Archive for Featured
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Waiting periods on purchasing…anything
Our current economic recession has taught us one thing—if we screw up bad enough we can cry long enough until Washington will mortgage our futures to bail us out (and yes, both the Bush and Obama administrations are guilty of this). But if there’s one lesson we should have learned (but ...
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Best of E3 2009
This year saw E3 return to its roots and try to be the spectacle of games we all know it should be. It brought with it some incredible looking games, but also some neat little surprises. But when it was all said and done, what was the best of show? Read on. DS Game of the Sh...
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Moviegoers Bill of Rights
We all know that going to the theater to see a movie can be a pain these days. From crowded shopping complexes, high ticket prices, and limited parking, one can feel like it’s not even worth it before they get inside. But the true horror, for many, begins once they do venture into the thea...
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Eight modern films that ruined movies
To say that a film ruined movies is a bold statement, so before anyone has a heart attack, hear me out. These are not necessarily bad films (though some aren’t great). Instead, these are influential films that changed how Hollywood made movies, or what we as audiences expected of them. T...
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Lost has one destination next season–Armageddon
Just to start out, if you have not yet watched the season finale of Lost please stop reading and do so now. This entire post is one big spoiler that should be avoided by those who haven’t seen every last minute of the series. Good, watched it? Okay, now we can continue. So, the season...
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The fate of fan games, and why movie studios get fan media right
If you’re questioning exactly what a fan game is, then it’s likely you've never heard of fan fiction or fan films. Fan media, as a broad term, is when fans of a media property take it upon themselves to recreate the or expand upon the experience of that media. In other words, when two gu...
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In a digital age, do we care about reality?
It’s a question science fiction has been asking for decades. If, at some point, fantasy could mimic reality to a flawless degree, would we care? Should we care? And unlike how much of science fiction predicted this question would come to a head through virtual reality or androids, it is ...
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What is Nintendo not telling us about Wii Sports Resort?
With E3 only a few weeks away, and the release of Wii Sports Resort only two months away, there is still remarkably little we know about Nintendo’s marquee Wii title sequel. What do we know? It will ship with the Wii MotionPlus accessory that clips onto the bottom of the Wiimote, and it fe...
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Facebook, Plato’s Cave, and why I feel normal
There was a time when I resisted the lure of Facebook. I had already used MySpace and found it rather pointless. It was mostly just old high school and college friends wanting to “reconnect” long enough to see how many kids I have, and not much else. What was the point for a non-15-yea...
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ABC joining Hulu is why it succeeds
Wait, something happening now can not explain past success, can it? I mean, unless we were the Lost castaways…oh, wait, ABC? Gotcha. Actually, the point is nearly as convoluted as Lost, and that’s a good thing. Hulu.com was a joint startup between NBC Universal and Fox. The idea w...
