By Carlo Nuño at 12:26 PM
Very few video game franchises have amassed the prestige, popularity, and stupidly ridiculous annual revenue stream that the Madden NFL franchise has created for itself over the 25-ish years. of existence. In fact, very few video game franchises (if any) have been able to even last as long. But with every story of perseverance and unrivaled success, there is always a dark side. Bill Gates one of the wealthiest men ever, created Microsoft and got to where he was, by all accounts, screwing Steve Jobs of Apple and stealing their operating system. Sure Las Vegas is euphoric, all the lights, casinos, alcohol, food, strippers, but do you ever find yourself wondering just how many bodies are buried in the desert just outside the city limits? Behind every tale of triumph, underneath all the glitz and glamor are skeletons that no one wants to admit exist and Madden NFL is no exception.
By Carlo Nuño at 2:28 PM
For those of you not familiar with the term "Easter Eggs" as it pertains to video games click here and read the first sentence. Now that you are all caught up I just recently heard about an Easter egg I never knew existed in the old game Doom. You remember the game that took all the blame (yeah I just made it rhyme wuuuut!?) in the aftermath of the Columbine school shooting letting the parents of the psychopath shooters off the "parental responsibility" hook? Well apparently in that game, at some point one of the Easter eggs was you could fight a boss who was modeled after one of the game's main developers, a man named John Carmack.
By Carlo Nuño at 3:45 PM
With the arrival of Tim Tebow in New York, the Jets have once again yanked the attention carpet right out from under New York's more accomplished team the Giants, who by the way, are just coming off yet another super bowl victory. As far as tangible football success, the Jets have always played second fiddle to the Giants. The Jets have only won one super bowl in franchise history, compared to four for the Giants, and that was in 1969 (quick math that was 43 years ago people), the number one song at that time was I Heard It Through the Grapevine by Marvin Gaye, Broadway Joe Namath was the quarterback (in between commercial shoots), and they still shared Shea Stadium with the Mets.
By Carlo Nuño at 3:20 PM
Season 2 of The Walking Dead has ended and, still a week later, I find myself sifting through a myriad of emotions regarding the final episode. I'm happy and optimistic yet confused and disappointed. I always felt as long as the characters stayed on the farm the story had no way to progress. Every week I found myself rooting for a major character to die so at least there was a constant sense of danger. (Shane doesn't count because anyone following the show knew that guy needed to go) Throughout this season I felt to many episodes went by where the characters got to settled into their routines and at times they forgot they were trying to survive a zombie apocalypse.
By Carlo Nuño at 7:57 PM
This past week on Survivor wannabe super villain Colton was forced off the show due to appendicitis. A fitting ending for someone who aspired to become the most shrewd and manipulative contestant the show has ever seen in 24 seasons. Unfortunately for him, you actually have to finish the game (or at least get to the merge) before you can even be considered for such a prestigious title. Case and point...Courtney Robertson (take notes Colton). A woman so devious and calculating she puts Bill Belichick to shame. Courtney was able to out-wit her fellow competitors on The Bachelor, and even the bachelor himself, all the way to the finale where (dressed up like an understudy from Wicked) she was proposed to. Now that is how you do it Colton!
By Carlo Nuño at 1:36 PM
Five episodes into the 24th season of Survivor all the players, minus Polo shirt preppy Colton Cumbie the Gay Republican Racist,
seem to just be going through the motions. Allow me to explain what has happened on the season to this point. The entire cast arrived on the island and Jeff Probst split them into two tribes an all men tribe, orange Manono, and an all women tribe blue Salani, this of course massively disappointed Colton because he wanted nothing else than to be in a tribe amongst women (for obvious reasons).
By Carlo Nuño at 2:56 PM
Last night's Walking Dead episode took a little step towards resembling more of the Elizabethan/Greek tragedies show runner Glen Mazzara, and his drove of writers and directors always use as the framework for just about every show they have ever worked on, rather than the slow rotting corpse the characters in the show are trying to avoid.
