Remember when Phil Fish said that PCs are for spreadsheets? Now that Fez has a PC port, Steam user McKack put a new spin of Fish’s infamous comments with some spreadsheet-based fan art. I love it. The fan art’s pretty good too.
How to Find Your Perfect Game (Infographic)
If you frequently visit us here at etg, you know we’re definitely fans of two things: Video games and cool infographics. So how about we combine the two? We found this rather extensive flow chart of an infographic that asks you a few questions and pumps out the perfect game for you to play. I tried it and it gave me Knights of the Old Republic. I’d say that it does an okay job of things.
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Wolfenstein Gets “Reimagined” Because We’re Short on New IP
Sorry, that title isn’t too cynical, is it? I’m just getting a little tired of sequels and reboots. If you ask me why I’m intrigued by Remember Me, even though it’s being published by Capcom, it’s because it’s a brand new IP and we just aren’t getting very many solid new games. We’re getting a lot of sequels and reboots but brand new IPs are in short supply.
And that brings me to the recently announced “Wolfenstein: The New Order.” Bethesda announced it by touting it as a “reimagining” of the iconic FPS franchise that has been with us for over 30 years since the original Castle Wolfenstein.
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Comic Book Pull List for May 8, 2013
I’m a bit ashamed to admit that I missed Free Comic Book day this weekend. I was a bit busy with things around the house. Some of that will be revealed in the near future by which I mean hopefully by the end of the month.
In the meantime, here are my picks for the week. Dark Horse brings back X for a miniseries. The masked vigilante had a 25 issue run back in the mid-90s and gets a four issue run over the summer. The Justice League of America is back this month with Justice League of America #3. Apparently, we’re getting another JLA in two weeks and one each in June and July. Plan your buying accordingly. And to mix things up with my last pick, go grab a copy of Deadpool #9. Why not? It’s Deadpool.
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Protect Yourself from the Space Zombie Apocalypse with Your Own Plasma Cutter
In addition to the unique necromorph killing mechanics of the Dead Space franchise, the games introduced some pretty unique weapons. The most iconic of these weapons is the plasma cutter, a mining tool that just happens to be very effective at dismembering the pesky space zombies.
Well, laser gadget aficionado Patrick Priebe has constructed his own plasma cutter for fun and use in any future zombie apocalypses. It pivots. It fires lasers. Short of taking the scythe-like arm off of a necromorph, it looks like the real deal.
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EA Gets the Star Wars Games Licence, Fans Worry
“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.” – Obi-Wan Kenobi
When they closed LucasArts, Disney said that they would license out Star Wars to other developers to make games. Well, they’ve gone ahead with that plan just one month after closing down LucasFilm’s in-house game developer and publisher.
Yesterday, Disney announced that EA was awarded a “multi-year exclusive licensing agreement” to develop and publish Star Wars games.
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Reports Say YouTube is Launching Paid Subscriptions
Last week, we mentioned that Facebook was planning to supplement its revenue by launching a paid private messaging service. Now, reports suggest that YouTube could be launching its own new paid service to put some more money in Google’s pockets.
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Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror Review
This week’s episode of Doctor Who was the 100th since the show’s return in 2005. While most series would celebrate that milestone, the BBC and Doctor Who boss Steven Moffat let this one pass without much fanfare. Makes sense seeing as there’s a big 50th anniversary special coming in November.
That doesn’t mean that we didn’t get a special episode of Doctor Who, even if it wasn’t billed as such. What we got was, slightly ironically, an episode that started Doctor-lite but still ended up being the best of the Clara episodes since Jenna-Louise Coleman joined the series full-time.
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Geek Links of the Week
This summer’s World War Z movie as all the markings of an unmitigated disaster. Vanity Fair looks at the massive re-write and re-shoot to try to make the movie actually make sense. [Vanity Fair]
AOL killed off its popular Comics Alliances site this week. Is this the beginning of the end for comic book blogging or is the end of blogging for profit already here and we’re all just hanging for dear life? [Comic Beat]
The Thief reboot by Eidos Montreal got a lot of people excited but it has been nothing but an unmitigated disaster behind the scenes. [Polygon]
Speaking of thieves, the creators of the Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat memes are suing Warner Bros. and 5th Cell over the inclusion of said memes in Scribblenauts Unlimited. So, do you back the folks who let anyone use their memes any other time or the people who are constantly coming down hard on thieves but are basically intellectual property thieves themselves? [Destructoid]
Facebook is going to start charging you to message people you aren’t friends with and gouge you should you message famous people on Facebook. They are the evil empire. [BuzzFeed]
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Game of Pokemon
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I quite enjoy making my Friday Game of Thrones hype posts. Mind you, I haven’t done it as much lately and the last couple of episodes have been absolutely stellar so I hope I’m not jinxing things. Anyway, today’s GoT post is a Pokemon mashup. What would happen if you made House sigils using Pokemon? […]
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