This week, for the first time, the Techland Show features me, Peter and Steve. On one couch. It’s like in the Dark Crystal, when the three suns align. Look out for Skeksis.
Seriously we’re talking about the Google Phone and about Avatar. And we make great sport of the Avatar video game. Come, join us in our jolly japes.
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Think back to your childhood. If you were a geek who was born in the late ’70s like I was, what are some of your most cherished memories? Riding your bike? Maybe a little. Thanksgiving in Fargo? Absolutely not. Nintendo Entertainment System, SEGA Master System, SEGA Genesis, and Super Nintendo? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
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Wow, this looks great. It’s gotten, like, ten times better since the Comic-Con footage, which was kinda twee and overly Tim Burtonian.
You know what I mean. Sometimes Burton has just a leetle bit of a tendency to show Johnny Depp tittering in a funny suit and then call it a day. But I’m all in for this one. It looks beautiful. And it …
I’d like to think that Sir Richard and I are homeboys by now, but several interviews later and I still don’t have an invite to Necker Island.
Heh. Just kidding, Sir Richard.
Sorry about the audio, but the interview was conducted via Ustream and Skype over Wi-Fi.
To be quite honest, everything I spoke to Sir Richard about is …
A week or two before Techland launched, I trekked across the country to Michigan for the first time. Ford wanted me to take a spin in their VIRRTEX driving simulator and I happily obliged. Not that they paid for me to get there or put me up anywhere. I stayed at the Time house in Detroit. I’d never been to the Midwest and figured this …
I just want to explain that I am better than Peter at Halo 2. I didn’t have my glasses. And I was using the old-style monster controller. Plus he kept killing himself. I want the record to be clear.
Apologies for the funky audio. We were getting some interference from the Hometree. That’s an Avatar joke. It will make sense to you next week.
The $99 WikiReader is a divisive device. Smartphone owners will scoff in disbelief at the sheer audacity of a non-connected portable with a black and white screen that displays text-only Wikipedia entries. “What’s to be done with this WikiReader?!!” they’ll cry out, iPhones brandished and ready to download an infinite number of advanced …
My predilection for urban sorcery is well known. But I am declaring the jury “still out” on this one.
The problem I have with movies like this is that they can’t seem to decide whether they’re young adult movies — i.e. cute and ultimately inoffensive — or actual grown-up treatments of sorcery — genuinely frightening and …
We’ve got a guest star for this week’s Techland Show: Me. Mr. culture/tv/movies. The guy who can’t really play video games – though I did have a glorious few years as a devoted player of Counter Strike. I was the sniper on Dust, who waited patiently to pick you off one by one. You mocked me for slowing down the gameplay.
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With the holiday season now officially in full swing, most American waistbands will be taking the bullet train to Fat City with stops at Flab Creek, Pudge Crossing, and Chub Junction. And while many of us won’t experience any shortage of delicious holiday treats, we’ll almost certainly all be short on time.
For about the price of a …
While Lev is out on vacation this week, I’ll be taking over the Halo mantle. Here we have a ridiculously awesome stop-motion trailer for a Halo inspired LEGO movie that’s slated to come out next year. I honestly don’t see the obsession with this franchise. But such devotion needs to be applauded.
Kooberz Studios via Giz
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San Diego’s Comic-Con is hard to beat in terms of marketing dollars or Hollywood heavyweights. But when it comes to artists welcoming fans into their back yards, King Con has a local flavor all its own. This Brooklyn-based comic and animation convention prides itself on celebrating all the creative types who have set up shop in the lofts …
