Wow!. This is a much longer summary of what I have been saying about the Sims for years, and touches on What Comm1E ’s review said as well. But Dammit, Zero Punctuation just has a way of putting it all into perspective and in such a hilarious way I had to post this!.
Enjoy!
So, there’s a bit of a solid rumor going around.
1st off, EA is making an MMA game. cool right?. Yeah sure. That’s not the rumor. The rumor is that the UFC has issued a warning to any current fighters who are not under contract of the UFC that if they sign anything with EA to be apart or participate in there upcoming title that they will be BANNED FOR LIFE from the UFC.. Wow, that is freaking hardcore on the UFC side and shows either a real fear of anything that EA does or a heavy sign of dominance in the MMA arena.
MMA Uber agent Ken Pavia of MMAAgents.com says this.
“It’s true. And they told me [they] want the word out.”
Ok.. umm, this seemed like a strong move for UFC to pull. But, honestly. I can’t say I feel bad for EA right now, with there history of completely monopolizing the NFL franchise in terms of gaming… I kind of see this as Karma. On a different note though, this probably won’t deter them or anyone willing to sign up to star in a video game.
Wow, thats neat
I’m all for Special Edition/Collectors Editions/Slimer Editions (Yes, I bought the Slimer Edition of Ghostbusters.) As long as it comes with some really cool swag that your not likely to get elsewhere. Like the GTA4 special edition on the SF4 collectors edition for Ps3 (Which still runs far higher than it’s release price, check it.) And less like the Need for Speed Special edition that just came with a couple more cars but a 10 price hike.
I’m not even a fan of sports games, but this anniversary edition looks pretty freaking cool. especially that big locker game holder there. This is going to be offically announced today sometime and will include the following.
So.. WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO PAY FOR SUCH A COLLECTION. JUST ONE EASY PAYMENT OF $99.99. THAT’S RIGHT, BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE!.. IF YOU ORDER RIGHT NOW, WE’LL THROUGH IN A FREE ZORBEEZ WITH YOUR ORDER, JUST PAY SEPARATE SHIPPING AND HANDLING!! CALL NOW AND ORDER TODAY!!
That last bit was dedicated to Billy Mays who passed away on June 28th at the Age of 50. R.I.P. Billy Mays
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Yeah, it’s another one of those movie games. We all cringe, and die a little inside when we see these on the store shelf. Seeing our favorite films boiled down to the most retarded gaming experience any sloth missing a toe could defeat.. if he didn’t get bored with it first. What makes studios do these things?.. seems like every movie coincides with some dreadful game. Iron Man movie? Rocked. Iron Man game? Boring as all hell. The Matrix? fantastic flick.. the following game Enter the Matrix?. glitchy and broken. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen?. OK movie. The game?.. especially the PSP version?. I died a little inside, deep down where I’m soft and gentle.
So when Ghostbusters was announced in 2007 to be in development by a studio called Zootfly. I wasn’t impressed. sure, My interested perked up a little bit, but it quickly subsided as I remembered nearly every single Movie based game EVER… excluding 2. Chronicles of Riddick, and Spiderman 2. I didn’t have much faith that this game would do much more than suck lots of meat.
What makes this one any different?. Lots, and I’ll tell you.
Imagine walking up to a wall, putting your hands in front of you and and with a simple hand gesture, your cell phones menu displays itself on the wall. Simple gestures with your fingers scrolls through menu uptions just like on the iPhone, except its all done in the air. With a few flicks of your finger, mario appears on the wall. With a few more finger gestures in front of you, you control him as he runs around smashing bricks and taking out enemies.
Does this all sound kinda futuristic? Well, this is the near future with the Sixth Sense! Check out the video for more details!
In an announcement that probably shocked everyone and your mothers, and John Carmack’s mother. id Software, developer and creators of the Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake franchises have apparently been bought by ZeniMAX who also owns Bethesda. Another great studio who has created the Elder Scroll series and Fallout 3.
