A beautifully sad and poignant love story between a robot and a scarecrow. This one is a must-watch, geeks.
Warning: Get a box of tissues out before hitting that play button.
Set amidst the euphoric madness of a summer music festival, Robot & Scarecrow is a uniquely modern fairytale about love. When a robot pop princess flees her keeper she runs straight into the arms of a lonely scarecrow desperate for adventure. They spend an incredible night together, caught in a heady vortex of music and magic.
Atari has confirmed it’s making a new console. As with the NES Classic, it’s hardware design is modelled on a retro original, namely the Atari 2600.
The company put out a teaser trailer showing the familiar wood grain styling, albeit with a major sheen, along with the name Ataribox. While that prompted some debate about whether it might be a marketing prank, Atari’s CEO Feed Chesnais has told VentureBeat is is indeed “back in the hardware business” and that it’s making a console that’s based on PC tech. Other than that he didn’t provide any detail.
There’s no real reason to think Atari has the capability or desire to make a modern console designed to compete with current-gen machines. Instead it certainly appears it’s an attempt to jump on the retro bandwagon to try to capture the people who have the interest (and disposable cash) to buy something to replay classic titles but can’t be bothered figuring out how to set up an emulator, particularly to display it on a TV screen.
Of course, this isn’t even the first retro 2600 release from Atari. It’s previously manufactured a replica of the classic Atari joystick that plugs directly into a TV and has 10 built in games, plus a series of replica consoles that come with wireless controllers and dozens of built-in games.
In theory that might mean it feels the need to jazz up the new model, for example by adding multiplay and online play features, allowing players to add new titles through downloads or some sort of removable media, and maybe even allowing new third-party development of games.
In practice though, the chances are that many of the people buying this will be doing so on a nostalgia kick or as a gift, and that it will get relatively limited use, so Atari doing more than the bare minimum might prove to be overkill.
If you’ve seen Wonder Woman, I’m sure you remember that scene where Princess Diana “hides” a sword in her dress by tucking it in the back. Now, women all over the world are paying hommage to the character by doing the exact same thing and putting the pictures online.
Cosplayer “Knightmage” is one of the best male cosplayers I have met online, and after receiving some the pics of his new “Black Adam” cosplay, I can easily say that’s I’d totally see him play the role of the character in a future DC movie. Photography by Gwen Graham.
In 2010, Chinese farmer Yu Zhilin and his son Yu Lingyun opened up their own metalworking shop in the country’s Hunan Province. Inspired by the futuristic robots from the movie “Transformers,” the pair began fashioning original statues from scrap metal. Their first design took about a month and a half to build, but they’ve since created an impressive array of statues, giving new life to discarded car parts along the way. It’s not just the success of their new business that makes this father-son duo happy; the craft itself has brought them closer together.
A-Kon, formerly known as Project: A-Kon, is an anime convention held annually in Fort Worth, Texas usually on the first weekend of June. First held in 1990 with just 380 people in attendance, A-Kon is North America’s longest running national anime convention. The convention was the 2nd largest North American anime convention as of 2016.
A TARDIS Beer Stein from the folks from Box Lunch! Can it hold more beer on the inside? A worthy question! Guess someone will have to get one to find out!
VWORP VWORP VWORP!! Standing an impressive 9″ tall and holding up to 50 oz. of your favorite beverage, each Doctor Who signature mug is expertly crafted from the highest quality ceramic and features stunning relief and beautiful decorations.
