Man, there’s a lot of good games coming out. I ditched Dead Space to play LittleBigPlanet, then went crawling back, and now I’m ditching it again for Fallout 3. (I hate leaving a game like Dead Space unfinished, when I’ve actually become invested in the narrative, but duty calls. Plus I was really low on ammo and kinda needed an excuse …
Nerd World Book Club: Anathem, Parts 11-13: Across the Multiverse
I finally finished Anathem this past weekend, and I feel the need to bring closure to this colossal undertaking by blogging about it. This isn’t a review, just a kind of travelogue of my reading experience. Anathem is one of the best novels I’ve read this year, but it’s also incredibly challenging and not a journey to be undertaken …
Forbidden LittleBigPlanet: A Review
I’m almost done with Dead Space, a game that continues to present me with visions of extreme and total wrongness. But I’m taking a break to actually fire up my PS3, which I don’t do too often, and mess around with LittleBigPlanet, a trailer for which is here:
LittleBigPlanet is basically what would happen if Michel Gondry were ever …
A New Age Dawns; Also, New Half-Blood Prince Trailer
Today brings the dawning of what future blog historians will call the Second, or Silver, Age of Nerd World. We have transitioned to a new platform, WordPress, albeit ungracefully and unwillingly (apparently all the servers fell over on Friday, so they crash-upgraded, or crash-cross-graded depending on how you feel about WordPress). …
Oops
Faithful TIME.com blog-readers may have noticed something odd today: the blogs kind of disappeared. Long story short, we’ve had major server problems, and as a result we’ve had to re-launch all of our blogs on WordPress. The upside is a faster, better, more stable platform. The downside is we’ll need a few days to get our archives back …
Great Moments in Internet Video: Mars Rover, Spaghetti
I’ve gone mad with power while feverishly selecting Time’s Best Inventions of 2008, so instead of writing anything I’m just going to post pretty moving pictures.
1. Your tax dollars went to create this very cool, ambitiously directed animation of what it will look like when the Mars Science Laboratory (Worst Rover Name Ever!) lands on …
From Webcomic to Book: The Great Outdoor Fight
My cred as an Achewood fan is in sad disrepair since it took me this long to acknowledge the fact that the Great Outdoor Fight book is now out. “Three days! Three acres! Three THOUSAND men! Only one will win THE GREAT OUTDOOR FIGHT!” It is almost too rich a treat.
Those of you who don’t follow Achewood won’t care about this, …
The Scream Awards Awards
I was in the audience for tonight’s taping of Spike TV’s Scream Awards, “celebrating comics, fantasy, sci-fi and horror.” It’s a fun show, much more entertaining than the 6000 other award shows I’ve been to. Here are my awards for things that happened at the show itself.
LOUDEST AUDIENCE JEER: Clip of Shia LeBoeuf from …
“Easily the most exciting new tech product of the year” — Time Magazine
I’m just going to keep saying it: Googlephone, Googlephone, Googlephone. Even though it’s not the Googlephone, it’s the T-Mobile G1. Whatever. Bring on your lawyers Sergei Brin!
Anyway. Just wanted to point you to Anita Hamilton’s good old-fashioned rave for the Googlephone. I haven’t spent a ton of time with it, but I can say that it …
Dead Space Review: It’s Not Just the Space That’s Dead
Dead Space is out today. But because I’m a member of the East Coast media elite, I’ve actually had a copy for a couple of weeks, which I’ve been playing whenever I’m not out rigging elections and manipulating the stock markets and such. Dead Space is an extremely intense, beautifully produced zombie-survival-horror-first-person-shooter …
Ridley Scott to Make The Forever War
Finally somebody’s going to film this book. I’ve been whining “forever” about the absence of a Forever War movie. Now, according to Variety (by way of Ain’t It Cool), it’s in the works, with the redoubtable, apparently indestructible Ridley Scott directing.
The plot summary they give is typically lame and distorted, in the manner of …
Bizarro Ruins a Funeral
INT. FIRST CHURCH OF SMALLVILLE – DAY
The church is full of mourners. CLARK KENT, in a black suit, is at the altar, in mid-eulogy. Behind him is a large photo of Jonathan Kent (who died in Action Comics #870).
CLARK KENT: But the most important thing my father taught me was the difference between right …