In a phone interview with Kotaku, John Carmack, Technical Director of id Software said that changing perspectives with Activision:
“As we were shopping Rage and Doom and upcoming stuff, talking about all of that, we were getting a pretty consistent line from all the publishers,” he said. “They were willing to continue to fund our working with partner companies for all of these but pretty much ever publisher said, ‘Well, it would be worth much more to us if you would grow your studio and do more of your own work internally. That’s why we already started to staff up to do Doom 4 internally. So things were already moving in that direction.”
Carmack spoke specifically of Activision, where id’s games such as the upcoming Wolfenstein (developed in partnership with Raven), would be published under the same label as works from Activision’s internal studios, like Call of Duty and Modern Warfare studios Treyarch and Infinity Ward. “Going back to a much earlier time,” Carmack said, “We were just Activision’s shooter shop. We did the FPSes there. There was no conflict, and that was great. But they brought on their own internal studios and there’s a very real conflict there between whether they want to put resources behind something they own the IP for and derive all the profit for versus something where they don’t own the IP and they might feel like any effort they’re putting into it isn’t going into their value but somebody else’s. That problem has grown over the years as budgets have increased.”
Personally… I see this as probably a good thing. Bethesda has done amazing things under ZeniMAX and the said can only be assumed for id Software. Think about it… Bethesda would get some tech and graphical help from the id Team, and id would be helped in the story telling aspect which they are needing BIG time.. I swear if Doom 4 is the same story as Doom 3…which was just a retelling of Doom!.. I’m gonna be pissed.
[Source= "Kotaku.com"]
This is a very special fathers day edition of Idle-Handz for all of us who werent raised by our sperm donor fathers, but by our consoles. So hats off to you Mario, #1 Dad!
As I was browsing my local walmart’s greeting card aisle, at the endless racks of Fathers day cards I noticed that not a single card said exactly what I felt. I wanted a card to read “Dear Nintendo, Thanks for being there for me all these years, words cannot express how much you have taught me. Love always, Your son, C0mm1E”
For me, Nintendo taught me how to shoot, How to hit a baseball and even about Sex Ed. Sure, my nintendo couldnt put me up on its knee and tell me about when it was a kid… or even smack me around when it came home drunk again from the bar…but it did just about everything else better than a real dad ever could.
So I got to thinking..why dont we all take a moment and show our apprecation to the console that brought us out of adolescence and into adulthood..whatever that is.
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So, I get this link in my email with a ringtone from Hangover from my girlfriend where one of the characters is singing about there lost friend and if he’s been murdered by meth addicts that they would be “shit out of luck” and I instantly thought how cool this movie would be as a game. and I laughed to myself and started wondering what other movies would make awesome games. Not just the obvious “cool movie=cool game” theory…that never works, well..up until this year it seems. But, I decided to make a list of some of the more tilted, obscure, underground good movies that should get a cool game to go with it.
Another note, these are movies that will I believe are best suited for a game. Sure, there are other movies that would probably make very interesting games, but may have to be shoehorned, I think these are easy-ish fits into a game genre without much lose to the integrity of the story. Also, I’m trying to stay away from movies that are already like a game.. I thought of other movies, but also was able to quickly think of a game that was much like the film. So, here we go!…
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That’s Right, Steven Colbert from The Colbert Report got a super duper sneak preview of the newest Microsoft system coming out called the “X-Xbox” the extra X means that it loses the “Box” too!.. now, not only can you control the game without controller, you can play a game console without the console!! YAY!. all for only 500 bucks.
Yeah, yeah, I know this sounds alot like something that came out along time ago got “REAL LIFE” but.. come on that’s so outdated right?..
Here is the video, the game related hi-jinx starts at 1:40.
Wow.. This looks amazing. This guy is playing Grand Theft Auto 4 within a simple web browser. The game isn’t requiring a fancy expensive card, lots of RAM or CPU or anything, it’s all being rendered live on the server or “Cloud” that he has his Web Browser pointed at.
While he explains there is a little bit of lag, it’s not bad, but frantic FPS games like Unreal Tournament 3 or Counter Strike or something it could be a bit more noticeable. This demonstration is truly mind boggling. But, Lets think about what obviously must be happening behind the scheme