Markiplier posted a vlog to his 2.5 million subscribers last week to give some brief updates and to address the recent communication between him and his expanding fanbase. For the past few weeks, Markiplier and his fans held open dialogues about the current direction of the channel, both in its content as well as its goals as a…
Win It! – New York Comic Con Prize Pack – Courtesy of New York Comic Con, Loot Crate, and Con*Quest Enter for a chance to win our NYCC Prize Pack. The prize pack includes: (2) 3-day passes to New York Comic Con 2014 (1) 3-month Loot Crate Subscription (2) Con*Quest Adventure Journals $150 Spending Cash…
And the awesome themes just keep coming! This month’s monthly subscription Loot Crate theme is ‘Transform’. With the announcement of this new theme, a lot of speculation was swirling around social media debating on what Loot Crate’s upcoming theme could mean, prior to the box shipping out. Now that we have it in hand, we…
5. Choujuu-jinbutsu-giga or “Animal-Person Caricatures” (Japan) Choujuu-jinbutsu-giga (the literal translation of which is “Animal-Person Caricatures”), shortened to Choujuu-giga, is a 12th/13th century Japanese series of scroll drawings (emakimono) from Kyoto, Japan, and is widely recognized as the first manga. The series of scrolls has no confirmed author, though many scholars believe the monk and astronomer Toba Soujou created them. The right-to-left reading direction of Choujuu-giga is thought to have created the…
Absentia, Absentia, Absentia – you had such promise in the beginning. There was connection with me, there was a sense of humor and you opened up to me. But in the end you hurt me, you hurt me as so many have hurt me before and I now I think we need to talk. Absentia…
Shortly after 9 p.m. on June 16th, Team Fortress 2 started a countdown clock. At 8 p.m. the next day (June 17th) Valve announced Team Fortress 2: Love and War. Love and War is an update that will be coming to the free-to-play game soon. While the exact date still has to be determined, the 17th…
Back in April, I was dismayed to hear that the great Stephen Colbert will replace a retiring David Letterman at the end of the year. Don’t misunderstand; I am one of Colbert’s biggest fans and I’m happy that his career is going so well, but I can’t help but bemoan the loss of The Colbert…
This Ain’t No Run of the Mill Fantasy Series If you are tired of sappy and romantic fantasy novels where the damsel in distress is saved from peril and everyone lives happily ever after, then have I got a series for you!! Sarah J. Mass’s Throne of Glass series is full of betrayals, gruesome deaths, ghastly secrets, assassins,…
Introduction Before diving into the content revolving around the headline, allow me to throw in a personal touch. When I first heard about the Wii U and it’s GamePad a few years ago, at first glance, I honestly wasn’t all that impressed. In hindsight, this was simply because I was determined to shun the system…
Growing Up With Mario Paint I remember when I was a child and I received my first video game console…a Super Nintendo…and my life went downhill ever since. Okay, all jokes aside, it was not long after that when a game was released entitled Mario Paint. Being that I was—and still am—rather creative in my…
So. You like swords. In fact, you really like swords. You fancy yourself something of a collector. A connoisseur of cutlery. A finder of foils, a compiler of cutlasses, a gatherer of gladii. Chances are, you like video games too, because video games tend to involve swords on the basis that swords are awesome. Naturally,…
Passive and Interactive Representatives from Ubisoft Montreal came out onstage at Sony’s E3 Press Briefing to demo yet another stage of their freshly controversial shooter, Far Cry 4. The demonstration followed the player assaulting an unknowing convoy, taking the time to show off the visuals -enraged elephants, massive mountain terrain, technicolor explosions- all the while…
I’ve enjoyed Magic: the Gathering for a long time, so when MtG 2014 went on sale on Steam I decided to drop a couple of bucks and get it. Frankly, I’m not sure if I’m happy or disappointed with my purchase. Initial Impressions On the one hand, MtG 2014 is just that: Magic: the Gathering….
The technological future is looking a bit bleak at the moment. Within the next ten to twenty years, we will probably reach the limit of Moor’s Law, which states that computing power will approximately double every 18 months, while also having more data than we know what to do with. This is because transistors can…
Nicknamed “China’s Google” by the tech industry, Alibaba has set its sights on America, with plans to open an online marketplace for the U.S. market. The site, 11Main.com, aims to provide an online shopping experienced inspired by Main Streets, historically the retail hubs of American cities. Rather than an amalgam of products ranging from the questionably cheap to…