Friday, April 27, 2012

Final Fantasy's Cloud Strife: Then & Now

Seriously: what is this bizarre emo/screamo/scene trend with JRPG characters these days?  It's like the design staff meetings go something like this: "Add more buckles!"  "Add more sulk!"  "Add more black!

Add more turd is more like it.

It's no wonder why Western RPGs like Fallout and Skyrim are coming back into their own and kicking ass.


Names in Multi-Player Games

Be careful when choosing your name in any multi-player game (comic is courtesy The Mouse Trap web comic)


Mario As Japanese Ukiyo-e Woodblock Print


Star Wars: Arch Nemesis Chart


Hungry Hungry Hippos: The Movie

Not only is the premise for the board game based movie Battleship absolutely ridiculous... well... what else do I really have to say about it? However, if they made a movie based on Hungry, Hungry Hippos?  I'd be first in line for the midnight showing.


Monday, April 23, 2012

Marvel's The Avengers On a Budget

Check out this awesome Sweded version of the trailer for The Avengers:



This is a scene for scene spoof of the following trailer:



Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Weyland Industries Introduces 8th Generation Android

Happy birthday, David!

Commercial for Weyland Indutries' new 8th generation android model, David:



I'm really loving the viral hype the marketing guys behind the next Alien franchise movie, Prometheus (releases June 8, 2012), have come up with so far.


Monday, April 16, 2012

CryEngine 3.4.0 - Is Crysis 3 on the Horizon?

This looks downright amazing:




EDIT: Looks like the answer is YES. EA just announced that Crysis 3 is in the works and is due for a Spring, 2013 release.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Zombie Ass

The Japanese come up with some weird shit, but I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be a parody on the Grindhouse genre.  Right?  At least I hope to hell this is parody.  Whatever it is, I want to see it.