‘Saints Row IV’ Debuts, Looks A Lot Like That Last Game [VIDEO]

I’m a Volition fan, I want them to win all the time. When THQ bubbled away like a desperate wicked witch, I was happy to see the Saints Row and Red Faction developer go to Dead Island publisher Deep Silver. While still attached to their former owner, THQ’s newly-installed President Jason Rubin told the studio to stop working on their Enter the Dominatrix DLC and start working on a full game. The results? Well, a game that looks a lot like The Third.

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My Crush On In-N-Out Burger Has Ended

Until last night, In-N-Out Burger was some kind of fast food royalty. When I brought it up in conversation, ears would perk up and interjections would begin with “oh, In-N-Out Burger? Yeah, that place is the best!” Living in Colorado, we had no access to its royalty, but it became a last-mile goal when we left Los Angeles while filming our E3 documentary. I had some double doubles and I thought it was fine, but I was also coming down with a pretty ferocious illness at the time and my nasal cavity was still full of smoke from the night before’s first-ever cigar, so maybe my results were warped. Things changed, though.

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‘Smashed’ Review: A Sober Picture About Alcoholic Lovebirds

Surely there’s an audience for writer/director James Ponsoldt’s indie film about a pair of alcoholics whose marriage is tested when one of them decides to enter alcoholics anonymous, I’m just not sure it’s me. I love genre movies: noirs, action flicks, horror movies, and science fiction extravaganzas. Every once in a while I’ll gush over a grim drama like Shame or The Last Ride, but I typically recoil from movies that attempt to depict life in all its bleakness. I go the movies to temporarily escape real life, not to be smothered by it. Smashed is a well-made, well-acted little movie that’s a little too realistic and a little too perceptive for my tastes.

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The Problem With Kickstarters And Why It Is Pissing Me Off

All right guys, this Kickstarter shit is getting completely out of hand. I can understand the campaigns for things that would be hard to fund, like the upcoming space-sim Star Citizen/Squadron 42. That would have been difficult because when you accept publisher support, you have to do things on their timeline and Chris Roberts seems unwilling to release a game before it’s done. That’s why most games suck so hard these days.

What I can’t understand is why people are going out and starting Kickstarters for absolutely ridiculous shit.

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When Will Google Make A Native Unified Email App For Android?

This is really frustrating. We use Google Apps at FEZ and share a Gmail account. After January 30th, Google stopped allowing new devices to use Google Sync, which is just like Exchange ActiveSync. The problem is that after my Droid DNA went on the fritz and was replaced, I can’t use HTC’s unified mail app for all my different email accounts. Read the rest of this article…

With The Galaxy S4, Samsung Has Introduced A New Phone I Don’t Want To Buy

If you had to sit through their hour-long Broadway-themed presentation, that alone might’ve turned you off of their new smartphone or the company altogether, but I dug in. I can handle cheesy, over-produced and perhaps misogynistic presentations just fine. Samsung did a good job, at the very least, of presenting what their new Galaxy S4 is and what it does. Thankfully, I don’t want to be part of their ecosystem any more than I want to be hooked into Apple’s, so thank you Samsung for making my decision so easy.

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Because, Y’know, I Guess: Minecraft XBLA Going To Retail In April

I understand the importance of addressing the last mile of video gamers. You may know a few: the ones who can’t or don’t want internet access, the ones with inattentive parents, the people who simply can’t pay to pull down a Minecraft download from the cloud. Well, Microsoft won’t leave them hanging.

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Nvidia: Sony Couldn’t Pay Us Enough To Be In the PlayStation 4

Maybe it says a lot about where chip titans Nvidia and AMD lie these days, but the former told Gamespot that working on the PlayStation 4 wasn’t worth what little money they were going to get out of it. The eye-candy hardware designer has been involved in two consoles in the past decade, the original Xbox and the PlayStation 3, and seems to have no interest in doing it again, leaving the field wide open for AMD to take over these duties, perhaps for all three consoles.

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You Mad, Bro? ‘Red Orchestra 2’ Developer Says That ‘Call Of Duty’ Has Ruined Gamers

I really do understand where John Gibson is coming from. As President of Tripwire Interactive, which formed out of creating Red Orchestra, an early mod that won Epic’s “Make Something Unreal” contest from a few years back, Gibson has a unique perspective on where first-person shooters were and are now. He’s also not happy that Call of Duty‘s come and set gamers’ expectations so low with gameplay that exchanges skill-building for instant rewards.

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‘Project Gotham Racing 5’ To Launch With Next Xbox? Rumors Abound!

In a meticulously crafted thread over at NeoGAF, poster TheOddOne has compiled a long list of hires to UK-based Lucid Games and Rare. Why? Because all of these artists, designers and engineers have had a hand in the past decade’s best racing games. From Criterion to Codemasters and beyond, the two studios are snapping up talent in what’s quickly rumored to be a new co-developed Project Gotham Racing game. I’ll take it.

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