January 2008
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Don't Mess with Charles Bronson →
I’m pretty sure the title speaks for itself.
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Level Up : MTV News' Stephen Totilo Vs. Level Up's... →
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Top 10 Under-the-Radar Games in 2008 →
Good list. Mostly handhelds, but that’s expected for “under-the-radar” since there are more releases.
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ICO Team Recruiting For PlayStation 3 Project →
w00t!
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The IRS is the smartest organization in the world
Zac: I love how this thing (tax return) asks the most random questions
Zac: "Were you legally blind as of Dec 31st, 2007?"
Zac: haha, how many blind people use turbotax.com, and beyond that, how many people were blind on dec 31st and aren't blind anymore
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Sam Kennedy's 1UP Blog: GameSpot's Sad State of... →
Great rundown by 1UP editor Sam Kennedy of the events at Gamespot that led to the firing of Jeff Gerstmann, as well as his opinion on what this means to the industry.
My personal view is simple: if you don’t take everything on an ad-supported site with a huge grain of salt, I feel sorry for you. The only game reviews I really trust are the opinions of my friends and family that play these...
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New Bond film titled `Quantum of Solace' →
Hahaha, what an awesome title.
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WatchHoly God Far Cry 2 looks amazing. This game has so much going for it: incredible graphics, no longer made by Crytek, involves Clint Hocking.
HD trailer available here (much better).
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WatchRez in HD looks bumpin’.
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We love IE6
Zac: it's not even fair really, comparing IE6 to new shit, I mean it's 7 years old haha
Zac: fucking piece of shit
Zac: as a web developer I have nightmares about ie6 in my sleep
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WatchRaptor Safari = tha shiznit.
We used to play the hell outta Jambo Safari at some shitty arcade in the Gainesville mall.
ROPE BREAK
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Clark Johnson, On Screen and Behind the Scenes →
Interview with Clark Johnson. Johnson plays Augustus Haynes, city desk editor of the Baltimore Sun, on season 5 of The Wire.
He starred in Homicide: Life on the Street, as well as The Wire. I’m interested in watching some Homicide… I’m almost finished with David Simon’s book upon which the series was based, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.
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Rock Band Sales Top 1 Million; Full Albums Soon,... →
Holy balls. I can’t believe there are over 1 million sets of plastic toys in living rooms throughout the country. Don’t get me wrong, I would buy it too if it wasn’t so pricey, but jesus.
Let’s break down the numbers:
1 million bundles @ $170 each (160 for PS2) = $170,000,000
2.5 million tracks @ $2 each (minus some for the reduced-price packs) = another $5,000,000
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Gamerscore Blog : Undertow Free of Charge Next... →
Fairly new XBLA “shooter” Undertow will be downloadable free of charge next week on Xbox 360.
This is to make up for the sporadic outages of Xbox Live service over the past month or so. Great deal for me, since I haven’t really touched the Xbox since the beginning of December. I’m always up for some free gamez!
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Burnout: Paradise Review →
EGM’s Shane Bettenhausen reviews Burnout: Paradise, Criterion’s crash extravaganza.
The demo for this on Xbox Live was a complete joke. I played it for about 10 minutes and all it did was make me want the game, I didn’t want to play the demo at all. I was expecting to play the hell outta this demo all the way until release, as with Crackdown. This very-limited-demo approach...
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NPR : Actor Paul Dano, 'There Will Be Blood' →
Interview with Paul Dano, who plays the boy preacher Eli Sunday in There Will Be Blood.
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Valve's Customer Service is Best in Class -... →
From the Shacknews blog: snippets of true customer service from Valve.
Here’s one from OMM’s Chet himself:
Q:
1. The grenade puzzle: I did it with a blast from the gravity gun! Looked down and primary fire and the floor bounced me up. Would love to see more gravity gun bounce puzzles
2. The little forest bit was BRILLIANT, it had the perfect feel as you walk in and it got...
Live from Macworld 2008: Steve Jobs keynote -... →
Get ready for it. The Engadget liveblogging extravaganza.
Maybe we’ll get multicolored iPhones so Colette will want one now…
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Work and Play: Inside the Lives of Gaming's... →
Kotaku has a really cool photo gallery of the home and office setups of many gaming industry folks.
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BioShock: A Defence →
This is a well thought out piece by RPS’s Kieron Gillen in which he defends BioShock against negative backlash.
There’s also a humorous criticism of his defense of the criticism. I guess that makes this a counter-counter-attack.
15 Minutes of Fame: Noor the pacifist - WOW... →
Interview with a World of Warcraft player that’s on a mission to get to level 70 without intentionally killing anything.
Do people really need more excuses to keep dumping limitless numbers of hours into this game?
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Found on Wikipedia, no. 2
On Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick, and George C. Scott:
“Director Kubrick tricked Scott into playing the role of Gen. Turgidson far more ridiculously than Scott was comfortable with doing. Kubrick talked Scott into doing “over the top” practice takes, which Kubrick told Scott would never be used, as a way to warm up for the “real” takes. Subsequently, Kubrick used these...
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Can you run it? — System Requirements Lab →
Do you ever wonder if your PC will shit a brick when you fire up a game like Crysis?
This service from System Requirements Lab allows you to select any game in their database (there are quite a few) and determine… “Can you run it?” With my computer, the answer is a consistent, resounding, “Hell no.”
The site runs a Java applet in your browser that actually...
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Their First Time — Video Game Luminaries Share... →
The first gaming experiences of several journalists and game creators/designers.
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Valve Buys Pet Turtle →
Valve just bought out Left4Dead developer Turtle Rock Studios.
L4D was a collab-o between the two, now I guess it’s a wholly Valve-developed game. They’re doing some interesting stuff with multiplayer/co-op. It’ll add some long-overdue variety to the survival-horror zombie-face-shooting genre.
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Games Radar - From Katamari to Mass Effect, we... →
Every game should have a Japanese name, just so we can translate them and laugh.
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Dan Hsu's 1UP Blog: Banned →
A candid blog entry from 1UP editor-in-chief Dan Hsu talking about advertising, reviews, the enthusiast press and the pull that publishers have over them.
“For the time being, you’ll get little, late, or no coverage of the following products: anything Mortal Kombat (they didn’t like our reviews), anything from Sony’s sports department (ditto), and now, anything from...
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The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the... →
Neat article about the birth and development of the iPhone. The stuff about secrecy and compartmentalized information at Apple is crazy:
Teams were split up and scattered across Apple’s Cupertino, California, campus. Whenever Apple executives traveled to Cingular, they registered as employees of Infineon, the company Apple was using to make the phone’s transmitter. Even the...
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Michael K. Williams interview →
One on one with the one and only Omar Little.
About the scar…
“It was my 25th birthday, I was in a bar, shit got hot, drinking, then words got exchanged and bottom line, there was more of them then there was of me, dudes had razors in their mouths and I got cut. Wrong place, wrong time basically. Wrong drink. That definitely woke me up. That definitely was a life altering...