Gears of Old Spice

July 14th, 2010 by James

The Soldier your Soldier could chainsaw like

As you may have noticed, the  Old Spice Guy has been issuing responses to the denizens of the internet.  Recently, Cliff Bleszinski of Gears of War fame asked the Old Spice Guy “Do you do everything with your shirt off? Like, drive to the supermarket? Because I usually do.”  Naturally, the Old Spice Guy (Isaiah Mustafa) gave a powerfully worded reply in a video you can watch after the jump.

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Where have games gone wrong? Podcast 9 is here to explain!

July 13th, 2010 by James

Sometimes good games go bad.  No, not in a Will Smith “bad means good” kind of way.  We mean they suck.  In this week’s podcast the GNSU Crew has a round table discussion about some pretty awful entries in popular franchises.  Three words: Mario’s Time Machine.  Need we say more?

We also give our thoughts on the new TF2 update and Crackdown 2′s multiplayer components.

Got any feedback or questions for us? Hit us up on the contact page!

Videos relating to the podcast after the jump.

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New track from the upcoming Scott Pilgrim game

July 13th, 2010 by James

Hell yes! Anamanaguchi, the wonderful music wizards that they are, have released a new track from the upcoming Scott Pilgrim game.  Holy shit does this reek of fantastic.  Their chiptune meets rock and roll styling are clearly inspired by games of old so clearly they were a perfect choice for the side scrolling beat ‘em up due out on PSN August 10th (TBA for XBLA).  The 6th and final book drops one week from today and the movie is out on the 13th of August.  If you aren’t in the know with Scott Pilgrim or Anamanaguchi, then get in it or you are missing out.

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Nintendo’s 3DS anti-piracy shenanigans

July 13th, 2010 by James

Nintendo is apparently beefing up anti-piracy measures with their upcoming hand held behemoth: the 3DS.  The VP of THQ’s Global Publishing said: “The problem with the DS market in the last few years, particularly with the DS Lite, is that it’s just been attacked by piracy. It’s made it almost impossible to shift any significant volume. The DSi combated it a little bit, but the 3DS has taken that a step further.What excites me even more (than 3DS games) is that there’s technology built in that device to really combat piracy.”

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Sometimes we do not post video game stuff

July 12th, 2010 by James

For instance, this bitchin’ Andrew W.K. song/video.  ”I want to see you go wild”

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Friday Flash Favorites: Don’t Shit Your Pants

July 9th, 2010 by Arien

Don’t Shit Your Pants

The text based adventure game is an antiquated genre largely forgotten in today’s world. I’m not a fan of the genre myself and it would take nothing less than an absolutely stellar and compelling game to pull me in. I have found that game.

Hold on to that feeling, big guy!

JUMP WITH ME FOR THE REST

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WHOOPS

July 9th, 2010 by James

Hm.

It would figure I post my musings on gaming’s future and RealID’s impact on it when Blizzard officially retracts the whole big mess.  It’s still worth mentioning that it’s scary that this could still potentially be a reality but at least they finally got the picture.  They carefully chose their words with saying

at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums.”

Knowing marketing and PR that means “for now”.  We’ll see, Acti- ahem, Blizzard, we’ll see…

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Weekly Roundup

July 9th, 2010 by James

Blizzard’s RealID controversy, TF2 finally updates the Engie, Crackdown 2 and much more.

Things have been hectic in GNSU HQ (especially with the holiday cutting the week short) but despite being insanely busy a lot has been going on game wise so let’s take a look at this past week in gaming.

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Dead Rising 2 Box Art + more!

July 8th, 2010 by James

This man gives no fucks

Capcom released the box art for Dead Rising 2 today, and I think it captures the spirit of the game rather well.  While our hero looks rather dapper with his  motorcycle jacket and chainsaw-oar-deathmachine, I kind of like the look our pal in the tuxedo is sporting with the Servbot helmet.  More news after the jump:

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The Scott Pilgrimage

July 8th, 2010 by James

Flickr user mad5l5in5 went on a little trip around Toronto to snap photos of locations in the Scott Pilgrim series.  It’s pretty evident that at GNSU we love us some Scott Pilgrim so this is a really awesome idea.  I already bugged Brian and Arien about taking trips to some of these places when I head up North later this summer to visit so this has me extra excited.  Click the image above to take the Scott Pilgrimage photo tour.  Some thoughts and more photos after the jump.

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