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Sports and Porn and the U.S. Marines
To: Bash From: Owen Re: Valentine’s Day Stories on Sunday were largely of a type: Sports or sexual deviance. Sometimes that’s how the news cycle coalesces. In other news, I had a weird dream last night, which probably describes, in boldface type, my subconscious anxiety of late: Dad, realizing I had no full-time job and…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Week in Games: Round Four — FIGHT!
North America readies for the first true Street Fighter sequel in nearly a decade. Gaming’s definitive fighter hits the PS3 and 360 this week. GTA: The Lost and Damned drops on XBLM the same day. The rest of the launch schedule: Five for the DS and Wii, four on the PC, three on the PS3,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Gears of War Patched … and Patched … and Patched
Noticed the heavies in Gears of War all sport soul patches? (Flavor savers, as we call them back in Surry County, N.C.) Here’s a breakdown of the top liphair in the FPS third-person shooter genre. Game Intestine takes a look at the labia caesar (yep, that’s “hairy lips” in latin) of Gears of War. But…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Searching for Midway’s Mystery Investor
The Chicago Tribune went looking for the mystery investor whose $100,000 buy-up of 87 percent of Midway could reap a profit in the millions under Chapter 11 reorganization. They didn’t find much. “Mark Thomas” purchased Sumner Redstone’s interest in Midway last year for a hundred grand – fractions of pennies on the dollar – and…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
w4m? m4w? … L4D …
After a lonely Valentine’s Day, let’s head over to the infamous Craigslist Casual Encounters, see if we can find some zombies to join some hot w4mmm action. I’m clean and real, you be too. As you can see, these ads were still active on the S.F. Bay craigslist as of 1 pm Crecente time. Here…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Rumor: Character List for Legends of Wrestlemania Revealed
A NeoGAFfer working from lists of previously confirmed characters, plus images he says will be released by IGN and WWE, has come up with at least 42 playable characters in Legends of Wrestlemania. If you grew up in the golden age of pro wrestling – what I consider it to be anyway – there are…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
NBA Dunk Champ Shouts Out to Call of Duty
Couple weeks back the Knicks’ Nate Robinson saluted before a free throw to prove to another gamer he plays Call of Duty. En route to winning the dunk contest, he gave the game another shout-out. Here, after finishing off a bounce-pass windmill, Robinson throws up another salute and calls the game out by name. But…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Get 3 Months of XBox Live from Amazon for … $1,200!!!!
Reader Thomas M. sends along this steal – fuck, it’s a heist. Not only is it $1,200 for a 3-month XBL sub, it’s also a *used* card. And you still have to pay shipping. If you really look at it, though, that’s $400 a month for Xbox Live, and really, how much do you spend…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Getting Paid at GameStop: Not as Simple as it Should Be
GameStop employees can’t get paper checks. True, most of the civilized world is on direct deposit by now. But for GameStoppers who aren’t, the only alternative is a cash card that nickel-and-dimes them. Consumerist talked about this in the past week. GameStop, as well as many retailers in the same market, offer direct deposit and…
By Owen Good