Call of Duty Elite Will be Free for Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Call of Duty Elite Website.
Last year Call of Duty Elite was created in conjunction with the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. This Elite service at $50 gave you one year of premium features online. The features included being able to track your career and stats for MW3 and previous Call of Duty titles, change your load-out classes and create/manage clans, access to DLC a week in advance and also not have to pay for the DLC. There were some other premiums features like Friday Night Fights. Read the rest of this article…
New Sci-Fi Horror Game ‘Routine’ Digs The Eighties, Oculus Rift Support
There’s nothing routine here!
What if they made a game out of Duncan Jones’ Moon? What if it had all the same tantalizing, horrific traits that made System Shock 2 and Dead Space so freakish? Well, that’s what we’re getting out of next year’s Routine. You’re arrived at the Lunar Research Station to explore what happened to the inhabitants there who have suddenly disappeared. More details and teaser video below!
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Listen To Shiny Toy Guns’ New Album – III – Right Now
Superman would be proud.
It’s been a long time coming for the synth-rock quartet Shiny Toy Guns, but their newest album, their third, even, is dropping in nine days. Ahead of the drop, they’ve made the entire disc available for streaming. After two confidence-mining, soft singles (here and here, although technically three when you figure in last year’s “The Sun”), listening to the full album restore some of my faith. It’s too early to render any verdicts, so I’ll link it for you below.
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Notch Doesn’t Know What 0x10c Is, But I Want It
Want to shoot a planet? GO AHEAD.
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that the new game from Markus “Notch” Persson, the technical crazy man who also brought us Minecraft, is still largely up in the air. While still largely the space sim that he’d originally presented it as, it’s clear that no one knows how big the game is or what one actually does. We’ve got the first art test included below. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what the game becomes, I’ll be there on day one.
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Why Haven’t You Bought A Wii, Yet? Price Dropping to $129.99
Yay, it comes with the same games you’ve already been playing at a friend’s house.
Today Nintendo announced that they were bringing their once-monstrous selling hardware down a notch in the price department. Starting at $129.99, you can now get a bundled console with Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort, the former being bundled since inception. Is this the time for you to buy a Wii? Because you should do it, before it’s too late.
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Argo Review: So Unbelievable It Has to Be True
Drink up, guys. You’ve made an awesome movie.
With Gone Baby Gone, writer/director/producer/actor Ben Affleck showed that he could stand behind the camera and direct a competent film. With The Town, he showed that his first feature wasn’t a fluke, that he was actually a good director. With Argo, Ben Affleck comfortably joins the ranks of America’s best living filmmakers and easily outpaces any other actor/director currently working in Hollywood. Forget Robert Redford, George Clooney, or Clint Eastwood. Based on his first three movies now, Ben Affleck has been remarkably more consistent at turning in great movies than any other actor/director this side of Cassavetes. Argo is one of the best all around pictures of the year, benefiting from a fantastic script, brilliant performances, and sure handed direction.
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Seven Psychopaths Review: Quentin Tarantino Meets Charlie Kaufman
Pictured: Two Psychopaths, one alcoholic, and one Shih Tzu.
In writer/director Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths, an alcoholic screenwriter (Colin Farrell) and his psychopathic buddy (Sam Rockwell) band together to write a screenplay titled “Seven Psychopaths.” Of course, since one of the co-writers is a free-spirited psychopath and the other is a self-pitying alcoholic, it doesn’t take long before they run afoul of a psychopathic gangster (Woody Harrelson). Christopher Walken, of course, balances out the cast as a pacifist psychopath, and Tom Waits turns up as a bunny-carrying psychopath. Why not?
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The Goon Hits Kickstarter
Cough up the money, ya cheap bastard.
There’s been a big announcement in the world of comic books, movies, and comic book movies, guys. Yesterday, David Fincher and Eric Powell took to Kickstarter to fund a demo-reel for their proposed feature film adaptation of The Goon, the most twisted, demented, inventive comic series around. It’s really hard to classify the series except to say that it’s a hodgepodge of ‘30s gangster flicks, B-horror movies, and slapstick comedies. In short, the comic series is a beautiful, manic piece of pop art.
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Halo 4 Might Have Been Leaked, Microsoft Investigating
Legit looking retail disc designs.
The above image appeared on the NeoGAF forums yesterday of what looks to be the final version of Halo 4 which is set to release on November 6th. People were quick to brush it off as reviewers getting early copies. We haven’t received a copy yet and I’m not seeing any other media outlets that have said they’ve received one either. So maybe one person out there some how got their hands on a copy of the game and that’s that. It doesn’t look like it though. Read the rest of this article…
YouTube Optimizes Search, Puts Engagement First
YouTube Creators Blog Logo
YouTube has been making some good headway, a couple of weeks ago they improved their appeals process for copyright infringement claims and now they have optimized the search to put engagement first. What does that mean exactly? Well before the search would return the most popular videos based on view count first. This meaning viral videos would easily be at the top of the search. Now with engagement it’s all about if people watch the video all the way through or not. Read the rest of this article…
