Videogames > Movies (A Gentle Reminder)
Just a reminder. Remember how everyone in Hollywood was fellating each other in joy over the news that Iron Man made $100 million domestic and $200 worldwide over its first weekend, as it broke several records and signified a stronger box office after a weak first quarter in 2008? Yeah, Grand Theft Auto IV made $500 million in its first week. That’s more money than the entire GNP of several African nations, incidentally. I’m not sure, but I think if we run over the stockholders of GTA publisher Take Two with our cars, we can get our money back, too.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.