Green Day: Rock Band, The Interview
Ask Green Day what’s led them to releasing their own video game two decades after the band formed, and they might tell you that it’s the “thrill seeking” aspect of the band.
The fact is, no one does rock-n-roll stamina like Green Day. They were the producers of angst anthems in the 1990s with Dookie, Insomniac and Nimrod, and when …
Please, No: Fox Prepares To Rebirth Fantastic Four
It’s clearly time to retire any variation on the word “reborn” when it comes to geek marketing. I mean, at least DC Comics’ Green Lantern: Rebirth and The Flash: Rebirth were being semi-literal – the characters were dead, and now they’re not. And, I guess, Marvel Comics’ Captain America Reborn made sense because people thought he was …
EA Bringing RISK to iPhone
A little world domination in your pants, if you please. Electronic Arts is bringing RISK to the iPhone and iPod Touch sometime this summer, although an exact availability date and pricing haven’t been announced. No mention of a high-res iPad version either.
EA is promising “the real RISK experience,” perhaps in a nod to the …
Danny Boyle to Direct Olympic Opening Ceremony? Cue the Zombies!
Swing by the video store this weekend and rent any Danny Boyle movie, and you’re going to be entertained.
The man was born to create sweeping spectacles. He has an eye for kinetic movements, a pulse for rhythm and pacing, an ear for dialogue and a freaky ability to reject anything that is the least bit routine or mundane. When I …
Google Builds ‘Caffeine’ for 50 Percent Fresher Search Results
Google has ramped up the speed with which it’s able to return new web content with “a new web indexing system called Caffeine,” according to a recent company blog post.
Google is promising “50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index,” which would basically re-scour the web continuously, a process …
New Predators Poster: Heat Vision Goose Bumps
In recent years, with the miserable likes of Alien Vs. Predator, the whole idea of the Preadtor has turned into something of a comical punch line.
They’ve become B-movie fodder. And while I understand some think that it’s always kinda been that way, whenever I think back to that very first Predator in 1987, I get a little …
The Loadout for June 8th, 2010: New Games to Attack Your Week With
Welcome to the Loadout. Our philosophy is that the working week is a recurring boss battle that you’ll need the proper weapons to take down. The supplies at hand won’t always be pretty but you might just be able to hold out until the weekend. Green means add it to your arsenal, yellow leaves it up to your discretion and red means …
The Daily Dose
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Up Front:
Scott Pilgrim Game Hands-On [via Game Informer]
Gadgets:
HTC EVO 4G Sold Out Just About Everywhere [via Engadget]
Can PostSecret And Facebook Save A Life? [via NewsFeed]
Military Taps Social Networking Skills [via NYT]
An Android User’s …
Little Old Lady Calls To Have Google Pac-Man Disabled
It’s too funny not to laugh.
This old lady calls tech support asking the lucky computer nerd to disable the Google Pac-Man game because she didn’t like it. Hilarity ensues. Just listen. For the love of Pete(r Ha), just listen.
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Q&A: Android Karenina Mash-Up Author Ditches Horror For Sci-Fi
Barely more than a year later, and the literary mash-up craze started by Quirk Books has boomed into a monster of its own undoing – or so it seemed. Sifting through piles of Vampires & FILL-IN-THE-BLANK titles rushed onto shelves to entice teenage girls and Twilight-loving moms is something of a daunting task. Thankfully, in a literary …
Mortal Kombat Gets Punching Noir Rebirth
I have no idea what this is new video is advertising, but it’s either entirely awesome or completely ridiculous. I can’t quite decide yet.
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Quite what prompted this 1990s-esque remake of the franchise is, as yet, unknown, but I suspect multiple viewings of Se7en. Still, I like the …