Movie Review: Super 8
There’s a point in Super 8 where our hero Joe (Joel Courtney) is standing on a porch with Alice (Elle Fanning), the cute girl he has a crush on, asking her to finish his friend’s film. Of course, during their last adventure, they ended up in the midst a traumatic train wreck. (The kids seem relatively unshaken after the fact, but whatever.) Her deadbeat drunkard of a dad pulls up, recognizes Joe as ‘the deputy’s boy’ and tells him to fozz off, never to come up here again. Rather than obey, he stands there like a stupid puppy. She agrees to continue filming her role, but only after he continues to idle with a dumb look on his face. It’s this false tension and anti-climax that sums up Super 8.
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The Metro Invasion!: A Supremely Brief Article About Microsoft’s Dream Interface
The wide world of Metro UI (Clockwise from Top Left): Windows Phone, Windows 8, Zune 4.0 software, Xbox 360 Fall 2011 dashboard
You can blame Steve Ballmer all you want for Microsoft’s stagnancy. In the past decade, their revenues have cooled (allowing the once dwarf-ish Apple to surpass them in size), their employee count has exploded, their stock has stalled, and there’s been more than a few calls for Ballmer’s resignation. But, one thing we are going to see is the graphical unification of all of Microsoft’s products, the first time it’s ever happened across such a broad range, including phones, PCs, and video game systems. By the end of next year, the text-and-tile Metro UI interface system may be the most visible in the world, surpassing even iOS. While Metro is hardly perfect from a usability or preferential standpoint, it’s still a great interactive solution. So we have to wonder: where did this thing come from and why is Microsoft embracing it whole hog now? Let’s take a look, shall we?
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Video: Dirt 3 Quick Look!
Short of a review, I’ve spent enough time not sucking at Dirt 3 to produce a video that isn’t completely sad. Check it out after the break!
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E3 2011: Q&A With An E3 Model
Yeah, FleshEatingZipper as a whole are bummed they couldn’t sink their teeth into E3 2011 in person. But that didn’t stop them from creeping underneath all of those fancy announcement trailers! I was fortunate to have a little one on one chit chat sesh with a lovely lady who worked on the other side of the Ubisoft table. And did I mention she happens to be of the opposite sex? Check out the Q&A after the break! Read the rest of this article…
FleshEatingZipper Video Reviews For Games Incoming! What Do You Want To See?
We at the FleshEatingZipper are now set up to do video reviews for Xbox 360 and PS3 games! Now we want to know: what footage do you want to see? Drop us a comment here or on Facebook/Twitter and let us know!
E3 2011: Gears Of War 3 New Horde Mode Discussed, Release Date Confirmed
Last night at E3, Epic Games showed off the new, revamped horde mode for Gears of War 3. In this article I’ll be discussing the new features, the features from Gears of War 2, how they contrast and what this means for the players when the game’s release date hits on September 20, 2011.
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Dungeon Siege III Demo Now Available
Square Enix just announced moments ago that the Dungeon Siege demo is now available for download on Xbox 360, PS3 and Steam. Check out some of the screen shots and the demo trailer below. Read the rest of this article…
Ghostbusters: 27 Years Later
Can you believe it’s almost been three decades since the original film debuted in theaters? For some, that’s half a life time and for others (like me), well, it is a life time. After watching the movie this morning in light of Ghostbuster’s 27th anniversery, I wondered what the film would have been like if development and production went the way it was supposed to go.
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E3 2011 : Mass Effect 3 “N7 Collectors Edition” Explored, Compared
Announcements at E3 2011 indicate that Mass Effect 3 will interact with Kinect on the Xbox 360 and that it will release on March 6, 2012. Further Announcements from BioWare and EA now reveal what will be included with the collectors edition of the final installment of the epic space action / RPG trilogy. How does it stack up against other collector’s sets?
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E3 2011: Final Fantasy XIII-2 Full Trailer
Enjoy this full trailer for Final Fantasy XIII-2 that was shown at E3 2011. I haven’t played Final Fantasy since FF7 but I know a lot of people still do and since Square Enix has been really cool to us I figured post it up! The game comes out Q4 in 2012 and here is the official site.
