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The Story of Braid
One of the users on rllmukforum has posted a wonderful interpretation of the story of Braid.
Monster Park
Ever fancied wandering around the world of Shadow of the Colossus? Then you need to go to the Monster Park in Bomarzo.
Parallel Film Guide
The Parallel Film Guide is a frighteningly well-populated and funny list of films as they might exist in a parallel world. For example, E.T. is A Boy and His Butt-Ugly Alien
The art of Braid
Gamasutra has a terrific article about the art of the Xbox Live Arcade game, Braid, written by the artist who created the game’s beautiful visual style.
Gears of War 2, with life-sized Lancer
Amazon are offering a $139 pre-order bundle for Gears of War 2 that includes a life-sized lancer. That would look amazing above my TV.
Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)
Who needs Cliff’s notes when you’ve got the Facebook News Feed Edition of Hamlet?
Giles Coren is a cock.
Food critic, Giles Coren wrote a letter of complaint to the Times’ sub-editors. The sub-eds wrote back.
Watchmen Trailer
Two words: Watchmen trailer.
Nike SwiftSuit
Nike have designed new ‘SwiftSuits’ for athletes competing at the Beijing Olympics. And they look like something from the future. Dimpled gloves to help reduce drag caused by hands? Whoa.
Openmoko Neo FreeRunner
The Open Source answer to the iPhone, the Openmoki Neo FreeRunner has been released for general sale. Ships with enough software to make/receive calls and texts and manage contacts. Not exactly an auspicious start.
Microsoft release Top Gun Anthem for Guitar Hero 3 for free
To celebrate Independence Day in the states, Microsoft have released the Top Gun Anthem for Guitar Hero 3 for free. Appropriate? Probably not, but you know what they say about gift horses.
“Seduction community”
Latest in an extremely long list of Wikipedia articles that have chilled me to the bone: Seduction community
Trailer for Frank Miller’s new movie, The Spirit
“Hey Frank, sup? Hollywood here. Listen, you know the way Sin City raked in like a bajillion dollars? You couldn’t do us a favour and just make the same movie again, but just change the name so people don’t cop on. I dunno, call it the Spirit or some bullshit like that. Sweet - [...]
Gore Verbinski to direct ‘Bioshock’
Variety is reporting that Gore Verbinski is attached to direct the Bioshock movie. The first Pirates of the Caribbean movie proved that this guy can direct the shit out of something when he’s got the right material. They don’t come much more right than Bioshock.
Breaking news!
Researchers Discover Massive Asshole In Blogosphere.
Trailer for “Blindness”
I’ve been looking forward to the movie of “Blindness” for a while now, and the new trailer looks terrific. Shame the film isn’t due for release until September.
Drunk Darth Vader’s Jedi assault
BBC News - Drunk Darth Vader’s Jedi assault. Favourite line: Hughes, who was drunk and dressed in a black bin bag, shouted “Darth Vader!”
BLDGBLOG: Hotels in the Afterlife
Maybe it’s all this Call of Duty 4 I’ve been playing, but these photos of luxury hotels abandoned mid-construction look like a fantastic place for some real-life war games. Maybe some enterprising paintballer could come along and use them to recreate de_dust?
Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters has been restored
In honour of the upcoming Ghostbusters videogame, Ecto-1 has been restored to its original glory. This kind of of obsessiveness and attention to detail just blows me away.
Charlie Brooker’s favourite games
Over on the guardian’s website, everyone’s favourite acerbic tv critic, Charlie Brooker, gives us a list of his favourite videogames of all time - Part one and part two
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