The Office Now In Its Final Season, Thank God
This show is still on.
I didn’t start watching the US version of The Office until the fifth season and that was only because I needed something to fill my Hulu queue. I’d been interested in picking up the previous seasons on DVD for ages and the online service finally gave me a (free) reason to get into the series. I hate TV, but I love The Office. Loved The Office, really.
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Jelly Bean OTA Update Finally Arrives On Verizon’s Galaxy Nexus
Jelly Bean, baby!
I’d been pondering for the past few weeks whether I wanted to root my Galaxy Nexus, slap on Clockwork Mod, find a good Jelly Bean ROM, and then go through the hassle of re-downloading all my apps and changing all my preferences. This morning as I woke up, I was spared such a fate when my phone woke me up with a system update, JRO30O in particular, right over the air. Within ten minutes, my phone was in Jelly Bean land, finally.
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End of Watch Review: Another Day in Hell
Yeah, I’m pretty sure nothing good can come of this…
Is this really the fantastic weekend for movies that I think it is or am I just in an unseasonably good mood? End of Watch from writer/director David Ayer is another fantastic movie that was somehow released in the traditional cinematic dumping ground of September. Yesterday, I gave a high rating to Dredd for being an exhilarating throwback to the great action movies of the ‘80s; today, I’m giving a positive review to End of Watch for being almost the complete opposite of Dredd. If Dredd excelled at presenting pure fantasy to movie goers, End of Watch excels at pulling movie goers into a gritty, realistic world.
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Dredd 3D Review: Judgment Has Never Been So Awesome
You’re goddamn right that judgment is coming.
After seeing Dredd, I’m tempted to take back every negative thing I’ve said about the month of September. Yeah, I’ve spent the last few weeks subjecting myself to terrible movies, but then along comes this little gem, a gem that gives me the same giddy excitement I felt when I saw the original Robocop as a kid. Dredd is an unpretentious, super-violent, super-fun, blood-and-guts thrill ride. Oh, and it’s also the best comic book movie of the year.
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Guild Wars 2 Review: Re-Invention This Isn’t, But I Still Like It
Nothing like running around as a horned, four-eared bipedal cat monster deploying turrets!
Anyone who has played MMO’s in recent years can tell you that they’ve been… less than on-par in the quality department, from the tried-and-true WoW clones or repeats of City of Heroes, to the different but somewhat inaccessible EVE Online and Maple Story, to unique but less-than-visible games like Vindictus , Dungeon Fighter Online, or even The Secret World, all of which want to bring something new to this market, but haven’t had the chops to make it happen. Read the rest of this article…
Kickstarter Wants You to Know Projects Fail, They’re Not a Store
Not a store!
Iron Sky Review: Space Nazis On The Moon? Okay!
No, it’s not Sky Captain…
Well, this is a weird one. In the first moments of Iron Sky, a pair of astronauts land on the moon and as they survey the landscape (sorry, moonscape) they come under fire by moon Nazis. Thus sets off two storylines: a Sarah Palin-esque President of 2018 is mad that her botched moon landing might cost her the election and the simultaneous unveiling of an entire Nazi society that has thrived on the moon since they left the Earth at the end of WWII. Yeah.
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Planetside 2 Player’s Guide – The Basics
My boys with the NC are locking it down!
Hey folks! We’ve been deep into the Planetside 2 beta for quite a while now and I know that a lot of the people who are new to the game tend to be faced with a bit of a learning curve. Since there is no real documentation laid out yet, I figured I’d sit down and write up a short guide as a primer for all of you who are new and those of you who will be joining the beta in the weeks to come.
Hope this helps all of you!
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Home Review: Intimate Indie Horror For The Price Of A Gordita
Humble graphics frame a grisly story.
It’s super easy to play off Home’s humble visual motif. Haha, that guy in the masthead looks like a crappy version of Mario, how can it possibly generate the creeps? Assembled by Benjamin Davis and available for $2.99 on Steam (admittedly, I don’t know the street value of a Gordita off-hand, but it has to be close to that), Home is a classically-trained creepfest well worth your dollars.
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Train Simulator 2013 Now Available. ALL ABOARD!
Get your Choo-Choo on!
When I was a kid, I had a couple of model train sets, a hobby which was inspired by that of my father, who had built a massive model train set when he was younger. I was never into it to the point that he was and never built anything even remotely as colossal or intricate as the things he had done but I did like building new sets and patterns and running my trains around the tracks.
That’s right, I had toy trains. And they were fun. I think they would have been more fun if I’d actually been inside them, driving them and hauling ass all over the place. Well, now kids all over the world can live that dream.
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