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- David Caruso is actually the reason why we can't watch the show "CSI: Miami." We think he overacts ridiculously. That being said, we still rather enjoy this YouTube video collecting, if not all, then many of the one-liners with which he tends to open the show. (Via)
- List time: Ten Maxims Every FPS Should Follow. We've essentially given up on the genre, so we feel it would be a bit unfair to give our opinion on the list. But maxim #10 - "The player must always know the objective" - is one every game designer everywhere would do well to remember. We hate it when we don't know what we're supposed to be doing and we just have to wander randomly around until the game finally lets us move on. (Via)
- One of the guys at Joystiq has collaborated in a book called The Videogame Style Guide and Reference Manual, which sets down some rules for how to write about video games. Interesting! For one thing, it looks like we should be saying "videogames" instead of "video games."
- A Golden Compass video game is coming, folks, for pretty much every platform you can think of. It's set to ship this fall, just before the December release of the movie.
- A fun new blog: Fist-a-Cuffs. Illustrated competitors face-off for a fight, and you vote on who should win. Fight with drawings!! (Via)
- Are video games killing comic books? That's what one British comic artist claims. Although it seems pretty clear from his comments that he's never played a video game in his life. What do you mean they don't tell stories??
- Have you ever asked yourself, "What would it sound like if Bob Dylan did Dr. Seuss?" Well, probably not, but Dylan Hears a Who answers your unasked question, anyway, with a kind of horrifying verisimilitude. The site doesn't appear to work in IE, though, so use Firefox for this one. (Via)
- Another list! Cinematical has for us Seven Genres We Could All Do Without, and by and large, we agree with their picks, especially after reading the "Exceptions that prove the rule" under each choice.
More after the jump...
- Check it out, Google Maps has traffic now. Here's the page for Philly. (Via Gothamist Tien)
- Now here's a fantastic trailer. It's for a movie called Talk to Me, based on the true story of ex-con Ralph "Petey" Green, who was a popular and controversial radio talk show host in 1960s Washington, DC. Don Cheadle plays Green, Martin Sheen plays an exec at the radio station, Chiwetel Ejiofor (the bad guy from Serenity) is Green's boss, and Mike Epps and Cedric the Entertainer appear in supporting roles. (Via)
- Looking for an unorthodox place to store your valuables that even the cleverest thief is likely to overlook? Why not try the iceberg lettuce safe? Of course, if any thieves are reading, they'll know to check for that now... so, mabye not...
- The history of everybody's favorite Windows game, Minesweeper. Nice. (Via)
- We were thinking lately that we'd love to take a day or a weekend off and just play video games the whole time. But a dude about our age in northeastern China decided to do just that over the week-long Chinese New Year's vacation, and actually died because of it. Well, he died as a consequence of "overwork and obesity," but that pretty much defines gaming, doesn't it?
- More Grindhouse details! Included is some tantalizing info about the soundtrack (which we hope to review for you in the near future), and about Nicolas Cage's role in one of the fake trailers, and how he got it. Who knew he was buddies with Rob Zombie?!
- Brad Pitt is producing (and possibly starring in), and JMS (that's J. Michael Straczynski to non-"B5" geeks) is writing the adaptation for, a movie version of World War Z: An Oral History of The Zombie War, a recent book by Mel Brooks' son, Max Brooks. That's a crazy mess of talent there, and with zombies thrown in for good measure! Paint us interested.
- Heh. MSNBC has put up a list of their Top 5 Least Anticipated Films of 2007. We're totally with them on Wild Hogs, and to a lesser extent I Think I Love My Wife and Rush Hour 3. But we're too much of an optimist and a fan boy to not be looking forward a little to AVP2 and FF2. (Via)
- Our least anticipated movie of whatever year it comes out, though, has got to be Next Weekend at Bernie's. We still haven't entirely gotten over the fact that they even made one sequel to the original Weekend at Bernie's, which itself was just one joke done over and over and over again until you felt vaguely ill. And now they're making another sequel?! Or... remake, apparently? That's just insane! The joke is over, people. It was funny for, like, the first twenty minutes of the first movie, and now it's over. Let poor Bernie lie comfortably in his grave!
The more things change, the more they stay the same; screenshot of Minesweeper in Windows Vista by Flickr user l0ckergn0me.
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1) Why do you keep calling it FF4? It's not Fantastic, Fantastic 4 or Fantastic Force Four. It's just... the Fantastic Four. Either F4 or FF.
2) That Minesweeper player isn't very good.
1) Um... I don't know? Heh. I'll go fix that now. How odd...
2) Well, all of his flags are in the right places. But it has taken him quite a long time to get that far...