I’m sure everyone under the sun (or should I say hiding from the sun) has seen this already, but I just couldn’t refrain from posting it. Simply because its AWESOME!
It turned out to be an add campaign for season three of The Guild. As far as advertisement goes, I found this music video to be not only effective but also extremely enjoyable. =)
(Its not that often that I actually enjoy an advertising campaign. In general I find most advertisements to be more of an unwelcome intrusion.)
Besides Felicia Day wrote the lyrics (and sings) and they are hilarious, especially if you have ever played on an MMO.
Legos are quite the event at our house. For my husband it’s the hobby of choice, second only to computer games. Put Star Wars and Lego together, you get a veritable orgy of giddy joy.
Most of the lego-gasm results now decorate our house, the easiest (and safest) place to keep them being the top of shelves. Sharing the Lego love seemed like a good follow-up the Lego Star Wars Game Review.
It might be apparent that all of the sets we have are old school Star Wars only. The banning of episode 1-3 runs even to Lego. Although its not something I am going to argue with, since we are seriously running out of display room. In fact my husband has relegated the unfinished (super huge) Millennium Falcon set to the garage, because we have no place to put it.
I’m limiting the pictures to Star Wars sets only (and not even all of them!) Maybe at this winter I can convince my husband to set up the Lego trains.
We were one of the original adopters of the iPhone. While we did pay the original (very large) price for our matching original iPhones, it wasn’t terribly hard for us to switch as we were already had the proper phone service. In fact our transition was so smooth we could hardly fathom anyone having troubles with it at all.
Initially my husband came home with only one. I had denied wanting one. My minimal cell phone use didn’t warrant spending that kind of money, I thought. After ten minutes of holding it in my hand and playing around with it, I was sold. So I adopted that one and my husband ran out and got himself another new iPhone. The iPhone singlehandedly made texting possible for me.
Its been two years and my old phone is wearing out. There is a crack in the glass and the battery is wearing thin. But yet again I had to see my husbands new phone before I was convinced that upgrading was worth it.
This review is long overdue and is now being rushed out in honor of the sequel (which I hope to go see in the theater soon!) It is also dedicated to my friend Pat, who is horrified by the fact that I love this movie (and will NOT let me forget it!)
I saw this both in the theater and on DVD (which I own and have watched multiple times). The full wall-to-wall screen is by far the more exciting experience, but watching it in the privacy of my own home is vastly more comfortable. =D
I love getting games as presents and when said game turns out to be a) one I don’t own and 2) one I really like, it’s a near miracle. Turns out, Culdcept Saga is such a miracle.
The fabulous friend, who gifted us this excellent experience, knew that waiting would just not do. So he presented it at the first available opportunity. It was just some random day, but I have since dubbed it “Culdcept is Awesome!” Day. (And like most holidays/birthdays/anniversaries I never remember the actual date!!)
This thing is, even though the game arrived with such fan fare I didn’t believe it was going to be that great (because, really, how often does it happen that a fabulous game gets shoved in your face?), so it just sat around for a while (sad and lonely).
After the third call from my friend asking how I thought the game was, I finally popped it into the xBox and started playing. I devoured it whole.
I had to wait until the second (SECOND!) weekend to go see this. Agony, I tell you, complete agony.
So I exaggerate a bit, but I was excited to finally go see it. Especially since the last movie my husband and I went to see together had been Transformers (that’s right, summer 2007!).
It was well worth the wait. I laughed, I cried, but most importantly I left the theater feeling elated.
Lost of people are calling this movie a reboot to the franchise and I will have to agree with them. Although the way they went about it was probably the most typical sci-fi plot device in the movie. Never the less the movie was less about plot (which was a bit weak)and more about the characters and bringing them all together. (more…)
Since my last top five list revealed the serious lack of quality in game to movie adaptations, I thought I would follow up with some great online material.
While there are a ton of game related videos out on the web, it has been challenging to find the ones of higher quality. All of these were given to me via web word of mouth, aka group emails.
Be warned, some of these are not kid or workplace friendly.
While Uwe Boll has garnered game to movie adaptations a horrible reputation, there are in fact a few movies about games that have managed to not offend, even entertain.
And though Mr. Boll can be attributed with the most recent epidemic of terrible remakes, the trend was set long before. Super Mario Bros anyone? In a way he is really just carrying on a long-standing tradition.
Actually there are more game related movies then I realized. This is a decent list. I’m not sure how complete it is, what I can say is that most of the game movies that I have seen are on it.
Some of these movies found their way into my favorite pile and that’s what this is really all about.
I should mention that I chose these movies not for their award worthiness or for their ability to bring about world peace. They managed to sneak into my top five because I enjoyed watching them. And lets not forget that the genre is sparse on quality, thus expectation is brought down a lot (a LOT).
