Panasonic Cancels the Jungle – It’s About Time!
They’re canceling the Jungle, it ain’t got fun and games. It’s got nothing that you want and a really stupid name.
You Know Who Else Loved 3D? The Nazis!
In fact, it looks like the National Socialist Party may have pioneered the technology that we know and sort-of like today.
‘Fringe’ 3.15 Recap: “Sometimes the World We Ha
‘Fringe’ took a trip back in time in this past Friday’s episode, a 1980s flashback complete with totally radical retro-style opening credits. This is the second time the show has done this (the last was in the se...
The Simple Joys of a Decent Arcade Stick
Every time I buy a new fighting game, I debate about getting an arcade stick for my system. With ‘Marvel vs. Capcom 3’, I finally took the plunge. I’ll never look back.
Goodnight Dune
Why didn’t anybody think of this before now? More importantly, why didn’t I think of this? Someone has drawn up a pitch-perfect spoof of the famous children’s book ‘Goodnight Moon’ mashed together wit...
Netflix and 3D Movies Coming to the 3DS
Nintendo has a reputation as a fairly closed-off company. It isn’t great in supporting third-party developers, and it has historically been awful with online play. However, Nintendo is doing things a bit differently with the 3DS....
The Netflix Stream: Week of February 27th, 2011
We’re losing some good movies from the Netflix stream this week, but we’re getting some great ones in return. It’s a net gain overall, and I call that a win.
‘Idol’ Worship: Leaving Las Vegas
Week six of ‘American Idol’ found us in Las Vegas, where the remaining contestants sang Beatles song on the set of Cirque de Soleil’s ‘Love at the Mirage’. After that, the judges made a few cuts. Then...
Statueseque: Independent Spirit Awards 2011
The Independent Spirit Awards have, in recent years, been stealing more and more of the thunder from their big brother counterpart, the Oscars. (The Spirit Awards take place the night before.) This year pretty much sealed the deal...
Mid-Week Poll: Has Facebook Changed Your Life?
Drew made an interesting (if totally offhand) remark in yesterday’s Oscar Postmortem. Referring to ‘The Social Network‘, he said that the film was about “a technology that changed our lives.” A couple...
‘Face Off’ 1.05 Recap: Cross Dresser Face-Off
SyFy Channel brings us a new reality show this season called Face Off. It’s a contest for special effects makeup artists. I’ve been secretly watching this season as the contestants make aliens, villians, and various cr...
Videogame Releases: Week of February 27th, 2011
The last few weeks have been full of great videogame releases, but not this week. The most interesting thing coming out is an expansion to a PC-exclusive RTS not named ‘StarCraft’, which makes it a hard sell to most.