The first press screenings of Avatar were held late Thursday night, so naturally the reviews are flooding online today. We’re dying to hear what TIME’s film critic, Richard Corliss, thought of the whole thing – his review will be posted here in a day or two – and we’re going to be publishing a lengthier roundtable discussion …
The Techland Show: Giant Xbox Controller Edition
I just want to explain that I am better than Peter at Halo 2. I didn’t have my glasses. And I was using the old-style monster controller. Plus he kept killing himself. I want the record to be clear.
Apologies for the funky audio. We were getting some interference from the Hometree. That’s an Avatar joke. It will make sense to you next week.
App Club: geoSpark. How’d We Do?
I don’t want to talk about geoSpark yet. I want to talk about Doodle Jump for a second. Hear me out.
Doodle Jump is an awesome little app. You play a little Qbert-like jumping beastie. He jumps. He jumps up a series of platforms. Sometimes the platforms move. Sometimes they have springy things on them that sproing him upward, or a …
Interview With Mass Effect: Redemption Co-Writer JJM
How much care did you take to accommodate readers who have never played the original game or who might not play the second game? Are there necessary lead-ins or planned cliffhanger endings that either game would expand on?
JJM: Every comic book is someone’s first. So I’ve always tried to approach every story I’m working on …
Say Hello To Mickey Rourke’s Whiplash
Best of the Decade: Video Games
FULL LIST: Techland’s top video games of the 2000s.
It’s not easy to go back through 10 years of gaming and choose just 10 titles to represent the best video games of the decade. (See the other “best of the decade” lists here).
Especially since Lev, Peter and I have different tastes; we went back and forth on games we personally …
Peter Jackson on Lovely Bones: You Don’t Make a Movie For a Book’s Fans
Alice Sebold’s Lovely Bones is a brutal and intense story – the tale of a teenager who is raped and murdered, who then must watch from heaven as those she loved attempt to move beyond their loss.
It’s a story that’s a little bit about death, a little about life, and not quite about heaven. Young Susie exists in the …
A Sexy-Looking Caprica, Back in Action Monday
Caprica’s coming back – and a little sooner than you may have expected.
We’ve been checking out some of the new show’s initial artwork, which is honestly pretty damn sexy (the message is clear: eat your fruit kids!), and then we saw that an extended PG cut of this spring’s pilot will be available again on Syfy Rewind come …
“The Lovely Bones” in theaters
New episode of “Dollhouse” 8 p.m. on FOX
Hands-on With the Fusion Garage Joojoo Tablet
Outside of Fusion Garage and TechCrunch, I’m probably the only other person to have an attachment to the Joojoo tablet. Towards the end of my time with TechCrunch, I tinkered with Prototype B during a random pit stop at the TC office in Palo Alto. The hardware design and the sort-of-working-but-not OS, which Fusion Garage claims to …
Neal Adams Does PvP
This is so rad. Like, mindblowingly rad to see a comic book legend Neal Adams work his magic on PvP. I’ve been a longtime fan of both artists and this is just so damn cool. Bleeding Cool has a panel from the upcoming Christmas story arc. Neat stuff.
