They’re here. A mixed bag, predictably enough. I watched The Ship, which is done in Unreal Tournament. It looks beautiful, but it’s kinda slow and has no dialogue and appears to actually — I could be wrong — mean something.
On the other hand I never need an excuse to re-watch A Day in the Life of a Turret.
And if your day …
Your daily dose of simulated-HUD-porn:
Looks beautiful — I like the sense that they’re going all noir and urban and rainy with this.
Coming 2009. Eh, it’ll be about 5 minutes before somebody builds the whole thing in LittleBigPlanet. Sackboy FTW!
Doesn’t this sound like it’s straight from the keyboard of some action sci-fi movie writer? Well it’s not. It’s real.
2008 TC3 was a meteoroid two to five meters in diameter that impacted Earth on October 7, 2008 at 02:46 UTC. It was discovered by an observer at the Catalina Sky Survey 1.5 meter telescope at Mount Lemmon north
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Director Zack Snyder is doing a kind of traveling road show, screening clips from Watchmen ‘cross the nation. Yesterday that road show traveled to the Warner Brothers screening room in Manhattan. The movie will be out in March, assuming Fox and Warner don’t sue each other back to the stone age before then, but I have now seen 26 minutes …
Those crazy Covenants are up to their old artifact-exploring tricks. But were their mandibles always that freaky-looking?
Serena is so the new Cortana …
In an effort to shed the very last of our regular readers, I am pressing on with a near-liveblog of my reading of Neal Stephenson’s Anathem. (This follows up on the last installment for Parts 1-5.)
I have entered a stage familiar to me from other Stephenson books, a state of deep immersion where I carry the thing around all the time …
On the credits of The Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” episodes, the producers and staff always replace their unfunny and unspooky real names with spooky and funny “Halloween Names.” (Except for a couple years where we didn’t for reasons I forget.)
MATT GROENING becomes BAT GROENING. SPOO-OO-OOO-KY! FUUU-NNNNNN-YYYYYYYY!
My …
According to Ain’t It Cool, there’s further evidence that a Tron sequel is actually happening. Apparently the costume designer for 300 and Watchmen is on board. Maybe Flynn will get trapped inside an iPod and have to escape from its restrictive DRM.
For nostalgia’s sake, here’s the trailer for the original.
Apparently some test …
I don’t know if anybody else played through Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Of those who did, I don’t know how many of you had trouble killing Darth Maul.
Of course it wasn’t really Darth Maul, since Darth Maul got cut in half by Ewan McGregor in Episode 1. It was this droid called Proxy that holographically turns itself into various …
– io9 says that Variety says that the Clone Wars TV show might actually not suck. For your consideration, here’s a clip of Yoda breaking some robots:
– It’s only peripherally nerdy, but I was beguiled by the trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which images a fantastical world in which Brad Pitt ages backwards. As …
Buying books online is easy, right? Just point and click and get and read. Right? Wrong.
Like everything else in the world, online book buying is fraught with staggering ethical and moral consequences. Okay, it’s no abortion, but when you buy a book online, there is a teeny, tiny moral choice involved. But unlike euthanasia, it’s …
I read pretty slowly. That’s partly because I am literally a slow reader: for some reason inputting text through my eyes is just not a rapid process. But it’s also because I’m Time’s book reviewer, so I have to burn through a couple of books a week as part of my job (which is basically the greatest job in the world), so if I’m reading …
