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Finally, Pixel Punk has come back to InfinityFeed. Wait, I think I just stole something from The Rock. Ah well, he's too focused on John Cena to notice.<br />
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Welcome to 'Pixel Punk Predicts' as we take a look at WWE's biggest event of the year, Wrestlemania 28!<br />
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<strong>Kane VS Randy Orton</strong><br />
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This match has very little build up due to Orton recently returning from injury. To me, it's just an excuse for a filler match with no real feud to be continued. So with that in mind my pick is going to be Orton. He's just come back and needs a win to show he's back and ready for whatever should happen after Wrestlemania.<br />
<strong>Pixel Punk Picks: Randy Orton</strong><br />
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<strong>Maria Menounos & Kelly Kelly VS Eve & Beth Phoenix</strong><br />
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Again, not much build up except appearances by some of the Diva's during Maria's show. If you're from the UK then you probably have no idea who Maria is, or what she does. But apparently she's a celebrity, and by making an appearance at Wrestlemania you can be damn sure she didn't accept a cash offer to turn up and lose. The other women are going to have to make her look good, although to be honest, I'll probably use this time to go to the bathroom.<br />
<strong>Pixel Punk Picks: Maria Menounos & Kelly Kelly</strong><br />
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<strong>Team Johnny VS Team Teddy</strong><br />
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This match has some decent build up story. Whichever team wins, then that General Manager gets control over both RAW and Smackdown.<br />
Team Johnny consists of Jack Swagger, Drew McIntyre, David Otunga, Mark Henry, Dolph Ziggler, and The Miz. Team Teddy consists of Booker T, Great Khali, R-Truth, Santino Marella, Kofi Kingston, and Zack Ryder.<br />
If you look at the star power of each team then Team Johnny contains three former World Heavyweight Champions and a former WWE Champion. Team Teddy contains a retired wrestler turned announcer, a seldom seen Indian botch machine, and two comedy act underdogs.<br />
If I look at this in a logical way, it seems pointless to build up Johnny's TV persona to now have him lose control of RAW to a guy who's been in charge of Smackdown for years but does nothing except announce tag team matches. Going forward, the WWE needs that suited executive 'bad guy' power figure which Vince McMahon played so well. <br />
It hasn't be confirmed whether this is going to be one fall to a finish, or if it's going to be done elimination style. Personally I would prefer elimination style as it would add to the match and create extra drama.<br />
<strong>Pixel Punk Picks: Team Johnny</strong><br />
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<strong>Sheamus VS Daniel Bryan - World Heavyweight Championship</strong><br />
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Sheamus won the Royal Rumble (which I failed to <a href="http://www.infinityfeed.com/2012/01/pixel-punk-predicts-wwe-royal-rumble.html" target="_blank">predict</a>) and chose to face Daniel Bryan at Wrestlemania for the World heavyweight Championship. <br />
For the last few years the Royal Rumble winner has failed to capture the gold on the grandest stage, but something tells me that this year is going to be different. D-Bry has had a good run with the strap, and will still have time to win it back if they continue this feud post Wrestlemania.<br />
I expect a good 10 to 15 minute match, possibly an opener to the show (after the national anthem of course) with a new World Heavyweight Champion being crowned.<br />
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<strong>Cody Rhodes VS Big Show - Intercontinental Championship</strong><br />
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If Big Show wins the IC title, that means he has won every single active championship within WWE (except the Diva's Championship which would just be stupid). <br />
Others say that Cody needs to lose the IC Title before being pushed up to the main event matches, however I think he can keep the belt and still go for the WWE or World Heavyweight Championships. The Ultimate Warrior held both in the early 90's after a title VS title match with Hulk Hogan, so why can't Cody? He has far more talent and potential than Warrior ever had.<br />
The build up for this match has been fantastic, with Cody taunting Big Show with embarrassing videos of previous Wrestlemania losses involving Show, saying that on the big stage, the big man chokes and loses. This one won't steal the show, mainly because of Big Show's size and ability, but Cody will no doubt try damn hard for this contest to look good.<br />
<strong>Pixel Punk Picks: Cody Rhodes</strong><br />
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<strong>Undertaker VS Triple H - Hell in a Cell with Special Referee Shawn Michaels</strong><br />
