When it comes to fan-made trailers, there is no one better than Luke Ritson. Back in August, we featured his take on a BioShock Infinite trailer. This time out, he has a trailer for Grand Theft Auto V that focuses on all three of the game’s playable characters and The Boss added in for good measure. Seriously, someone get this guy a job.
Goat Simulator Review: G.O.A.T.Y.
Is a comedy game that’s openly considered to be a joke by its own developer and much of the gaming press something that’s a meta joke that also happens to be a game or just a joke that isn’t worth the time and money to buy and play it?
If you’ve read other reviews of Goat Simulator, that’s what they all come down to, whether the reviewer says so or not. Should a game that the developer says is a comparative waste of money be evaluated based on the developer’s promises and description of the game or should it be evaluated against every other game on the market?
The answer has to lie somewhere in the middle ground. Can you punish a game for being a below average technical effort while being exactly what was promised by the devs and hoped for by gamers?
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What You Need to Know About the Heartbleed Bug
The big tech news of the week has been a security loophole that could be affecting some of your favourite websites and could be resulting in the leak of your confidential data. A security bug in SSL encryption called Heartbleed allows malicious users to potentially gain access to data that you’d rather keep private.
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Star Wars: Episode VII Starts Shooting but Casting is Still Ongoing
Casting may not be done yet and the script hasn’t been finalized but it sounds like shooting is already underway for the next chapter in the Star Wars saga. Disney Studios Chairman, Alan Horn, says that filming has begun on Star Wars: Episode VII.
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LucasArts Cancelled a Darth Maul Game in 2011 After Eight Months in Development
One of the many characters that got a bit overlooked in the films and rose to life as a fan favourite game and with some new adventures in the Expanded Universe was Darth Maul. He was so popular that he was retconned out of death and into the Clone Wars animated series by the end of its run.
However, that wasn’t always the plan. A report in Game Informer says that LucasArts originally planned to make a game starring Darth Maul before it was cancelled by LucasArts while it was in the middle of development.
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Hotline Miami 2 Brings the Blood in its New Trailer
One of games on my list of the most anticipated games of 2014 has a new trailer. As you would expect, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is going to bring pain and blood and violence in copious amounts and the first gameplay trailer for HM2 is no different.
The most interesting thing from it is some of the special abilities that the characters seem to have. One can dodge. Another has a dodge move to keep you from being turned into Sonny Corleone. And the other is actually synchronized twins. Hopefully you can choose your character in each mission to help mix things up and add some replayability to the game.
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Comcast Named Worst Company in America, Celebrates by Merging with TWC
Timing is everything, especially in irony. Yesterday, Comcast was announced as the winner of The Consumerist’s annual Worst Company in America poll. On that same day, they filed their paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission to begin the process of merging with Time Warner Cable.
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Comic Book Pull List for April 9, 2014
Guess who’s back? It’s Flash Gordon! The classic hero is back with a new series in Flash Gordon #1. It’s funny because I hadn’t heard the name Flash Gordon until I got my driver’s licence renewed. The woman at the counter tells me not to smile for the picture and says, “Look straight ahead, directly at the flash… Gordon.” Well, I barely get through the picture before cracking up. She very nearly cost me the time of taking another picture. See, not all people working those jobs have had their souls sucked out.
Over at Marvel, they celebrate the 50th anniversary of Daredevil by celebrating Matt Murdoch’s 50th birthday in the standalone Daredevil #1.50. And Batman gets a new Scott Snyder penned series that will consist of 60 issues and run weekly for at least the next twelve weeks. Brace your wallets for Batman Eternal #1.
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GameSpy Multiplayer Shutting Down in May
If you were a gamer in the 2000s, chances are that the most precious login you had wasn’t your Steam ID or your favourite forums but your GameSpy login. Now, with the rise of Steam, Origin, Uplay and all sorts of other server setups for online gaming, new games with GameSpy multiplayer are non-existent.
However, for people who still pick up older games every now and then and play a few pick-up multiplayer games, that may change in less than two months. GameSpy multiplayer servers will be shutting down on May 31st.
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Game of Thrones: Two Swords Review
Game of Thrones came back with an epic episode on Sunday night to kick off its fourth season and the second of two seasons based on George R. R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords. After the mind-blowing (for people who didn’t read the books) conclusion to last season, there were a lot of plot threads that needed resolving. That’ll take the whole season and has some new storylines added in for good measure.
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