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Injustice DLC Characters Cracked, Break My Heart
Good news, everybody! I finally have a working X-Box again, and the first game I bought was Injustice: Gods Among Us! I was writing about that game for so long, I just couldn’t wait to play it. Of course, many of you readers know that I was writing about that game because I wanted to see Robin as a playable character – only to have my hopes cruelly dashed!
Well I held on to a glimmer of hope that Robin would show up in the DLC, but it looks like that’s not going to be the case either. At least if the Internet is to be believed. Some guy apparently hacked the DLC coding on the Injustice disc to unlock the identities of all four DLC characters.
First up, we already know that Lobo was the first DLC character. He’s already playable. Then DC announced just this week that Batgirl would be the second DLC character, and I think she’s a fine choice. The guy posted his predictions back on April 19, but Batgirl was just announced this past week, so he’s 2 for 2 already.
And according to this Internet Man, the last two DLC characters will be…drum roll please…General Zod and Scorpion.
WHAT THE WHAT!? Lame!
Ugh. What horrible choices. Nobody cares about General Zod. Nobody has ever cared about General Zod. I realize he’s the villain in the big Man of Steel movie this summer, and cross-promotions are all the rage, but come on! Zod? The comics have had half a dozen different versions of Zod over the past few years. He’s a stupid character!
And he’s not Robin.
Then there’s Scorpion, from Mortal Kombat. Lordy, what have we done to deserve this? It’s like when they put Freddy Krueger in the last Mortal Kombat game. It’s a cheap, gimmicky stunt that doesn’t accomplish anything other than developer-wankery. And Scorpion is definitely not Robin.
So take this rumor for what you will. For me personally, it breaks my tender, Robin-loving heart.
The 6 Best Pop Culture Characters in World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is a game for geeks made by geeks. And there are few things we geeks love more than pop culture references. Heck, it’s one of the reasons Family Guy is still on the air. Whether it’s a Simpsons quote, a cleverly used song lyric, or taking something up to 11, pop culture references are the back bone of, well, pop culture. So it should come as no surprise that World of Warcraft is filled to the brim with pop culture references. Seriously, they made a list.
Make love, not Warcraft
The best references, in my opinion, are the characters who are designed and named after other pop culture characters. There are tens of thousands of characters in World of Warcraft, from dragon warlords to murloc fishermen to orc janitors. The game is bursting with digital life. And if you know where to look, and check every nook and cranny, you might just find some of the clever pop culture characters, little in-jokes from those geeks to us geeks. Here are my six favorite!
Just a Little Grand Theft Auto Humor
And some horrible, horrible sadness.
They say that comedy is just tragedy plus time. So this would be…tragedy plus Grand Theft Auto plus…love? Still funny. The fine folks at Ned Game seem to know what they’re doing when it comes to video game humor.
It’s Way Past Time We Had a Warcraft 3 Reunion in World of Warcraft
My favorite thing about playing World of Warcraft is how intricately the developers have tied their MMO into the Warcraft games that came before. When they were building their virtual world, Blizzard didn’t just start from scratch; they dug into all of the games, novels and comic books that had come before and pulled out all sorts of people, places, weapons and dungeons to populate the World of Warcaft. Remember when you invaded Medivh’s dungeon way back in the very first game? Well now you can go quest there again and walk around its haunted halls. Or what about Khelgar, the sorcerer who helped you close the Dark Portal in Warcraft 2? Now you can go visit him for a chat and see how he’s doing.
Believe me, I could go on and on about all of the characters and places from the early games that are now sprinkled throughout the World of Warcraft. But instead, I want to draw your attention to three very specific characters who I think need to reunite and do something incredibly awesome.
I’m speaking, of course, about Rexxar, Rokhan and Chen Stormstout, champions of the Horde!
Or the Three Hordeketeers!
After the latest expansion, Mists of Pandaria, launched in September, all three characters are finally in World of Warcraft; but they have nothing to do with one another, and couldn’t be farther apart! One of them is, literally, on a different planet! But the important thing is that Rexxar, Rokhan and Chen are all finally in the game. So clearly it’s only a matter of time before they get the band back together, right? Surely I can’t be the only one who wants to see this badass team of heroes reunite?
Join me after the jump to find out who the hell I’m talking about and why this is one of the coolest Warcraft events nearly 10 years in the making!
Grand Theft Auto 5 Looks Ambitiously Good
Get your new Grand Theft Auto 5 trailer right here, folks!
That just looks fantastic. I’m a huge fan of the Grand Theft Auto games, and I am determined to have a working X-Box again by Sept. 19 to get this game. I was a bit wary about three protagonists, but those three trailers make each one of them seem fascinating. So I’m excited for that. Now all I need to do is start saving up for an HDTV!
Also, how did they do that on Youtube with the three trailers in one video thing? So weird!
Ballin’
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