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  • Rambo: The Video Game Has A New Trailer. I Still Want This

    Here is a new trailer for Rambo: The Video Game that takes the iconic character through the events of the first three movies. Since hearing about this game early last year I have been very vocal about me wanting it despite the fact it looks completely outdated and may end up being an (at best) mediocre shooter. This trailer does nothing to change that, but dammit, I want to shut off my brain and take on Brian Dennehy and save Richard Crenna while exploding men with my massive armory of weapons.

    Let me have this.

    Rambo: The Video Game will release this year.

  • Game Of Thrones Season 4 Premiere Date Set

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    The picture says it all I suppose.

    Are you still reeling from the events of Season 3? Well get ready because that was only half the fun from the third novel, A Storm of Swords. There is way more sex, death, sex, death, betrayal, death and sex to come. Including big deaths for a couple of main characters.

    Why would I say something like that? Because every year when Game of Thrones fever comes back I relish making people who have only watched the show squirm. Sorry. If you want to change that, read a book…or go to Wikipedia.

     

  • Jessica Chastain As Merida From Brave. Why Disney?

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    So here is the always insanely beautiful Jessica Chastain dressed as Merida from Brave for the Disney Dream Portrait which advertises for all the Disney parks worldwide.

    To say that this gives me mixed feelings would be an understatement. Dammit Disney, I love Brave but now I am going to think of smoking hot Jessica Chastain whenever I watch it and I DON’T NEED TO DO THAT!

    Thanks a lot.

     

  • Guy Changes Xbox Gamertag To “Xbox Sign Out”, Hilarity Ensues

    This gamer (or genius in my book) changed his gamertag to “Xbox Sign Out” and went online with the underage masses in Call of Duty: Ghosts on Xbox One. What follows is some of the most brilliantly funny gaming ever.

    Here is to you, sir. You have my respect.

  • WWE Network Launches February 24th. Take A Look At The Best Deal In Sports Entertainment

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    Yesterday at CES the WWE brought out their big guns to announce that the WWE Network would officially launch on Monday, February 24th. Vince McMahon, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels, HHH, John Cena and more were on hand to celebrate the moment that the WWE has promised since 2011.

    The WWE Network will be a 24/7 streaming service that costs $9.99 a month and can be watched on PC’s, laptops, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Apple and Android phones and tablets as well as Roku streaming devices. Smart TV and Xbox One support will be available this summer. You must give a six month commitment to the WWE Network right off the bat but the $60 investment is more than worth it.

    What will you get for your 10 bucks a month? Quite simply, all of the wrestling content you could possibly dream of. I almost said “break it down” but resisted. Let’s get the rundown:

    -All 12 monthly PPV’s beginning with WrestleMania 30 (which itself is $75)

    -Every past WWE PPV

    -Every past WCW PPV (DDP vs. Macho Man!)

    -Every past ECW PPV (RVD vs. Jerry Lynn!)

    -Previous episodes of RAW and Smackdown

    -Weekly episodes of NXT

    -Pre- and Post- shows for RAW and Smackdown

    -Original programming including Legends House (like Big Brother with Roddy Piper, how is that not fun?), WrestleMania Rewind (looks back at WM matches with interviews from the wrestlers), The Monday Night War (regular series focusing on the battle between WWE and WCW) and WWE Countdown (interactive series where fans vote on a variety of “best of” categories).

    Legends House also has me intrigued in a “boy this is going to be one, big, racist trainwreck” sort of way. I can say that WrestleMania Rewind and The Monday Night War will already be regular viewing for me as well. WWE has also promised that more original content is on the way in the future. There is no word if new episodes of RAW and Smackdown will be available but I would assume not with the WWE about to sign their new TV deals soon.

    Let’s face it, that is a stupid amount of content for only $9.99. Even a cynical fan like me that has lost a lot of interest in wrestling over the past few years can’t help but get excited about this. The fact that I can cull through all of the old WCW and ECW PPV’s as I wish is worth the price alone. Add in the fact that you get all 12 PPV’s WWE produces, which is almost $700 a year, and there is no way any wrestling fan, no matter how disenchanted, can pass this up.

    All content will not be altered for today’s PG-era either. All of the programming that is rated TV-14 or TV-MA will carry a warning before viewing. Does this mean I can hear Joel Gertner in his filthy glory? I sure hope so.

