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Cloud Atlas Six-Minute Trailer Reveals Tom Hanks And A Beautiful Mess
After watching the trailer, this seems to make the MOST sense.
Remember the Wachowskis? Y’know, the director duo who brought us both The Matrix and Speed Racer? They’ve been lurking for a bit, but together with Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer they’ve now released a six-minute sizzle reel for their next project: Cloud Atlas. Somehow, I’m left with more questions coming out of it than I did going in.
FEZ Monthly Caucus – Videocast #1 – The Dark Knight, Halo: The Movie, Minecraft, Windows Phone 8!
Now with 100% more video!
It’s time for another FleshEatingZipper Caucus Podcast! This week Skype pissed us off so much that in order to make this week’s podcast possible, we had to dive for the arms of Google+ Hangouts. And we succeeded. And now you can see each and everyone of us as we make sly references and rib each other’s opinions!
Robot Rising Interview – Chatting With Executive Producer Michael Fitch
What’s not to love about giant robots blowing up stuff? (Unless it’s a Kinect-exclusive…)
Last week I peeped a new 3D action RPG game… for Facebook. Yeah, not a Steam release or an Xbox Live Arcade title, but a title where you’ll be able to plug in all your best friends and play right out of a browser window. It’s weird, I know. I had an opportunity to chat with Robot Rising’s executive producer Michael Fitch about the game and where Tencent is taking it. If you’ve been waiting for a ‘core’ gaming experience on Facebook, I’d suggest you check it out.
Jock The Hero Dog Review – Family Entertainment For Suckers
You won’t be this happy watching it.
Jack the Hero Dog is not a good film. In fact, it’s so cringe-worthingly bad that even my eight year old self would’ve hated it. This vessel doesn’t approach the quality of Disney, in fact, it stays clear of even Disney’s dreadful direct-to-video sequels, too. Based on a popular South African book about a gold prospector and his runt companion written in the same pocket of time as Princess of Mars, we don’t care about Jack the Hero Dog’s struggle in the African wild against vultures, former circus gorillas, and bozos and we definitely don’t care about the film.
DidYouKnowGaming: For When You Need More Gaming Trivia!
Frightening!
Did you know that the Capcom logo uses the same typeface as Jeopardy! answers? What about the fact that pirated PC copies of Alan Wake display the titular haunted novelist with an eyepatch? I did not. As a fan of this kind of trivial information, hearing about DidYouKnowGaming was a pleasant surprise!
iPhone 5: Are You Ready To Toss Out Your Old Accessories?
The more things change, more things you’ll need to change…
iPhone rumors abound, with mounting evidence that the newest record-breaking Apple device comes equipped with a new dock connector. At the same time, Apple is said to be bundling the headphone jack along the bottom of the phone as well. Adapters or not, one has to wonder: are you willing to throw out all of those old accessories?
I Don’t Understand WWE. Why Do People Watch It?
WHAT DOES IT MEAN.
I know my parents love me because I didn’t grow up watching WWE (or WWF, as it was called back then). Oh, don’t get me wrong, I watched a lot of terrible kids’ programming as a young’in, but I knew, deep down, I was still better off because I wasn’t watching “wrestling”. When I was challenged to my first fight in the fifth grade (no, it wasn’t really a fight, it was more like a ‘push the other kid out of an arbitrary space’ kinda thing), my opponent’s hype man handed me a piece of notebook paper with BRET THE HITMAN HART scrawled across it with a bulls eye, as if some kind of earth-shattering threat. (Later, he quietly wandered back to my desk and asked for it back so he could erase the vile design and use it for the afternoon’s math test.) He had, in effect, mortally wounded me, like a splinter to the mind, but only ironically: I still have no idea what the hell any of it means.
Dyad Review – Don’t Swallow Your Tongue
“Hey, you got art in my game!” “…and you got game in my art!”
If other games are about the destination, Dyad lives fully for the journey. You’re a particle in the Large Hadron Collider (y’know, the Higgs Boson guys?) and you need to accelerate. Difficulty is graded by power and as you start ramping up, the line between game and full-on interactive visualizer vaporizes. Those familiar with Mizuguchi’s REZ and Child of Eden will know instantly where this game lies. For others, it’s simply a trip you’ll have to take.
When Is Jelly Bean Landing For The Verizon Galaxy Nexus? Ever?
So close, and yet, so far away…
We’ve talked before about how much we hate carriers for holding up our smartphone updates, the slabs of new functionality our phones need to remain relevant. For Android users, you have the Nexus series of phones that are destined to receive the latest and greatest first, and for GSM-equipped owners of the Galaxy Nexus, the new 4.1 Jelly Bean update has been available from Day One. But what about those who caved into the demands of big carriers and wanted subsidized phones? We wait.
The Dark Knight Rises Review – Too Tight A Wrapping
This is the end of Nolan’s series. That’s it. There is no more.
In some parallel timeline, in some weird alternate dimension, Christopher Nolan is a watchmaker. He’s surveying hundreds of intricate components as they’re assembled in a specific order and then set into marvelous operation. I’ve seen every one of his films, minus Following and Insomnia, and it’s apparent that Nolan, without the help of Inception, is in the business of making cinematic puzzles that spend their running times being assembled and set off. He may be one of the past decade’s best directors, but there’s something in his approach that leaves his films feeling hollow, soaring right under what could be considered ‘art’. (I imagine this may be similar to Roger Ebert’s criticism of video games as art.) With The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan ends his Batman trilogy just as he had planned for the better part of a decade with a really good film, but we find less free-flowing cinematic energy here and more forgone conclusion as Nolan seems to have tied off this film a bit too tightly and this conclusion suffers for it.
