Steven Lisberger, who directed Tron, has another movie in the works. The bad news: it’s not a Tron sequel. The good news: it’s not a sequel to Animalympics either.
The pioneering writer-director of 1982’s “Tron” has sold “Soul Code,” a futuristic tale he penned at the instigation of IGN hostess Jessica Chobot, to
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I was going to blow off this Slashdot story, but then, as if of their own accord, my fingers twitched over to this blog, which explained that there’s a U.S. nuclear submarine with a top-secret propeller, and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth got a pretty good look at it. Then I clicked on the actual Virtual Earth picture and saw why the …
Courtesy of Achewood. “Hagrid, stoned out of his gourd, emerged from the house. He was playing virtual poker on his wireless laptop, and his robe hung open…”
This week in the print magazine I wrote a lengthy piece on Halo 3 and the Halo franchise in general. It’s written for the non-gamer, so readers of this blog probably won’t glean too much news from it. There’s virtually nothing in there about new features, or the new level editors, or anything like that. Basically I wanted to try to …
Last night I went to this nerdcore hip-hop show in Brooklyn. Nerdcore differs from conventional hip-hop in two ways: a) it’s about video games and computers and Star Wars and other nerdy stuff, and b) in place of hip-hop’s traditional boasting/self-aggrandizing rhetoric it substitutes weird self-deprecating/self-loathing rhetoric. It’s …
Maybe that’s unfair. It has earned $26.4 million in the U.S., according to IMDB. That’s against a budget of $65 million or so. Given foreign sales and DVD it’ll probably make some money, so I guess it’s unfair to say that it tanked. But I never thought that after three weeks it’d be down there at #8, with Mr. Bean’s Holiday taunting it …
Fascinating article in the LA Times — via Slashdot — about the discontinuation of AT&T’s dial-the-time service. Apparently it dawned on somebody that it’s now completely useless, since clocks are sprinkled into every imaginable gadget now like some kind of inexpensive digital condiment. But the original telephone-time-telling …
I didn’t go to PAX. You probably didn’t go to PAX. But there’s some amusing footage from Nerdstock up at Penny Arcade, including Jonathan Coulton singing “re: Your Brains” and the audio from Wil Wheaton’s keynote. I’m embedding below footage of the Minibosses doing what is actually a pretty wicked cover of the Halo theme, segueing into …
I always imagined my first robot would be something more along the lines of an Iron Giant scenario. But ya know, you go to war with the robot minion you have, that being, in my case, the Roomba.
I’ve been a Roomba user pretty much from day one. I’d been seeing tech demos of robots for years, and the one constant theme from one demo to …
OK, I’m still not excited about the Speed Racer movie, but it’s getting harder to be all cool and jaded. This comes from an interview with Susan Sarandon, who I guess is playing Speed Racer’s mom. She’s talking about the newfangled camera the Wachowski brothers have:
They’re using some high def thing that comes with guards and it’s
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