Attention all adult fans of the Harry Potter books. If you really feel that you must go to the Harry Potter Read-A-Thon next month, by all means, please try to act like adults and not overgrown kids. And please, please, please try not to frighten the children there by insisting on dressing up as horrible, [...]
You know that weird crap from your childhood that was so strange you’re actually not sure if it really existed or not? Like, maybe you dreamt it. Or one of your friends, most likely bouncing around on a Kool-Aide-induced sugar high, was telling you about something they heard from their cousin, who first heard it [...]
While the novelty of music games has pretty much worn out for me — I’m on a buying freeze until my dream Rock Band: Beatles Edition is released — they’re still a seemingly huge business with many people, especially casual gamers. And CNN now credits Guitar Hero and Rock Band for saving rock n’ [...]
This animated short, found via the incredibly good Drawn.ca, is an amazing bit of student animation. Legitimately great, I’d go as far as to say this piece is up to Pixar levels. Goddamn, the future’s great.
EDIT: Aw, man – it’s down. Here’s a very cool “Making Of” video, though. The level of detail they put [...]
A recent meeting of members of the American Psychological Association in Boston touched on studies that explored the effect video games have on young minds. The findings appear to be pretty positive: sharpening problem-solving skills, “scientific thinking,” blah blah blah. But hey, history’s shown us it’s mostly the smart kids that play these things anyway, [...]
After reading this article on the new LZR swimsuits worn at the Olympics, two things immediately pop into my head.
One: it’s fucking awesome that Speedo was faced with a conundrum and did the right thing by essentially opensourcing their new technology. Definitely a lesson to be learned here for other major companies, as they still [...]
OK, so maybe Lionsgate hasn’t killed their movie just yet, but damn, they need to do some sort of damage control and do it soon and well. By way of Screen Rant comes this little message board missive from Steve Gainer, the movie’s cinematographer:
Holy smokes, I go away and shoot some kids stuff for Disney, [...]
As Andrew succinctly put it earlier today, “”Must-see” just became “must-see uncut edition on DVD.” Congratulations, Lionsgate – if this is true, you pretty much killed the core audience interest in this film.
Not content with being situated as the sole wide release on the worst filmgoing weekend of the year (the post-Thanksgiving weekend), Latino Review [...]
