NASA: We’ve Discovered Something Completely New On Mars.
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NASA has found some new shizzle on the surface of Mars, and they’re calling it “the vein”. I’m calling it obvious proof of our former-Earthling presence there. Billions of years ago.
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Manchu WoW: Pandaria, 5.0, and Where World of Warcraft is Now
Did you look as confused as I and my friend Kiki here did when Blizzard unveiled World of Warcraft‘s fourth expansion at Blizzcon last month?
Blizzard’s golden child is going into its eighth year, and Mists of Pandaria is the game’s early, bi-curious, bipolar adolescence, rife with identity crises and plenty of confusion about its future and its present.
Pandaria and the future of WoW, however, have real, hidden meat (#unnecessary) that the average or even relatively-savvy player can’t see unless they frequent Blizzard news posts or community chat.
Unless you’re an insane WoW addict like me or my kind, you don’t do that and can’t be expected to; your barometer on the wildly successful MMO is whatever Blizzard’s handsome devil of a mouthpiece (and resident head of creative, Chris Metzen) dishes out every year on stage to a convention hall packed with nerds, later carved into bite-size youtube clips.
So what’d we get this year?
Bamboo-stic, panda-rife, Asian-stir-fried nonsense in place of a genuine, thrilling tease for a new expansion, one that’s been conceptualized and billed as a return to almighty WAR in a game that’s largely been lacking it for years.
The reveal smacked of something less timely than Blizzard’s usual spectacles. It almost seemed like the company — which, let’s get real, has just about the greatest track record in game development, ever? — was unaware that its greatest threat is coming on December 20th of this very year.
Rumor: Next Xbox Codenamed ‘Loop’, Running On Windows 9.
I’ve said it before, but I love the lifespan of his console generation. No new hardware to buy! Titles upon titles. It’s been a fruitful five years. Yet, nothing gold can stay. We have ourselves some Next Xbox rumors afoot.
Used and Digital Sales Make Up 35% Of US Console Spending.
US gamers are like US anything – we like our shit cheap and easy. This explains why 35% of our console spending is on titles that are either used, or digitally accessible.
Scientists Have Created ‘Cyborg Yeast’. The Robots Have Invaded Even Our Mead.
Welcome to the future, where we spend our time interfacing with yeast. It isn’t a classy job, but some futurist has got to do it.
Monday Morning Commute: Wartribe Anthem
Ahoy! How goes it, bros and babes of the OL Nation? It’s been awhile since I’ve danced aboard this burning ship of nerd-revelry, as I’ve needed some time off to lick the wounds inflicted during my stint as the OCTOBERFEAST emcee. But alas, I’ve returned to the command center, eager to help Caffeine Powered steer this conflagration-barge right into the hearts of the willing.
Whether its pounding in your chest or blackened by loss or fluttering amorously, we want you to open your hearts to the Omega Level. So come on, don’t just stand there! Hop aboard! ALL HANDS ON DECK!
This here’s the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE, the weekly salvation-via-distraction show and tell feature. The fact of the matter is that the workweek sucks – we kill ourselves at jobs that date rape our spirits and then can’t even be bothered to drive `em home in the morning.
How uncouth.
To thwart forty-hours’ worth of ruin, we’ll take turns showcasing the bits of entertainment we use to ensure our souls’ chastity. I’ll go first, then ya’ll can hit up the comments sections and follow suit.
All together now.
THIS WEEK ON Dexter: Just Let Go
I was wrong about this season’s Dexter. If you can draw a thesis from a season of a television show midway through (and I’m not sure you can), then I would argue that it’s not about Faith at all. No sir. That’s the Red Herring. Don’t buy into it. By the end of “Just Let Go”, with Brother Sam dad and Dexter seeing his serial killing brother it became pretty fucking apparent.
This season is about choice of interpretation.
The ‘Nook’ Tablet To Launch With Marvel Graphic Novels.
The Nook tablet is coming, ready to wrassle with the iPad and the Kindle Fire. Seeing as the Fire has got itself a sexy little deal with DC, it shouldn’t be surprising that the Nook will be sporting a Marvelous alliance at launch.
THIS WEEK ON The Walking Dead: Cherokee Rose
We’re greeted this week with a change from the norm. No shitty voice overs, no terrible flashbacks, no cryptic visions of the future. Our survivors converge and unite at casa de Green and hopefully puts an end to the jump cuts we were put through last week. If this recap seems barebones compared to my others, its because nothing happened this episode … NOTHING!! Seriously … if you have a friend who has not seen anything of Walking Dead, get them into the show, and when you expose them to season 2, skip this episode, they won’t know.
BioWare’s Next Franchise Gets Teaser Image, Looks like Rage/Borderlands.
