The summer heat is beginning to be felt here in April: Comic-book movies are already jockeying for position. Next month sees the release of Iron Man, the Robert Downey Jr. starrer. And a few weeks later we get another Marvel comics release: The Incredible Hulk.
Everything about this new Hulk film seems to be in reaction [...]

SCENE: The rec room in a basement of a suburban home.
At a table strewn with lead figurines and hex-graph paper sit FOUR PLAYERS and a DUNGEON MASTER, behind his dragon-emblazed standing folder.
DUNGEON MASTER: Did you hear about Gygax?
JAPHETH BLIGH (8th-level warrior): What’s that? A troll? I’m taking out my +5 Longsword–
HELVETICA the MEDIUM (6th-level Cleric) [...]

Halo 3: It’s a phenomenon. It’s a virus. I work with a guy who bought Halo 3 yesterday morning and today, he’s not there: he has been struck with a mysterious illness. I expect I’ll see him tomorrow, glassy-eyed, twitchy, and with a mild case of carpel-tunnel syndrome.
In the world of motion pictures, they love [...]

Because there doesn’t NEED to be. This just in from the Hollywood Reporter:
Touting “the biggest entertainment launch in history,” Microsoft Wednesday announced that sales of the video game “Halo 3″ brought in an estimated $170 million during its first 24 hours on store shelves, making it the biggest one-day launch ever in the U.S. marketplace.

Remember [...]

Guess what’s available on eBay:

That’s right, it’s the hand-made Master Chief armor you’ve always wanted! There’s only one (you’re lookin’ at it) and once it’s gone, you’ll have to kill whomever outbid you to get it. From the eBay description:
You can have this suit in time for the halo (sic) launch! Wait until people see [...]

More about Tron… partner-in-crime Skot writes:
The CG cheats from the ‘82 original was part of the charm of it, if ya ask me.

And indeed they are. I’ve been thinking about it and the unique look of TRON is predicated on two things:
1. In the early eighties, that’s what computer screens looked like. Sure there were [...]

Word comes yesterday via the Hollywood Reporter that Disney is finally getting around to rezzing up a sequel to TRON, the 1982 computer graphics watershed that starred Jeff Bridges, gave Bruce Boxleitner his big break and inexplicably failed to make an international sex symbol of Cindy Morgan. If get a chance rent it: ignore the [...]

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
–Henry David Thoreau, from his book Walden, 1854
Quite honestly, I believed the line “quiet desperation” came from this source below. I still think most average English-speaking people of a certain age do as well:
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come [...]

Remember a couple of days ago we linked to an underwhelming Xbox product intro, in which Peter Moore introduced the HALO-themed Xbox 360 to yawns and snickering? You don’t? Well, Microsoft remembers. And now Peter Moore is working elsewhere.
Fresh off the startling announcement that it would take a charge of more than $1 billion to cover [...]

Hey, lookie there! It’s the new Xbox! This week at Microsoft’s annual E3 Event, Peter Moore introduced the game console, which will be released in September to coincide with the premiere of Halo 3, the game that’s keeping the Xbox alive. Gizmodo reports this Xbox has the following features:
* Halo 3 Special Edition Console
* Halo [...]