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Technical Difficulties
To: Luke From: Owen We had an unusually prolonged service disruption today; I know very little about what the problem was, or its cause, but I do know Gawker Media staff noticed it immediately and were working on it, late into the afternoon on a Sunday. Everyone’s frustrated by such problems, but I hope they…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Casting Resident Evil: Afterlife
No secret that today’s been a tough one. We know lots of you had problems getting to the site. So let’s wind down with a game of what-if, casting the next Resident Evil film. The Bits, Bytes, Pixels and Sprites takes a look at who’d be best for the fourth installment of the franchise, which,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Miyamoto: Not Worshipping at DLC’s Altar
In an interview with the San Jose Mercury-News, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto downplayed the importance of digital distribution to the company’s future. Said Shiggy: Personally, I’m one of those guys who, even if I have all the songs from iTunes, I want the CD as well. I feel more reassured with that physical media. Entertainment is…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Keeping a Promise to Joe
Earlier this year, EA Sports made an open call for names to add to its roster in NCAA Football 10. I put in for a guy to whom I felt I owed one. Joseph I. Hodas never really knew me, and never knew he was in a video game. He was a professional acquaintance of…
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UncategorizedSex Scene of the Year Already Awarded
By Edge, anyway. They’re saying that an underworld Overlord II foursome takes the cake, precisely for what it does not show. Overlord II’s “foursome” scene is the best of the year. Yes, it’s a scene where you, the hero, have a foursome. And yes, it’s juvie wish fulfillment. But it’s also a smartly done and…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
This Would Be My Deathbed
Some day, if you get rich enough, this can be yours – a hi-tech luxury bed that combines a giant pull-down hi-def screen with built in gaming consoles and lots of other amenities. This is the HiCan bed, which takes the IKEA design of “put all the essentials on as few square feet as possible”…
By Owen Good