Why the hate?

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So looking on Kotaku, I read something that caught me by surprise. Not because he's the director, not because the way he brushed it off so quickly in the video but why haven't I heard a damn thing about it before. No rumors came up, David Jaffe didn't hint to anything and, the news hasn't hit the Playstation blog. Anyways, he's directed the Rush Hour movies (not as bad as Kotaku states) and X-men 3 The Last Stand. I won't protect him from Rush Hour 3 because it was a rehashed version of 1/2 but the rest of his movies were pretty good. Here's the thing too, it's a video game movie. It'll make just as much or just under the amount it would make if say *insert big name director here* directed it. That said, I assume the game companies know this and are taking the advantage of this. I'm not saying the new movie is going to be horrible (i.e. Bloodrayne series), nor am I saying it is going to be a triple A movie. It will hopefully make it's way in the middle with the Resident Evil series or even the Silent Hill movie are at!
Congrats Brett Ratner! Good luck, don't screw up!


Video games are already looked at to be the reason why anyone does anything wrong anymore (i.e. GTA debates on it's themes of violence and crime), I don't think crappy video game movies don't need to be added to the video game hate list!

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Halo sword for realz?

The internet is the spawn of everything crazy to cats with guns. I was searching a picture for one of my projects and I saw this.

It's life like, it's a real Halo sword!

I don't know what the ending price was but if anyone knows, please leave a comment! I'm really interested how much that thing actually sold for. The Geekologic blog stated it was selling at $255 dollars with 2 days left on the bidding. If your in shock the price for the real life sword was so cheap, let me tell you that Ebay has this nasty habit of raising by 50% in the last hour. Well I'm off to bed, goodnight!

Far Cry 2 Map Making - very cool!

I just saw this on Game Trailers and I'd thought I'd share! When I was first watched it, I was really liking the idea that you can attack the areas with different tactics. That is until (from watching the video a couple times) I saw that the rooftops aren't accessible. Now imagine with me, close your eyes. You enter one of these specific areas, you sneak behind one of their main buildings and take out the perimeter guards. You move onto boxes and move upward towards the rooftop of a building where the enemy is having a meeting. Once they're done, they walk outside to see their guards taken out. They sprint to their fallen and while this is happening, you silently take them out from top of the rooftops. Now, that's freedom. With the Far Cry 2 footage, they state strategic fighting but I have yet to see someone use it well through the videos. Especially when sneaking around these outposts, I've seen players play it out more of a typical shooter. Now, that's nothing to be ashamed off but with the rooftop idea, it would allow for more space to move around like a ninja. I really hope they have something like that in the final build!

Mirror's Edge actaully looks "better" when it was first concieved

Here is a proof of concept video for the game "Mirror's Edge". I personally think this game looks action packed during these cut scenes than the ones they show the public now. Also, note that the main character always holds the gun but in the updated version, she now has to pick up guns to use them. Interesting how the ideas evolved/changed. Check it out.

Mirror's Edge 'Proof of Concept' clip HD

Video Blog 2! Austin GDC, Heroes and Crysis Warhead

- Heroes -
Rating:A+
Pros:Awesome action. Gave what hardcore fans of the series a start of a season that they wanted
Cons:If you beginning on watching the series, you will be confused like no other. A lot of things happening can be a little overwhelming.

- Crysis Warhead -
Rating:9/10 = A-
Pros:Action Packed. So many moments that you will remember! Team Deathmatch Multiplayer is awesome!
Cons:Very short (4-5 hours) single player story. Power Struggle seems a little empty with only 32 people in it.

Oh, for those who aren't giving Crysis Warhead a try, check out this game play footage!

Shower away baby!

Sink Showering Monkey


hahahahaaa, I love how when when an animal does anything that a human would do = amusing and hilarious! It's in the human DNA! Tomorrow I'll upload a video blog and it'll highlight tonight's heroes t.v. show!

see ya tomorrow internetz!

BACK from the Austin GDC

I'll upload a video blog for everything that happened at the Austin GDC. It was overall fun and Austin is a great place to host something like that. I'm going to move away from talking about the Austin GDC until I do my video upload.

Next on my agenda is to talk about this CA intro for the game Resistance 2 (PS3).
Here's a trailer for it that I recently just saw.



I'm a big fan of the innovation of the guns of the Insomniac team but this trailer really proves they've learned from their previous games. The whole cutscene had me only imagining what was going to happen. I'm glad they gave Nathan Hale a voice because it really brings his character out of the general army type characters. I also loved how they used the amount of tracer bullets to show utter chaotic and specific. I am glad that they learned from their mistakes from the previous game and applying it to the new version unlike somethings in life (Steve Jobs, give the iphone users the power to copy and paste!)

Oh, I feel like I'm just rambling but I picked up Crysis Warhead today. I heard good things about it and at only $30.00, how can you go wrong. Loving it now, hopefully it'll finish with a bang!

I'll talk to you guys more soon!

-Mikee

The oath of a meatatarian

I was at Wendys and under my food, I found this. I find it amazing because I'm a big fan of the baconator. I even made a website for it a while back (www.freewebs.com/baconation).

Hello all!

Hey, I haven't really posted on here in a while (I'll do a video blog soon) but I've been enjoying my break now from school. Got a semester done and I am relaxing with people still in my hometown that didn't leave for far away colleges. The time before my Austin GDC trip is counting down and I will probably do a yahoo live chat when I'm down there so come chat with me! I think it'll be fun coming to it and learning everything about the game industry as in industry. The up's and down's of being a game design and so fourth. Anyways, I'm off to go to my old highschool to pick up a year book that I never got (things are expensive!). Later guys!

Oh David Jaffe

I was looking up stuff for the upcoming game The Rise of the Argonauts and I found this on youtube. I think it's hilarious because he's doing God of War 3 right now and I love his personality. He speaks his opinion and his mind. Check this out!

Energy, does it flow in you?

I just did a t-shirt design for the 6 Hour Power T-Shirt design contest. It was fun and overall I liked how the shirt turned out!

I think the "does it flow in you" could have been done better but I couldn't find a text that I liked/worked the whole feeling of the t-shirt. The t-shirt was suppose to reflect the word "energy" and tie it into the drink Verry Berry. Help me out and vote for it! Click here to vote for it. Thanks.