding the bankrupted Kingdoms of Amalur developer is going to end any time soon.
In last week’s intellectual property focused auction, the court-appointed received didn’t receive sufficient offers for the rights to the Amalur MMO and sequel to KoA: Reckoning. While the 38 Studios IPs didn’t sell, the major IPs held by 38’s subsidiary, Big Huge Games, were sold for $320,000.
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Haven: The Lighthouse Review
This season of Haven has been a bit up and down. The first half of the season was ever improving as the cast of characters came into their own without Audrey to hold their hands through every potentially catastrophic situation. Then, Poochie arrives. And by Poochie, I mean William. The character sideswiped all the progress made in the first half of the season as everyone spent the final half of the season talking about William.
Would this season finale make bring an end to Poochie or does more William await us after this?
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