The Walking Dead is the highest-rated series on all of television, not just cable, in the critical 18-49 demographic. It’s doing AMC’s best viewership numbers ever, even better than award-winning shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad. However, the third season finale is going to leave a bad taste in people’s mouths and AMC is at risk of seeing many viewers tune out.
First, the numbers. The finale got a total of 12.4 million viewers overall and 8.1 million in the 18-49 demo. That brought the season’s average in the 18-49 demo to the highest in television this season. Hell, the Talking Dead after show (a wasteland of utter crap since switching to 60 minutes) managed to pull more 800,000 more viewers for its first airing than Game of Thrones’ first airing on HBO (5.2 million to 4.4 million). Basically, AMC is swimming in money from everything The Walking Dead.
Now, to say that The Walking Dead’s ratings aren’t sustainable isn’t exactly a bold prediction. What goes up must come down, right? However, I have more reasons than that.
We’ve all see the famous Leeroy Jenkins video by now. If you haven’t it features one player single-handed destroying his group’s well laid out plan by going Rambo and causing total annihilation. Well, Leeroy wasn’t the first to go Leeroy. There’s a piece of Civil War era art dedicated to the attack style made famous by Leeroy.
Ecco the Dolphin is considered one of the best games released for the Sega Genesis (AKA Mega Drive) and of the 16-bit era. The sequels were also well received but never seemed to have the same magic as the original. Well, thanks to Kickstarter, original Ecco designer Ed Annunziata is launching his spiritual sequel to Ecco called The Big Blue.
First, Disney killed Lucasfilm Animation and any of Lucasfilm’s television aspirations by effectively internally cancelling The Clone Wars and Detours. Now, the Disney bosses have killed of Lucasfilm’s legendary video game development and publishing division LucasArts.
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What if the internet was divided into Houses like the people of Westeros who are divided into hundreds of houses? Like in Westeros, some houses on the internet are bigger than others. Let’s call these the 12 Great Houses of the Internet. So what would the house sigils of the Great Houses of the Internet […]
We all know the story of Star Wars fairly well thanks to the six movies (soon to be more) and the Expanded Universe. However, as some of you likely know, that wasn’t the original story that George Lucas put to paper.
Now, with the permission of Lucas himself, the original screenplay is being brought back to life in the form of Dark Horse Comics’ upcoming series, The Star Wars.
What happens when you mix an arcade style shoot-’em-up with a rhythm game and then do it all backwards? You get the delightful (and difficult) Retro/Grade. Originally released as an indie game on the PlayStation 3, Retro/Grade has made the jump to PC.
Rhythm games and shoot-em-ups have been done before so the base genres are well represented in gaming. However, they’ve never been done like this.
Good news! I found my local comic book shop. Like I said, it shares space with a hobby store and was a little small so the selection wasn’t quite the full pull list. Maybe if I patronize them regularly, I can get a file and can get comics sent there or however that works.
As always (or at least like last week), we have our arbitrarily selected comics of the week. I’ll get better at it in time. First up is Superior Spider-Man #7 in which Spidey faces the consequences of his recent actions. For gaming fans, there’s a comic-book prequel to The Last of Us with The Last of Us: American Dreams #1. And in a bit of nostalgia for the comics I did read growing up, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Classics Volume 4 trade paperback is out tomorrow.
Also, as I mentioned yesterday, the new Doctor Who magazine (issue 458) is out this week and has news on the 50th Anniversary Special.
A recent rumour reported by Kotaku’s anonymous rumour man, Superannuation, suggests that the originally planned reboot for XCOM may not be dead after the success of last year’s hit XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Originally, 2K planned to reboot XCOM as a first-person shooter set in the 1960s. The game was originally set for a March 2012 release date before it was delayed into an apparent state of development hell. In the meantime, it’s thunder was stolen by Firaxis’ reboot of XCOM in the tradition turn-based tactical strategy form that we expect of XCOM.
Among all the other April Fools’ Day pranks and jokes, games developers like to get in on the fun. The press seemed to like the Sony buys Nintendo joke. I read that a couple of times yesterday. Granted, I thought yesterday’s best April Fools’ joke was The Walking Dead’s season finale. *rimshot*
Anyway, ThatGameCompany and Eidos Montreal both had the best pranks of the day with a couple of “new game” reveals.
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