The Art Of Video Games – Heading to EMP In February 2013
Art inside of art. How artsy!
A while back, we wrote about the art of video games and revealed that it would be leaving The Smithsonian and traveling the country – moving from museum to museum over the next several years. Now, we’ve been told that it will be at EMP, starting in Feb of 2013.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops II Teams Up With YouTube to Bring In-Game Live Streaming
Getting my ass kicked by 12 year olds will be streamed for the world to see.
EA announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops II’s new live streaming feature, available when the game launches on November 13th, will let players live stream gameplay on YouTube directly from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game consoles. This is a first for consoles. Last week Sony Online Entertainment announced live streaming PlanetSide 2 through Twitch.TV. Read the rest of this article…
Star Wars: The Old Republic Finally Goes Free Next Thursday, End Of Long, Sad Journey
Pew, pew, pew…
Bioware has finally announced its plans for what will become of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Earlier this year, we reported on that it was going free to play after far less than a year following extremely disappointing sales. The game had a rocky start, had a rockier middle, and the conclusion seemed inevitable. So will players finally start joining in and make SWTOR another post-free-to-play success or will they continue to ignore the war between the Republic and the Sith? Read the rest of this article…
Four Master Chiefs, One Halo 4: Legendary Playthrough, Parts 1 & 2
Spaceships and planets!
Cody, Kelly, N, and Sam are well on their way through Halo 4 in their historic Legendary run! I mean, it’s not like anyone else on the internet is doing one of these, right?
Parts 1 & 2 – Parts 3 & 4 – Parts 5 & 6 – Parts 7 & 8 – Parts 9 & 10 – Conclusion
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Kids Have It So Easy: Hulu To Launch Ad-Free Kids Section
Seriously, they can just pick whatever they want and… criminy.
When we moved back to the States in 1991, my loving mother had created a list of cartoons to watch, plucked from individual channels. It was five consecutive hours of cartoons to watch on Saturday morning including Macaulay Culkin’s “Wish Kid”, MC Hammer’s “Hammer Time” and “Yo Yogi!”, all lined up before the news started. In the afternoons we’d have Turtles and Power Rangers and would otherwise have to spend our days outside, y’know, playing. Kids have it so easy these days, they just don’t understand, and now Hulu’s going to make it even easier.
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The Bay Review: Don’t Drink the Water!
Yes, that’s Kristen Connolly playing a reporter, and yes, that means this is another found footage movie from Oren Peli.
So imagine that it’s the Fourth of July in a little all-American town on the Chesapeake Bay. The people all conform to the stereotypes of apple-pie fed Middle America, being fat, white and complacent in their little American flag t-shirts and patriotic paraphernalia; there are parades, sparklers, eating contests, and dunking booths. The festivities are presided over by a slightly shady mayor, a local entrepreneur who is aggressively pro-business; he’s probably a Republican, but he’s friendly enough. Everything is about as perfect as you could imagine. And then people start puking blood. Entire families begin developing lesions and boils on their arms, backs, and legs. People’s stomachs and faces begin bursting open and cockroaches the size of tennis balls crawl out. That sounds like one hell of a Fourth of July celebration, but it also happens to describe the new ecological horror flick from director Barry Levinson.
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Kim Dotcom Can’t Catch a Break, Me.ga Domain Seized
Mega issues, amirite?
After recently revealing the domain for the new cloud storage service, Mega. Communication Minister Blaise Louembe of Gabon, the country that controls the domain, has suspended it saying, “Gabon cannot serve as a platform or screen for committing acts aimed at violating copyrights, nor be used by unscrupulous people.” The domain seems to work on and off for me. I might be hitting cached servers but it redirects here. Read the rest of this article…
‘Red Rain’ Review: R.L. Stine Shakes The Goosebumps, Goes For Adult Horror
Look at me hold this book!
R.L. Stine has been dubbed the “Stephen King of children’s literature” with his Goosebumps and Fear Street book series. Now he has taken to uncharted lands, the world of adult horror. This isn’t the first time R.L. Stine has written outside of those two franchises, his book “Temptation” contains his works “Goodnight Kiss 1”, “Goodnight Kiss 2”, and “The Vampire Club”. All copywritten in 1992, 1996, and 1997 respectively. However Many still view that series of books as children books regardless.
R.L. Stine has written a new book “Red Rain” and it’s no children’s book. As a child I remember reading Goosebumps which had scary situations, never extremely violent, no curse words, and never any sex. “Red Rain” is extremely violent, has sex, and plenty of cursing.
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Planetside 2 Items – Station Cash Purchase Prices Announced? Pay To Win?
mmmmmm…Tasty Sidegrades!
Prices, yes. Pay to win? We’ll talk about that, too. This morning, John Smedley had a chat with a few people on twitter regarding the pricing tiers for buying items in their upcoming free-to-play MMOFPS Planetside 2. In that chat he revealed that there will be pricing tiers based (presumably) on the type of item, similar to the different cert-point tiers for unlocking those items with cert points.
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Xbox SmartGlass Now Available for iPhone & iPad
No lie.
Yay. Now I have SmartGlass for my iPhone! I still haven’t played a game that has used SmartGlass but I’m excited for when it will eventually happen! Well I haven’t tried it for watching any video or playing music so I guess it’s not entirely Microsoft’s fault for not giving me something to use it on. I can see my using my phone as a mouse pad to work with Internet Explorer more than I could using a tablet. Read the rest of this article…
