Ups Man Archive

  • Things to do today that have nothing to do with Modern Warfare 2

    Things to do today that have nothing to do with Modern Warfare 2

    Posted on November 10, 2009 | No Comments
    I know that there's a certain of percentage of people who want nothing to do with Modern Warfare 2. It's all meatheads and explosions, right? I'm inclined to agree to a degree—Opie and Anthony were talking about the game this morning, and a real life member of the military called in and complained, “If you want to play war, why not join the Army?”—but no matter. There's plenty of things to do today that have nothing to do with the game. Let's take a look!

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  • Peter Moore: Yeah, disc-based games will go the way of the [insert extinct animal here]

    Peter Moore: Yeah, disc-based games will go the way of the [insert extinct animal here]

    Posted on October 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Looks like EA finally understands what we've been talking about for a while now: that, in just a few year's time, we'll look back at disc-based media (here, video games) and be all, “Man, how quaint.” Peter Moore, who's the president of EA Sports (no minor position, that), called the disc-based distribution model a “burning platform,” and that companies are either staring in the face of “probable” death or “certain” death, depending on how they want to go about things.

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  • Review: The PSP Go isn’t bad, but it won’t light the world on fire

    Review: The PSP Go isn’t bad, but it won’t light the world on fire

    Posted on October 4, 2009 | No Comments
    Rumored for God knows how long, and teased for months, the Sony PSP Go is finally available at your friendly neighborhood retailer. We have one—well, I have one—and have been playing with it for a couple of days now. As such, consider this a review. Spoiler: It's not bad, but not great either.

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  • Oops! Customer orders BlackBerry Tour from Sprint, gets a Verizon Tour instead

    Oops! Customer orders BlackBerry Tour from Sprint, gets a Verizon Tour instead

    Posted on July 20, 2009 | No Comments
    When the UPS man dropped off Crackberry user Kurpaige's brand new Tour from Sprint, it was a matter of seconds before the gadget was in hand. The shipping box was torn to shreds, now little more than a pile of tape and corrugated cardboard. The paper packaging was thrown aside, and the Sprint-branded box delicately dismantled. There it was, in all of its glory: a Verizon-brand BlackBerry Tour. Wait, what?

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  • Oops! Customer orders BlackBerry Tour from Sprint, gets a Verizon-branded Tour instead

    Oops! Customer orders BlackBerry Tour from Sprint, gets a Verizon-branded Tour instead

    Posted on July 20, 2009 | No Comments
    When the UPS man dropped off Crackberry user Kurpaige’s brand new Tour from Sprint, it was a matter of seconds before the gadget was in hand. The shipping box was torn to shreds, now little more than a pile of tape and corrugated cardboard. The paper packaging was thrown aside, and the Sprint-branded box delicately [...]

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