Recent content by ZakCanard

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    IKEA Unveils Cutting-Edge BookBook Technology to Rival Apple

    I'm not 100% sold on this concept. There's no actual free content available from the start, and everything you can get is a purchase from one of their many app stores. After you've either narrowly avoided or succumbed to a side-purchase of meatballs, you've then got to then download it to your...
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    Report: Apple to Ditch Headphone Jack for Future iPhones

    Apple's core userbase might not be that bothered but I'm sure the European Union would have something to say about ditching a globally accepted standard in favour of their own proprietary solution. I also doubt bundling a free Lightning to earphone jack connector in Europe is going to cut it...
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    Elite: Dangerous "Premium Beta" Access Costs $150

    They are damned if they do and damned if they don't. The price'll be to keep it exactly in line with what the Kickstarter backers paid for their relevant tiers of access; they would have a much bigger PR catastrophe on their hands if non-backers were able to get in at premium beta (and...
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    Mountain Dew Cheetos: The Next Big Snacking Sensation

    2008 called, it wants its flavouring back. If Dew flavour Doritos were weird back then I daren't imagine what the Cheeto equivalent now would be like.
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    Feed Dump: Stowaway Pocket Calculator

    I was going to come up with a defence for the town of Failsworth, Lancashire and the hat company that has been their home since the 1900's, but then I remembered the town is also the UK and Europe HQ for the people who make those George Foreman health grills. I guess then I need to apologise...
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    Valve Greenlights 100 New Titles

    Glad to see there's good news at last for Renegade Kid, Mutant Mudds should've been in the first batch Greenlit last year.
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    Movie Defense Force: Godzilla

    When people say how awful the 1998 Godzilla movie was, they should be reminded that it could have been a lot worse. It could have had Godzooky in it.
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    Nintendo Urges Wii Owners to Please, Please Upgrade

    Drop the price, upgrade my VC titles for free and have all content tied to my account rather than the console, then I might consider it Nintendo. Oh who am I kidding, you'll never do anything as reasonable as all that!
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    Stealth Bastard Seeks "Less Profane" Name for PlayStation Release

    I guess if we were being subversive about it you'd have bastard as being an acronym, at the expense of the title becoming so large and unwieldy that you'd really have no choice but to refer to it shorthand.
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    DuckTales Remastered Will be "Significantly Easier"

    I'm disappointed to hear they've "fixed" the pogo. Was pressing A and down then holding B and either left or right really that hard? Only if you count their original release dates as a hierarchy. Duck Tales came out in 1989, Chip n' Dale in 1990, Darkwing Duck in 1992.
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    Let's Unbox the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Edition!

    It figures that Street Fighter gets the love from Capcom and their other much loved franchise with a 25th anniversary gets a travesty of an iOS game.
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    The Big Picture: Last Starr

    Did I just see a still from Challenge of the GoBots? A Hanna-Barbera cartoon based on a Japanese transforming robot/vehicle toy line that wasn't Transformers? Apparently that was moderately successful enough to have a spin-off cartoon movie and toy line of its own, Battle of the Rock Lords.
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    Zero Punctuation: Syndicate

    I can see EA turning the rest of Bullfrog's back catalogue into First/Third Person Shooters with mixed results. Magic Carpet would work well under modern tech, and a third person remake of Dungeon Keeper could be like Orcs Must Die! but with a bigger budget. Populous on the other hand just...
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    The Big Picture: Monster's Movie

    It would appear that the whole film's on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkZjt3A3az4], the BBC linked to it [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16245174] as part of their obituary articles back in December.
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    Duke Takes on Himself in New Duke Nukem Forever DLC

    Sure DNF had its fair share of problems (the major one being 14 years late) but it wasn't as bad as some people seem to make out. I'll give this new campaign a fair shot once I get through my backlog of other games. I suspect that will be when the DLC's in a Steam sale.