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Podcast Beyond: Walking Dead: Season 2 & Clem
PlayStation. Does the word send a chill down your spine? Does it caress your senses with wave upon wave of irresistible pleasure? No? Do you like PlayStation? Then you’re certainly in the right place. Welcome to Podcast Beyond, your link to the IGN crew that pushes news, opinions and utter hilarity straight to your ears (and subsequently, your brain).
We now know that Clementine will have a role in The Walking Dead: The Game Season 2, but is that a good or bad thing? Greg, Colin, Goldie, and Altano discuss this and what the most important PlayStation franchise is. They also reminisce about jingles for far too long.
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The Only Prescription for Zombie Fever is a Hyundai Veloster with Bumper-Mounted Chainsaws
With the nation’s seemingly insatiable hunger for zombie-themed entertainment still in full swing, Hyundai is leaving nothing to chance and showing off a second vehicle specifically prepped in tribute to Robert Kirkman’s long-running series of Walking Dead graphic novels and comics. Debuting at this year’s Comic-Con event in San Diego, the Veloster Zombie Survival Machine (henceforth to be referred to as ZSM) joins last year’s Hyundai Elantra coupe ZSM in the tiny-but-growing segment of vehicles equipped to neutralize the walking dead.
Locked, loaded, and prepared to macerate the inanimate and bloated, the Veloster rocks a pair of bumper-mounted chainsaws that can be quickly swapped out for a more traditional zombie-clearing horde plow when the need arises. If conventional firepower is more your style, switch on the floodlights, sound the aptly named “Doom Whistle,” and grab a hold of the roof mounted, quick-change .50 cal machine gun/flamethrower setup and make it rain a little terror. For good measure, additional gunnery includes hood- and door-mounted machine guns. The windows receive protective shielding made of barbed wire and wrought iron, and a pair of hood-mounted sandbags catch errant shrapnel. Mounted to the rear you’ll find an old-school baseball bat decorated with spikes, a samurai sword, an armored bumper with protruding knife blades, and an exposed spare wheel and tire that’s sure to be shredded by the first zombie that gets his lifeless, un-manicured paws on it.
- First Drive Review 2013 Hyundai Veloster Turbo
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- Instrumented Test 2012 Hyundai Veloster DCT
Why exactly it’s finished in Vitamin C Orange textured paint we can’t say, but it does look sharp. Forged wheels wearing all-terrain tires hide beneath oversized wheel flares, and a sprayed-on textured coating covers the floor. As you might expect, the interior contains all the controls to operate the defense systems and plenty of storage for ammo, weapons, first-aid items, and the like.
As it sits, the 2013 Veloster ZSM resembles the production 2013 Veloster in pretty much name only, and neither Hyundai nor Glapin Auto Sports, who performed much of the transformation, have divulged powertrain details. But any sensible zombie slayer would want the Turbo, right? As much as we enjoy these one-off projects, it appears the only thing capable of stopping an inevitable zombie apocalypse at this point is a wane in the the public’s interest.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Car & Driver
Harper’s Slaughterhouse Investigation Reveals Nasty Secrets Of Nebraska Beef Industry
By The Huffington Post News Editors
“The Way of All Flesh,” the cover story of this month’s Harper’s magazine, may be named after a well-regarded 1903 novel by Samuel Butler, but it includes more gory details than a typical zombie movie.
Yet “The Way of All Flesh” isn’t “Walking Dead” fan fic — it’s the result of the latest investigation by National Book Critics Circle-award-winning journalist Ted Conover. Conover is well known for going undercover as a rail-riding hobo, a “coyote” of illegal immigrants, an Aspen taxi driver and a guard at Sing-Sing prison for past books. This time, he’s targeted the beef industry. He spent several months working undercover as a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector in a cattle slaughterhouse in Nebraska — and reported on what he saw for Harper’s.
What hits hardest in the piece — at least if you’re a meat eater — are its disgusting visuals from the production line. Conover’s lucid prose gives you an even more cohesive sense of the gore of a slaughterhouse than undercover videos from groups like Mercy for Animals. Reading its 17 pages, you encounter pools of blood, dangling eyeballs, green parasites that live in bile ducts, dead fetuses and, memorably, a liver abscess filled with enough pus to cover Conover in green slime when it gets ruptured.
From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/18/harpers-slaughterhouse-investigation_n_3111592.html
Walking Dead vs. Game of Thrones, Uncharted's Nathan Drake Speaks: Up at Noon
Which cable show is better? Is Nolan North going to voice Solid Snake in the next Metal Gear? Find out! …read more
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8 ‘Love Actually’ Cast Members Who Made It Big On TV (PHOTOS)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
What do Betty Francis (née Draper) and Rick Grimes have in common? Neither character would be who s/he is without “Love Actually.”
“Mad Men” star January Jones and “Walking Dead” leader Andrew Lincoln both appeared in the 2003 romantic comedy hit along with plenty of other now-familiar faces.
Before she was Betty, Jones was “Love Actually‘s” flirtatious Jeannie, who picked up British horndog Colin (Kris Marshall) at her local Wisconsin bar along with her roommates, one of which was played by “Happy Endings” and “24” star Elisha Cuthbert.
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BioShock Infinite, Walking Dead: Mix'd Reviews (FULL EPISODE)
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The Walking Dead Survival Instinct: Mix'd Reviews
The reviews have not been kind to this Walking Dead. Come here what they had to say! (For more episodes, visit: go.ign.com/mixd) …read more
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The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct – Ending Cutscene
Watch the ending of The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, the prequel to Walking Dead televisions show. Spoilers! …read more
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Netflix Warms Up to Your Facebook Friends
By Rick Munarriz, Munarriz, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
Netflix is ready to give its stateside subscribers something to talk about on Facebook .
