Monthly Archive for January, 2008

Dinner for Five #50

Jan 31, '08  ·  Closed Tags: , , , , .

I’ve mentioned Dinner for Five previously, as a really cool and clever concept, which basically has a bunch of interesting movie people, sitting around a table, shooting the shit.

Now the 50th and final episode, is available online at IFC’s site for a limited time (and it isn’t even premiering until tomorrow). Aside from Justin Long (who talks about being ‘Mac’) there’s also Vince Vaughn, who has been on the show before.

Click that link.

Do it!

While you can sample the show various places online, up until recently you were out of luck if you wanted the entire show. But Amazon has the whole shebang available. It’s not too expensive, but this is one of those shows I wish I could buy an episode at a time on iTS.

Oh wait, us Denmarkians can’t buy shows on iTS, can we? Or films? No, that’s right, we can’t…

Oh, no iPhone either.

Great. Now I’m crying. Look what you made me do!

Crysis Bashing

Jan 30, '08  ·  Closed Tags: .

Crysis

Penny Arcade just about perfectly sums up the taste-of-dead-cat-impression the writing in Crysis left me with after playing through the demo. All that money, and they blew it on the pretties? I can hardly contain my schadenfreude over their miserable sales. Perhaps there is hope for the games industry yet?

One can only hope.

Best Movie Poster of 2007

Jan 28, '08  ·  Closed Tags: .

I’ve got a healthy interest in movie posters. Over at Internet Movie Poster Awards, they’ve revealed their top 5 posters of 2007. And while I tend to think they made some alright choices, we’re perhaps not entirely in sync on the details.

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Salut de la France

Jan 26, '08  ·  Closed Tags: , , , , .

Hello from France

Remixing The Nines

Jan 18, '08  ·  Closed Tags: , , .

John August, who recently wrote and directed The Nines, a film I’m rather looking forward to seeing, recently published his thoughts on it being torrented and in the follow-up reveals that:

One of the things I hope to do with The Nines — sometime after the writers’ strike, when I can call Sony again — is work with them to release a low-res version of all the source material for The Nines, so budding filmmakers can try their hand at cutting (and re-cutting) a real feature. #

Exciting stuff.

The SS HD DVD is Going Down

Jan 10, '08  ·  Closed Tags: , , , , , , , .

Whether the Xbox 360 has a mere 3% failure rate or not, is irrelevant, according to Peter Moore. My personal estimate is about ten times that, but hey, what do I know? And besides, Bill Gates is promising more reliability, so… Stop snickering.

Now, what is relevant, whether Microsoft wants to stand by it or not, is them partaking in prolonging the HD format war. One thing is technically crippling the 360 by allowing people to buy it without a built-in HDD or even an optical HD drive. If you’ve played the stream-fest that is Mass Effect, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.

The horror. The horror.

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I Fell in to a Red Ring of Death

Jan 7, '08  ·  Closed Tags: , , , , .

My 360 died and all I got was this damn t-shirt I didn’t get no stinkin’ t-shirt.

It’s quite amazing really; I’m struggling trying to think of anyone I know—anyone—who haven’t had their 360 die on them. And I work for a computer games company. I know a few people.

So far? I can’t think of any.

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10 reasons you should read this entry

Jan 2, '08  ·  28 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

When in the future, bound to the wheelchair by an injury sustained in the Chrome Wars, I look back at 2007, I will see Kane & Lynch: Dead Men.

It’s not that I consider my other endeavors insignificant. I’m very happy with K2, even if we didn’t ship a 1.0 as I’d hoped. And I’m already very proud of the little work I’ve been able to contribute to Habari so far. Furthermore, both Rikke and I were able to chalk off Paris and New York from the ‘must travel to before impending death’-list.

But Kane & Lynch definitively marks the end of me wanting to make computer games for a living, and me having made making computer games for a living. And dammit, I’ll wear that chip on my shoulder and parade it around town like nobody’s business. It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to!… Look what you made me do.

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