Lusipurr, Ethos, SiliconNooB, and Imitanis buckle in for an exciting ride through the Cricket and Video Game news, stopping off for a moment to peruse long-forgotten elements of Lusipurr’s childhood, spent ruling with an iron fist over the local park.
EA once again prevailed and took home their second consecutive Golden Poo award. KillswitchTool aims to be the first to congratulate them, but also to ponder if they really are America’s worst company.
SimCity goes offline, Kickstarter courts the corporate dollar, and God of War: Ascension is beset by complete fuckwits in the news of the week.
Lusipurr has just about had it with KickStarter and, thankfully, another gaming crisis arrives to distract him: in an historically unprecedented industry event, Sabin actually downgrades EA two stages from ‘fine now’ to ‘really very much not so fine’.
When SiliconNooB and Blitzmage bristle at the idea of paying moderate taxes that will provide for the conservation of historical sites, Lusipurr is forced to explain the value of preserving classical heritage–a principle in which he leads by example.
Fake Black Isle raises the collection plate to make Kickstarter look positively saintly by comparison, EA turns cloud saves into a form of punitive DRM, and War Z gets pulled from Steam for being utterly dreadful in the week’s CHRISTMAS news.