He might not be Tony Stark but I don’t think that means that Robert Downey Jr. is any less cool than Tony Stark. As a gift for wrapping Avengers, RDJ’s staff got him a custom-built life-size R/C flying Iron Man suit. Okay, it’s not an actual suit of armor but I think that’s still pretty cool.
Real World Racing Review: Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow
The four-stroke engine in your car goes through four phases in order to produce power. They’re colloquially referred to as suck, squeeze, bang and blow. Conveniently enough, you could say that each of the four strokes of the four-stroke engine accurately describes the recently released indie racing game Real World Racing. Unfortunately, I don’t say that because of how real the racing is.
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Comic Book Pull List for October 2, 2013
Here’s something cool from Dark Horse. They’re starting a #1 for $1 promotion and are starting with Star Wars #1 for only $1. If you missed that issue, and it was easy to considering how popular that issue and series is, you’ll want jump on this deal if you don’t already have a copy. And there’s also The Star Wars #2 for Star Wars fans looking for a new/old comic this week.
Meanwhile, in the DC-verse, Villains Month may be over but that doesn’t mean that things are back to normal. Villains still control the Earth but the Teen Titans are leading the fight back in Forever Evil #2. If you’re looking for something a bit off the beaten path, classic pulp hero The Shadow is getting a series set in modern times with the launch of Shadow Now #1.
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Killzone Shadow Fall is a 50 GB Download, Next-Gen to Destroy Your Bandwidth Cap
After seeing the latest bit of news on the size of PS4 launch title Killzone Shadow Fall, I think we should all consider ourselves, and our wallets, lucky that both Sony and Microsoft are sticking with games on discs for the next generation of video game consoles.
Sony Computer Entertainment UK revealed that the digital download of Killzone Shadow Fall will be a 50 GB download. For comparison, that’s almost twice the size of The Last of Us and about 10% of the PS4’s hard drive capacity.
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Haven: Bad Blood Review
We’ve finally got some progress in Haven this week. Sure, life with Nathan might be same old, same old but the other main players saw their story progress. All it took was a cheesy horror movie monster that was neither cheesy or horrific to move things on the Duke front while Jennifer and Audrey got some properly interesting moments this week.
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Valve Makes the First Controller Innovation in 16 Years with the Steam Controller
In 1997, Sony completely changed the way that controllers were designed and console games were played with the launch of the Dual Analog controllers. From there, we’ve seen some tweaks to controller design but very little in meaningful controller innovation outside of the recent move to motion controls.
While Valve’s announcement of Steam Machines was a bit underwhelming, their third announcement was a definite game changer. Their new Steam Controller looks to be the first big change in controller design in the last sixteen years.
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Geek Links of the Week
Wednesday, we mentioned that YouTube was overhauling its comment section to clean things up. Pop Sci is doing the opposite. They’re shutting down their comments to clean it up. [Popular Science]
You may not know that Valve operates using a fairly unusual flat organizational structure. It’s very much different from what the other big players in the industry use. [BBC News]
I’ve been banging on about game ratings and parental intervention lately. It’s not just me either. This retailer is concerned about who parents are buying for too. [Kotaku]
Looking for some free PC games to pad out your non-console gaming collection? PC Gamer has you covered. [PC Gamer]
Are you a soccer fan who has a PS Vita or Nintendo 3DS? For the love of god, DON’T BUY FIFA 14 FOR THOSE CONSOLES! FIFA 14 for Vita and 3DS is just a roster update of last year’s edition. [GearNuke]
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EA Sports Cancels College Football 15, Settles Lawsuit
People looking forward to the next installment of EA Sports’ annual college football franchise will just have to do the annual roster update themselves. EA has cancelled next year’s edition of EA Sports College Football (formerly NCAA Football) and may be cancelling the franchise altogether as a result of player likeness lawsuits and licensing withdrawals by the NCAA and some of it member conferences.
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AMD Goes Big with Mantle API and Next-Gen GPU Announcement
Rumours ahead of Wednesday’s announcement by AMD at their GPU14 Tech Day event said that AMD was going to be unveiling something that would top NVIDIA’s flagship Titan graphics card at less than the price of the GTX 780. Not only is AMD taking the fight to NVIDIA but they’re also going after DirectX by trying to bring console-level graphics optimization to the PC.
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Dark Horse is Launching a New Firefly Comic Series
For all the talk about movie sequels and Netflix TV series revivals, we haven’t had any more Firefly. But, as we all know, you can’t stop the signal and no power in the verse can stop Firefly. Browncoats looking for more Firefly will be getting that from an upcoming comic series published by Dark Horse Comics.
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