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Last year these two had the match of the night, this year they will try to do the same. But as a prediction this one can be short and sweet. Undertaker will win, extending the undefeated streak to 20-0. It seems pointless ending the streak with a guy who is probably a year away from announcing his in-ring retirement, even if that man is the son in law of the company owner.<br />
<strong>Pixel Punk Predicts: Undertaker</strong><br />
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<strong>CM Punk VS Chris Jericho - WWE Championship</strong><br />
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This will be the best wrestling match of the night, guaranteed! <br />
Both men lay claim to being 'Best in the World', however this feud won't be settled here. This will definitely carry on for at least another month, maybe two.<br />
Because I love both of these guys, it's proving quite hard to predict the victor. I can see Jericho getting the win, with CM Punk reclaiming the title at the next Pay Per View, or even the one after that. But I can also see CM Punk winning at Wrestlemania but potentially losing further down the line. However, I don't see both major titles changing hands on the same night. Somewhere during the 4 hour event we're bound to get a screwy finish with either interference or a disqualification. Perhaps, this could be the one to end in a DQ, but would you want a championship match on the biggest PPV of the year to end that way and risk getting chants of 'Bullshit'?<br />
<strong>Pixel Punk Picks: CM Punk</strong><br />
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<strong>John Cena VS The Rock</strong><br />
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This is it, a match that's been a year in the making, and is also the headline attraction. It's also going to be extremely hard to predict a winner. It's rumoured that this could be a best of three feud, spread across yet another year, with matches taking place during gaps in The Rock's filming schedule for the multiple film roles he has coming up. The fan in me would love to see The Rock win, in reality I think this will be an older generation star putting over and officially passing the torch to the younger new generation star, much like at Wrestlemania 18 when The Rock defeated Hulk Hogan.<br />
So I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that John Cena narrowly wins, and the end of the pay per view will be The Rock and John Cena shaking hands in a sign of respect, despite the fact they aren't exactly fond of each other.<br />
<strong>Pixel Punk Picks: John Cena</strong><br />
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That's it for this edition of 'Pixel Punk Predicts'. I hope you enjoy watching Wrestlemania wherever you may be and whoever you're with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980815957059835463.post-73485415032931470482012-03-20T19:26:00.000+00:002012-03-20T19:26:18.606+00:00Random Mechanics - Magic System<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For no particular reason I have been thinking a lot about
magic systems in a fantasy setting. For me magic should be extremely powerful,
but also simply mundane. It should be able to achieve anything from blasting a
goblin into oblivion to boiling a kettle. I'm sure that this half thought magic system I
am about to explain has already been attempted and realized in a much better
way, but I'm not aware of where so it won't stop me sharing my random thought.</div>
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<b>With magic, anything
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I'm not a big fan of how magic is presented in games such as
<i>Dungeons and Dragons<b>. </b></i>Where the player is presented with a list of spells that they
are able to learn and prepare. For me, magic should be fluid, unpredictable and
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My idea is a sort of 'words of power' kind of system. As the
character grows and becomes more experienced she will learn or find more words
which can be combined to cast spells. She may start knowing 'Fire' and 'Wind'. Separately
the former would create fire and the latter would create wind. Combined the
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Each phrase could be given a set of rules or could be left
abstract and up to player and GM interpretation, depending on the type of game.
These phrases could be combined to do pretty much anything, but the more
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<b>My magic drains me<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Magic has to come from somewhere, be it harnessed from all
around us just like air, or a magical stream from under the earth or our very
own life force. Whatever the source magic should be taxing. In <i>Dungeons and Dragons</i>, players can cast
epic, crazy and powerful spells without much risk to themselves. Sure you cast
a daily spell and miss, you can't use it again until you rest, which I suppose
represents it being so powerful it takes a lot out of you so you can't cast it
again, but you can still continue doing everything else as normal.</div>
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In this system to cast a spell you have to spend your own <b>HP</b>. I would say that anyone from a wizard
to a warrior to a farmer should be able to cast magic, but it should be easier
for those trained. Therefore a magic user would have a small energy pool that
could be used to cast spells before they have to start draining their own life.
