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Amazon Is Doing This ‘Original Content’ Thing All Wrong
Seems like a lot of these Amazon series are also DOA.
There’s a reason why Ted Sarandos is getting all kinds of attention: as Netflix’s Chief Content Officer, he’s bringing some really good original content to the company. House of Cards could’ve swept any awards show, but as a web-exclusive series (for now), it doesn’t qualify for any of them. Beloved comedy series Arrested Development is right around the corner has the collective interest of millions of original fans, plus many others that picked up the show after it was cancelled. So what is Amazon doing to create a robust portfolio of exclusive shows? Scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Here’s 8 Minutes Of Patton Oswalt Filibustering About ‘Star Wars’
Oswalt is pro-Abrams!
Tonight’s Parks & Recreation features a concerned citizen, namely, Patton Oswalt, filibustering the city council vote and making Amy Poehler look visibly disgusted. So what does he do for eight minutes? He talks about the new Star Wars film.
As ‘Oblivion’ Looms, I Wonder Why People Hate Tom Cruise So Much
Tom Cruise’s face is like a falcon, ready to rip you up!
We’re mere hours from the American launch of Joseph Kosinski’s sci-fi flick Oblivion and already I’m seeing this bizarre comment: I’d check it out, but Tom Cruise is in it. Hm? I heard the same thing when I told friends I went to see Jack Reacher – a film I wouldn’t personally recommend for its own set of problems – but I guess it’s something that goes back years, decades even. Cruise has conjured plenty of reasons to dislike him, but… why so serious?
‘Breaking Bad’-Inspired Bath Salts Are For Baths, Not Snorting
They had to change a step in the formula, but it’s just as pure.
Okay, this is cool as hell. Now, I haven’t had an actual bath in ages (cue the jokes, haha, it’s funny guys), but bathing connoisseurs – or women, I guess – use this stuff on a regular basis, apparently. Well, one particular bath salts manufacturer thought they’d be clever and tie in some of Heisenberg’s crystals, because here we are today.
‘Surgeon Simulator 2013′ Launches Tomorrow, Has Frickin’ Lasers
Yes. Yes! YES!
As a Game Jam-conceived browser game, Surgeon Simulator 2013 was merely a proof of concept. Developed in two days by experienced game developers, you QWOPed your way through the delicate procedure of replacing a broken heart, hoping not to kill the patient along the way. As a retail release, Surgeon Simulator 2013, may be the end-all, be-all of gaming history.
How Do They Design Transformers Toys? With Lots Of Pens And Markers
Rooms with lots of drawings are still pretty common.
I must’ve been born a year or two too late for Transformers to be a formative part of my youth (then again, I played with G.I. Joes and don’t quite understand the lore behind that, either), but there was always something so fascinating about watching mundane objects mechanically change into action-ready robots. How they do it, nearly thirty years after Hasbro brought the Transformers toys Stateside? With lots of drawings.
‘Minecraft’ Movie Is Coming, Far More Boring Than It Sounds
All hail the mighty church of Minecraft!
Believe it or not, Minecraft is really successful. Not only did it make Markus “Notch” Persson, the game’s creator, rich beyond imagination, it’s also a global phenomena. We like it a little bit, too. As such, Seven Stories Press will be publishing a book later this year that details the game’s creation and Notch’s upbringing called Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus “Notch” Persson and the Game that Changed Everything. Oh, and they’ve already sold the film rights. That’s cool.
Twitter Launches #Music Service, Still Too Early To Be Useful
What can I say? I’m hard to please.
Finding new music is a pain in the butt, especially with my particular tastes. Pandora works fine to the extent that you have skips available or it’s not playing all those same tracks again. There are even multiple Spotify apps that try to help, but it’s just not enough. Today, Twitter unveiled their own music service, designed to tackle specifically that. How well does it work? Uh…
So, About That ‘Zombieland’ TV Series… Let’s Not Get Our Hopes Up
Nothing about this feels quite right.
Remember when we told you about that Zombieland series that Amazon was producing? Don’t you remember our cautious optimism? The sliver of hope that it would turn out decently? Well, the trailer has ‘leaked’ out to the internet and it’s probably messier than the zombies.
Sacred Citadel (XBLA) Review: What’s Old Is Kinda New Again
Hacking and slashing and hacking!
It’s been a while since I’ve played a hack-and-slash game. Yeah, I even missed Castle Crashers. Coming out to fill some narrative space between the relatively obscure Sacred role-playing games, Citadel doesn’t require a study session to figure out what’s going on. Instead, all you need is a few friends (or not, if you’re one of those people) to fill in for some cooperative action as you beat, punch, and twirl your way through the game’s five acts.
