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Friday Report: Quarter final from the bottom of the draw. From the get go Benneteau looked defeated. Maybe the accumulation of matches and the stress involved in such tournement caught up with him, maybe he knew he was not 100% fit and as a result did not believe in his chances today, but in...

Nintendo has the thing patented, so other companies have to do the same thing differently.

I hope for them that that D-pad is a single piece of plastic masquerading as 4 buttons and not, in fact, 4 buttons.

I don't understand why they feel the need to have these syncretic universes. For me, the core problematic in X-Men is completely at odds with the essence of the Avengers. At least in their movie versions.

EDIT: Double post generated by editing.

I have been maintaining since 2006 a little web site for my group of movie going friends (6 people) where we rate movies we see (yuk, meh and then 1 to 4 stars). I know people often seem enamored with Pan's Labyrinth so I confess I was semi-trolling when I mentioned my genuine taste for Blade II...

Thursday report: quarters of the top half. - Raonic started his semi very poorly. Not hitting enough first serve, not finding the court with just about any ground strokes: terribad. So Dolgopolov ran away with it and never looked back. By the end of the first set things were little better for...

On the up side for the Xbox One, it seems, according to leaked NPD numbers, that it managed to stay close to the PS4 during February in the US.

I can see how the mix of fantasy and spanish fascism is original and could be interesting, but sadly the film makes a mess of it all and it never grabbed me. Blade II is a lot less ambitious but it does very good job at being an entertaining B movie.

People seem to forget that a few episodes back May turned back to being the old May (pulling pranks on the crew). It's ok because the writers seem to have forgotten that also!

I finished the Lies of Locke Lamora the other day, the first book of the Gentlemen Bastards by Scott Lynch. I found it easy to read and entertaining, but I must confess I was a little underwhelmed by it. That might be because I saw beforehand the enthusiasm of some of the posters here and also...

Quarter finals! Dolgopolov(28) confirmed his won over Nadal by a clean win over Fognini. vs Raonic(10) rallied back from a set down and then an early break down in the third to beat Murray, mostly by being very aggressive on the scot's second serves. I am curious to see how this one will...

Blade II: Best Guillermo del Toro movie I saw by a significant margin (and I've seen them all but The Devil's Backbone).

Probably the funniest of his movies and the most accomplished in its direction. Every set, every costume, every prop, every shot, every camera movement, the delivery of every line even the movements of the actors are all masterly controlled from start to finish on a frantic pace with a great...

Tuesday report: Bottom half of the draw. - Gasquet served for the opening set against Verdasco but got reeled back in, forced into a tie-breaker and lost it. And then vanished. Good-bye 8th seed! - Isner managed to win two sets by breaking his opponent! At this rate he'll soon be playing...

This is just in: Titanfall is the best selling game ever in Mexico! Seriously, I wonder if this will mess with the NPD numbers for the game.

Gwendolyn is not needed to complete the game. At the stage you are at you need the souls of the four lords: Seath in the library, Nito in tomb of the giants, 4 Kings in old lando ruins and Bed of Chaos in Isalith. Note that you might have the souls already and not have sacrificed them to the...

Monday report top half of the draw: - The shock of the day was the victory of Dolgopolov over Nadal. From the get go we knew it could be a strange match as it started by 4 breaks of serve! A few years back before the US Open, Nadal tweaked his service motion to be more aggressive with it and...

If you add the 'can also be played on PC haha' close, you will lose Plant vs Zombies: Garden Warfare and Titanfall, but it's true that the PS4 would lose most of its indies (except Resogun, Flower, Sound Shapes and Zen Pinball 2).

I don't think you understand how metacritics work: They aggregate scores based on a number of reviews. You can argue with they methodology to convert some of the rating systems to percentage, but they use the same methodology across the board so it does not matter when comparing games with each...

Killer Instinct, Crimson Dragon, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood, Ryse: Son of Rome, and Zoo Tycoon are rated as slightly above average. Just Dance 2014 is multiplaform. Titanfall is yet to be rated. Leaving Forza, Plants vs Zombies and Dead rising 3 as 75+ games on metacritics that can't be...

Seed watch, bottom half. - Del Potro, still hindered by his left wrist decided not to play. - Berdych, one of the sharpest player on tour at the moment played a sub-par match, but sadly for him it happened when facing a player full of confidence, the spaniard Bautista-Agut. - Crowd...

You can of course disagree with Pachter (I know I sometimes do), but his position has the merit of being based on more than gut feeling, hearsay, anecdotal evidence and data points in the single digits.

Some reading for Kudos taken from a very recent analysis of the game industry and its future by Wedbush Securities (Michael Pachter, Nick McKay, Nick Citrin). Hint: they don't agree with you and their job is to crunch numbers and derive trends from them to advise investors.

I believe you try to buy 999 and it adjusts the cart with how many are left if it's less than 999.

They are both selling faster than the Wii so all I see is a bunch of vague generalities not backed by data. Also, one of these days someone should come up with a good definition for "casual gamers". Are they defined by how much they buy? How much they play? The type of games they play? If...

As I mentioned in the Last of Us thread in Other Games: assume this movie will not be made until they start shooting. We're still waiting on Uncharted turned into a family of art dealers btw...

Seed watch: - Both Nadal and Murray lost their opening set (to Stepanek and Rosol respectively) but both managed to pull through. - Smooth sailing for Federer against Mathieu... until the swiss had to serve for the match and then he played three poor games in a row against a galvanized...

Why?

It might have depended of where you were... I kinda left computer gaming behind when the Amiga and Ataris ST faded in favor of PC, but during the 16-bit computer era everything was pirated and shared physically. There were many 'copy parties' and every gamer knew a guy who knew a guy (and 99% of...

I forgot the epitome of japanese muscular superhero: Muscle Man!Kinnikuman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It's a comedy manga / anime though.

My source:Tomb Raider finally beats profit expectations | GamesIndustry International But on the other hand, it seems that the definitive edition sold 'only' 300k units... that number probably does not account for digital download though.

It's The Penguin taking the picture.

So.... the short answer is that no writer got payed for this lame-ass pun: a lawyer was! This explains a lot....

It definitely counts toward square-enix's revenue (which, for this title, ended up being higher than initially forecast), but it probably affects the unit count also, though it is hard to know how much. What is credited as the key for the success of the title as far as units go was the creation...

About this decline of console games: the latest Tomb Raider is on track to become the most sold title in the serie...

Mahr-Vehl? Really? Are people paid for this lame-ass writing?

It should be mentioned that the dance games for Kinect are good party games, but that's not what we have in mind around these parts when we talk about video games. Same goes for the pet thing... Kinectimals?

It's fair to assume it will not happen until they start shooting. There are countless video game franchises that are optioned or bought or that even have screenplay drafts written yet remain forever in limbo. John Woo's pruction company owned the rights to Metroid at some point! Closer to the...

Back in the early '90s there was in my city little communities around video game import shops. There was a guy who had a Mega CD (japanese Sega CD) he was very proud of, but most of the games were garbage so we would always make fun of him "Dude, when are the good games coming for your console?"...