A Spore Nerd Corner

It's only a couple weeks since Injustice: Gods Among Us was released and already we not only know what the first DLC is but we now know when it's going to be released. The very first downloadable character will be Lobo and on May 7th you'll be able to download him. But who is Lobo? Lobo was originally a villain but later turned mercenary/bounty hunter. he made his first appearance in Omega Men issue 3. He has super strength, and a super healing ability where he can regenerate himself from as little as a single cell. Lobo has a deep personal code and will never break his word even with his sadistic and vulgar attitude. If you've been online lately you've already seen the videos of Lobo and Batman beating each other senseless but just in-case here's a link to a bunch of videos on the IGN website.

That's right the orphaned games of THQ have found a new home. Nordic games have taken up Darksiders, Red Faction, MX vs. ATV, Destroy all Humans!, Summoner and Supreme Commander, and they did it all for $4.9 million. Crytek USA who have a large number of former Vigil Games developers have expressed an interest in the making of a new Darksiders game. Something I would be really looking forward to. All the sales of the former THQ games wont be final until a Bankruptcy Court hears the sales motions, totaling up to near $6.55 million. That hearing should happen around May 13 of this year.

I wasn't sure if I was going to even pick up Defiance. I thought it was over advertised and usually when something gets that many commercials it's not going to be pretty. Then just before the game was officially released we started getting reviews, and they weren't all that great either.  Don't get me wrong some people really liked the game, but a lot of people were, to put it nicely less than happy.  Problems included popping textures, problems with physics, falling threw the ground, server crashes, updating crashes, corrupted files, just to name a few. Bugs aside some thought the textures were muddy, the quests were repetitive, the voice acting was bad, and the A.I. was stupid. Anyway in the end I picked up the game all the same and I love it! I love the combat, I love just driving around in my vehicle, I love the arc falls where dozens of people come together to blast bugs.  The combat is dynamic, you aren't going to be standing around just pressing a couple

That's right after the "deal with it" debacle, where Adam Orth a creative director for Microsoft Studios tweeted comments about how everybody should just deal with the new Xbox system always being online, he is no long with the company. Right now we don't know if it was a voluntary or forced resignation right now. A day after the twitter post of Orth , Microsoft posted, "We apologize for the inappropriate comments made by an employee on Twitter yesterday. This person is not a spokesperson for Microsoft, and his personal views d not reflect the customer centric approach we take to our products or how we would communicate directly with our loyal consumers." Right now people seem to rather upset about the comments but we'll see how long that lasts when the new Xbox hits the stores. 

After a series of tweets from Adam Orth, is it me or does twitter seem to just get everybody in trouble, basically telling everybody to deal with the fact that the Xbox 720 will always be online, fans of the Xbox line seem to be more than a little upset. Orth tweeted,  "Sorry, I don't get the drama around having an "always on" console. Every device now is "always on". That's the world we live in." #dealwithit First off never tell the world to deal with it when you rely on them buying a system that isn't out yet, and that's competing with two other systems, to just deal with it. When you tell people to just deal with it people tend to go buy other systems and point and laugh when you get fired and tell you to deal with it. Really I don't think the fact that the system is always online is such a big deal, as Adam said most things are always online, and yes it is the world we live in now. The problem comes, when I want to play a singl

Today I beat BioShock Infinite. I probably could have gone threw it faster, but this being the first BioShock I've ever taken the time to really sit down and play I wanted to take my time, and I'm glad I did. You can't just rush your way threw this game, you have to sit back and take your time to savor everything.  The scenery is breathtaking and the towns come to life as you explore your way threw them.  Everything takes you back to 1912 where this story takes place. As for combat it's standard first person shooter. Their are about a dozen guns you can use that you can upgrade as the game goes along. You also get to use vigor, powers you get as the game progresses giving you super powers. Everything from shooting lightening and fire to knocking people into the air or pushing them away. I felt like some of the guns, the RPG for example were super underpowered. While other guns like the hand cannon were over powered taking out people in a single shot. While in some g

LucasArts has recently had to lay off 150 people and will no longer be making games. Instead they will be moving to a licensing model, where other game companies will be making Star Wars titles for them. What's this mean? Star Wars 1313 has been canceled along with along with Star Wars First Assault. Of course both of those games maybe be licensed out to other companies. I think this is really a disappointing bit of news. I've been really looking forward to 1313 so I'll just keep my fingers crossed that it gets licensed out and they don't screw it up.