From The Forums… WHO NEEDS A BASS DROP RIGHT NOW?!?!
You need more dubstep.
Short of dubstep this morning? Want to contribute? Then hop on over to the thread below and share in the wub!
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Getting FEZ’ed/N Gets His First Tattoo
Rasputin lives!
Lots of people say they want to get a tattoo, but fewer actually do it. It’s an entertaining idea: you’re going to take a symbol – an idea, a portrait, a logo – and permanently etch it into your body. And when people finally do put themselves under the throbbing needle, they rely on the tattoo artist to be the creative one and make their dreams come true. As a designer at FEZ and before, I always struggled with what I wanted. I knew that once I picked a design, it had to be exactly what I wanted because, y’know, we artists like to control the vertical and the horizontal in all formats. And then we’ll change our minds a few seconds later. Then it became clear…
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Blood Money Review: A Flaming Trainwreck Of Gun Fights And Wire-Fu
CHOO CHOO HERE COMES THE GARBAGE TRAIN
Kelly and I were about seven hours into XLRatr Media’s new film Blood Money (on their “Turbo” vanity marque, no less) when I picked up the box and realized the film was only 108 minutes long. I suffered through all 108 of them and I still couldn’t tell you anything about the plot or much of anything that occurred of any substance. A hazy mess of cheap After Effects compositions, gun fights, and genuinely ugly and unlikable protagonists, Blood Money is exactly where your money doesn’t need to go.
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Headhunters Review: A Heist Flick With Consequences
…bloody consequences.
I confess that I’m not a big fan of the heist subgenre of movies, wherein a cast of handsome, smug movie stars smooth talk and joke their way into wealth and luxury. And while I understand and respect the enthusiasm my fellow writers here at FleshEatingZipper have shown for movies like Ocean’s Eleven, I’m typically left cold by such movies. The characters in The Sting and Ocean’s Eleven never face any real consequences for their actions, and that tends to leave these movies lacking in the tension I think is necessary to sustain any sort of crime picture. I just find myself wondering how these guys can simply talk their way out of the clutches of vicious gangsters without a scratch. Thankfully, the filmmakers behind Headhunters, a Norwegian crime thriller hitting Blu-ray this week, share my assessment of the heist subgenre. Headhunters is the anti-Ocean’s Eleven.
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V/H/S Review: A Mystery Box Of Scares
The movie could’ve used a deeper cut-, uh, edit.
V/H/S is a pleasant surprise. In this futuristic world we live in, it makes sense that more and more of us are capturing even the most pointless stories of our lives on video. Of course, unlike this futuristic world we live in, I’m not sure which poor soul still records with VHS, or has the patience to convert a bunch of this violent footage to VHS for home viewing. Well, a gang of violent profiteers (who are about to step up to ‘upskirts’ on the enterprising scale) know who: the old dead guy in the house they’re trying to steal a specific tape from. It’s in this frame story that we’re presented an anthology of assorted, scary found-footage tales, which both serves and penalizes the film.
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Lawless Review: Mostly By-The-Book
Blood, bullets, and moonshine
It’s been seven years since director Jeff Hillcoat, actor Guy Pearce, and singer/songwriter/screenwriter Nick Cave united to make The Proposition, one of the ballsiest, trippiest, awesomest Westerns (yeah, I know it was set in Australia) to come along since the 1960’s. With Lawless, the trio reunites to provide their take on the American gangster genre, with Hillcoat assembling a talented cast that includes Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, and Jessica Chastain. Surely this movie will be the greatest Depression-era gangster picture since Bonnie and Clyde, right? Right?
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From The Forums… N’s Thoughts On The PlanetSide 2 Beta
Infantry in all its top-down glory!
The above picture isn’t PlanetSide 2, but it was a game made by Sony Online Entertainment and released in 1999, not long after the original EverQuest hit shelves. It was a top-down 2D shooter with modes like capture the flag and team deathmatch locked into specially designed maps. My favorite mode, and the one I played almost exclusively, was a ‘capture the points’ mode in which teams started in drop ships on opposite ends of a very wide map.
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I’m Going To PAX Australia, Who’s Coming With Me?
I can’t confirm that PAX AUS will be a Sydney joint, but I probably just did.
Although it was almost entirely in passing, Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, the brain trust behind Penny Arcade, announced that their long-sought international PAX, or Penny Arcade Expo, would take place in Australia. No host city or date was dropped, but as much as the fellows of Perth love their town, I imagine (relatively wealthy) gamers as well as native Australians will flock to Sydney in droves come 2014. Or maybe Melbourne. Or Adelaide.
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HBO Streaming Only Plan Coming to Parts of Europe
I want this in the US
City of Heroes To End Later This Year, Billing To Stop Immediately
There just weren’t enough Heroes to save the City.
Just over a year after going free to play, NCSoft has announced that they are closing City of Heroes down. Created by Cryptic Studios and launched in 2004, the game put the Korean MMO publisher on the map as far as American audiences were concerned (their Lineage games were pretty big overseas, but never caught on here).
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