    I have been a wrestling fan my entire life, and even if you (like me) are not pleased with the current product, the WWE Network will be a good way to go back and see why we fell in love with it to begin with.

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  • Titanfall’s Max Player Count Is Six Vs. Six. Everybody Calm Down

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    Vince Zampella from Respawn Entertainment, developer of Titanfall, revealed on Twitter that the maximum players on a map will be twelve consisting of two teams of six. He stated that that number of players felt right with the A.I. bots that will also be occupying the maps.

    As with everything, the internet has become foaming at the mouth with complaints about it being too small, which I am certain is something these people hear a lot.

    I would actually prefer a smaller player count especially since there will already be A.I. controlled characters and titans to deal with. You do not need 128 people on a map to have fun in multiplayer. Let’s not forget, this is the same Titanfall that has done nothing but amaze everyone who have played it the past nine months. Smaller player counts has not changed that.

    Titanfall releases on March 11th.

     

  • Sony Announces Playstation Now Streaming Service. This Is A Big Deal

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    Sony spent $380 million dollars in 2012 to buy streaming service Gaikai which we all knew would become a way to stream Playstation games onto your PS4 and Vita but Sony has taken things a step farther.

    The service is called Playstation Now and will be able to stream Playstation games (PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP) to you PS4, PS Vita as well as your television, smartphone and tablet. Playing The Last of Us on your Kindle is almost a reality. In fact, they had the Naughty Dog game running on a PS Vita using Playstation Now at CES. Sony also said that their 2014 line of Bravia televisions will support Playstation Now.

    Talk about backwards compatibility. Being able to draw from the entire well of Playstation offerings over the past 19 years on a host of devices is indeed the definition of that.

    Playstation Now will launch this summer with a limited amount of games including The Last of Us, God of War: Ascension, Beyond: Two Souls and Puppeteer. The library will no doubt grow from there. The service will be subscription-based or you can rent games one at a time. If they decide to bundle this with a PS Plus subscription I will be all over this. I would not mind paying $100 a year for PS Plus and the ability to stream games from PS Now. That is an easy sell.

     

  • Playstation 4 Sells Over 4 Million Consoles

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    Sony has announced that the Playstation 4 has sold 4.2 million consoles since December 28th. This comes one day after Microsoft announced that the Xbox One sold 3 million consoles.

    One million PS4’s were sold in the first 24 hours of the system’s release and the last report had the sales at 2.1 million during the first weeks of December.

    There is really nothing else to this news. So here is this:

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  • New Alien Game Info Released On Xbox Live (First Gameplay Shown)

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    A listing went up on the Xbox Games Store detailing a new Alien game by Sega and developer The Creative Assembly called Alien: Isolation which would see Ripley’s daughter, Amanda, go investigating her mother’s disappearance fifteen years ago only to become trapped with a xenomorph on a space station.

    Check out the official listing:

    “”Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and immortal danger. Players will take on the role of Amanda, the daughter of Ellen Ripley, as she goes on a mission to find out the truth behind her mother’s disappearance. The listing states that players will navigate through “an increasingly volatile world as you find yourself confronted on all sides by a panicked, desperate population and and unpredictable, ruthless Alien.”

    OK Sega, I was burned by Gearbox on Alien: Colonial Marines (read the review here to see how much it hurt) but since I am a card carrying member in the Alien fanboy club I will see what you have in store for this game.

    UPDATE:

    As I was about to hit publish on this article I found that GameTrailers has just posted a video with the first gameplay from Alien: Isolation. Check it out here.

    First thought on the video: Damn, that is more like it.

     

  • Xbox One Sales Pass 3 Million

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    The Xbox One keeps on leaving stores as soon as it comes in.

    Yusuf Mehdi, who has an extremely long and I am sure very important title with Xbox has announced that the next-generation console has hit the 3 million mark in sales at the end of 2013. The console released on November 22nd and had reached 2 million sold by December 11th.

    Sony also announced sales of 2 million Playstation 4’s around the same time in December but have not updated the numbers since then.

    Also, in case you were wondering, Mehdi’s title is Corporate VP of Marketing, Strategy, and Business for Xbox or the CVMSBX. Told you it sounded important.