Wow. Just Wow. The visuals in this video are nothing short of amazing, and while the song starts slowly, it gets better as you get farther into the clip.
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Kitchens By ZOD [Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ9yYpUooiw
Kneel before general ZOD and his high end luxury kitchens!
[Via Reddit]
Tags: zod
Contra Sweater [Picture]
I’m not exactly sure where I stand on this… does this sweater radiate pure awesomeness or is it the most horrible idea ever?
In any case, the resolution on the sweater is about the same as it was on the original NES game!
[Via]
Activision Cancelling Guitar Hero Franchise
Activision has announced it will be scrapping the Guitar Hero franchise later this year, saying it was no longer possible to produce the games at a profit.
The company will continue selling previously-released games, including DJ Hero, along with downloadable content. However, there’ll be no new material after this month.
According to the company, “we have seen rapid declines in the music genre, and unfortunately, based on current demand, we simply cannot continue to profitably make these games given the considerable licensing and manufacturing costs.”
That appears to suggest that most bands and publishing companies were getting large flat fees rather than working on a purely royalty basis, and aren’t prepared to change that set-up. Activision once claimed that Aerosmith made more money from their dedicated Guitar Hero game than from any single album.
The changes, which follow a $233 million loss in the last three months of 2010, will mean the closure of an entire Activision division with the loss of 500 jobs.
Debate is already underway about what caused the decline in sales and in turn this cancellation. The most popular theory is simply that the concept had run its course: it wasn’t easy to come up with new changes to the fundamentals of the game without making it too complicated for the casual audience, but when it came to new song content, the sure-fire hits had been exhausted.
As well as the music games, the company also says it has abandoned work on True Crime: Hong Kong, which would have been a sequel to the PS2-era Los Angeles and New York games. In a remarkably frank comment, Activision chief Eric Hirshberg is quoted as saying that “to be blunt, it just wasn’t going to be good enough.”
It’s been reported that the game was still in development but had reached a point where it was playable from start to finish. Given how much has already been spent on the game, the fact that Activision considers it better to ditch rather than release it and risk a flop tells you something about how much of the costs of a game must lie in launch and publicity.
(Picture credit: Comedy Central)
Hipster Gandalf [Pic]
Best comment from the Reddit thread where I found this: “Fortunately for Hipster Gandalf, lembas bread is vegan and gluten-free.”
[Via Reddit]
Snake Eyes Wannabe Practicing Sword Skills
Ninjas usually like to blow up candles with their swords, but this guy isn’t there yet, so he does it with gallons of milk and 2-liter soda bottles instead. Embarrassment much?
[Via Geekologie]
Star Trek/Doctor Who Crossover
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Hey! You got your Star Trek in my Doctor Who!
Hey! You got your Doctor Who in my Star Trek!
Imagine this crossover if you will. How annoyed would the crew of the Enterprise be if they had to hang out with the Doctor and his willy-nilly, timey-wimey ways, even for an afternoon? I think they’d set their phasers to more than stun by the time they were through.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy this excellent piece of fan art from Ranier Beredo.
And the new member of the “FF” is…
WUT?
So, for those that don’t know: The world recently lost Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch.
Reed, Sue and the ever-loving blue-eyed Thing have decided to re-brand themselves in their mourning. No longer calling themselves the Fantastic Four, FF now stands for “Future Foundation” whose mission is to “Save the Marvel Universe from its greatest threats and prevent future dangers from arising”. Isn’t that what they, and all superheros, did previously?
In a (brief) Q&A, Tom Brevoort, Senior Vice President of Publishing for Marvel, says “FF will alter the very fabric of the Marvel Universe. Jonathan and Steve have crafted a unique, powerful new series that’s going to surprise a lot of fans with its combination of mind-blowing ideas and visuals.”
Well, Spider-Man joining the team certainly is a mind-blowing idea, and I actually kind of like the iTron costumes.
On the flip-side, Spider-Man must go to the Wolverine school of Time Management because in addition to his full-time job, he patrols New York solo in his various books WHILE juggling membership in the Avengers and now this.
I just imagine poor Peter’s wallet exploding with various membership cards for all the teams he’s been on over the years.
[Source: Marvel.com]
Tags: comics, fantastic four, future foundation
Can’t Touch This [Pic]
Yes, I totally posted this only because I thought the shirt looked clever and cool. That girl had absolutely nothing to do with it. ;)
Oh, and for all our readers belonging to the fairer sex, I’ve commissioned Adrienne, one of our newest contributors, to write something exclusively for you gals, so wait for it in the next few days!
Star Wars: Episode IV “Iconscope”
There you are on a lush, forest planet on a commando mission to blow up your enemy’s hidden base. Thanks to your big buddy’s weakness for carrion, you get captured by little teddy bear-looking guys wearing hoods, jabbering on in a language you can’t understand. You try to talk some sense into them, but instead they tie you to a log and prepare to set you over the fire. You start to get worried when they break out the A1 Sauce.
If only there was a way you could tell them who you are, what you’re doing on their homeworld, and that you’re fighting for their freedom.
You could tell them about your own humble beginnings on a desert planet far away from the bright center of the universe…
How you and a friend rescued an imprisoned princess…
And then destroyed a massive battle station that had the capability to blow up entire planets…
If only you had, say, a handy infographic that told your story; something that can be universally understood across any communication boundary. If only your protocol droid was here to wow them with some cool sound effects from the ILM archives.
Sadly, you don’t have a copy of Wayne Dorrington’s Star Wars: Episode IV “iconscope” with you. If you did, maybe that smell of slowly cooked meat wouldn’t be your own backside. Oh, well. I’m sure someone else will save the galaxy this time.
Tags: art, infographic, star wars