Friday, May 21, 2010

Happy 30th anniversary PACMAN!


It's almost PACMAN's 30th anniversary (depending on the place where you live!).
Yes, it's pretty amazing that it already was that many years ago... *sigh*

It's one of my favorite games of all time, a game anyone can play at any time (like, say, at work!!).
I'll take a quick fun play of Pac-man over any immersive realistic 10+ hours modern game XD

PACMAN made his epic debut in May 22, 1980.
So, take a look at Google and you can directly play Pacman from the Goodle logo! a collaboration between Google and Namco for the lil' yellow guy's birthday : )

Oh, and here's a little embed Pac-Man game for when Google will take theirs out in 2 or 3 days!

Pac-Man made by Neave Games


Happy Anniversary PACMAN! (art by Eyz)

Thursday, May 20, 2010

MR Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog


It's time for a new and totally new unexpected movie review!
Something I've been really wanting to put on this blog!

A Superhero-drama-comedy-musical-vlog Whedon-esque movie.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

MOVIE NEWS! More superheroes teevee and some badass movies.

Here's some more movie and TV news!

Superheroic action on TV, epic muscle-action in theaters!

Sega Mascots 01: Pengo

Hi there, you 4 or 5 still reading my blog actually :P
Here's a new feature, I wanted to make a feature about mascots at some point, but in the mean time, having a look back at SEGA mascots, because a) I'm a SegaNerd and b) much people in the USA may not be that familiar with some of them (mostly because they've almost all grown up with Nintendo there unlike South America, Europe, Japan..)
 

PENGO

Monday, May 17, 2010

NEWS! Superhero on TV, Abrams' new show and Lara Croft Tomb Diablo?

Hello guys and gals!

Here's some new stuff coming soon on our TVs, computer screens and/or gaming systems -

The Spoiler..? Oh, nope. It's just a dude playing Batman with a cheap costume :P

What did ya do this weekend?

Hey gang!
Another week, another "What did you do this weekend?"-thing!

I didn't play that much thins weekend...
Mostly read stuff.
Like Bande dessinée and some comics. : P



'Been reading the Brave and the Bold current comic series lately, by Mark Waid.
It's a really fun team-up comic series with bits of sci-fi and adventure all over.

This weekend's I've been on the volume 3 of the paperbacks, called "Demons and Dragons".
It was Mark Waid's last issues, sad news :(
I hope this series will not lose its pulp-fun-adventurous atmosphere for a more serious, dark and big-event-crossovers aspect!

This last volume was probably the best story-arc so far! You don't need too much DC Comics knowledge to enjoy this!
Fun read!


On the gaming part, I've started playing Alan Wake with my bro!
Very original and interesting game! It's from an European developer I love, Remedy Software.
The game looks and feels like a mix of Max Payne with Survival horrors - gameplay wise.

The game really shines in its originality and story.
What Max Payne was to Noir Love stories, Alan Wake does the same and then some to thrillers/drama TV shows.
Max Payne was constructed like and told through a comic book approach.
Alan Wake use the TV drama construction. Many questions thrown at you, a well thought plot revealed bit by bit and it chapters is an episode in itself with everything it implies. Theme, mini-arc, tension culminating with a cliffhanger and even a recap at the beginning of each chapter!

It looks, feels and plays great!
I much prefer a game like this, playable, with a cinematic feel than something, say, like Heavy Rain which is pretty similar in an opposite way, cinematic with a gaming aspect.

To each their own, I guess!
Plus it's nice to see a "blockbuster game" from Europe for once! It's like all games are either American (or rather Canadian) or Japanese now! -__-


Other than that?
I only played Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.
For a while now, I've really wanted to go back to Vin Diesel's Scifi media-franchise Chronicles of Riddick.

I already watched again Pitch Black, a great horror scifi movie, not unlike the first Alien.
I wanted to play again Escape from Butcher Bay, a cult classic Xbox game that really shined when it was released back then, for it's great immersive universe, fun gameplay and great visuals!
But my Xbox re-died lately ("she" does that once in  a while...Yeah. Weird stuff...)
So I took this as an opportunity to finally buy Dark Athena on the Xbox360, which contains a remake of Butcher Bay as well.

I love this game!!
Incredible!
It almost feels adventur-y! The game isn't 100% free open world but neither uses levels for the progression.
You're in a certain space with people to talk to, objectives and stuff to do and collect.
But it uses a FPS engine and view. Plus there's combat, weapons and lots of enemies, but you better be ready to sneak up on enemies one by one, with a clever infiltration/stealth gameplay.

It's quite unique!


Finally, I've been able to watch the Yatterman movie, thanks to the French dvd release!

One word: YATTAAAAA!!

It's a pretty amazing and faithful adaptation of the old Time Bokan anime series from Tatsunoko studios!
By Takashi Miike, nonetheless!
(recommanded watch: Zebraman, epic, heroic and aliens against a Zebra costumed middle aged hero, what could you ask more?!?)

Loved it! Takashi Miike said himsel, Americans are doing now Dragon Ball and many future adaptations. He had to show everybody how you really do an anime live!

Anyway, that's it for now!
Some reviews coming this week finally, if I stop being lazy : P
News in a sec'

Stay tuned for moooaaar-