The creative strategist behind Call of Duty  has resigned, prompting me to ask the dickish question. When was the last time we actually found anything resembling creative strategy in the Call of Duty  franchise? From the DLC to the ad campaigns to the treatment of their fans. It’s all pretty bland to me.

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The fun thing about all the bullsquash that NASA is launching into orbit is that not only is it helping the Space Brains of the Blue Marble figure things out, its also raising new questions as well. For what is the imagination for, if it has no room left to guess with? What the fuck…? Anyways, yeah! NASA’s  MESSENGER turned up some unexpected hollows on the surface of Mercury.

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We all have movies that we hate yet everyone else we know seems to love.   Those movies that are brought up in conversation that we have to bite our tongue lest we incur the wrath of the public.   Well in today’s High 5 I’m taking a stand.   I encourage all of you to take a stand with me.   Yell from the rafters how much you hate a certain classic movie.   Or yell at me for hating these particular movies.

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Shay Pierce was an employee at OMGPOP, the company behind the infernal Draw Something. Said company was going to be gobbled the fuck up by Zynga to the tune of $120 million. Unlike the rest of his fellow employees at the company, Pierce said “no thanks”, and peaced out of the joint. Why, you ask? Read on.

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Marvel continues to tease the tip when it comes to some sort of crossover involving both Peter Parker and the Spider-Man of their Ultimate universe. I can’t recall a time when they’ve riffed on this sort of interaction between the two universes, but if they’re going to do it they might as well do it with their best character. Yeah, that’s right. Miles Morales.

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Oh sweet butterballs, this is what I’ve been dreaming of for such a long time. More than anything, I’ve been wanting to rebuy all those Harry Potter  tomes I finished so many moons ago in eBook form. I need to comb through the books for the moment where J.K. Rowling finally lost her mind and began her march towards the epilogue.

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Oh shit! Kotaku has blown the roof off of the next PlayStation with a deluge of details and purported facts. Consider how this same sort of thing happened last year with their Modern Warfare 3  expose, I’m going to go ahead and say that all this stuff is going to be legit.

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The  Department of the Navy must have been watching some Dateline. Their latest and greatest way to spend tax payer money is to employ a company to boat a shitload of used gaming consoles overseas, and then till those consoles for user information. Have to get those terrorists’ information from them video game killer-builder machines.

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British artist Damien Hirst, arguably the richest artist on earth, has implemented a streaming video feed into his studio site, capturing the “magic” of art being created. Wouldn’t it be NEAT if we implemented something similar here at OL? Check it out, after the jump.

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Do you know how many comic books I read last week? One. I read the newest issue of Prophet  and that was that. It was a gloriously hypnotic trek through a devastated post-apocalyptic Hemingway novel, and after that I shut my brain down for the week. I’ve been trying to slice the fatty material out of my comic diet. Much like my life I’m sure I’ll continue to binge, but the ideal is to strip down the pull-list into things I want to read. Not things I want to read, feel implored to read, and have a passing interest in at the cost of my wallet.

With that in mind, this is Comics We’re Buying This Fine Week. The column where we sit cross-legged in a circle, pantless of course, and share what we’re digging on in the funny book universe on a given Wednesday. I’ll go first. You follow me into the closet and count to 20. It’s going to be awesome.

Not sure what is coming out? Hit up ComicList.

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