July
This month, our newest writer Amy laid down the law when it came to posting stuff via social media. We posted our thoughts on the new Spotify service and Google+ while Rob was totally hot for Harry Potter (the movie series, not the dude). Kelly was able to chat it up with Dave Feldman, the point man for last year’s TechCrunch redesign.
August
While we’d done some video features before, this was a huge month for gaming as we broke out the gameplay footage for the XBLA god game From Dust, Metroid-style floating UFO shooter Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, and we revisited Minecraft in a huge way. Rob let us know how much microtransactions suck and prepared us for the impending zombie apocalypse with a mammoth tome while Kelly got to chat with Alvin Samuels, the casino guy behind the Livin De Life video, which still seems slightly creepy.
September
This month was something else. First we only gave you two articles in the entire first six days of the month (but we did warn you about Kevin Smith’s atrocious Red State!) and finish the month with a bang. Rob did wonder where Discovery Channel’s show “The Colony” vanished to as he pondered aloud how awesome Gears of War 3 was, but then the social media hangover began. First we cautioned you about the huge whine that would come from the new Facebook redesign (because it happens all the time), we let you know that Google+ was screwed in their mere attempt to play catch up to Facebook, then Rob set you up with the fact that Facebook wasn’t going to be charging squat to use their service, which brought a lot of people into the FleshEatingZipper corral! Many of you stayed, so thanks! Did you need to know about the coolest spaceships in science fiction? We had ya there, too! Johnny also wanted you to know that the Zooey Deschanel’s show on Fox was pretty lame and we weren’t hot on the Battlefield 3 beta even though, just as with Duke months earlier, people were apologizing for the game’s supposed “early state” when what we played is pretty much how it shipped. You don’t get apologies for being right.
October
The Fire rained down early on in October. I’m talking about the Kindle Fire, that is! We wondered about Chris Brown’s taste in women (or not…?) and we launched our forums for you to discuss stuff in! I sat and watched all six Star Wars films back to back (which totally wrecked my sleeping schedule, let me tell ya) and Johnny let you know that the Mango Windows Phone update was just fine. Newest writer Brandon gives us a look at the super-creepy Amnesia and Rob kept the Sons of Anarchy train rolling with weekly reports on each new episode. Tragically, weeks after we posted an article critical of social network startup Diaspora’s lack of progress, co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy committed suicide, purportedly under the stress of trying to build a vaunted “Facebook-killer”.
I spent some time working on a video review for id’s Rage and we were hot and cold for Siri and the iPhone 4S announcement. Then, of course, Verizon and Google would turn around and announce Android superphones in the Droid RAZR and Galaxy Nexus while we were cold on Windows Phone’s future. If you listened to October’s Monthly Caucus, you’d hear the heated debate over the OWS protest. Go now and listen, it’s great! Johnny wasn’t hot on the new season of Dexter, but we all loved the return of The Walking Dead. Keith was rudely inconvenienced by Steve Job’s tragic death (I liked the book, though!), we wondered what the heck that Chronicle movie was about (even getting a shoutout on the movie’s Facebook page, holla!), I let you know about Paranormal Activity 3, Amy let you know about Yarny before disappearing into the National Novel Writing Month trials, and we thought about Zynga’s future.
November
SKYRIM. SKYRIM. SKYRIM. SKYRIM. SKYRIM. SKYRIM. SKYRIM. SKYRIM. SKYRIM. SKYRIM. SKYRIM. Also, stuff about Modern Warfare 3 and Saints Row: The Third, but whatever.
When we weren’t playing Skyrim, Johnny pondered Project Accessory, I was floored by how completely disappointing Fusion: Genesis and the newest PlayStation Home were just as I spent a week reflecting on the tenth anniversary of Microsoft’s Xbox console, the single piece of hardware that brought us together to form FleshEatingZipper in the first place. Guest writer Kyle loved the new Childish Gambino disc (which Pitchfork would go on to trash), we warned about SOPA, To close the month out, Johnny pitched us on how to get Nic Cage involved in your next film, because he’s going to be playing me when our version of “The Social Network” goes up.
December
Phew, so after all that Skyrim, we realized that concurrent to the announcement of the new Mists of Panderia expansion, Blizzard had lost quite a few World of Warcraft customers. It was bound to happen sooner or later, considering how old the game is now and stiff competition from the pretty darn good Star Wars: The Old Republic that we gave a chunk of coverage to toward the end of the year. I’m going to give my thoughts on it some day because of my tenuous relationship with MMOs, but it was a pain to install. Brandon gave us a quick look of Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich on his Nexus S while I warned everyone to not buy the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon (then subsequently bought it, anyway). Did you know that Half-Life 3 is impossible? Because I sure did!
We ended up loving Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Scrivener for Mac, and Google Wallet and hating SOPA sooooooo much.
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