#Video Games
‘FALLOUT 4’ teased by Three Dog’s voice actor. WASTELAND GET.
Just today! Just today, I was wondering when the fuck I was going to get to wander the Wasteland yet again. I slathered petroleum jelly on my bits as I contemplated, rubbing over the idea of playing a Fallout title running on the Skyrim engine. My supplication must have been heard by Them, for this very same today comes a tease. Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
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GABE NEWELL finally opens up about the ‘STEAM BOX’, let us all prostrate ourselves.
Yeahhh! Here are the deets you have been waiting for. Assuming that you have been waiting for details regarding Valve’s Steam Box. Buddy Gabe sat down with The Verge and unleashed a torrent of titillating details. It’s all well and good, but let’s get real. Where the fuck is Half-Life 3.
‘BORDERLANDS 2’ hoodies by the talent that brought us ‘DEAD SPACE 2’ ones.
Artist Machine56 is a beast that we have covered here on OL for a while ago. The artist dropped stunning Dead Space 2 hoodies a couple of years ago, and now they’re back riffing on another all-time favorite of mine. Borderlands 2. Yeah!
Father hires IN-GAME HITMEN to own his slacker son in his favorite online game.
This is one way for someone to deal with their slacker son. One concerned father in China saw his son (much like me) sitting around in their early college years playing video games instead of going to school (much like me). What to do in this situation? A parent could sit around waiting for their son to pass out due to caffeine addiction and gross caloric in-take. They could then drag that son to a sweat lodge in the Mountains and force them to expunge the demon spirits from their body. (Trust me, it doesn’t work.) Or they could hire online assassins to slap down the son in the game they’re addicted to. Invariably driving the son out of the game, and pushing them to go back go school.
Yeah, right. There is like, an infinite amount of video games out there. Though, it’s a great try.
New ‘BIOSHOCK INFINITE’ screens show tome-wielding lovely lass.
The mammoth approaches! Day by day. Even though we will invariably be wiped out by a hidden asteroid before its release, it is okay to get excited about BioShock Infinite. Try and not get too down about that which I have divined through sleep-deprivation and caffeine abuse. Just enjoy these screens.
VALVE and Xi3 officially announce the STEAM CONSOLE or whatever.
Out, out, out of the shadows! Valve and some company I haven’t heard of (but you may have because you’re not ignorant like me) Xi3 have announced the oft-rumored Steambox. I don’t think it’s actually called that. But let us hang onto that easy to remember moniker for now. Cyeah!
Report: Valve’s STEAM PC getting 2012 reveal, runs on Linux.
Prepare thyself for the Steambox/Steam PC/Steam set-top box! It’s coming. This year. Pinky swear. If you believe these reports, at least. For a few friends of mine, this is balls tantalizing news. How about yourself?
Press Start: Sweaty Penis Pizza Party
Welcome to Press Start! It’s a column about my intense self-loathing, eating and masturbatory habits, cleverly disguised as a week in the events of video game culture. Come on in.
WEEKEND OPEN BAR: theme song splendor!
[WEEKEND OPEN BAR: The one-stop ramble-about-anything weekend post at OL. Comment on the topic at hand. Tell us how drunk you are. Describe a comic you bought. This is your chance to bring the party.]
I want you to consider the following premises, keepin’ an eye peeled for similarities.
When a West Philadelphia-born prince ascended his Californian throne, he sang a little ditty. That time when the boxer prepared to avenge his friend’s death and defend America’s honor? You bet your ass he was jammin’ to some butt-rock. And when the world was ushered into the era of Y2J, it was greeted by the dulcet tones of a computerized countdown and processed vocals.
The conclusion: theme songs kick ass.
Hell, if you think about your favorite movie, TV show, or video game, chances are that it features some sort of soundtrack. Moreover, it’s also a solid bet that there’re clear-as-day, identifiable-as-hell themes woven throughout said soundtrack. While you’re experiencing this bit of entertainment, themes amplify the emotion at hand, whether it happens to be jubilation or intrigue or suspense. So affective, in fact, are theme songs that hearing them out of context can still teleport our consciousnesses to the space-time junctions of entertainment-inebriation.
Fighting Sephiroth.
Being devoured by a Great White.
Swoonin’ over a man with a license to kill.
If you count yourself amongst the OL faithful, then some of your life’s most consequential moments have probably been accompanied by a soundtrack. As such, I encourage you to respond to one or both of this weekend’s OPEN BAR prompts:
[What is a theme song you dig?][What would you choose for your own theme song?]
‘GameStick’ Android console is the side of a USB STICK. Mini ++
This thang right here is pretty radical. Close your eyes, and set this to voice read thing or whatever. Listen to these words. Or don’t. There exists an Android console that is the size of a USB stick. Ridiculous, no? Maybe not if you keep up with technology. I don’t know how powerful it is, but I imagine if the movies are true than it could probably pull a satellite down out of orbit through sheer technological prowess. Using a joystick, of course.
