I was going to title this post The Techland Show: The Sell-out Traffic Whore episode. But wait — isn’t that every episode?
Apparently not. We’ve been instructed to “punch up” the show and give it more “viral” potential by organizing it into a list of the week’s top five topics. There — happy now? Isn’t this what you wanted? You did …
I don’t know. And having read this, I still don’t know if I know. But a website called Digital Battle lists the top 10 budgets ever. I’m not sure what their sources are, but if everybody’s reposting it, it must be true!
10. Killzone 2: $45 million
9. Final Fantasy XII: $48 million
8. LA Noire: $50 million
7. APB, $50 million
6. …
The other day I read an interview with Terri Tatchell, the co-writer of District 9, in which she mentioned that she was thinking of adapting a short film for her next project. The film is called Terminus. It’s on YouTube.
At the time I thought to myself, is this a post? I flipped a mental coin. I missed the catch and the coin rolled …
Seriously, I know Allie already posted about this game, but WTF? I cannot understand why this game is all ruling on iTunes.
(If you haven’t played Plants vs. Zombies, watch this video trailer, featuring music oddly reminiscent of Tangerine Dream’s Risky Business soundtrack: …
The official announcement is here. With apologies for the lazy formatting. My italicizing finger is tired.
Short Story
Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela, Saladin Ahmed (Clockwork Phoenix 2, Norilana Press, Jul09)
I Remember the Future, Michael A. Burstein (I Remember the Future, Apex Press, Nov08)
Non-Zero Probabilities, N. …
In which we talk about the next Batman movie, and Peter loses his thing over Windows Phone 7, and Lev looks like an idiot playing Project Natal. They need to release a non-code name for that thing. A No-Prize to the commenter who can think of a better name for it.
Plus Susan Sarandon cameos. For a full-length treatment of the Project …
A few days ago Scholastic released the cover of the new Hunger Games novel on its blog. It looks like this:
The Hunger Games, as you may know, is a big-time YA series about a girl named KatnipKatniss who lives in a future dystopia where every year the ruling caste forces a bunch of kids to fight each other in an arena. Twenty-four …
I went to Boskone last weekend. It’s my “local” con, since I grew up in Lexington (which is near Boston), and my parents still live in Cambridge. So that was a good reason to go. Also the con organizers invited me. That was another good reason. It’s always nice to be invited.
Anyway the programming was really top-notch, especially for …
OK, in honor of this reasonably impressive blizzard we’re having here on the East coast, I present to you: the top 10 ice planets. All media fair game.
By the way, I nominate “ice planet” — not the movie, the idea — for top 10 things that need both a Wikipedia entry and a TV Tropes entry. (Right now in TV Tropes it falls under …
The latest from the Muppets. I should have known Beaker was a prog rock guy:
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Nice Trogdor reference.
I offer this as reparations for having dissed The Dark Crystal on Twitter.
I saw this on io9 and waited as long as I could before blatantly ripping off their post. (I already did so on Twitter.)
An artist named Justin van Genderen did a series of vintage deco-style travel posters for some of the major planets in Star Wars. Here’s Hoth:
Do you not admire its beauty? See them all here. I don’t know …
Peter and I got beat at Halo 3 by an 11-year-old Wednesday. 10-0, 10-0. So that was good. That was really good.
I played him on Snowbound. Snowbound is where I live, man. Snowbound is my house. I got beat in my house.
So this week Peter and I talk about that experience. And some other experiences, including our pre-Apple Tablet …
