{"id":1974,"date":"2010-01-31T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/31\/sunday-morning-humor-%e2%80%93-pixeljunk-shooter-and-bayonetta-take-center-stage\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T20:51:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T01:51:06","slug":"sunday-morning-humor-%e2%80%93-pixeljunk-shooter-and-bayonetta-take-center-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/31\/sunday-morning-humor-%e2%80%93-pixeljunk-shooter-and-bayonetta-take-center-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Morning Humor \u2013 PixelJunk Shooter and Bayonetta Take Center Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere between the Rolex 24, a second cup of coffee, and random (legitimate) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Internetting\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Internetting', 'internetting');\" target=\"_blank\">internetting<\/a> [damn, I thought I made that one up] I came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/golgotron.com\/2010\/01\/pixeljunk-shooter-a-review-with-commentary-by-cory\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/golgotron.com\/2010\/01\/pixeljunk-shooter-a-review-with-commentary-by-cory\/', 'PixelJunk Shooter');\" target=\"_blank\">PixelJunk Shooter<\/a> review courtesy of Golgotron.  This is hilarious; reminds me of the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/*\/http:\/\/www.sportsreviewers.com\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/*\/http:\/\/www.sportsreviewers.com', 'Sports Reviewers');\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sports Reviewers<\/em><\/a> heydays.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping with Golgotron, I figured there must be some other nuggets of goodness to be found on this site; I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wonder_Twins\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wonder_Twins', 'Wonder Twins');\" target=\"_blank\">Wonder Twins<\/a> team up from Sega and Playboy.  Yes, I give you <a href=\"http:\/\/golgotron.com\/2010\/01\/gaming-porn-synergy-playboy-does-bayonetta-poorly\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/golgotron.com\/2010\/01\/gaming-porn-synergy-playboy-does-bayonetta-poorly\/', 'Bayonetta');\" target=\"_blank\">Bayonetta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Push yourself past the apparent fact that the girls used for Playboy\u2019s Bayonetta lookalike contest are straight out of the trailer park (I know it\u2019s hard, but try). Instead, ask yourself this: Did Sega pay to have this content produced as a means of disguised advertising, or is this collaboration between Sega and Playboy a pro bono job? Comment away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Classic!  I had no idea WTF a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bayonetta\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bayonetta', 'Bayonetta');\" target=\"_blank\">Bayonetta<\/a> was (or is, or whatever) until I found this article and quickly headed over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/bayonetta\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/bayonetta', 'metacritic');\" target=\"_blank\">metacritic<\/a> to check out some reviews.  I always find it interesting when there is a wide discrepancy in the review scores (87 \u2013 based on 50 critic review) and user votes (7.2 \u2013 based on 36 user votes).  Maybe it has something to do with pro bono jobs?<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere between the Rolex 24, a second cup of coffee, and random (legitimate) internetting [damn, I thought I made that one up] I came across this PixelJunk Shooter review courtesy of Golgotron. This is hilarious; reminds me of the Sports Reviewers heydays. Keeping with Golgotron, I figured there must be some other nuggets of goodness &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/31\/sunday-morning-humor-%e2%80%93-pixeljunk-shooter-and-bayonetta-take-center-stage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Morning Humor \u2013 PixelJunk Shooter and Bayonetta Take Center Stage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,26],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps3","tag-psn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}