Joe Hill — of Heart-Shaped Box fame, and various other fames (including imminent Horns fame) — has started on an epic meme on Twitter, hashtag #mygeekpeak. The theme being, in the words of the founder, “where you cop to your geekiest moment ever. If it isn’t a li’l embarrassing you aren’t trying”
Hill’s opening sally — “at 13, I …
John Granger made his bones as a renegade academic writing about Harry Potter. Having exhausted the Rowling canon, he has now turned his formidable critical faculties on the Twilight series. His new book Spotlight: A Close-Up Look at the Artistry and Meaning of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga is the result.
The revelations it contains …
I liked Earth vs. Moon. Even thought it sometimes made me weep until my iPhone’s touchscreen was slick and piezoelectrically confused by the multi-touches of my hot salty tears.
So I jumped on the second game by the same developers, Low Five Games, which is called The Horrible Vikings.
The contrast with their first game could not …
Look, it’s not like I could make a better shooter for the iPhone. And it’s not like I couldn’t imagine someone else really loving N.O.V.A. It’s just that that person isn’t me.
I feel strangely protective of N.O.V.A. Like the drawings my daughter makes, which you want to praise except you can’t tell what they are.
I mean, it really …
Remember how zombies were the new vampires? Well forget it! Forget it ever happened!
See, now we have Legion coming out, where Paul Bettany plays this angel who goes to Earth to get hella paid save humanity from a bunch of evil angels:
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At practically the same …
Well, this is insanely brilliant. Via Kotaku via GameSetWatch and 30 other blogs, probably: current movies as Atari 2600 game box art.
Full size version is here. It’s worth the click.
You can see it all now: a world that might have been, where Cameron’s first feature was Avatar instead of Terminator, and they blew all the money on …
Have you ever noticed something about boss battles? How practically every game has them, and they practically always suck?
Take Borderlands. I love Borderlands more than anybody. I want Borderlands to marry my daughter. This is a game with great, fluid unpredictable game play. I’ve probably put 50 hours into it so far. I’m going to …
This is how we roll at Techland: we spend some cheese.
Buying N.O.V.A. for the iPhone is like driving down the street in a stretch Hummer in a rap video, and you hit the button to clean your windshield, and instead of windshield wiper fluid, pure Close du Mesnil champagne (1979, a great vintage, their first bottling, 98 points in Wine …
“One year ago … an elite commando unit … was sent to prison for a crime they didn’t commit.”
Unlike most people watching this trailer, I’m actually interested in the informational content of the voice-over. That’s because I never saw the original “A-Team.” In the part of your brain where you’re supposed to have hours and hours of …
All the old people in the house say yeah!
The Apple II is the most underrated gaming platform of the 1980’s. People — me included — talk a lot about the greatness of the Atari 2600, but I owe just as much of my gaming DNA to our Apple IIe, with its 64KB RAM — that comes standard, folks — and its revolutionary four-way cursor …
This just in from industry sources, i.e. Gilbert, the guy down the hall who reads Variety: Peter Berg isn’t directing Dune anymore. You know, the Hancock guy. He was going to direct a Dune remake. He’s not anymore.
Instead, Pierre Morel is going to direct it. He’s the Taken guy. Here’s a Taken …
I caught this via Ain’t It Cool. I don’t know whether I can’t believe they’re doing this, or I can’t believe they’ve waited this long. Actually I’m not really sure what this is. But looooooooook!!! You will believe a dude can look cool with gloves in his mouth.
Seriously, I don’t know if this can be actually “good” in any meaningful …
