Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare or Zombie Bears: Now We're Fucked

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Halloween is just around the corner, and Rockstar GAMES is ready to help you celebrate the most awesome holiday of the year(What? It's a fact. Look it up) with it's latest DLC for Red Dead Redemption aptly titled UNDEAD NIGHTMARE.



What's this? You got zombies in my western?

Like chocolate and peanut butter, zombies in a spaghetti western make PERFECT sense to me.

The new DLC, slated for a late October release, will feature a host of new, standalone, single player story missions. These missions include cleansing towns of hordes of the risen undead, Missing Persons bounties, and most awesome of all, a chance to hunt down and tame the Four Horses of the Apocalypse. Seriously, War is the most awesome mount ever, ever. The pack will also include two new multiplayer modes, Undead Overrun and Land Grab for you people who actually have friends.

Oh.

And zombie bears. Now we're REALLY fucked.

Christie Golden's the Shattering dings level 21 on New York Times Best Seller List

Christie Golden, whose previous novels include Arthas: Rise of the Lich King and Lord of the Clans, has hit it big once again with her newest book set in the World of Warcraft universe, the Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm. The book, released on October 19th, has reached number 21 on the New York Times Best Sellers list for Hardcover Fiction.

As one might imagine from the title, the book bridges the gap between the game's current state of Azeroth to it's decidedly less intact version post Cataclysm. What you might not gather from the title though, is that the book almost exclusively follows the major faction leaders of the Horde and Alliance as they deal with the dwindling resources of Azeroth and the looming threat of total war. This is Blizzard's second book to land on the NYT Best Sellers list, the first being Arthas: Rise of the Lich King, also by the talented Golden.

Many congratulations go out to Blizzard and Christie Golden for their success and hopefully Blizz will give Christie many, many bags to sleep on with dollar signs from their massive Scrooge McDuck money bin.



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Let's watch Mortal Kombat's Scorpion rearrange someone's face

The new Mortal Kombat(as always, spelled with a K, because that's just how we rolled in the 90's) has consistently generated much contention between gamers. One camp, the camp old enough to have actually played the original series trilogy, near unanimously welcomes this iteration with open arms. The other side, the gamers raised solely on the teet of 3D hardware and graphics not featuring digitized actors, remains largely unimpressed with what the trailers have thus offered.

Having a trailer highlighted with music by Disturbed has probably not helped.

Anyway! New Mortal Kombat! A return to the fabled two dimensions of yore. Developers NetherRealm have managed to push the already brutal visuals of the Mortal Kombat franchise to the next level with an X-Ray specs effect, so you can see just what sort of punishment these fighters are taking internally. Watch in giddy, childish glee as bones break, muscles tear, and organs rupture under the force of your assault. It may be a cheap gimmick, but in a gaming market already drenched in blood and gore, it definitely grabs your attention(and then brutalizes it).

Is this is a return to greatness for the franchise that Midway built? Or is this just another feeble attempt to grasp the fleeting glory days? Judge for yourself and watch this new trailer featuring everyone's favorite undead ninja from Hell; Scorpion!

Red Shirt Guy Forever

As some of you savvy internet peoples might already know, Red Shirt Guy is awesome. Those of you who aren't already familiar with this knowledgeable gentlemen, shame on you for having a life.



During the Quests and Lore panel at the recent Blizzcon 2010, Blizzard's own Chris Metzen and Alex Afrasiabi were schooled in their very own lore by a mysterious red shirted gentleman. This man, dubbed Red Shirt Guy, quickly became an internet celebrity thanks to A. Having the balls to call Blizzard out face to face, and B. Doing said call out in such an awkward manner. The internet was soon ablaze with news and video of his exploits, and a lot of it was certainly not very nice.

So, instead of retaliating in the same way these assholes had, Red Shirt Guy fought back with calm and class.



Thankfully, this first class reply to all the haters seems to have made most of his detractors shut the fuck up. I for one applaud this man for having the balls to stand up in front of so many people, call out Metzen and Afrasiabi, and then calmly defend himself against the inevitable internet backlash.

Bravo Red Shirt Guy. Bravo.

And apparently Blizzard was equally impressed with his staunch determination to maintaining the intricate lore Blizzard has built for the World of Warcraft. In a recent patch to the beta for Warcraft's next expansion, Cataclysm, a new NPC(non player character for all you normal people out there) has arrived next to the Ironforge seat of power.

That's right. Wildhammer Fact Checker, mother fuckers!



Kudos to you Red Shirt Guy for being awesome. I look forward to clicking on your NPC and learning shit I didnt know about WoW.

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