It seems that the Austrians have two great loves: The National Football League and Game of Thrones. The two were combined into what is simply the greatest intro in sports TV history. Austrian channel PULS 4 combined the two for their intro for last weekend’s Super Bowl. Too bad none of the sports broadcasts on this side of the Atlantic are this cool.
Flappy Bird Taken Down by Creator
After becoming one of the biggest app creators in the mobile gaming world in the span of about two weeks, Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, says that he’s done with his famous creation. Over the weekend, Nguyen pulled the game from the iTunes and Google Play stores.
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Geek Links of the Week
Mass Effect fans will remember the Quantum Entanglement Communicator used in ME2 and ME3. Well, that’s based on a real thing that’s called Quantum Teleportation. European physicists have found a way to use quantum teleportation through standard fibre optic cables that could for them basis of Quantum Internet. [Technology Review]
I know we’ve gone on a bit about Dungeon Keeper this week but don’t forget that EA drops the ball with both mobile versions of classic titles and their flagship triple-A titles like Battlefield 4. [Eurogamer]
I’ve probably already run a link about it but here’s an in-depth look at the latest EVE Online mega-fight that result in the real-world equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ships destroyed. [Giant Bomb]
Don’t look now but the longest-reigning champion of eSports is making a comeback. I don’t mean that a player is making a comeback. StarCraft: Brood War is quickly regaining popularity among fans of competitive gaming. [The Daily Dot]
Not only are the X-Men movies not following the continuity of the comic books, they’re contradicting their own continuity repeatedly. [Comic Book Movie]
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How Much Would It Cost to Build 17 Famous Movie Homes in Lego?
With The Lego Movie coming out this week, our friends at Movoto switched up from their usual practice of valuing famous movie real estate to valuing the Lego bricks required to make said famous movie houses.
They determined how big famous movie dwellings actually are and then figured out how many Lego bricks it would take to make a full-size recreation of these buildings. Whether building it in Legos or brick and mortar, it’s not cheap to do build a big home.
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Resident Evil Composer Admits to Using Ghostwriter
The Japanese composer once lauded as a modern Beethoven for his ability to compose music despite being deaf has admitted to being a fraud.
Mamoru Samuragochi confessed that he has been using another composer to write music attributed to him since 1996.
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Sony Selling Computer Division, Spinning-Off TVs and Cutting Jobs in Major Restructuring
Facing a projected net loss for the fiscal year of about $1.1 billion, Sony is enacting a restructuring plan to reverse the fortunes of the company.
Sony CEO Kaz Hirai announced yesterday that the company is selling their Vaio computer division, spinning the TV division into its own wholly-owned subsidiary and eliminating 5,000 jobs worldwide.
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Watch Dogs Trademark Reinstated After Fraudulent Abandonment
Just four days after it was abandoned, Ubisoft’s trademark of Watch Dogs with the United States Patent and Trademark Office was reinstated after a petition for reinstatement was granted and upheld by the Director of the USPTO.
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Critics Corner: Dungeon Keeper (Mobile)
No, I’m not letting this go. I’m not sure what the worst thing about the free-to-play mobile edition of Dungeon Keeper is. The denigration of a much heralded franchise for a quick buck is pretty bad. The fact that the game isn’t so much free-to-play as it is fee-to-play with microtransactions that are hardly “micro” isn’t any better. Maybe it’s the fact that the game is likened to Clash of Clans in Dungeon Keeper clothing after we talked about King ripping off and being ripped off by other games.
The 2014 mobile game purporting to be Dungeon Keeper might not be the worst free-to-play mobile game ever made. It may not even be the worst free-to-play mobile game released in the last couple of months. Dungeon Keeper represents much more than itself. It shows how broken the mobile market is. Whether it was called Dungeon Keeper or Crypt Master or Confrontation of Demons, it would still be an abomination of a game when it’s not there to entertain but to panhandle.
But enough of what I think. Let’s see what the critics have to say.
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World Cyber Games Ending World Finals Tournaments
One of the longest standing and most prestigious tournaments in eSports has quietly shut its doors. The World Cyber Games, designed as a sort of Olympics equivalent for eSports, will no longer be running any tournaments and is not holding the annual WCG final going forward.
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Marvel Comics Legend John Romita Jr. Moves to DC Comics to Draw Superman
Normally, the movement of artists and writers from one publisher to another isn’t big headline news in the comic industry. However, most days don’t see the movement of a near 40-year veteran of the industry from one major player to the other big player.
John Romita Jr. has been working for Marvel Comics since 1978 with long stints drawing Iron Man, Spider-man and the X-Men. Now, he’s going to get a chance to draw the most iconic comic book superhero in the world. Romita is making the jump to DC Comics to draw Superman.
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