Extra Life Prepares For Charity Marathon. So Should YOU!
Play Games, Heal Kids. That’s not just a slogan, it’s an order. Get to it!
The folks over at Extra Life, who run a charity in conjunction with the children’s miracle network, are ramping up for their annual charity gaming marathon, which begins tomorrow – October 20th, 2012 – and will run for 24 hours.
Extra Life is committed to helping sick children through their time of need and the charity has already raised millions of dollars for that purpose. Now, they aim to raise more.
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Planetside 2 Release Date Announced And Other News
It’s coming…SOON.
Sony Online Entertainment last night announced the official release date for Planetside 2, in their keynote address at SOE live. In that keynote address, they also handed out some great information regarding the future of the the game, once it is launched, and their plans to continue supporting it with content updates and expansions for years to come.
And the release date is…
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‘Paranormal Activity 4’ Review: They’re Not Even Trying Anymore
“HEY GUYS, DERPY DERPY DERP, I’M JUST MINDIN’ MY OWN BUSINESS, NO SCARES HERE.”
The Paranormal Activity series has become a shell of itself. Once a promising setup, these flicks are now a sequence of minutes copied and pasted from previous iterations with a few bits altered and characters changed to keep it fresh. The scariest part of the film was about two-thirds of the way through when I had to hold in a wet cough and I couldn’t find my cough drop, buried somewhere between my wallet and car keys. Then, when I had said cough drop, the movie was extremely quiet and I didn’t want to be that guy who was undoing the paper wrapper on his lozenge while the kid was wandering the house with a laptop in complete silence waiting for a jump scare.
As far as the movie goes, let me let Paramount’s President Of Movie Development explain how things are done.
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Google Wants Everyone to Have a Chromebook, Drops Prices to $249!
Even me? Even, you.
In an awesome move by Google, prices of Chromebooks will now be $249(.99) and you can pre-order yours today. What’s so awesome about that you may be asking? Well have you looked at the prices for current Chromebooks? They are about $500. I don’t know about you but I’m not going to drop that much for a Chromebook. I would drop $250 though. The first one is from Samsung and there are some minor differences between this one and the current models at double the cost. Read the rest of this article…
Own Interplay’s Greatest Games, Like Fallout, For Whatever Price You Want
I can’t tell you how many hours/days/weeks I’ve lost to these games.
One of the greatest features of PC gaming also happens to be one of its greatest guilt traps: cheap games available quickly. I own the first two Dead Space games and have put 45 minutes into them, total. I’ve bought others and still not put any time into them. I own so many games and don’t play them! Well now you have an opportunity to own even more games from the golden era of PC gaming with choose-your-price/Humble Bundle-style scheming. Should you be paying attention? You sure should, here’s why.
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‘Bioshock Infinite’s’ Stupid Awesome Limited Editions Are Stupid, Awesome
Look at all this crazy crap you can get!
Hey guys, look: I want Bioshock Infinite as much as you do, but I’m over “Limited”, “Collector’s” and “3D High-Definition Mega-Mighty Super-Big Commemorative Definitive Avant-Garde Collector’s High-Octane Ultra Lithium Titanium Extra Special Director’s Cut Signature Edition”s in all their excessive glory. Why? Because gaming has the bad end of the stick here. What would normally be fulfilling in a three or four-disc set for a movie with hours of sprawling documentaries about how they made it, is usually just crappy tchotckes when it comes to special editions for games. Well, next year’s big early release has two largely-similar pleasures for all your Americana-devouring nerdiness!
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ESA Foundation Awards 30 Scholarships To Aspiring Game Developers
Get to work writing me some new games, people!
The Entertainment Software Association Foundation (ESAF) has awarded 30 female and minority students, including high school seniors and currently enrolled full-time college students, scholarships which will be used to attain degrees in video-game related fields.
Oh LAWDY I love reporting news like this.
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Akaneiro: Demon Hunters Reveals Shigemori River
It’s hammer time.
Are you troubled by strange noises in the middle of the night? Do you experience feelings of dread in your hut, or tent? Have you or your village seen a monster, troll or a demon? If the answer is yes, then don’t wait another minute. Pick up your soft brush and write the professionals. “Akanerio: Demon Hunters”. Our ceremonious and sufficient swords are on call from the first division of the hour of the rabbit to the fourth division of the hour of the pig to serve all of your supernatural elimination needs. We’re ready to believe you!
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Opening Weekend Movie Trailer Round Up!
The quality of trailers you’re about to see.
It’s true what they say; trailers are the best part of the movie theater experience. Forget the over buttered popcorn that left you $10 poorer. Forget the movie you came to see. Movie trailers make the experience because most of the time, you’ll see a new one – and that’s exciting. Tonight, I’ll give you a little taste of that feeling with the trailers of this weekend’s opening movies.
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Google Shows Off Their Data Centers, Guarded by Stormtroopers
Inside Google’s Network Room, Council Bluffs, IA
Want to know what the “cloud” looks like? The mysterious place where all your precious email, photos, videos and bank information is stored? Well maybe not your bank information, yet, when Google starts up Google Bank then we can see that. Until then let’s take a look at some extremely high-res photos and video of Google’s data centers around the world. There are awesome stats and just plain awesomeness. Read the rest of this article…
