The Xbox One has had a major resurgence of late beginning with last summer’s drop of the Kinect. Microsoft’s entry into the new console generation has benefited from a tremendous boost in sales recently, topping the seasonal sales figures and hitting the top spot for console sales for both November and December. The immensely popular $350 sale price is also set to return, meaning those figures are likely to keep rising and rising....
Speaking to Industry Gamers, Epic Games’ President Mike Capps revealed that Fox News dubbing Bulletstorm the “Worst Video Game in the World” might have actually helped move more units of the game, while also acknowledged those same comments may have hurt the industry. Obviously, when a news outlet like Fox puts such a perceived kiss of death on a title, many developers and publishers might become fearful that it could hurt sales — especially with as over-the-top a title as Bulletstorm....
The idea of culture jamming, as old as activism itself, has been gaining momentum for a decade, and is now the favorite tactic of anti-corporate campaigners around the world. Its most common form is “ad busting,” the practice of parodying advertisements and hijacking billboards. In one well-known bust, New York artist Ron English skewers Joe Camel’s appeal to children. He paints the camel as a younger, cuddly “Cancer Kid,” playing with building blocks instead of sports cars and pool cues....
In the 1970s and 80s, he killed at least 17 women across the state of Alaska. Hansen was caught in 1983 after a woman escaped after being abducted, and ultimately sentenced to 461 years in prison, plus life. The two-hour documentary, The Butcher Baker: The Mind of a Monster premieres on Wednesday. Newsweek spoke with prosecutor Frank Rothschild, part of the team who spoke directly to Hansen when he was questioned for his multiple killings....
Late last month, food TikToker @sooziethefoodie shared her method of making the dairy product into a usable candle. Despite not everyone quite getting it, the video has racked up over 2.1 million views and Hank Green has even weighed in with his scientific take on it all. @sooziethefoodie regularly creates out-there food content, including roses made from bacon strips. This time, however, she transformed a stick of butter into a room-decor-cum-food-dip center piece, using just a few products....
On the software side, we know that a few games broke records for new IPs and some old franchises sold well, but we didn’t know (at the time) where specific titles ranked against each other. Now we do. According to NPD, who just published their December and year-end reports, the best selling game of 2014 was Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Sledgehammer Games’ first foray into Activision’s flagship franchise was met with mostly positive reviews, and it appears the fans have also responded in kind....
Now, just over half a year after its launch, Black Ops has overtaken its predecessor as the UK’s highest selling video game of all time. While the previous record-holder, Modern Warfare 2, sold 3,702,410 copies in the UK to date, Black Ops has officially surpassed it with a total of 3,722,411 cumulative sales as of June 25. While these are some truly impressive numbers, it’s also not entirely surprising to see the newest iteration of the venerable Call of Duty series achieving record-breaking numbers, further exemplified by the fact that over 2 million gamers signed up for the Call Of Duty Elite beta....
[HTML1] Love it or hate it, Call of Duty remains one of the most popular shooters available. This financial and commercial juggernaut is set to make a return later this year with Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, as the franchise continues to tap into a sci-fi future setting complete with augmentation, robots, and civil unrest over technology. With Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 multiplayer, players are able to select from a series of specialist classes before jumping into a multiplayer match....
As one of the best selling annual titles around, Call of Duty takes up regular residence at E3, albeit in many different forms. With the franchise now in the hands of a rotating stable of three developers, it’s never clear what to expect from the latest game when compared to the last. The same is true of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, which we got to play at E3 2015....
Tag Der Toten Pack-a-Punch First, turn on the power switch at the Dock spawn. Then turn on the power on the top floor of the boat. Go to the location called the Bridge. The power switch looks like this. Get the Gearbox on the Navigation deck on the second floor, below the previous power switch. Head towards the Call of the Dead spawn, known as Lighthouse Approach. On the wall you’ll see this Blue Rock....
