Sometimes, the most practical uses of the elements and elemental magic run way deeper than your average mind can grasp. Now THAT’S an Avatar!
Of all the nations, the armies of the ununoctium-benders are probably the least intimidating. The xenon-benders come close, but their flickery signs are at least effective for propaganda.
The Unreal engine has always been an amazing and beneficial tool for game creators. Every time they release a new, updated version of their engine, they often release a sort of tech demo, too, highlighting just what the engine can do. In this case, Epic Games released a short film made using the engine, called A Boy and His Kite. It’s quite breathtaking, even more so because the engine is available to programmers for free.
Props to Epic Games. All gamers appreciate what you do.
Every time Link from Zelda runs into something or gets hurt, coins pop out. Well, rupees technically. Regardless, I am glad one of his hanger-ons finally figured out a way to cash in on it. Link doesn’t seem thrilled, but I am sure there will be a nice payout for him.
We have a new Walking Dead show coming, and it takes place in in the Los Angeles area. Though most other details are under wraps, we now do know one thing officially. The name of the new show:
Fear the Walking Dead
Allow the wild speculation to begin.
IT'S OFFICIAL! The walking dead companion show on AMC is called FEAR THE WALKING DEAD! Expect more news very soon! #FearTheWalkingDead
I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but there seems to be a never seen before terminator model in the latest Terminator:Genesys trailer. Yes, it’s the one that we briefly see at 0:26 and then coming out of the fire at 0:44. It seems to be some kind of hybrid between a T-800 and a T-1000.
He is back – are you ready?
Terminator Genisys. In cinemas July 2015. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, Jason Clarke, J.K. Simmons, Byung-Hun Lee and Matt Smith.
She’s also a geek, in general, based on her comparisons and her flowing sentences that drip with description.
Atwood, perhaps most famous for writing the award-winning The Handmaid’s Tale, wrote an essay for British magazine The Guardian, detailing just why the world is so obsessed with George R.R. Martin’s series and the vital place ‘stories of old’ have in our modern-day world.
An excerpt:
So what else can be said about Game of Thrones, apart from I can hardly wait? I asked some people younger than myself what it was they especially love about the series. The acting, said some: so well done! The characters, said others. (Nobody said “the lavish outfits”, but I wasn’t fooled.) “What is it about the characters that you like?” I enquired. They’re mixed, they answered. It’s not all good on one side and bad on the other. They behave well or horribly according to the circumstances which they find themselves in. They’re like real people.
Except that some of them are like real psychopaths. Was it absolutely necessary, as “necessary” might be defined by, say, that helpful arch-pragmatist, Machiavelli, to cement one’s power position by cutting the head off darling Robb Stark and sewing his direwolf’s head onto his neck at that aptly named Red Wedding? No, it was not necessary, it was gratuitous. But the Game of Thrones folk go in for symbolism, in addition to conceptual needlecraft.
We might also say: if Game of Thrones is a game, what then is reality? What are “real people” like? Or possibly real aristocrats battling lethal rivals, most of whom are family members, since they are all so stunningly inbred. By mere chance, I happened to pick up Terry Breverton’s Richard III: The King in the Car Park,which attempts to explain why who was killing whom in the Wars of the Roses, and largely succeeds. (You have to pay close attention, because the bodies fall like snow.) “The Plantagenets had been their own worst enemies, killing nearly all claimants to the crown. Sons had rebelled against kings, brothers had fought brothers, wives had fought husbands, various Plantagenets had usurped the rightful monarch and so on. Plantagenet history is drenched in bloodshed and intrigue…” Those were real people. Lancaster and York, Lannister and Stark? Suggestive, at any rate. Kill or be killed was the watchword; without it, there would never have been a golden age of Elizabeth I, the Faerie Queene.
After releasing their 16-bit-style version of the first and second season of The Walking Dead, CineFix is back with season 3 and 4! No quarters required!