The Controversial History of Mercenaries – GVMERS

Following the release of Rockstar Games’ seminal Grand Theft Auto 3 in 2001, GTA clones of all kinds flooded the market, each one angling to capitalize on the sandbox game’s popularity. That era of gaming lasted well into the 2010s, giving birth to Mafia, The Getaway, and Saints Row. Even brand licenses imitated GTA’s winning formula—Scarface, The Godfather, and The Sopranos received video game adaptations in 2006 to varying degrees of success.

With 2005’s Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, developer Pandemic Studios delivered a GTA clone that bucked the common trend, sidestepping crime-ridden urban environments to instead use a politically unstable Korea as its setting. The end result offered a revolutionary experience whose main rival made it to market in the 2008 sequel, World in Flames.

The Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser Is an Old-School Family Wagon – Doug DeMuro

The Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser is an amazing station wagon — and a relic from a different era. Today I’m reviewing this 1985 Custom Cruiser to show you what the family wagon looked like 30 years ago — and I’m going to show you al the quirks of the Oldsmobile wagon. Then I’m going to drive it to see what the Custom Cruiser is like on the road.

Duff McKagan’s Loaded “The Taking” Ep.1 – Seattle

Exploring the lyrical content of The Taking album (released April 2011/Armoury Records), with a blend of documentary story-telling and music videos/live performance, The Taking was filmed in the band’s homebase of Seattle, WA. It is described as contemporary version of The Beatle’s “A Hard Day’s Night” meets Led Zeppelin’s “The Song Remains The Same”. In addition to band members Duff McKagan, Mike Squires, Jeff Rouse, and Isaac Carpenter, the film also features guest appearances by Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney (Alice In Chains), Gilby Clarke (Guns N’ Roses), Steve Jones (Sex Pistols), Billy F Gibbons (ZZ Top), and Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead), among others.

Retro Gaming with a Heavy Metal Soundtrack