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Category: Soapbox

Crowd Funding Round-Up

Crowd funding websites like Kickstarter are a great way for a game to get funded, especially with publishers liking to play it safe, and stick with sequels. It allows gamers to have a voice, putting their dollars directly into the development of the games they want to play. Industry vets and up and coming indies…
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October 19, 2012
Is FF Versus XIII the next Duke Nukem Forever?

Why is this the image that I think of when I think of FFVersus:XIII? Because this is what I have been doing since it was originally teased since E3 2006. What’s that? No way this game has been in production for most likely OVER 7 years? WRONG!!!! It has and prepare for an even longer…
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October 10, 2012
The Importance of Expectations

The Penny Arcade Report recently posted their beta impressions for Planetside 2, and unlike my own impressions, and many others, it didn’t speak well of Planetside. The reasons for this is clear, expectations. The reviewer went into the beta expecting it to be World of Warcraft with guns.
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October 9, 2012
Borderlands 2 First Impressions

As all of you know, or should know (otherwise what the hell are you doing here), Borderlands 2 came out on Tuesday and I have spent the last 48 hours “Joy Puking” the crap out of this game. Now according to 2k Games and GearBox the story missions should take about 60 hours to complete…
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September 20, 2012
Anonymous claiming another PSN hack! 10 Million PSN accounts at risk? [UPDATE] HOAX!

That’s right folks, Anonymous is saying that they have once again hacked in to the PSN and stolen 50GB worth of data. Sure it’s encrypted, but that probably won’t stop them for long. Anonymous posted on Twitter “@Sony Hacked, @PlayStation Network Pwned |pastebin.com/HUjZPaF3 | #PSN | #Anonymous“, and the pastebin url seems to show a lot of European info. This again…
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August 15, 2012
The Summer of Jason

Its another long hot summer and you know what that means?!?!? Another drought of games coming out. Although I could easily spend all day bitching about how gaming companies are stupid to not take advantage of this “off season”, I wont. However lets make the most of this silly situation. I announce THE SUMMER OF…
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June 16, 2012
A new Lord of Shadows game is coming out and I don’t care

I’m sure there are many out there saying “but why Eric? It’s Kojima and Castlevania together!” and I’ll tell you why. I own the first Lord of Shadows for the PS3 and have played a few hours of it late last summer (here is your first key right now). I didn’t find it especially bad…
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June 1, 2012
STFU & BUY AN HDTV ALREADY!

After reading THIS article over at Kotaku, which directly correlates to THIS article I wrote the other day, I decided a I would revisit my previous rant and give you morons playing HD games on an SDTV a little more help. This weekend Newegg.com is selling a 24″ Asus 1080p Monitor for $170. Sure it’s not a…
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May 25, 2012
PSA: Are Videogame Stores veering on extinction?

My friends, we stand at the edge of a cliff. This cliff is called the “should I give a fuck?” cliff. On the one hand almost everyone universally loathes GameStop and it’s constituents, but on the other hand we continue to shop at them ALL THE TIME. The IBIF crew is extremely guilty of this,…
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May 14, 2012
PSA/Soapbox: Buy an HDTV and quit yer bitchin’!

You would think that I’d start getting dizzy by now, since I climb up on top of this thing so often, but gosh darn it I must be used to the altitude. Kotaku posted an article earlier today and I thought that I would give my 2 cents on this whole “problem” on here,…
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May 10, 2012