Since we’re less than three weeks from Christmas, I thought it was time to get into the spirit of the season. I’ve turned the fake snow on (though you’re probably seeing more than enough outside) and I have a Star Trek: The Next Generation Christmas carol for you. A Christmas classic sung by Patrick Stewart? Make it so!
7 Best Games of the 7th Generation: Mass Effect Trilogy
Last week, when talking about Skyrim, I mentioned that a number of games outside the RPG genre incorporated elements of RPGs into their games. These included things like skill points, customization, inventory systems, questing, deep stories, dialogue tree and more of the classic RPG tricks.
This week’s entry into the 7 Best may have started life as being a bit more of an RPG than a third-person shooter but evolved into a third-person shooter that retained the strong influence of RPGs. Of course, if I boiled down the Mass Effect Trilogy to a series of gameplay mechanics and the evolution of the mechanics, I’d be missing the whole point of the franchise. Mass Effect’s strong suit and its claim to fame is the story.
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Gal Gadot Cast as Wonder Woman in Batman vs. Superman
I’m not sure that there’s a more impossible role in the world of film to cast than Wonder Woman. Seeing as she is an Amazonian princess who is tall, muscular and attractive, there aren’t many actresses that can fit the bill who are good actresses. However, Zack Snyder is giving Wonder Woman a go on the big screen and has cast Gal Gadot in the role of Wonder Woman/Diana Prince.
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2013 VGX Nominations And Predictions
I have an annual tradition over on my other blog, The Lowdown Blog, which involves me going through the annual Spike TV Video Game Award nominees and predicting the winners and telling you who I would vote for if I had a ballot. Since the now-rechristened VGX awards are only online, I was considering dropping the whole thing but who am I to argue with tradition?
While I’m not a fan of the VGX format of shameless promotion interrupted by the occasional award and burning through 80% of the awards either in a big list before a commercial or a big list when announcing that a given game won another award, it is probably the most mainstream of award shows (even if it’s been pulled from TV) so it’s probably worth giving a bit of attention to.
So let’s take a look at the 2013 group of VGX nominees and pick out some winners intermixed with a few rants about this awards show.
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Gaikai Game Streaming Coming to PS4 in 2014
When Sony bought the Gaikai game streaming service earlier last year and announced this year that it would be used to add backwards compatibility to the PlayStation 4, it certainly got people’s attention. Neither the PS4 nor the Xbox One offered native backwards compatibility and, properly implemented, using Gaikai could give Sony a leg up in the console war.
Now, Sony Computer Entertainment President Andrew House says that we can expect Gaikai to be rolled out starting in 2014.
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Why Do You Get a Fever?
We don’t do sciency posts here very often but I figured that this is something that you need to see. With winter already here, chances are that you’re going to get a cold at some point and it’s likely to come with a fever. So why does that happen? Greg from Head Squeeze has the answer for you.
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Building (Critical) Consensus: Tearaway
Did you know that LittleBigPlanet was the first game developed by Media Molecule? LBP was one of the best games released on the PlayStation 3 and LBP2 really showed the potential of the PlayStation 3 and the PS3’s “Play. Create. Share.” line of games. Of course, leave it to Media Molecule to also make a must-own title for Sony’s PlayStation Vita handheld console.
According to critics, Tearaway has vaulted to the top of the list of must-own Vita games. Considering that the most common complaint about the Vita is a lack of worthwhile exclusives, Tearaway certainly makes a case that you don’t need to tie into a big PlayStation franchise to be a good Vita game. Critics loved the charm and the way the game used just about every aspect of the Vita.
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The PS4 Has Already Outsold the Wii U in the UK
I don’t want to sound like I’m slagging off Nintendo but this news should really worry some people back in Japan. In its first weekend on the market in the UK, the PlayStation 4 is already the top-selling next-gen console having beaten both the Xbox One and Wii U.
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Comic Book Pull List for December 4, 2013
It’s time for the first pull list of the month of December and it’s Marvel leading things off in both a good and bad way. One week after we read the conclusion of Marvel’s Infinity cross-over event, we get another big Avengers event starting in Inhumanity #1. The other notable Marvel release is one that I was warned about by one of the clerk’s at my local comic book shop. He mentioned Marvel was going to cash in on Amazing Spider-Man #700 by releasing special decimaled issues of Amazing Spider-Man. This first is out this week with Amazing Spider-Man #700.1.
Elsewhere, we have a debut and a conclusion for you this week. Debuting is a new Terminator series that chronicles the end of the Machine War, something that will no doubt be of massive interest to Terminator fans, in Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle #1. And The Mocking Dead miniseries wraps up this week. I suppose mocking zombie shows was a bit more fun when The Walking Dead still sucked. At least we got the final confrontation with The Governor, even if it was eight episodes too late.
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Amazon Planning to Introduce Delivery by Drones
When you think of America and drones, you tend to think of the ones that the American military uses to drop bombs on unsuspecting targets. However, Amazon wants to change your perception of unmanned flying drones by using them to deliver packages to Amazon Prime customers.
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