SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FEZ: FleshEatingZipper Needs Your Help!

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2013 is turning into a huge year for FleshEatingZipper. Just this month, we brought on our first employee full-time in an experimental position, which sounds like a pipe dream to our 2011 selves. What was once a bi-weekly chat on Skype amongst friends talking about games expanded into something far bigger, far more than the sum of its parts. We’re growing, but in order to keep doing what we’re doing – and hopefully expand! – we need your help to spread the word of FleshEatingZipper. We just can’t do it on our own.

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‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ Review: A Will Ferrell Movie Without Will Ferrell

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby with Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, and Jim Carrey standing in for Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, and Sacha Baron Cohen respectively. Really, that shouldn’t be such a bad thing. Will Ferrell’s comedies are remarkably stupid, but I’ve found most of them funny. Yet the result of Steve Carell’s attempt to make his own Will Ferrell movie is remarkably bland and laugh-free.

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GamePocalypse 2013 Kicks Off For Charity!

If you’ll remember, a few weeks ago we reported about an amazing gaming event which is being held to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project and give something back to the vets who have given so much for us. Well, the time has come and the GamePocalypse 2013 charity event is underway with live streaming, giveaways, raffles, events and all kinds of stuff.

Read on for more details.

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Should Advertisers Be Allowed to Track You Online?

The first thing that comes to most people’s mind when asked if they want to be tracked online is, oh hell no! This sounds like a huge invasion of privacy and all the other terrible things associated thereof. But do you know what’s actually going on when advertisers are tracking you online? Read the rest of this article…

FEZ Week In Review #11, 2013: SimCity, Tomb Raider, And Cooler Ranch DLTs

FEZ Week In Review is a weekly series where we go over the stories that mattered most to you in the past seven days, whether gaming, tech, entertainment, or otherwise, we bring them together for you to view in one quick glance! (Oh, and yes, we realize we didn’t do ten of these so far this year. We’re sorry! We’ll get better)

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SimCity (PC) Review: An Uncomfortable Reboot [UPDATED]

NOTE: This review originally ran on March 7th, but to reflect the stabilization of Maxis’s servers, the review and score have been updated.

SimCity is a game I’ve long dreamt of. In 1998, a screenshot of a fully 3D SimCity game leaked out, featuring individual Sims driving in individual cars while bank robbers got into gunfights with the police. It was crude-looking, but it was a very exciting promise at best, one that would take Maxis another fifteen years to fulfill. There’s a reason why many contemporary journalists reflect so fondly on the twenty year-old SimCity 2000: it’s the last game in the franchise that brought new ideas to the table and pulled them off successfully. SimCity‘s problem is that it’s still ahead of its time. Having waited so long, would we have died to wait another five years for a perfect game? Is this sample of the future worth it?

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Maxis’s Lucy Bradshaw Provides “Straight Answers”, Doesn’t Explain Why ‘SimCity’ Isn’t Offline

Lucy, no one’s asking you to fall on your sword in a response about the always-on DRM mess that your parent company forced you into for that SimCity game you guys did. It’s okay, there’s no hard feelings, we know where the blame lies, but c’mon now, let’s not pretend we haven’t seen the evidence that a different, far less controversial game lies just under the covers. Let’s take a look at your response, an interesting piece of literature that appears to have been quadruple-checked, note by note.

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Electronic Arts Releases Infographic For ‘Real Racing 3’, Fails To Include Any Dollar Amounts

Today, Electronic Arts was more than celebratory of its new-ish racing game, Real Racing 3, and all the attention it’s been getting. People have been racing a lot of races and odometering a lot of miles, so to highlight these victories, they released an infographic. The game is a freemium title, a pernicious one at that, in which virtually every facet is monetized. We’re experienced with these ‘insert coin to play game’ mobile games and we’re definitely experienced with EA’s efforts to bring them to life, but we’re wondering why EA isn’t talking dollars. Y’know, the thing the game is built on.

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A Sorta-SFW Half-Hour With ‘Scarlet Blade’, The “Premier” “Adult” MMO

I’m not sure how it happened. I was just looking at that gaming site (and it was a gaming site) and they had the adds for this game, advertised as the “Premier Adult MMO”. Unlike a sex shop or porn store, which I’ve obviously never been in, I could keep the duster and large hat in the closet in my goal of acquiring this rare form of titillation. What followed was a lengthy install and a half-hour in the sci-fi land of busty women.

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‘Strip Search’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 5 “Ducks”

I’d been concerned about Strip Search’s sluggish pacing and short episodes so far, but today’s episode brought a big ol’ smile to my face. When the contestants are taken to a ravishing parking lot, the excitement only begins!

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