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I Don’t Want J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars
No.
Word is quickly flying around that TV producer/Star Trek director J.J. Abrams is all but set to direct the newest Star Wars film, Episode VII, currently being scribed by Toy Story 3/Little Miss Sunshine writer Michael Arndt. I have faith in Arndt’s ability to create a compelling story worthy of the lore (although that bar is pretty low at this point), but the idea of J.J. Abrams crossing the streams between Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, a dangerous kind of cross-pollination that shouldn’t exist amongst these fictional fiefdoms, is scary. Episode VII can only be less because of Abrams.
New Unofficial Xbox Branding Identity Is Crazy Enough To Work
Get it?
You may not be familiar with Cory Schmitz, but he’s a designer who’s done plenty of work for the gaming industry, most recently with the PlayStation title Sound Shapes and the branding for Polygon. Well, after a “one-afternoon branding jam”, Cory came up with an interesting take on the next generation of Xbox branding, a wave that’s rumored to include tablets and smaller set top boxes. So how does it look?
Microsoft Finally Releasing The Surface Tablet We All Really Wanted On February 9th
This is actually a picture of the Surface RT, but can you REALLY tell?
Imagine a version of Windows that doesn’t run any of the programs you’ve accumulated over the years in exchange for an app store that’s still pretty small. It makes sense that Microsoft would release a tablet with that version of Windows to cater to hardware and app developers that are currently working on Android apps these days and not Windows ones, but there’s a reason why Microsoft has been hush-hush about Surface sales: because they’re probably not great at all. When Microsoft unveiled the tablet last summer, they promised an alternate, higher-end Surface Pro that was essentially the Windows you knew and loved, but in tablet form. The version you wanted. Well, it’s here.
Adult Swim Puts Banned Dexter’s Laboratory Episode Online
DEEDEE! But seriously, cut it out.
I didn’t get Cartoon Network until I was almost a teenager, but I loved Dexter’s Laboratory. Eccentric and wild-brained Dexter just wants to build crazy stuff and is held in check by his malicious-or-well-intending dopey sister Deedee in episode after episode. They did a number of these things and then did a second run years later – which always fails in cartoons, always – but in its heyday under the watchful eye of Genndy Tartakovsky, produced an episode so harsh that they prohibited it from ever airing on the CN.
Until now.
…and I’ve got it embedded below.
The Elder Scrolls Online Opens Its Doors For Beta Testers, Has Much To Prove
FILL OUT THIS FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORM!
It’s been fourteen months since Skyrim landed on store shelves and crushed all kinds of sales goals (most of that time I spent not playing it) and now Bethesda is ready to bring in the next wave of fantasy-RPG excitement to the world. Starting today, you can sign up for beta access to the series’ new MMO. It’s here, after a mundane unveiling at E3, that we’ll be able to test whether or not Bethesda can break World of Warcraft’s grip on our MMO dollars, but it faces a long, challenging road.
Beat Hazard (PC) Review: Seizure By The Second
If you can figure out what’s going on here, you’ve won half the battle.
The first time I saw Beat Hazard nearly three years ago, I nearly had to avert my eyes because of the headache it was about to cause. A dual-stick shooter not unlike the fabulous Geometry Wars, Beat Hazard is one of a handful of games to feature levels generated by your music library. What sets Beat Hazard apart? The visual madness that starts cutting into your eyeballs as soon as your favorite song kicks into drive.
Gas Powered Games: Fund Our ‘Wildman’ Kickstarter Or Everyone Gets Laid Off
An emotionally-charged call for help.
None of us enjoy watching a well-meaning Kickstarter effort fail. Whether it’s the little guy with the great idea or the haggard ancients piecing together a new piece of RPG lore, there are plenty of success stories, but there are plenty of failures that don’t get much attention. Being a haggard ancient, the campaign for Gas Powered Games’ new MOBA/tower defense title ‘Wildman’ was already getting some attention, but only a few days in, GPG’s head honcho Chris Taylor, whom you remember from Total Annihilation, Dungeon Siege, and most recently for finishing Age of Empires Online, came online in an update to potential Kickstarter investors, nearly in tears.
Sad That Dinosaurs Will Be Impossible, Science Wants To Resurrect Extinct Neanderthals
“Zug zug,” the neanderthal said, indifferent to the matters at hand.
You may have used the term Neanderthal to call some oafish person an idiot, but neanderthals are an interesting fragment of our own history. We’re not sure whether they descended from the progenitor of humans or whether they were a split off of modern man, but the record shows they lived in and around Europe until about 30,000 years ago. We don’t know why they disappeared, whether it was climate change, interbreeding with humans, or any number of bizarre theories, but now the tables are set: we want to bring them back.
For About $30 A Month, Kim Dotcom’s Mega Wants To Give You 4TB Of Cloud Storage
M-M-M-MEGA. Can’t stop saying it.
I love and use Dropbox every day. I couldn’t live without some place in the cloud at this point to store my data so I can access it from virtually all of my devices. After a huge legal kerfuffle, Kim Dotcom, whom you may know from the will.i.am-slash-Kanye West-endorsed Megaupload, or perhaps the epic raid on his house in New Zealand to bring said service down, is bringing us Mega, a whole new service to send your data to. And they’re giving you 50GB for free, just to start, squashing any offer from those other, larger, perhaps more legitimate offerings from Dropbox and Google.
‘Gangster Squad’ Review: Violent Candy
A dash of that ultra-violence.
I enjoyed Gangster Squad for precisely the time it was on screen. There was no subsequent banter about its characters or its story, it simply ended and that was it. Gangster Squad succeeds because it’s a fun experience. Watching the square-jawed, ripped-from-your-typical-noir Sergeant John O’Mara (Brolin) assemble and deploy an off-the-books police team to kneecap Mickey Cohen’s (Penn) gangster operations is kind of a blast. But once the stakes raise and the tides turn and the balls bounce, the film’s flaws become a bit more apparent.
