Rock Band Blitz Review: A Successful Riff On The Series
I’ve got two analog sticks and a Miley Cyrus track.
It’s hard to believe it’s been four years since music games peaked, and I remember when it happened. I was working at Best Buy and when holiday rolled around, we spent hours receiving, unpacking, stacking, and sorting thousands of bulky plastic instrument kits for four different platforms. It was a pain in the ass. But while my retail life got easier when their popularity subsided, many developers lost their jobs when that talent pool wasn’t required anymore. On cooling Rock Band sales, Harmonix stole the Kinect limelight by coming up with the camera’s best game: Dance Central. But they haven’t left their Rock Band legacy behind and Blitz is an incredibly clever reinvention of the mechanics you loved.
Tiny Troopers Now Available For Mac And PC
Want some? GET SOME!
Yearning to get your arcade style point and click shooter fix on? Look no further! Iceberg Interactive today announced the release of their new title “Tiny Troopers” which was seen at E3 and looks to be a LOT of fun any time you’ve got the hankering to get all commando on some fools.
Polygon’s New Polygon Documentary Could Not Be More Self-Serving
Making yourself the story goes against the AP-style journalism Polygon wants to emulate.
“It just wasn’t realistic to do a thing, like, building a site like Polygon, with the backing that we have, and making the content that we have. Everybody wants to do this, no one actually can because it’s just not possible.” – Russ Pitts, Features Editor, Polygon.
Planetside 2 Beta Blowing WIDE OPEN Today
It’s time to get some!
WHAT WHAT WHAT?! What just happened right now?! The Planetside 2 beta is opening to ALL priority keys today, that’s what!
Did you read that correctly? Did I TYPE that correctly? YES on both counts.
Songpop: The Latest And Greatest Facebook Fad
Are you having Zynga flashbacks? Because I am.
One way you can tell if a Facebook game is getting traction these days is to see it plastered all over your friends’ feeds. Insert Friend Here is playing This Game, Insert Friend Here did This in That Game. The latest to crawl up the threatmeter is Songpop, a sort of ultramodern Name That Tune for you and your friends in a structure not terribly dissimilar to Draw Something. But does anyone remember Draw Something? Exactly.
PlayStation 4 Rumored To Support 4K TVs: Crazy Or Stupid?
It’s a Retina Display for sure.
Before the Xbox 360 landed at the end of 2005 (yes, it’s been that long), all games rendered at a humble 640×480 pixels or less, the realm of standard definition. with the advent of more powerful hardware, developers were finally able to take advantage of high definition resolutions, namely 720p (which is what most games run at) and 1080p (the realm of Blu-ray). Well, rumor’s getting around now that Sony’s including 4K support, which is four times as many pixels as Full HD at 1080p, in their new console slated for release next year. Excessive, much?
Sony Online Entertainment Drops Another Planetside 2 Command Center
Higby and Isaac are at it again!
Here we go with another of the Planetside 2 command center videos. In this video we’re hearing from Creative Director Matt Higby and Senior Art Director Tramell Isaac as well as some developer chat about what’s going to be happening in Planetside 2.
They Talk a bit about China Joy, the Planetside 2 beta, interview Totalbuscuit and hit “fan spam”.
Goodbye, Nintendo Power
Mario will live on, his magazine will not.
If you were a Nintendo fan at the peak of their powers (think: late 80s, early 90s), then Nintendo Power was probably a fundamental piece of your gaming experience on a monthly basis. (Mine was PC Gamer, because, y’know.) Equal parts editorial, fan club fare, and strategy guide, Nintendo Power was one of the first major publications for gaming and a model for others to follow, like the official publications for PlayStation and Xbox. Well, times are changing and soon Nintendo Power will cease to exist.
Combiform – A New Take On Social Gaming (UPDATED)
It’s like Kinect without the embarrassing speech features.
Update: Due to internal changes with Combiform, they have decided to withdraw their Kickstarter Campaign to rework their product messaging. Don’t worry though, Combiform has told us that they are tweaking the product and message and will bring back the Kickstarter campaign very soon! We here at FleshEatingZipper wish them best of luck and look forward to seeing them back in action!
What is the first thought that comes to your mind when you see the words “social gaming” plastered on your computer screen? Typically you’ll think of Farmville or that stupid vampire game my friends keep requesting me to play. Combiform, a social gaming console, is about to change the way everyone thinks of gaming socially – for the better.
Can You Trust OnLive Now?
After the recent debacle, is OnLive trustworthy?
On Friday, we reported that OnLive wasn’t closing shop after word spread that people were packing up their things and leaving the office. Well, we were kinda right. Through a clever transfer of IPs, none of which were actually owned by OnLive, the company was actually shut down. In its place, a new company sprung up, named OnLive, entitled with the remaining assets of the original OnLive. The service, to the layman, will be completely unaffected. Confusing? Yep.
