Features | March 6th, 2009 by Staggs
Fail report: I’m appauled at the lack of creativity that has been coming from entertainment companies lately. They are seemingly punishing their customers by offering dumbed-down versions of their products because we aren’t buying their regular movie products anymore.
Fox will now be offering two versions of its DVD movies to consumers, a version for retail that will have the typical extra content and a different “bare-bones” version that will have nothing extra, only the movie (this comes from our friends at cnet’s Crave blog). Why would they do that?
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Entertainment | March 2nd, 2009 by digitalHECTOR
Warner Bros. released a series of new photos and posters to go along with the newly released trailer for Terminator Salvation. Hopefully the movie turns out great and brings back the series into good standing (unlike Terminator 3). You can check out a few shots below.
Along with the screenshot goodies is a new theatrical trailer for your consumption. Of course, we have it for you right here:
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News | February 28th, 2009 by Taxman
Makin Day
Activision and Treyarch this week released an update for Call of Duty: World at War on the Xbox 360 and PS3. The patch not only fixed a lengthy list of bugs, it also released with a free multiplayer map, Makin Day, which is a daytime reworking of the map Makin.
Bugs fixed in the patch:
- Added support for downloadable maps – free downloadable map “Makin Day” now available to Xbox 360 & PS3.
- Improved geographical matchmaking.
- Nazi Zombies is now unlocked for solo & co-op games for EVERYONE in both private and public games!
- Added defensive measures to prevent “Stats Reset” when corrupt data is detected.
- Addressed issues where some solo progression data was lost when a player had collected Death Cards in a split-screen co-op game.
- Patched all known MP map exploits – this fix will also prevent players from passing through geometry/terrain if a new hole is discovered.
- Patched a number of Nazi Zombie exploits.
- Addressed an issue commonly referred to as the “elevator glitch.”
- Disabled “Rocket Jumping” – this eliminates the extra boost created by all explosive weapon types.
- Addressed some score reporting anomalies in the War and CTF leaderboards.
- Blocked the ability of players with lower level accounts from accessing higher-level Perks.
- Addressed an issue in Search & Destroy where bomb planting/defusing was disabled when opening the overhead map.
- Disabled ability to get unlimited ammo when prone with a deployed bipod.
- Addressed an issue with Bouncing Betties triggering when the player is within the detonation radius but behind a solid wall.
- Improved squad functionality.
- Fixed an exploit where Hardcore matches could be ended immediately by team killing.
To download the map on the 360, you must go into the Xbox Live Martketplace and find the downloads menu for CoD: WaW. Check out the official web site for other details.
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Gadgets | February 27th, 2009 by Staggs
The new Wii controller, dubbed the “Pro” controller, by Nintendo Japan, adds another set of trigger buttons as well as an easy-grip, easily some minor adjustments. Is Nintendo getting bored with their own system?
Comments aside, the controller looks to be more comfortable for gamers as well as offer two more buttons to mash while playing Super Smash Bros. Moreso, the controller will give FPS gamers some more control. Sources say that the Classic Pro may have sprung due to a pending lawsuit involving the current GameCube controller design. If Nintendo is forced to ditch the GC controller this will be their backup.
Sadly to say, this controller is only available in Japan with no known information about a North American release. Is there a need for this controller? You decide.
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Entertainment | February 25th, 2009 by digitalHECTOR
Bioware released the first teaser of Mass Effect 2 which displays some information relating to the story of the first game. At the end of the trailer it states that Commander Shepherd was “Killed In Action” and then it shows a Geth wearing the human armor. What happened to Commander Shepherd? Why is that Geth wearing the N7 armor? We probably won’t be knowing the answers to this question anytime soon but for the time being get a quick glimpse of what’s on the horizon for Mass Effect 2.
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Features | February 21st, 2009 by Staggs
Hollywood has seen better days. So has its Academy Awards ceremony, who are trying to reach as many viewers as it can.
The recent trend of failing award shows has got the producers of the “Oscars” in a fetal position. People are expecting the show to be just as grimly lit as the other award shows that have been featured so far this year, although show producers have been battling it out with heavy marketing and exposure of various colors.
They’re trying to differentiate the show from the others as well as trying to say “it’ll be good, we promise.” Truly, the show, as well as Hollywood, has been lacking the impedus it needs from viewers. There are more movies out than people are willing to see, let alone care about. While the awards ceremony aims to reach out to the actors who make entertainment possible, people just aren’t as interested as they used to be.
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News | February 20th, 2009 by Staggs
The buzzword #spectrial has been floating around the blogosphere and Twitter as the tech-savvy users of the Pirate Bay and supporters of torrent file sharing listen in from the sidelines of the major court trial currently underway.
The largest torrent file tracker web site, ThePirateBay.org (TPB), which is situated in Sweden, was under fire from major entertainment companies, such as Sony, Universal, Warner Brothers, et al (and others), and brought to trial to discuss the purpose of TPB and where it stands on copyrighted material distribution. They are now in their fifth day of trials.
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Features | February 17th, 2009 by Staggs
We're as tired of waiting around as he is...
We’ve covered Halo: The Movie many times before and ever since, we haven’t heard anything else. The movie has been rendered “dead” on IMDB.com, and there are barely any murmurs pointing to this movie being made.
Barely murmurs. One certain something has been making its way, via viral marketing, that may indicate some possibility of a Halo movie-under-wraps. That is District 9, a said film to be coming from the likes of Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp. However further investigation yields very little likelihood of any relation to Halo (e.g. Sony Pictures being a contributing company).
On a lighter note, the double-team of science fiction aficionados could mean the producers are preparing to make a full-sized Halo film in the future. This movie, District 9, may be some sort of a test to see how they’ll do. In reality, nobody knows what is true — at this point we’re hopeful of seeing a Halo movie sometime in the future… eventually…
Another look at the subject comes from one of our readers, Kevin, who believes that a Halo television series is also quite likely and very feasible. Why not? Battlestar Galactica, a similarly themed sci-fi action show, does quite well and has a similar fan base that its producers please with each episode. Is it safe to say that a new network television show, featuring one of the most favored action heroes in video game history, the Master Chief, could do as well as a feature-length movie?
The possibilities are endless so why is this movie taking this long? Any longer and the fanbase will give up, and the opportunity is lost for good. Shit.
