When I saw the confirmed list of actors and the characters they will be portraying in the upcoming Avengers film I couldn’t help but feel that the team seems rather strange to me. Of course there is the obvious fact that Nick Fury and the Black Widow aren’t members of the Avengers, which is explained in the movies as the Avengers being a SHIELD project, but I don’t think that’s it. It could also be the absence of Ant-Man and Wasp, but I don’t think it’s that either. I think what bugs me about the ensemble is the lack of female characters in the group.
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Found this on Geekologie.com earlier and felt it was worth sharing. Seems that Batman’s origin isn’t as simple as once thought based on the back of this foreign toy. Try not to be eating or drinking something while reading this or you may choke while laughing out loud. But seriously, I really wish “Doctor Jackstraw, The Abnormal Drug Trafficker” was an actual Batman villain.
I like the Saw franchise. There, I said it. The series has managed to hold onto a gritty blend of police investigation and violent traps that although outlandish, remain plausible. The series has never delved into the supernatural or impossible, and has therefore created an air of seriousness about it. That’s why when I heard that Shock Till You Drop found out the next installment of the franchise will not be called Saw VII but Saw 3D The Traps Come Alive I died a little inside.
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Yes, the Wii has been around for four years, but now all three major players are in the “motion controls” game, the Xbox with Kinect (should have stayed Natal if you ask me) and the PlayStation Move. Thankfully the motion controls are optional with the Xbox and PlayStation, whereas with the Wii it’s pretty much their whole schtick, but they’re still moving the industry in a direction that refuses to let me sit down when I want to play a game.
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Way back in June of 2009 when Conan O’Brien was still on television and people rode mammoths to work EA Mobile released a Mass Effect iPhone game called Mass Effect: Galaxy. It is not a fun game. Mass Effect: Galaxy is a top down shooter that struggles with loading issues, accelerometer senesitivity, and being an all around boring game to play.
Now I’m not here to complain all about Galaxy but rather one particular aspect of it. On the main menu there is a “Mass Effect 2″ option which prompts you to sign up for, or log into an EA.com account to sync your iPhone game with it. Once completed, the screen prompts you that a reward is waiting for you in Mass Effect 2 on completion of Galaxy. This message got me very excited to get into Mass Effect 2 and see what kind of unique item or situation would be waiting for me due to my purchase and eventual completion of the iPhone game.
Well guess what, there is no reward. Your “reward” is a fleeting mention by Jacob (the main character of Galaxy) in Mass Effect 2 that he killed a bunch of Batarian terrorists on the Citadel once. That’s it!? I wasn’t expecting much but that’s a complete middle finger to everyone who bought Galaxy. So much for showing some love to the people who support a franchise you own no matter what medium it’s on EA.
Posted 16 Jan 2010 — by malcolmchaos7
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I have to say something, America. I’m embarrassed.
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Mass Effect, the hit rpg/third person shooter/ all around awesome game produced by the geniuses at Bioware impressed a lot of people, not the least of which was me. I’m not impressed, however, with the man who managed to option the movie rights.
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Don’t plan on watching another Spider-Man movie starring Toby Maguire and directed by Sam Raimi because the Associate Press reports that both men have left the franchise. Sony plans to reboot the series in 2012 with a new cast, and is scrapping the current screenplay for one written by James Vanderbilt.
Really, James Vanderbilt? That guy is very hit or miss with his screenplays. Hit being Zodiac, and miss being that travesty of a movie Darkness Falls. Can he do Spider-Man justice by writing a movie focusing on Peter Parker in high school? But then again, it’s not like he has a tough act to follow. The first three Spider-Man movies were a gross portrayal of a very unique and rich cast of comic book characters that eschewed cannon and got too caught up in creating vulnerable villains. I say as long as Sony Pictures has the rights to make Spider-Man movies there is no reason to be surprised when they suck.
trust me, you won’t be surprised, but you can read it after the break anyway.
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