Friday, June 25, 2010
The guys at Blendtec have done it again. The blender making, gadget smashing Will It Blend? videos are back with a timely grinding of Apple’s new iPhone 4. By now, you’re probably familiar with the viral videos, which have featured tech’s most popular gadgets being ground to pieces. For many fanboys (or poor writers), watching [...]
AMC’s The Walking Dead production blogging has really piqued my interest in all of the behind the scenes work that goes into creating a modern zombie film/TV show. A few weeks ago, AMC posted a video of its Zombie School, an undead finishing school for actors and extras chosen to be featured zombies for the [...]
Science has done many truly wonderful things in the past, but little measures up to the sight of Oscar, the British cat with bionic legs. Yes, that’s right: the cat with bionic legs.
Alt-porn site Suicide Girls is claiming that it’s been banned from Comic-Con in San Diego next month, as well as sister convention Wondercon in San Francisco for selling adult material to kids, but Comic-Con seems to disagree.
Toy Story 3 could change the way you think about games based on movies. Now, I know you’ve heard this before. But what game developer Avalanche Software and the animation geniuses are cooking up for isn’t just a checkbox on a merchandising sheet. The Toy Story 3 video game fulfills one of the movies’ most [...]
RISK Factions is available from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for $10. It’s pretty much a must-download for RISK fans, and other strategy board game fans might find it to be a worthwhile purchase as well.
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
The 2010 Saturn Awards were presented last night by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, recognizing excellence in the genre fields of movie and television and the list of recipients was worthy, if predictable.
Armed with a .50 caliber Barrett M82A1 rifle, a former Navy Seal barely hits his target, an iPhone 4. Kudos to Richard Ryan for capturing it in slo-mo but maybe he needs to get someone a little better next time. So underwhelming.
We’re at a weird moment with regard to the status of the cutscene. Players–at least the ones I talk to–have an uneasy truce with the ubiquitous mini-movies in today’s games. They know they’re going to be there and even when they’re really well-done, most gamers take them as annoyances that pull you out of gameplay. [...]
