Archive for March, 2009
Review: Local Comic Book Stores
Well today my friend and I went “Comic Book Spelunking” as we like to call it. Today we visited 4 Comic Book Shops. I Thought id take the time to take some mental notes and then post on here. I will post them in the order we visited them in. First we stopped at 2nd [...]
Wolverine 2? Already in the works?
20th Century Fox isn’t going to let go of the X-Men film license any time soon, so it’s pretty clear that no matter how ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine‘ does, there’ll be another X-movie within 2-3 years. However, Ain’t it Cool reports that work is already underway on a direct sequel to this summer’s mutant outing. The [...]
Green Lantern Goes Down Under.
Dark Horizons has some tidbits from movie producer Donald De Line about the ‘Green Lantern‘ movie. "The status is, funnily enough, we are leaving for Australia Wednesday night with Martin Campbell, our director, to go scout in Sydney and Melbourne, and we plan on starting to shoot mid-September in Australia" De Line told Dark Horizons. [...]
Marvel Comic Previews for April 2009
What better way to spend your weekend then getting caught up on previews for 16 of our fantastic issues set for release this Wednesday, April 1. Plasma Burn is now adding Comics and Sci-Fi to its list of categories for your reading pleasure. AGENTS OF ATLAS #3 AVENGERS/INVADERS #9 BLACK PANTHER #3 CABLE #13 CAPTAIN [...]
ECA Membership now Offers Amazon.com Discount
What’s in it for you if you join the Entertainment Consumer Association? Well, now the $20 membership gives you 10 percent off games on Amazon. But it’s out there now, and if you buy 2 games a year on Amazon, the membership’s basically paid for itself. They also offer several other discounts from different online [...]
Steam Weekend Deal: Ubisoft Classics for $10
Steam concludes its week long sale salute to Ubisoft by offering four classic titles from the publisher for just under $10, including Beyond Good and Evil and the original Far Cry. The four Ubisoft titles – Beyond Good and Evil, Far Cry, Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, and IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 – generally sell [...]
Blizzard working on a 5th Game?
The internet is abuzz with rumors that Blizzard is currently working on an unannounced fifth game, based around an entirely new intellectual property. The source of the buzz seems to be two new job postings that have appeared on Blizzard’s job site over the past week under the category of unannounced. The two listings are [...]
Whats going on with Sony on Tuesday March 31st?
Not long ago I signed Plasma Burn up over at Sony’s Press Department for updates. Sony dropped us a line(Mass E-Mail to Lots of People) to let us know that something is going down on Tuesday, March 31st. Could it be the long-rumored price cut is finally upon us? Or could it be something completely [...]
Enemy Territory To Become Like Quake Live
Quake Live’s open beta is blowing away id Software’s expectations, so much so the developer is considering working on a free, web browser version of Quake Enemy Territories, said id’s Todd Hollenshead. "The participation in the open beta is 50 percent higher than what we expected," Hollenshead said. The beta was perhaps too successful, at [...]
Wii System Update Adds Play From SD Card Support
Hitting at the same time as Nintendo President Satoru Iwata’s keynote speech at GDC, a new system update is available for the Nintendo Wi that adds an SD card menu option to the Wii menu. Clicking on the SD card icon brings up a message telling users that they can launch channels from an SD [...]
R.I.P FileFront you will be Dearly Missed
A popular online destination for the latest computer game demos, patches, and mods, FileFront has announced that come March 30th it will be no more. Visitors to FileFront today are being directed to a farewell message, explaining that the current economic environment has forced the website to close its doors indefinitely. Members of the site [...]
There Will Be More Halo 3 Content From Bungie
Last month, Bungie said a teary farewell to Halo 3. Or so we thought. Instead, it was just a teary…something else, because Bungie have no intentions of leaving the best-selling game behind. Speaking with IGN at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Bungie’s Allen Murray has said "Halo 3 took two and a half [...]
PS3 Wants to Make Profit, Not Market Share.
This console generation, the PlayStation 3 is in dead last place. The Xbox 360 has sold more, the Nintendo Wii has sold a lot more. Does this worry Sony? Surprisingly, no, it does not. See, according to Sony Computer Entertainment America’s Senior VP of Marketing, Peter Dille, Sony aren’t focusing on market share. They’re focusing [...]
Rock Band to add 10 More Pearl Jam Songs
The debut album from Seattle grunge-fathers Pearl Jam is coming to Rock Band owners next week, Harmonix and MTV Games confirmed today. Ten adds eleven new tracks, all of which make me feel positively ancient. I mean, we’re eighteen years on from the original release of Pearl Jam’s Ten, a tape that I had on [...]
Rumor: Netflix to come to the Wii?
According to a rumored customer survey, Netflix is gauging subscriber interest in a streaming movie and television service on another current generation console, this time on the Nintendo Wii. According to a report on Joystiq, the Netflix streaming subscription service would be comparable to the one implemented via Xbox Live. The proposed service for the [...]
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