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A futuristic bloodsport meant to thin out the prison population while entertaining the masses? Only thing that could make this a great film is if Gerard Butler was in it. OH WAIT!
3D Realms Shuts Down – Duke Nukem For-Never?
3D Reams, developer of Duke Nukem Forever, has shut their doors. As being reported on ShackNews, however, it is unknown if the shut down is due to funding issues as originally reported.
Joe Siegler, 3D Realms webmaster, has been quoted as saying “it is not a marketing thing”, so we at least know that it isn’t some weird release event for DNF.
Sadly, Duke Nukem Forever is STILL in development. *sigh*
‘Shadow Physics’ Tech Demo
Kind of reminds me of Echochrome.
WiiSports Resort, Motion Plus, Wii News, Oh My!
What You Mean More Attachments? Am I Going To Vacuum The Place With It?
Get ready folks, WiiSports Resort and Wii Motion Plus are coming. Nintendo has announced both the release dates and prices of WiiSports Resort and the Motion Plus attachment.
WiiSports Resort – The sequel to the hit “pack-in” game WiiSports. The game will include the Motion Plus attachment and will retail for $49.99. Release date is set at July 26th.
Motion Plus attachments, on their own, will be retailing for $19.99 and are scheduled to go on sale June 8th, six weeks earlier.
Some speculation about the spaced out release dates suggests that Nintendo will be selling Wii Motion Plus devices early to help cut down on shortages. Only a handful of games will support Motion Plus when it initially comes out, including Tiget Woods PGA Tour 10 and EA’s Grand Slam Tennis both set to release on June 16th; however, as summer continues and WiiSports Resort hits the market things will definetly change.
EA Sends Gaming Press Brass Knux, Facepalms all around
Law dictates that brass knuckles are illegal in many states, including in California where Electronic Arts is based. Well that didn’t stop our sarcasticly favorite video game publisher from shipping sets of these dangerous weapons to a number of people in the gaming press as a promotional piece for their latest release, Godfather 2.
Today, EA has been reported to be contacting all of those who received the weapons and asked for their return so they could be “disposed of safely”. According to an update on the Kotaku article, it may be illegal to even SHIP items within California.
Now, I know EA must have had a “fun” idea in their heads with this, but honestly, did no one realize that metal molded to be wrapped around a hand that is then to be used to break someones face COULD be considered illegal. What are these gaming press groups supposed to do now, illegally ship a weapon BACK to California? What a mess.
[Source: Kotaku.com]
The New Geek Order Is Upon Us
April 1st, 2009: This is not a joke. The Geek Media now has a sister site, New Geek Order.
New Geek Order, much like The Geek Media before it, will be the home of all podcast, music and video related affiliates and will have more of a focus on both visual and aural media. The Geek Media, on the other hand, will be retaining the textual-based affiliates, those being web comics and blogs. This is not to say that the affiliates will be segregated to one site or another. Promotion of our affiliates is one of the main reasons for the creation of NGO, to allow us to put all of our affiliates on display yet not overload a single website with clashing content.
As you can see the Music section (on NGO) and the Comic Section (on TGM) is not yet active due to technical issues that we are working the knots out of. Worry not, however, as we hope to have these sections fully operational within the next month.
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Is Apple Nintendo’s Problem?
Is Apple Nintendo’s Problem?
Nintendo has seen a significant drop in profits lately and most say Apple’s mobile gaming platform is to blame. Nintendo themselves are even keeping an eye on Apple. Sony and Microsoft is no longer the thorn in Mario’s side. It’s the big “little i”.
Is Apple really the biggest issue Nintendo is facing or is it a larger issue? Most likely, a little bit of both. As a hardcore Nintendo fan, I can safely say that my favorite gaming company has failed me the past few years. It all began with the shoddy release of Twilight Princess, the lack of core titles for the DS and then the Wii games that were off-shoots of “Sports” started to move through the shelves.
What’s left for us? The Moms, families and kids are only going to enjoy their Wii for so long. Then, they will put it down for a new toy that’s promising family fun. I have it on good authority to say this since I’ve sold my Nintendo Wii. Why? Because my kids stopped playing it and moved on to something else.
Nintendo has forgotten about their core audience. They have been pumping out games for a brand new audience that were quite successful. You can only go so far with the “Wii-fit-sports-swimming pool-billiards-backyard party” franchise. Frankly, you can only go so far with any franchise. I have to admit, even Zelda is in desperate need of an upgrade. -
5 Awesome Nintendo character tattoos
5 Awesome Nintendo character tattoos
Like other uber geeks, we are the beautiful people and we have awesome taste in tattoos, clothing, games, tech, gadgets and nostalgia. A generation grew up on Atari, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and the Mother of video game entertainment of the 1980’s – Nintendo. We proudly wear our dorky gamer badges on our bodies for all to see.
There are probably hundreds of thousands of Nintendo tattoos out there. We scoured the web to find our 5 favorite Nintendo character tattoos.
#5. Hey. Hey Listen!
Why Navi? Of all things, why Navi?! Because you said that as soon as you saw this tattoo. She’s embedded into your brain, the constant screaming of “Hey, hey hey listen!” and this brave man has made sure everyone will remember it. The tattoo is really well done, but we all hate him just a little bit.
#4. Stars and Ghosts, oh my!
This tattoo comes complete with invincible stars and a Boo. It’s quite obvious this girl loves her Nintendo. We love her half-sleeve and her stars. The original photo by Kotaku stated this woman’s husband was the tattoo artist. We love both of them just a little.
#3. 8 Bit Mario
Memories of throwing your controller when Mario died, moving the controller with Mario to make him jump and wanting to kill Toad when your Princess was in another castle come to mind when looking at this tattoo. The original tattoo is credited to artist Jon Poulson on Flickr.
Number 2 and number 1 are after the break
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E3 2010 Predictions
E3 2010 Predictions
E3 2010 is a couple of months away. As usual, everyone is making predictions and speculating what huge announcements are coming. A lot of talk is revolving around Sony and Microsoft this year. There are hopes of long-awaited games finally coming out in the public eye.I wonder if Duke Nukem will finally come out? Sure. Right.
For E3 this year, I have a couple of predictions of my own. I am hoping that Nintendo redeems themselves and announces a new Legend of Zelda game. I see the game releasing during the 4th quarter of 2010. Gears of War 3 is another prediction. I don’t see it releasing in the 4th quarter of 2010. I see an announcement at E3 with the possibility of release in 2nd or 3rd quarter of 2011.
I asked on Twitter what your predictions for E3 are from The Geek Media’s Twitter and my personal Twitter. The answers after the jump. next
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Is Apple Nintendo’s Problem?
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