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Category: Soapbox

A Note on The PC Master Race and Disclosure

Tyler Wilde recently wrote an opinion article over at PC Gamer about, well, PC gamers referring to themselves as the PC Master Race. He made the point that PC Master Race started out as an internet joke 7 years ago, and has now become the identity of the PC community. First, you’ll see that I
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January 16, 2015
Nintendo wants you to go fuck yourself!

No seriously, that’s basically what they said today during key points of their Nintendo Direct video today. First there is this amazing bit of catfishing that they put at the VERY BEGINNING of the video: Seriously, hi-res standard visuals.. oh wait that’s just a painting, look at these hi-res cell shaded visuals… oh fuck you
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January 14, 2015
Best of 2014

As 2014 comes to a close, the staff here at IBeatItFirst.com would like to reflect on 2014, and give you our top picks while slinging insults at each other. Oh, and happy holidays, new year, all that junk. Chris’ superior picks to those other guys that work here and will edit this headline later anyways
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January 2, 2015
PS4 Will Have a 300MB Day 1 Patch!

As I keep hearing about all of these features enabled by Day 1 patches, it does make me wonder just how early in the production timeline a company starts building their consoles. The WiiU had a HUGE patch that was required before you can do anything, Microsoft has already said that they will have a
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October 25, 2013
Eric Van Kirk is from the future

Okay, I don’t want to freak anybody out, but, apparently we all owe our Executive Editor Eric Van Kirk $5. Two years ago on August 10th, in a comment on our L.A. Noir review, Eric pointed out that the next Xbox will have Blu-Ray capabilities. Battousai311 August 10, 2011 at 9:12 am – “$5 says
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July 26, 2013
Backwards Compatibility, Why We Want it and Why We’re Dumb!

Admit it, even though you may not have yelled it at the top of your lungs you at least mentally cried foul when you heard that the XBOX One and PS4 would not be backwards compatible. It’s ok, many of us felt the same way. Backwards compatibility is continually sought after by us because we
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June 27, 2013
RUMOR: Next Xbox to Require Always On Internet Connection *UPDATED*

Ok… to reiterate the headline, this is all a rumor since nobody from Microsoft will breathe about Durango to anyone. Kotaku has heard from devs that this is true so the below article is written as if this is fact in hopes that someone at MS will read it and know how dumb the decision
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April 4, 2013
I’ve Changed My Mind About the Marketing for Injustice: Gods Among Us

Even heading in to this week I viewed the extended marketing for Injustice pretty much the same way that Kotaku has viewed the recent NCAA Football ’14 marketing, lame, pointless, and waste of time & money. This week I decided to look at it a little differently and give it the benefit of the doubt, with
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March 15, 2013
IBIF.CO Bitches!

Hey everybody! Do you think IBeatItFirst.com is a super awesome website but hate typing in the whole URL every time? (because you don’t believe in bookmarks) Well do I have news for you! IBIF.CO is now a valid and super sweet way to get to all the great
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February 27, 2013
SOAP BOX RANT: Is Gearbox Borderline Racist?

NO, the answer is no! There was an argument over twitter about whether Tiny Tina in BL2 was racist or not and I thought that I should chime in a little bit on this. Watch the video above and then click the READ MOAR if you would like to hear my take on this.
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February 4, 2013