Text Post - Levine Offers Gamers Advice On BioShock Delays

Levine Offers Gamers Advice On BioShock D...

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While many of us were expecting to be grabbing Bioshock Infinite by the balls this October, the game’s director, Ken Levine, released a statement earlier in the week telling us we’d be waiting another few months to roust a few retro looking goons, and that racky dame with in-game ESP (I once heard she was kind of bitchy).

Levine’s statement then went on to insist that he was undergoing some family problems, having recently split with his wife Avril (Levigne), and that if we absolutely cannot wait for Bioshock Infinite, it may do us some good to try and put ourselves in their shoes – which includes purchasing a brunette bob cut wig and a nice low cut top – and be hounded by a lynch mob of  sexually frustrated, impatient little bast-edges, who’re constantly shoving their dick in your face, pressuring you to give’em just a taste (just the tip), of what you have to offer.

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Text Post - Call Of Duty Reveal, May 1st.

Call Of Duty Reveal, May 1st.

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Activision has it’s hard on for it this year, having dated the stage for it’s (now) annual war-parody-simulator for May 1st, to debut during the televised NBA layoffs which have been pending since late 2011.

Clearly a brilliant powerplay by Activision and the NBA to guarantee viewership beneficial for both parties. A slow, methodical, mutual stroke of egos and monopolies… Rich men jerking off to younger rich men, who are just jerk offs… Jerking off to the old rich men, who guarantee to give these young peanuts a nice & healthy release in exchange for the guarantee, that these younger rich men, will lure the young kiddies (full of potential) right into the lion’s den where these dollar driven perverts will have the pages of neilson’s ratings stuck together in a shameless act of self indulgence.

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UnFranchised: HALO

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I’m not sure I’m so down with the frequent branding of ‘nerd’ or ‘geek’ on any and everything having to do with some offshoot extension of gaming culture. I like gaming, there’s no denying that… And I’ve always been a gamer. Ain’t one of these ya I bought a 360, play me some MW shit… COD, COD, COD, and all that whack pop shit. In fact I don’t think any of my favourite games were born of this generation, I mean, I am really impressed with a lot of these games today, but to say that any of them are necessarily my favourite is a hard call.

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Twitter`s EgoEconomy

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It’s been not so recently that I’ve been pondering our quality of life, and the value of which others hold in regard to their own lives. So taken by the materialistic foundation, and addiction for interpersonal notoriety are we, that we’re often twice/thrice+ removed from, perhaps if not nature’s intention for natural life, our own necessary sense of purpose.

Facets of social media have become breeding grounds of narcissism, and platforms for homegrown “celebrities”, constantly screaming words void of any meaning or viable intentions, just to be seen and exist upon a virtual stage shared with the likes of actual celebrities, who’ve actually contributed to society for some widely recognized form of arts or entertainment… For better or worse.

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The Cheat Codes Podcast – 05/04/2012

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To Deal With Husks

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Since when did creative work become a democracy? Scores of gamers, wielding their receipts of countless hours spent trudging through Bioware‘s Intellectual Property, are screaming for blood when their individual Shepard’s ascended a beam of light into a giant tampon in the sky

Continue readingwhere a digital premonition (played by the kid from Heavy Rain) veto’s Shepard’s struggle for salvation, leaving him with only two (or three) possible destinies for the entire galactic existence.

Gamers were furious when, despite which option you choose, the Mass Relays are sent to Sanford and Son while Shepard is sacrificed (absorbed) into a variation of the closing montage, which hints at the end of the Intergalactic War against the Reapers, and leaves the survival of your squadmates in question.

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Find Love In An Underpopulated Beautiful ...

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Valentine’s Day provides me with the guilt fueled obligation to take a closer look at some things I may have taken for granted, or completely neglected through my complete fascination with things that may have been (at the time) sexier, or flaunting their ta-ta’s in that low cut shirt. Well today, of all days, I take it upon myself to pry my eyes away from the ample presentation of wowza, and dedicate just twenty four hours of my mind to the lesser appreciated things in life.

This is one of the most gorgeous games period. An African savannah is recreated in fine detail, with mountain and swampy jungle areas surrounding vast golden flatlands, and endless rivers.

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Text Post - Immaculate Movements of Victor Lucas

Immaculate Movements of Victor Lucas

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Everyone with an online presence is a striving critique with a communal arsenal of words being passed around IGN’s Monopoly board, and down into the shanty towns of independent writers alike. Surely, everything is “fully realized”, and with terms as such remaining industry standard for years, it’s as if gaming journalism has reached it’s fullest potential, or derived a legit lack of ambition from it’s inline wordsmiths. Me? I’m a gamer at heart. I’ve been hearting games as early as my Sesame Street days, landing me default streetcred-hustleflow-knowledge of the D-pad, blazin’ J-stixx since when they was one button squares, red on glossy black… Serious.

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Being Hideo Kojima

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I’ve always felt Hideo Kojima to be some sort of mastermind, a true auteur designsmith with hands of gold, a kind of DiVinci this gaming culture holds in high regard, and will for years to come as a cornerstone of innovation and storytelling. His games challenge both the player and society on multiple levels, with themes of morality, and the complexity of interpersonal relationships, woven throughout fantastical, and damn near insane plotlines. His inspirations are clearly drawn from a variety of different mediums, like film ‘n’ music… Nature ‘n’ shit, you know? Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure… He’s a bit of everything, a real Chex Mex, convoluted Bruce Lee type, and so, there is no simple way, Haikus or otherwise, to explain the final product of a Kojima Productions game.

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