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Month: May 2009

  • Achievement Whores BEWARE: Giant Bomb [Game Overview]

    Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. If you’ve never actually visited Giant Bomb then you probably don’t know that it’s the greatest user-populated video game database on the internet and a pretty darn cool concept. The gist is this: you get […]

  • Lost Season 5 Finale [Idiot Box]

    SPOILERS! Wow, what a crazy season it’s been! The finale went and blew away everything we’d all been expecting. Who could have guessed that the final episode would be Jacob-centric? What the heck happened? Where is this going next year? It’s the home stretch for Lost. Sixteen episodes left and you can bet that Abrams, […]

  • Manny Being Manny [Wednesday Morning Quarterback]

    It’s time for Wednesday Morning Quarterback, your weekly sports round-up. What a real bummer… The biggest news since last week, if you hadn’t heard already, was the drug test that Manny Ramirez managed to fail. This is now the biggest baseball star to fail a drug test and win himself a 50-game suspension along with […]

  • FF XII Demo First-Pass Localization [Embedded Reporter]

    Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. IGN is at it again with some “first-pass” localizations of A-list Japanese video games. This time: Final Fantasy XIII. The first one I posted is significantly funnier than the second, but they’re both pretty funny. More Final Fantasy XIII News & Previews […]

  • BlazBlue, KoF, L4D, Pokemon, and Capcom [Game Overview]

    Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. If you’re trying to find the common thread that weaves all of these games together, don’t keep racking your brain, I’m just covering a ton of different stories and experiences. Tangled Up in Blue Street […]

  • Texas Sex Offenders Could Be Required to Register Their Gamertags [GO]

    In an interesting move by the Texas legislature, sex offenders may be required to register their online identities with the state, according to this article at Kotaku. While it (intelligently) doesn’t explicitly mention Xbox Live or the PSN, it’s clear that they’re talking about services like that or AIM. The bill, if passed, could even […]

  • Some MLB News [Wednesday Morning Quarterback]

    It’s time for Wednesday Morning Quarterback, your weekly sports round-up. Poor Cole Hamels can’t catch a break. A poor spring training with injury leads to two starts where he’s beat up, another start where he’s hit by a batted ball, and another where he rolls his ankle and lands on the DL again. Hopefully his […]

  • Domo at Cornell [Photographic Memory]

    The famous McGraw Tower. A Cornell icon… …About to be consumed by Domo-kun

  • Auto-Tune the News [Embedded Reporter]

    Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. Auto-Tune – a proprietary audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies that uses a phase vocoder to correct pitch in vocal and instrumental performances. It is used to disguise inaccuracies and mistakes, and has allowed many artists to produce more precisely tuned […]