In 2008, Richard Garriott, creator of the Ultima series and semi-famous weirdo, became the world’s sixth “space tourist”. That is, he paid Space Adventures Ltd $30,000,000 to put him on a Russian rocket in Kazakhstan and shoot him off the planet at 17,500 miles per hour.
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While you’re playing Oil Rush, a naval themed RTS, you can press the “F” key and the camera will supposedly fly around and show you cool stuff. This isn’t a unique feature — Petroglyph’s RTSs do the action camera particularly well — but it gets at the heart of the main problem with Oil Rush. Namely, that you might as well watch ships, because there’s not much else to do.
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An elevated wallet threat level has been issued for die-hard fans of JRPGs or fighting games due to the release of Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Soulcalibur V. I’ll have full reviews soon, but at this point all I can say for sure is that one of them is terrible.
On the completely unknown front is Neverdead (pictured), a shooter from the developers of the forgettable but decent Rogue Trooper five years ago and the forgettable but terrible Aliens vs. Predator two years ago. And if you’re a sucker for iPhone games and Cthulhu, make a sanity check against the five-dollar Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land, a tactical combat game about fighting Shug Nigguraths and whatnot.
The Grey is not the movie one of us wanted, but two of us loved — yes, loved! — it. Listen for a spirited conversation about what Joe Carnahan’s latest movie is, isn’t, and/or should be. For this week’s 3×3, which starts at the 1:03 mark, we talk about those parts in movies where the audience knows something the characters don’t. You know, like when the rope is fraying, or when a cup is poisoned, or when a monster is creeping around behind someone. But we mostly pick better examples than those. Next week: Chronicle.
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