Police apprehended the shooter, Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said. However, police haven’t yet released information about how the shooter acquired the gun. A man whose daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren hid during the shooting told CBS News, “This is not OK with me, and has put in a big pitch for gun control. When it’s your family, you feel it.” Legal authorities safely recovered the man’s family members from the supermarket....
BioShock: Infinite’s ending moments will no doubt leave most players speechless (as predicted by Ken Levine months ago), but it shouldn’t leave them confused. At least, not in a bad way. So to truly grasp the story that Ken Levine and his studio managed to tell from the game’s opening scene, we thought we’d explain Infinite’s ending more plainly. Needless to say, spoilers lie ahead. The Quantum Conundrum Quantum mechanics is a field of theoretical physics that even experts will claim is hard to understand or explain, but everyday analogies are numerous when discussing it for the layperson....
That’s exactly what is happening with BioShock Infinite, things are beginning to unravel and gamers will soon start to wonder whether the game will ever hit its February 2013 release date, which was pushed back from an earlier October slate. Chief among those concerns are several reports of key personnel departing Infinite, and sources claiming that the game’s tumultuous development has resulted in the project losing focus numerous times....
At this point, the only people that aren’t willing to admit that the Call of Duty title coming next year is Black Ops 2 are the ones who are working on it. So much evidence has mounted, some more substantial than others, that it seems almost a formality at this point that Activision announce it in any sort of whiz-bang fashion. But apparently that’s exactly what’s going to happen; at least if a rumored poster for Black Ops 2 is legitimate....
PREVIOUS: The layoffs at ESPN might turn out worse than predicted, sources tell Sporting News. The Worldwide Leader in Sports could cut around 70 TV/radio anchors, reporters, analysts and online writers over coming days and weeks, sources said. That would be worse than the 40 to 50 on-air talents predicted by ESPN book author James Andrew Miller during a podcast with Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated. The higher numbers may reflect the inclusion of online writers like respected Titans beat reporter Paul Kuharsky who tweeted Monday his contract is not being renewed....
McLeod is a self-proclaimed “Boomer,” poking fun at his own age and drawing in viewers due to his unique skill. The clip below should be all the proof that fans need to see that age doesn’t really matter, as he exhibits reaction time and positioning of a top tier player. Some would say that Apex Legends is all about positioning and reflexes, so this puts him in a great spot....
St. Pierre claimed Cohen and crew “duped” her mother—87-year-old Holocaust survivor Judith Dim Evans—into thinking she was being interviewed for a Holocaust documentary, not Cohen’s controversial satire. In the lawsuit filed in early October, St. Pierre alleged Cohen and Borat 2 producers coaxed Evans into an interview “under false pretenses with the intent of appropriating her likeness.” “My mother is a person that would never be participating in this and would never play the game if she would know what it was about....
In a post on Reddit’s popular r/Wellthatsucks forum, Deion from South Florida—who uses the handle curiositykeepsmeup—said: “I’ve been hearing clicking sounds in my room for months and thought I was going crazy. Today I was replacing my bed frame and my toes cracked through the flooring. Needless to say, I have a termite infestation.” In the video, lots of the creepy crawlies can be seen in the wood running around....
The billionaire and philanthropist recently told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution he helped fund Trump’s 2016 campaign, and planned on doing so again. Marcus, who retired from Home Depot in 2002 after serving as its first CEO, made the comments while discussing his plans to leave most of his fortune to charitable causes after his death. Marcus told the publication disagreed with some of Trump’s politics, but liked his “businessman’s common-sense approach....
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the book and TV version of Brave New World. To do that, the Peacock version of Brave New World has to get rid of the novel’s very definite, very downbeat ending. In the book, John (Alden Ehrenreich) becomes disillusioned with the artificial pleasure of life in New London and becomes a hermit, living in a tower and purifying himself with a whip. Partly, his reason for hiding himself was to get away from his celebrity, with the world fascinated by this “savage” who comes from a world where monogamous marriage is still practiced....
