Newgrounds Begins Ad-Free Supporter Buy-In, Can They Best Penny Arcade?
Will Newgrounds’ experiment pick up where Penny Arcade’s fumbled?
You can’t really blame anyone else but Newgrounds, the black-and-gold hub for Flash movies and games, for getting in the spot they’re in. As founder Tom Fulp puts it in his plea to potential supporters, “expenses have grown while our traffic has stayed the same and ad revenue has gone down.” Having scared away virtually every ad network on the planet with the site’s dark themes and, at times, even darker content, Tom and the Newgrounds crew are now hoping that its fans will be willing to support the site directly through a new $25 “supporter” option that will remove ads from the site for a whole year. Sound familiar?
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The Borderlands 2 Launch Trailer
Pandora Just Got Real.
Gearbox today released the brand new release trailer for Borderlands 2 and we’re here to share it with you.
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LIFX is Looking to Reinvent the Light Bulb
What? How do you reinvent the light bulb you may ask yourself? LED’s, my good friend! I honestly don’t know why this hasn’t come around before, we have LED flashlights and LED headlights on our cars but we still stick with incandescent bulbs or CFL’s that are like super dangerous. Maybe people have tried LED light bulbs but they haven’t made any as cool and smart as these from LIFX. Read the rest of this article…
Black Mesa Source Review: A Welcome Re-Imagining
It’s a bit more than a new coat of paint…
It’s amazing to think back to 2004, nearly 8 years ago, when I made that purchase at Best Buy. G-man gave me a cold, analytical stare as I took up the box, put down my cash, and went home to play a game. It barely ran at 15 frames per second on my good ol’ Dell, yet still provided an excellent experience in the way that only a fantastically well-made game can. While we’re still waiting for the next installment, it’s always nice to return to past installments to fondly remember where it all began, and why we fell in love with this franchise. Sure, there are plenty of Source games out there delivering the goods in their own unique way: Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, and Portal are all unique franchises, and it’s hard not to love at least one of them. Read the rest of this article…
FTL Review: Think You Can Manage A Starship? Prove It.
This will be a common sight in your travels.
Kirk and Picard make it look so easy. Those guys lead crews of hundreds (or thousands) in their mutual goal of exploring strange new worlds and seeking out new civilizations. You, however, will have no such luck as you manage your small vessel with a crew of three or more, travelling from one end of the galaxy to the other with precious information on-board that the Federation (unrelated) wants. Of course, there’s a rebel force nibbling up the space behind your thrusters and your mission is in danger of failing at any moment. And it will fail. Over and over again.
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Resident Evil: Retribution Review: More Terrible Fan Fiction from Paul W.S. Anderson
See Alice. See Alice pose.
Every once in a while, I’ll catch Event Horizon or Resident Evil on television and think, “You know, Paul W.S. Anderson gets a bad rap; he’s not that awful.” Then I see a movie like Resident Evil: Retribution, and I’m firmly reminded that, yes, he is that awful. Resident Evil: Retribution is another episode in an unending stream of poorly conceived, stream-of-conscious fan fiction fresh from the mind of cinema’s most highly compensated hack.
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Finding Nemo 3D Review: Keep Swimming
“Fish are friends, not food.”
I have a confession to make: For all my love of all things Pixar (except Cars and Brave), I had never seen Finding Nemo until its 3D rerelease this weekend. I’m not entirely sure how I managed to miss this movie for nearly a decade, but it’s a great little family film. Everything we love about Pixar is present in this movie.
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Far Cry 3 Monkey Business Pack
Ok, normally I don’t care about pre-order incentives when you got to this place or this place. I usually just delete the email. Ubisoft did it right though with this exclusive pre-order incentive for GameStop. They got the guy who did the Honey Badger video to narrate this video and it just works. “Meet Hurk, an exclusive quest-giver that straps monkeys with explosives and sends them to blow-up his enemies. Now when you pre-order at GameStop for Xbox 360® or PlayStation®3, you’ll get four bonus missions and two multiplayer humiliations with Hurk and his monkeys. Watch the new trailer now, featuring Randall from the Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger.” Read the rest of this article…
First Video Dev Diary for Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour
Plan, Execute, Win.
The Hit WWII strategy game Hearts of Iron is getting its third expansion, on September 26th in the form of “Their Finest Hour”. The Risk-esqe title is getting a number of new tools, units and options added to it and the developers have released a nice video diary detailing some of the changes which are coming up. You can see that at the end of this article.
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Beyond The Black Rainbow Review: Aims High, Arcs Back Toward The Ground
A dramatic build-up with nowhere to go.
I really wanted to like this film. I really did. Based in 1983, but filmed in 2010, Beyond is an over-indulgent slab of that era’s sense of science-fiction and terror, drawing from the same pool that also informed Mass Effect’s aesthetic. I was introduced to this quirky little piece of Canadian cinema by Videodrome on our very own forums and I must’ve watched the trailer thirty or forty times, something that hasn’t happened since the first, dark trailer was released for Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly. But Beyond is less interested in being a story and more interested in being a tribute to obvious benefactors like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris and less obvious ones like Enter the Void or even the stylish cruelty of Salad Fingers.
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