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Paramount And Twitter Announce ‘Super 8’ Trailer Exclusivity, Ignore Meatbags Who Saw It In Theaters
Well, this is funny: I could’ve sworn we saw the trailer for the new Steven Spielberg/”I’m Not Working On The New Star Trek Film Yet” J.J. Abrams flick Super 8 during the midnight release for that one film last night. Nope, apparently not according to Paramount who issued a press release stating they had released the trailer exclusively on Twitter. Well, I guess I’ll just forget the one we saw last night.
Electric Cars: Tesla Decides Bigger Batteries Are Awesome, Chevy Figures The Opposite
I’ve mentioned it before, but I have to say that if one of the electric car manufacturers wanted to drop one of their vehicles on my insurance policy, I can’t say I’d cry (that I am sans vehiculus at the moment is completely relevant). For many folks, there’s still a lot of trepidation around a purchase because of the range and price of these cars and while it doesn’t look like that’s changing any time soon, some recent announcements seem to highlight where some strategies are working and where they’re not.
Movie Review: Battle: Los Angeles
I really wanted to like this film. I did. I was imagining this would be Hollywood’s first genuine attempt at an X-COM film in which humanity must band together to form a militarized response against a hostile alien threat. Instead, Battle: Los Angeles is a mostly unsatisfying look at what could’ve been an epic alien warfare film.
MIT Media Lab Gets 40,000 New Logos
Usually when one thinks of a logo, they think of a single form crafted by millions of dollars and an artist’s deft hand. MIT’s Media Lab, responsible for such ground-breaking ideas as the One Laptop Per Child project and other interesting tech projects, decided to freshen up the ol’ identity and come up with a mathematically-generated logo. Consisting of three black square “projectors” and their intersecting gradients, the logo is generated individually for each new business card or slab of signage. Check out a video of the algorithm and branding in place at the source.
Source: Fast Company
PlayStation Plus Users Getting Cloud-Based Save Storage Tomorrow
Tomorrow, the PlayStation Network will be down for a whopping 11 hours (which if you haven’t updated your PlayStation 3 in about two weeks is par for the course, ifyaknowwhatImean) largely in part to add cloud-based storage for game saves. There are some size/access restrictions, of course and it’s only for Plus subscribers, but this is a great step in the right direction for any console. Does anyone else dread their hardware failing and losing all of their save content? I know I do. It seems that now consoles are trying to go the way of Steam (or Google-based contacts for phones) by keeping the content safely tucked away on a remote hard drive on the internet rather than only solely in your console or on a memory card. The sooner that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo make this a ubiquitous feature across all of their games, the better.
Source: Giant Bomb
X-COM: UFO Defense Is The Best Game Ever Made, Period.
The whole world seemed to be on a collective alien/UFO/mysterious kidnapping high in the early 90s. From The X-Files to “investigations” by Unsolved Mysteries and Alien Autopsy, we all seemed hellbent to believe that there really were aliens out there. This game was described to me by a friend over dinner (after watching The Lion King, bizarre, right?) as a strategy game in which you built a team of soldiers and sent them around the world to combat alien threats. Seventeen years later, X-COM is now long-departed from an era of novelty in strategy games, standing alone, having withstood the test of time and executed so well that it simply couldn’t be replicated.
My Favoritest Music Videos Ever? Yep.
It seems like the implosion of the music industry has made the art of the music video sort of a dead statement, but it’s not like they didn’t have a good run. Here are some of my favorite music videos over the years, starting with Number Five up top, Justice’s “DVNO”. Directed by So-Me, Machine Mollie, and Yorgo featuring a wide variety of logos and title cards that, if you’re a child of the 80s, you’ll vaguely recognize in their repurposed versions. Stay tuned as we march on to the top 4 after the break! [I completely apologize ahead of time for either the poor quality or ad-filled versions of these links!]
Android Now Biggest-Selling Smartphone Platform In America
You wouldn’t tell it just looking at the FEZ staff – where we have two Android users versus two iPhone users with a Windows Phone guy in-between – but Android has now become the largest smartphone platform, surpassing Research In Motion’s Blackberry for the top spot in ComScore’s latest quarterly marketshare report.
2000 Was The Best SimCity Game Ever, Period.
It’s hard to believe now, but SimCity launched a whole new genre of strategy games when it debuted in 1989 – the “fun” simulation. Developer/gaming god Will Wright (you know him nowadays for The Sims and Spore) decided that he was having more fun with level editors than he was in actual games, so he set out to create the original SimCity. Believe it or not, at some point the idea of playing a game in which you built and managed a city was pretty lame, but Will changed everyone’s minds. It’s the sequel, though – SimCity 2000 – that perfected the whole formula and in the 17 years since it released, it has never been surpassed.
The Undiscovered Country Is The Best Star Trek Film Ever Made, Period.
You simply aren’t ready for a nerd-out of this magnitude.
