What Max Payne 3's Delay Means For GTA V

Max Payne 3's delay announcement this morning can only mean one thing: Take-Two wants to own the month of May. But where does this leave Grand Theft Auto V?

Ever since Red Dead Redemption’s May release two years ago, Take-Two has indentified the month as its personal release window that other publishers have quickly learned to avoid. Take-Two has proved that games don't need to be released during the holiday months to sell big
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Red Dead Redemption quickly shipped 5 million copies in a matter of weeks of releasing in May 2010 and has seen sales reach the 11 million mark total since this past August. One year later in May 2011, Rockstar released L.A. Noire, and while the title didn’t blow up like Red Dead Redemption did, it still pulled in a

The River: Paranormal Activity Director's TV Horror

With the exception of Supernatural, horror fans won't find a lot for them on network TV these days. But that will be changing soon, as ABC debuts The River, from executive producer Oren Peli, the writer/director of Paranormal Activity.

When the cast and creators of The River spoke at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour today, Peli recalled how the idea began as a film concept he had, about a rescue mission to find a mission documentary crew. That idea got tabled, but Peli then humorously told us how Steven Spielberg -- one of the show's producers -- told him, 'Hey, we should do a TV show together!" and his natural, "Okay!" reaction. It was one of the Paranormal Activity 2 writers who then suggested that earlier idea would make a good TV show, albeit with some tweaks.

The result is a show focusing on the disappearance of Dr. Emmet Cole (Star Trek's Bruce Greenwood), a

DC Universe Online Gets Crafting

A new free game update is available for DC Universe Online, and this one adds "Research and Development." If that doesn't ring any bells, just imagine "crafting." Heroes and villains in the free-to-play MMO can now create new items and mods to "socket" them into existing gear to make an unmatched arsenal.

Imorive Your Gear, Go on a Raid

This stat-boosting option is available at Level 10 and includes...

• Finding and Researching: Plans to create Equipment Mods to upgrade gear and consumables can be collected throughout the world.


• Gathering: Throughout the open world (including Gotham City, Metropolis and Central City), players (1-30) can find exobytes and other items.


• Salvaging: Players can turn unused, uncommon or rare items into crafting materials, and they can recover a rare item and create a useful piece of new equipment.


• Collecting: Bosses will drop useful ingredients such as Focusing Elements and Plans throughout the game.

[source ign.com]

Bethesda, Interplay Reach Fallout Settlement

Bethesda and Interplay have been in and out of court for quite some time thanks to their spat over Interplay's Fallout MMO. Originally Interplay was given rights to develop an MMO based on the franchise, as long as, according to Bethesda, it "secured $30 million in financing for the MMO and commenced full scale development of the game by April 2009."

April 2009 came and went, and Bethesda contended that Interplay did not fulfill their agreement. After several legal bouts (including Bethesda having its most recent appeal denied), it started to look like one of those cases bound to last for years.

That is until today, when Bethesda announced in a press release that they've reached a settlement with Interplay. Per the settlement Interplay's rights to develop a Fallout MMO are "null and void, and all rights granted to Interplay to develop a Fallout MMO revert back to Bethesda, effective immediately." Each side will cover their own litigation costs, and Bethesda will pay Interplay 2 million dollars.

Interplay will be able to sell the older Fallout games until December of 2013. After that, they will then become property of Bethesda. Their merchandising rights will also expire then.

CES: Razer Debuts Windows 8-Based Gaming Tablet

Last week, Razer teased a new product that offered "PC gaming on an all-new form factor" to be announced at CES. Now, Project Fiona is official and we've got the full scoop.

Powered by Intel Core i7 processors, Project Fiona is a Windows 8-powered gaming tablet with a 10-inch touchscreen display and two analog controllers mounted to the sides. It features force feedback, THX-certified audio, Wi-Fi networking and front- and rear-facing cameras. It will run standard PC titles, such as FireFall, HAWX 2 and Assassin's Creed: Revelations, though specific graphics processing specs have not been revealed. It is currently just a concept, but Razer says that it plans on bringing a product based on Project Fiona to market before the end of 2012.

Most importantly, the company says that when a finalized version of Project Fiona arrives, it will retail for less than $1,000.

[source ign.com]

Why I will never ski again!

So today I got up at 4:30am after staying up past 2 playing Batman Arkham City, took a shower put on my clothes (a aperture science shirt) and headed to ski with my church.

Well after a good 3 and a half hour drive I got to the ski place wearing about four layers of clothing and big bulky ski boots and went down the bunny slope twice I felt like such s bis so I went to the intermediate slope. On

On the ski lift I was gonna fall out the whole ride up and at the top as I was getting off im ok Wesley here we gozz and BOOM! Face plant into the snow! I get up and position myself at the edge of the slope and go for it and I wipe out again and if that wasn't bad enough a four year old came to my rescue to see if I was ok the stupid kid was basically kicking my ego in the face the very same ego that felt like a boss on the bunny slope. I start to get up and fall again and then once I'm up I start going faster and faster and not knowing how to stop I just bail and get face full of snow while I'm sliding a good 20 feet before I stop and by then my body is twisted in more ways then God intended a body to move! After jacking up my body for days I took skis in hand and did the walk of shame down the hill while 4 and 5 year olds went by like pros Nd little kids in the ski lift mocking me the whole way back
to the lodge.

An hour later with the thought that little kids were showing me up I did it all again! And this time it was worse! I actually was worse! How was this happening? I was asking while I laid flat out I knew the kids were peeing them selves watching me fail! And this is why I will never ski again, or at least not where little kids are watching me!