The leading video service will now allow its domestic subscribers to automatically share what they’re viewing — if they want to — through the world’s leading social networking site.
If you’re thinking that this is a move that’s long overdue, don’t blame Netflix for dragging its feet.
Netflix incorporated this feature in 44 of the 45 countries that it was doing business in back in 2011 when Facebook made it possible. The United States was the lone holdout, held back by an archaic 1980s law that prohibited sharing of video viewing data even if the consumer approved.
Netflix asked its users to get behind H.R. 2471 — a House bill that eventually cleared its way into law — and now the video service became more personal.
What exactly is Netflix Social? Well, in the coming days, a pop-up promo on the Netflix interface will ask subscribers if they want to share their viewing choices with Facebook friends. If so, two new social rows will appear in the Netflix streaming interface. One entitled Friends’ Favorites will show all of the titles that fellow opt-in Facebook friends have rated four or five stars. A second row shows the videos that have been recently viewed by friends.
Is this too creepy? Is Netflix the next Zynga with annoying status updates going out into news feeds when someone completes a silly social gaming achievement? What happens if you catch a saucy video or a bad movie that you’d rather not share?
No worries. Again, this is entirely optional. The default setting even for those who do opt in is to only share through Netflix, though subscribers can also check off the box to share that info automatically through Facebook itself. As for the guilty pleasures, Netflix has you covered there, too. You can “unshare” any item on your profile.
This is a smart move that will help engagement on both Netflix and Facebook. It will give friends more stuff to talk about. Sure, folks are already posting “Walking Dead” and “Game of Thrones” chatter with every passing episode, but now folks will be armed with more conversation starters through shared consumption experiences.
It may have seemed a tad personal at the time, but didn’t you feel the same way about everything you’re sharing on Facebook these days?
Netflix knows what it’s doing, and it’s just a neat coincidence that CEO Reed Hastings just happens to sit on Facebook’s board of directors.
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After the world’s most hyped IPO turned out to be a dunce, most investors probably don’t even want to think about shares of Facebook. But there are things every investor needs to know about this company. We’ve outlined them in our newest premium research report. There’s a lot more to Facebook than meets the eye, so read up on whether there …read more
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‘Walking Dead’ Creator Robert Kirkman Explains Why There Aren’t Any Animal Zombies (VIDEO)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Robert Kirkman, the creator of “The Walking Dead” comic books that were adapted into AMC‘s hit drama, stopped by “Conan” Thursday night, and answered a big question that might bother faithful fans of the series: why aren’t there any zombie animals on the TV show?
“The artist that draws the comic book loves drawing people, loves drawing zombies, does not enjoy drawing animals so much,” Kirkman replied.
So, there you have it: the lack of “Walking Dead” animal zombies is all illustrator’s Charlie Adlard’s fault.
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Walking Dead: The Game Season 2 Coming This Fall
Telltale has confirmed that it’s currently targeting Fall of this year for the second season of The Walking Dead: The Game. While Telltale CEO Dan Connors recently told Eurogamer that the sophomore season was set for next year, a Telltale spokesperson has now clarified, providing the following statement to IGN:
“The current estimated release window for Season Two of The Walking Dead is for Fall of ‘this’ year (2013), and not ‘next’ year (2014) as has been reported after a recent interview. We apologize for any confusion and thank you and all of our fans for your continued excitement for the series!”
More Telltale's Walking Dead Coming Before Season 2
More Walking Dead is currently in production at Telltale Games, but it isn’t the second season of its episodic series.
During an interview on IGN’s Up at Noon, writer Gary Whitta teased more Walking Dead from Telltale sooner than later. “You won’t have to wait for season two to play more Walking Dead,” he claimed.
“I can tell you what you already know, which is season two is coming. There’s not much to say because it really is very early…it’s a way off,” said Whitta. “But, knowing that it’s a way off, and knowing that people are hungry for more walking Dead…there may very well be more Walking Dead from Telltale before season two. We may have a little something extra for you between season one and two.”
Obsidian's Pitch for Fallout: New Vegas 2
It’s safe to say New Vegas was a high point for fans of the Fallout franchise. We loved its post-apocalyptic take on Sin City to the tune of a 9.0 review and an Editor’s Choice award when it debuted back in 2010, and we’d love it all over again if Obsidian ever had a chance to follow it up with a sequel. Well, no announcement on that front yet. But Obsidian’s CEO, Feargus Urquhart, has at least been dreaming up scenarios he’d like to see a potential sequel explore.
Like, say, Fallout: Los Angeles.
“We need an interesting confined area. So I mean, it could be LA. Fallout LA. That could be interesting. It’d probably be The Boneyard, which is from Fallout 1. It could be very different. It could be almost a Walking Dead meets Fallout-like thing because of all the radiation.”
News: The Walking Dead Game Saves Will Carry Over
Telltale Games’ CEO talks about possibilities for season 2 of the Walking Dead game – and reveals amazing sales figures.
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The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct Revealed
What’s exciting about developer Terminal Reality’s The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct are the same things that are exciting about developer Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead: The Game – choice and consequence. As you make your way through biter-infested towns and across lonesome highways, you’re going to come across survivors and forks in the road. Based on the car you’re in, you won’t be able to pick up every drifter; you need to decide who lives and dies. Once you pick a path for the group, there’s no going back. While you and I will probably all arrive at similar (if not the same) endings, our path to the credits could be very different. That’s what a Walking Dead video game is all about.
Source: IGN Video Games
How Would Alice do on Walking Dead?
Resident Evil: Retribution, the fifth — count ’em, fifth! — installment in the film series hits Blu-ray this week, so I jumped on the phone with the series’ chief architect and frequent director, Paul W.S. Anderson, to talk about the continuing adventures of Milla Jovovich’s Alice and where the series might go from here.
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