Matt gets LOST
Matt discusses his addiction to ABC's LOST, which is returning for its sixth season this weekend.
Video of the Day: Sonic the Hedgehog 4 debut
Sonic finally is returning in a side scroller that actually builds on what made him successful in the first place, with Sonic the Hedgehog 4
Indigo Prophecy Murder Madness Episode 002
We begin to investigate the mystery and test out the toilet facilities at Doc's Diner. Not to mention we speak to some witnesses and check out what the suspect had for dinner... All mysterious this one.
It was possibly the biggest adverstising event in the world last night. The US Superbowl, as well as attracting thousands to the stadium, is watched by millions in pubs, clubs and living rooms across the world and therefore is seen by advertisers as a prime target to bombard us with the blockbusters of the advertising world. Sometimes.
This year, all the unfounded speculation of what was going to appear was instead surpassed by Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The video game-movie tie in, based roughly on the PS2 era games in the series, is coming to cinema’s soon, promoting action, romance and lots of playing with time.
I didn’t really expect to see this becoming as big a blockbuster as it has been hyped or to be, or it’s just a marketing budget it felt like blowing. Either way, here is the trailer. Now I’m going to go collapse, following a podcast/Video series recording which ended up being crazy long. Expect nothing coherent on GE for quite some time…
Procrastination: The Lazy Man’s Guide.
Before I get started, a little admission to the reader: Before writing this post, I was dreaming what to put in a column where I put, well, anything I want and my mind was creativity death valley. Now, in the same vein as many of the ventures in my life that have proved to be a little bit difficult, my mind instantly adopted the “fuck it, I’ll do it later (ergo, never)” approach. Laziness, ladies and gents. Laziness.
So, like the self-proclaimed genius that I am, my mind started thinking of how I can factor in my extreme talent for procrastination into a fully blown blog entry. So, after a long (short) deductive process that I have named 2and2 syndrome, I came up with an idea that even rivals the concept of putting ninety-nine red balloons in the same space: write a blog about laziness. More precisely, how it benefits society.
Why stop now? Carry on reading
Video of the Day: Modnation Racers PSP
It’s not even out on PS3 yet, but just as LittleBigPlanet came out on PSP, Modnation Racers, Sony’s Mad Kart Kreatathon (Copyright of Me), which we covered a beta of, is coming to PSP, as can be seen in the trailer above.
Taking most of the feature set that is heading to the big console version, the PSP will have the creation and kart racing features covered, as well as online sharing of tracks. The game is also set to support 6 player multiplayer modes, in both ad-hoc and online settings.
All we know is what we’ve seen in the trailer and from the style of the PS3 game, which it is set to release alongside, sometime this year.
This picture of a dude's floor is cheekily used to head this post. Here is some of the stuff you used to 'network' your Xbox
Microsoft have announced that following seven years in active duty, Xbox Live’s support for the original Xbox and thus, games designed for the console, is to be ceased, starting on April 15th. Thinking back, I remember reading about it in a magazine all that time ago and because I was in the age of dial up internet and so were many others, we all thought that it was a waste of time and went back to split screen. Oops…
Why stop now? Carry on reading
Matt gets LOST
About a year ago, I was able to take the moral high ground. Whenever any of my friends mentioned the word “Lost” I was able to scoff at them with a certain disdain. Looking from the outside in, the show is a pile of nonsensical drivel that spends more time causing the viewer to scream “What the f**k?” at the television set then actually engage them in any real drama. In fact, I was always keen to point this out to anyone who dared try and promote the show to me. Unfortunately, the persistence got to me and on the 29th of March, 2009 I downloaded Lost season 1 from iTunes… the beginning of the end.
Why stop now? Carry on reading
Video of the Day: Sonic the Hedgehog 4 debut
I’d never thought I would be writing that there is a fourth Sonic the Hedgehog game coming out. At last. Maybe. Just maybe, we’ll get a true sequal to the original three, three games that have been replayed many a time by myself and countless others, who just keep gazing at the Sonic the Hedgehog 1 level select Cheat screen, marvelling out how well designed and classic the stages were, and still are…
Why stop now? Carry on reading
Just Cause 2 will have a demo, also PARACHUTES
STUNT POSITION! AIR JACK! LOUD NOISES!
It’s an enthralling prospect, Just Cause 2. From someone who played a little bit of the original, it always looked awesome, but only in very short pieces, any longer caused me to just spot every technical flaw that a massive open world game was bound to have on the PS2. However, it had a “Stunt Position”, where the character would jump on the back of the car he was driving a second ago, then took off in a parachute. I think Matt and me described it at the time as ‘awesome madness’.
Why stop now? Carry on reading
Fallout New Vegas, Autumn release likely
We’re getting word out of Bethesda that Fallout New Vegas, a spin off title announced last year, of Fallout 3, is going to making it’s way to shelves around autumn time this year for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
The trailer they released to accompany this tidbit of news is very similar to the original Fallout 3 trailer, but gives us even less information, other than we can assume it’s based in the Las Vegas area. I’m real good at this blogging job you know… There are a few perculiaties for a Fallout game that I not-so-observantly spotted however. First one being that the city actually, although it’s from a distance, resembles one. There appears to be in-tact buildings and lights on, which whatever the state on the ground, is far more city like than Washington DC was after the nuclear apocolypse.
I also, hate to admit it, but get a Wall-E vibe from the little robot performing a relatively slow job of burying a body, although I don’t remember the hand of the corpse in that particular film, but maybe in the DVD extras. One thing I can already say is, excellent choice of soundtrack again, as an ever so ironic Blue Moon plays through the trailer.
Oh poor Duke Nukem Forever. In development for what seems like centuries, countless different game engines and builds, none of which we ever really go to play. Maybe the enthusism for this series is fueled purely by the massive hype and inevitable fail of its development cycle.
After we were told that it was never going to be making its way for release, I guessed that we may well see a whole lot of screens, footage, design documents and all the rest of the stuff you’d probably of been able to unlock as extras had the game ever being released. Some more footage has found its way onto youtube, which will soon become the Duke Nukem Forever vault, and here it is. Nothing new is really seen, Duke kicks ass in a dirty underground environment. But it’s DUKE!
However, before you press play and I hope you haven’t already, it may be an idea to turn the volume down, prefrably muted as the music that has been dubbed over the top should really carry a health warning. Next time I write about this game, I hope to be able to tell you that all the versions have been released for free on a website. I wish.
New Bioshock 2 Launch trailer
I liked the original Bioshock. Still do in fact, and despite the mixed ideas that have been floating around the internet over the game’s direction, that is putting you in the role of a prototype Big Daddy in a Rapture that has descended further into madness. I probably liked the setting of the original far more than the game play, so anything that expands that is hopefully onto a winner for me.
Well, Take2 are still going to be pushing Bioshock 2 to be a huge release on February 9th, so they have released this launch trailer on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, something which I obviously don’t watch, but has a nice wide, mainstream audience reach, so makes sense for them to push the trailer on here. One question I do ask, is seeing as though nobody expected Bioshock 1 to be such a fantastic title and worth spiritual sequal to System Shock 2, why are people needing convincing about Bioshock 2. How about we do that thing where we wait till the game is out and then review it. Just saying.
