Wednesday, June 30, 2010
When it comes to gore, there’s nobody quite like Greg Nicotero.
According to Kotaku, the technical specifications for the Xbox 360’s Kinect add-on may have been outed by a British retailer. Here’s a list of what all is in there and what that stuff can do:
File this under “It’s about damn time”.
Here’s hoping that star turns in last year’s Terminator Salvation and Avatar, not to mention this year’s Clash of the Titans, haven’t soured you on Sam Worthington; the Australian actor has just teamed up with comic publisher Radical to create an imprint dedicated to creating new movies for him to star in.
Less than two months after the launch of KIN, Microsoft has decided to kill the entire initiative and integrate the team into the Windows Phone 7 group. Who knows how many millions of dollars went into the development of KIN aka Project Pink, marketing, concerts, etc. but we won’t be seeing any other KIN devices [...]
The Norwegian cartoonist Jason specializes in comics that take the premises of high-tension thrillers–zombies, assassins, time travel, bank robberies–and transform them into deadpan, reserved domestic comedies. (Also, almost all of his characters have animal heads, just because.) Werewolves of Montpellier, out today, concerns a bored young jewel thief who dresses up as a werewolf for [...]
Over the last few years, there’s been a bit of talk about how tough it is to get movies with female leads greenlit in Hollywood, whether they’re action-oriented or not. A much-discussed Tomb Raider reboot has been rumored but nothing’s materialized. Catwoman? Let’s not talk about that. Angelina Jolie’s Salt looks promising, but it’s definitely [...]
There are thousands upon thousands of step-by-step guides that’ll show you how to de-gunk your PC in the event of system slowdowns, crashes, and viruses. This one’s built for speed and can be done on a semi-regular basis if you just want to tidy things up a bit.
While $1,629 seems like a lot to spend on a notebook nowadays, it’s oddly comforting to know that you can get a decked-out computer with very few compromises for well shy of two grand.
While I get the skepticism anytime the possibility of a Doctor Who movie is brought up – Who else remembers the rumors this time last year about an announcement due at the last San Diego Comic-Con? – I don’t understand just why the idea of Johnny Depp playing the Doctor in a big budget movie, as apparently “confirmed” by Tor.com yesterday, seems so upsetting to people.
