Archive for January 26th, 2012

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Insomniac Won’t Be Making Any More Resistance Games

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Andy Yen
– January 26, 2012Posted in: Video Games

“We won’t be making any more Resistances,” Insomniac CEO Ted Price told VG247 during an interview at Southern Methodist University’s Game::Business::Law Summit today. Short, sweet, and to the point.

Guess Insomniac finally came to the conclusion that Resistance… was futile.

Seriously, though, the Resistance games were among the best shooters available on the PlayStation 3. I’m a little wistful that they won’t be continuing the franchise, but happy to see that Insomniac isn’t content with just making sequels. Here’s to bigger and better new IP’s from one of the best studios in the game right now.

via Insomniac: “We won’t be making any more Resistances” | VG247.

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Steam Releases Mobile App

By
Andy Yen
– January 26, 2012Posted in: Mobile, Video Games

Well, well well, Steam. Look who’s decided to join the mobile apps party.

I suppose it was only a matter of time before Valve jumped into mobile. Right now the features list looks pretty basic, offering only friend status updates, chatting, and access to the Steam store. While good for impulse buys or checking up on deals, I was actually hoping for at least an achievement viewer. There’s nothing I like doing more when I’m away from my computer than wistfully reflecting on all of my gaming accomplishments.

Obviously, the mobile app’s functionality will only grow from here. After all, Steam itself started off as a pretty basic client, too. It’ll be interesting to see if Steam expands its tendrils into the mobile gaming distribution arena, given that both Android and iOS already have exclusive channels for that. Perhaps Steam will become more of a content curator? There’s certainly a lot of trash to wade through in those marketplaces.

Though the app is still in an invite-only beta mode right now, you can still download it and poke around the offline mode. If you’ve used the iOS Gmail app, the Steam app UI looks very similar.

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Archer Tells The Best Diarrhea Story You Will Ever Hear

By
Andy Yen
– January 26, 2012Posted in: TV

Being a huge fan of Archer, I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of Aisha Tyler’s “Girl on Guy” podcast until recently. Even more unbelievable is how awesome H. Jon Benjamin’s diarrhea story is in the first episodes of the series. In the words of Rob Lowe’s character on Parks and Recreation, “It is LITrally the funniest thing I have heard.” It’s long, but well worth every minute.

The story starts at about the 53:30 mark of the podcast. You won’t be disappointed.

(Here’s an iTunes link for the episode in case you can’t view the embedded Flash player above)

girl on guy 01: jon benjamin of archer.

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