Rant Central #10: Glenn Beck and friends

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Idiocy is a phenomenon that finds itself draped across all walks of life. Unfortunately that phenomenon seems to follow videogames around like a bad smell, hence the video below.
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GTA IV DLC “last shot they have”?

According to Sony Europe’s David Reeves the last shot Microsoft has is the DLC that will be coming to GTA IV later this year. Flame wars of immense proportion could easily come of this, so lets take it for what it’s worth. Absolutely nothing.
“Well I think you probably will see it, it’s just that a [...]

XNA Game Studio 3.0 preview available

This release of XNA Game Studio is mainly for the purposely of Zune game development, as it doesn’t support development for the XBox 360 until final release. Available now is a preview build of XNA Game Studio 3.0 which will be going RTM ( Ready to Maunfature) latter this fall.
 A majority of the XNA framework [...]

Beyond Xbox #2: Videogames vs. Film Animation

Why is it that I don’t understand how so many people can praise animation in film and pooh pooh videogames so easily. As I sit here and Watch Starz Inside: A Pixar Story (more specifically Part 2), I can’t help but see the exuberance oozing out of Richard Roeper as he chronicles Ratatouille. It’s no [...]

GRID demo drifts onto XBLM

 

The time for Codemasters’ next foray into the racing scene is here in demo form, but not only will you be able to try out the game, you’ll get a chance to compete for a brand new BMW 3-Series† car. Saying the incentive to play this demo is high is the least of it.
To participate, [...]

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