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I Need a Couch
To: Luke From: Owen Re: I Should Probably Start Packing When I moved in to my new apartment, I knew there was no way my old couch was fitting through the door. And I was right. The frame must have been three inches narrower than its shortest axis. I kept the damned thing in the…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Afternoon Tea Now Includes Space Invaders
In an inverse Coors-Blue-Mountains way, this tea vessel shows blue pixelated Space Invaders when the contents are, of course, the hottest-tasting beer tea in the world. Yeah, yeah, taste isn’t a temperature. That’s been discussed before. Still, this tea service design won some damned tea-off for 2009, and should class up your joint if you…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Play Spot-the-Difference in Current-Gen Madden
A lot of the year-to-year “advances” in Madden are about as subtle as noticing the change in typefaces in the white pages. “Real-time natural grass growth physics.” “Crowd boos its own mascot.” “Authentic third-quarter beer cutoff.” You get the drill. Here’s a 10-question quiz testing your knowledge of all the changes in the Madden NFL…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Kiosk Chain Offering $2 Game Rentals
RedBox, the DVD rental kiosk company largely doing business in western U.S. supermarkets and McDonald’s locations, has begun offering $2-a-night game rentals at its locations, with Reno, Nevada as a test market. The kiosks will cover the major consoles (PS3, PS2, Wii and 360) and the $2 per night doesn’t blow the doors off Blockbuster’s…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
EA Sports MMA Grabs Randy Couture
Randy Couture, one of the most popular mixed martial arts fighters ever, helping bring it into the sporting mainstream, will be the second fighter headlining EA Sports MMA, the series announced Friday. Couture (pictured with EA Sports boss Peter Moore above) joins Fedor Emelianenko, announced earlier as a headline athlete. Other named fighters include Gegard…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
StarCraft II LAN Petition Hits 100K
The petition to get offline network play added back in to Starcraft II has hit 100,000 signatures. Doesn’t mean Blizzard will shift away from funneling everyone into Battle.Net. But six figures is a credible number. In late June, Blizzard defended the removal of LAN support – and thus the end of the LAN party for…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
PS3 Slimpocalypse Advances into Sweden
The PS3 Slimpocalypse continues to play out like an establishing sequence from V: The Final Battle or something. “The world trembles at rumors retailers are told to clear off stock. Sightings are reported in the U.K., Germany, and now Sweden.” That Video Game Blog notes that the PS3 Slim has shown up on Swedish online…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Week in Games: It’s Wolf-en-STEEN
No it’s not, I just like quoting Gene Wilder. Wolfenstein goes to bat this week on PC, PS3 and 360, with the challenge that if it outsells Madden this month, any who buy it in August get their money back. Otherwise, Shadow Complex is the only title that grabs my attention. Much of the rest…
By Owen Good