Who doesn’t love ska? It’s really an underappreciated musical genre. That’s probably why I absolutely love this cover of the Game of Thrones theme song by the Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra. Winter is coming.
Yearly Archives: 2013
Samuel L. Jackson Talks About His Purple Lightsaber
Samuel L. Jackson was recently on the Graham Norton Show, presumably to promote the upcoming IndyCar-ish movie Turbo, but, naturally, talk turned to his turn as a Jedi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. This included Sam talking about how Mace Windu’s lightsaber ended up purple and the special inscription on the lightsaber hilt that he has at home.
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Building (Critical) Consensus: Ride to Hell: Retribution
Developer Eutechnyx doesn’t have the greatest reputation. They’re primarily a racing game developer but you’d never confuse them with Codemasters. Some games they make are pretty good but most end up getting scored in the more mediocre range.
Well, they certainly made a name for themselves with last week’s release of Ride to Hell: Retribution. The game was originally cancelled in 2009 by publisher Deep Silver. Eutechnyx kept working on the game and convinced Deep Silver to officially revive and release the game. In that time, it went from GTA clone in the 1960s to a complete and utter mess. Unfortunately for everyone involved, it looks like Ride to Hell: Retribution has taken the lead in this year’s hotly contested battle for the Worst Game of 2013 award.
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Comic Book Pull List for July 3, 2013
If you go to your local comic book store tomorrow, expect to see a bunch of new series on the shelves. Smaller publishers like Avatar, Dynamite, Image and Zenscope each have one new series. Marvel has five new series coming out tomorrow. If you’re looking for something new, this is a good week to head to the shop rather than have your file accumulate.
Since there are so many new comics coming out this week, I thought that I’d make each of this week’s picks a new series. DC is building up to the Trinity War by digging into Pandora’s story in Trinity of Sin: Pandora #1. Marvel does a sort of speculative alternate reality miniseries starting with What If: AvX #1 whose title makes me think we might get some more alternate reality stories if this sells well. And this week’s best named new comic is Dark Skullkickers Dark #1 which clearly has twice the darkness of your standard dark comics.
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Defense Grid: The Awakening is the First Xbox Games with Gold Game
Back at E3, Microsoft promoted their new Games for Gold program during their keynote. This program gives away two free games between the beginning of July and the launch of the Xbox One. Fable III was the first game given away under this promotion and Assassins’ Creed II and Halo 3 were announced as the first two games that would be given away as part of “Games with Gold.”
Well, funny I should mention that. Today was the release of the first Games with Gold game and it wasn’t Assassins’ Creed II or Halo 3. It was actually 2008 tower defence game Defense Grid: The Awakening.
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Don Mattrick Leaving Microsoft for Zynga
After he took Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment division, AKA Xbox, from the top console brand in America and battered its reputation with a series of bad decisions over the last few months, it looks like Don Mattrick is going to leave brand destruction behind and try his hand at brand rehabilitation instead.
Mattrick is leaving his post as Microsoft’s President of Interactive Entertainment for the CEO job at Zynga Entertainment.
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It’s the Final Push for Space Sim MOBA “GoD Factory: Wingmen” on Kickstarter
Today is Canada Day so that means we’re taking a break for the holiday today. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t give out a bit of love to some fellow Canadians.
Back in May, we previewed space combat sim slash MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) GoD Factory: Wingmen by Quebec-based indie developer Nine Dots Studios. We’re finally reaching the end of their Kickstarter funding campaign but they could still use your help to make this cool looking game a reality.
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Geek Links of the Week
This weekend is the last weekend that we’ll have Google Reader. While I scramble to find an adequate substitute, Om asks why Google wants out of the RSS reader market when everyone else wants in. [GigaOM]
PayPal has announced PayPal Galactic. That’s a joke, right? [Digital Trends]
How does Edward Snowden protect against NSA eavesdropping bugs? He uses his refrigerator. [New York Times]
When the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race looks for a CPU and graphics card for their gaming rig, their first choice is usually Intel and NVIDIA. So why did Microsoft and Sony go with AMD rather than Intel or NVIDIA? [Forbes Tech]
Microsoft might have removed used games restrictions to match Sony but that doesn’t mean that the big publishers are on-board with that. [IGN]
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Gunpoint Review: Spying Excellence
It’s not everyday that one single indie game, an indie game that’s the first effort of a former gaming journalist, causes the whole of the gaming press to pause and take notice. But that’s what we have with Gunpoint, the rookie effort of now-former PC Gamer writer Tom Francis. I say that he’s now a former PC Gamer writer because the commercial success of Gunpoint has given Francis the financial freedom to pursue game development full-time.
So could the debut effort of a man who hasn’t made a game before and put it together in off-the-shelf game making software be worthy of all the praise it received? Yes. Yes, it can.
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Saints Row IV is the First Game to be Refused Classification in Australia
At the start of 2013, Australia introduced its new “Guidelines for the Classification of Computer Games.” This introduced a the first mature-type rating in Australia for video games called “R 18+.” For the first time since the introduction of that new rating level, the Australian Government Classification Board has refused a rating for a game with Volition and Deep Silver’s upcoming Saints Row IV getting that distinction.
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