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A Dependent Editorial Voice
To: Brian From: Owen Re: Newspapers, Yes, They’re Dying Since you brought it up and we worked there — and this Friday, as the last one of the month, could very well see the last edition of the Rocky Mountain News — I figured I’d say my piece about it and the business here. The…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Week in Games: Afro Thunder
Afro Samurai and Front Office Manager are your big multiplatform drops this week. The lineup: Six titles for DS, five for PC; three for Wii; two for 360, PS3 and PS2, one for PSP. Monday (Jan. 26) AC-130 (PC) MLB Front Office Manager (360, PS3, PC) Niki – Rock ‘n’ Ball (Wii) Tuesday (Jan. 27)…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Study Debunks Crime/Game Connection, Takes a Poke at Researchers
A prof supplies data showing exposure to violent video games has “no significant relationship” to mass shootings. In other news, exposure to “Dancing with the Stars” has no significant relationship to train robberies. Before you go all “No shit, professor, I could have told you that,” realize the guy is trying to answer the question…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Strong Sales Make de Blob Sequel Certain
IGN noticed that De Blob outsold Wario Land: Shake It by 80,000 copies, and both were released the same day. THQ, asked for comment, said there’s more where that came from. What they literally said, attributed to a THQ spokesman, was, “We’re pleased with de Blob’s performance worldwide. It’s a great intellectual property and you…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Chicago Trib Asks “Is GTA This Century’s Best Writing?”
The profile of Rockstar and the Housers doesn’t really answer that (beyond mentioning the Goatie we gave it for writing). But the writer talks to critics and eggheads who say it’s a legitimate question. “Look at film in 1908 — there was no sound, you viewed it through a nickoleodeon, there was a limited filmic…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Now You Can Be Certain You’ve Bought a Jasper
The newer, cooler, less red-ring-of-deathy Jasper configuration of the 360 has been out since the holidays. If you want make damn sure that’s what you’re buying, Newegg is offering them virtually by name. Ordering online or picking up in the store can be a crapshoot whether you get a Jasper as the new config filters…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Labor Dept. Says Utah Dev Owes Workers $2 Million
Sensory Sweep Studios is facing allegations it hasn’t paid nearly 200 employees in more than 100 days. The US Department of Labor has filed an injunction, saying more than $2 million is owed. According to lawsuit documents, the Department of Labor was notified in late October of the pay issue and sent a wage-hour investigator…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Zelda Bento: The Adventure of Lunch
Annathered’s back from her bento creation station again. She breaks her rule about 3D bentoing to give us a 2D Wind Waker incarnation of Link. It’s time for lunch on the east coast, right? Here’s the full list of ingrediments for this lovely scene of Link finding more heart in the forest: Toon Link: –…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Knicks Player’s Salute Proves He’s CoD:WaW Gamer?
Saturday, New York’s Nate Robinson saluted before taking his first free throws. Seems he was proving his identity to a Call of Duty: World at War player he’d faced earlier this week. Inside Hoops, a comprehensive site covering just about everything in the NBA, reports the item. But there’s no video or audio of this.…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
No Love Among the Ruins of Circuit City
A storewide liquidation always summons one’s buzzard instinct. One imagines the goods strewn about like carrion on the desert floor, practically there for the taking. Not so at Circuit City. Circuit City’s in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy which means all its assets are being sold off. That includes the in-store stock. But rolling up on…
By Owen Good