The trailer was spectacular and appears to stay true to Mark Miller’s comic, but like Peter Sciretta over at Slash Film points out, these posters aren’t doing the film justice. They’re actually misleading and kind of dumb looking. Here’s Chloe Moretz posing as Mindy Macready aka Hit Girl posing atop a building much like Big Daddy …
Box Art Reviews: Annoying Artists, Mixed Myths, More
With Christmas upon us, all the year’s biggest releases have come out.
That leaves us with budget PC titles this week, but that doesn’t excuse them from having crappy covers.
See which games’ box art gets through our scrutiny and which ones don’t in this week’s unintentionally all-PC edition of box art reviews.
The Techland Show: The Three Amigos Edition
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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Iranian Cyber Army Takes Down Twitter, Sort Of
Late last night Twitter was apparently hacked by a group calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army. It turns out that it was merely a DNS exploit that redirected Twitter.com visitors to a page with the following message:
Iranian Cyber Army
THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY
iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM
U.S.A. Think
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The Most Controversial Video Games of the Decade
Violence, sex, race, religion.
Certainly controversial topics on their own, but perhaps even moreso when they’re depicted in a video game.
Techland’s seemingly never-ending list features (we totally admit it) continue as we look at the most controversial games of the 2000s.
Though video games have been around for quite a while, …
Your Avatar Primer: 10 Things You Need to Know For Opening Day
Okay, here’s the deal. You’re thinking about seeing Avatar tonight, yes, or this weekend? You know it features blue people. And that it’s set on a different planet. But you’re still a little confused – and not entirely sure if your girlfriend is going to dig it. (Check out our spoiler-free morning-after Avatar review)
Trust …
Doctor Who Weekend in America: Mars Edition
It’s Doctor Who weekend in the United States – when us lowly BBC America chaps get to finally catch up with our brethren across the pond.
Saturday night, The Waters of Mars hits the airwaves – the second of David Tennant’s final four episodes as doctor. The set-up: The year is 2059, the doctor finds himself inside the first …
Giovanni Ribisi: Avatar’s Biggest 3-D Convert?
There’s already been a whole lot of talk out there about Avatar – about the quality of the writing, the imagination of the special effects, and the brilliance of a motion capture process that made the Na’vi just about the most believable fictional beings in the history of movies. (Read our morning-after review, and the transcript …
“Avatar” in theaters
Anime South in Destin, Florida
Fusion Garage Scoffs at Arrington’s Lawsuit
It seems the feud between Fusion Garage and TechCrunch is far from over. Arrington and Co. filed a lawsuit against Fusion Garage on December 10, 2009 claiming fraud and deceit, misappropriation of business ideas and a string of other reasons in Northern District of California Federal court.
(Check out our
ThinkGeek.com a320 Pocket Retro Game Emulator Review
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.
For many …