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Each phrase costs a certain amount of HP to cast it, so
combining the phrases to make powerful complicated spells hurts a lot more and
is done at great risk. You could spend more HP in order to increase the power
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This way makes magic as flexible as the player is imaginative,
it can be very powerful but that power comes at great risk. This is just a half
thought out idea which I may expand upon later, but so far I really like the concept.
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So with the spectacular finale to <i>The Walking Dead </i>behind us, you may be asking yourself how you're
going to get your Zombie fix until the show's return. Well before you go and
buy a chemistry set and begin work on a zombie inducing virus to sate your need
for brain eating goodness, check out the list below for just a few of the Zombies
related things being released this year.<br />
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<b>The Last of Us</b></div>
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game being developed by Naughty Dog. I'm sure your all familiar with Naughty
Dog, you know those guys who made those little <i>Uncharted </i>games. Not a whole
lot is actually known about it at the moment, though a trailer has been
released introducing the two main characters, Ellie and Joel. Also it seems
like it is not going to be a typical zombie game, choosing to focus on the
Father-Daughter relationship between Joel and Ellie. I'm pretty excited about
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<b>Resident Evil:
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in the next couple of days though so no need to fret. The Resident Evil
franchise has deviated from its survival horror zombie killing beginnings in
recent times but this title at least features actual zombies! Set in Racoon
City somewhere between the events of Resident Evil 2 and 3 the player has the
option of playing either as a member of Umbrella Security Service (USS) or the
United States Special Operations Force. Depending on which side you take you
will be tasked with either covering up Umbrella's mess or exposing it. It
definitely sounds interesting but I don't see myself playing this one, it will
take a lot to get my interested in the Resident Evil series again.</div>
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Brad Pitt, <i>World War Z </i>has the positional
to be AWESOME. Unfortunately though very little is known about the actual
movie, not even having a trailer it could of course disappoint. Never the less
I am excited about this one, say what you will about Brad Pitt, you can't
really deny that he has been in some amazing movies and certainly has the
resources to pick and choose his roles. This
one is definitely gonna be big and possibly similar to <i>The Walking Dead</i>, we will be keeping up to date with it here on <b>InfinityFeed</b> so make sure to come back.</div>
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This is a movie about a guy and a girl who are getting
married, he is a mild mannered kinda guy and she is a high strung bitch. They
have best friends, a guy (a Seann William Scott wannabe) and some girl. They
all go to some cabin, presumably for some pre-wedding celebration. The mild
mannered guy gets bitten by....something and turns into a zombie, and stays
exactly the same, apart from being dead and wanting to eat brains. A zombie
hunter turns up and the high strung bitch still wants to marry zombie Steve (oh
ye, his name is Steve). I learnt all of that from the trailer...no need to
watch the movie itself now. Thankfully, as this looks terrible. But it looks
like a no brainer (see what I did there?..eh?..eh?) Shaun of the Dead taken-too-far
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a zombie survival game in real life. You take on the role of a survivor and
with a group of friends you have to get to different locations throughout your
city, following clues given by other survivors (actors) all the while avoiding
the many zombies scattered throughout the streets. I took part in this here in
Leeds last year and loved it. Out of a group of 6 I was 1 of 2 of that survived
the game. The actors were fantastic and the zombies were great, at the very
beginning we were greeted by a ear splitting screech, followed by what was
clearly a zombie bounding towards us, I dived over a wall into a beer garden
full of unsuspecting civilians. <i>2.8 Hours
Later</i> is happening throughout the year all over the UK, but the only
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moment there is much more, but this is some of the best and should keep your
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different feats, some of them long before the invention of achievements. I have
saved the Yolk folk on numerous occasions, I have defended the world against
endless swarms of alien spacecraft with my one ship, I have raided tombs like Indiana
Jones, I have stopped bi-pedal nuclear tanks whilst talking on my phone, I have won the iron-fist tournament as a Japanese school girl as well as the FIFA World Cup with Iran and I have discovered that the cake is a
lie, to name but a few.<br />
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If there is one lesson that I have learnt over the last decade and it is that we, humanity as a species, are screwed should we ever go to war with
an alien race. Not because we are easier to kill. Not because they are more
technologically advanced than us. We will be exterminated because if video gaming
has taught me anything it would be that in the future all of our mobile
infantry transport vehicles will suck.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That is right, as a species we will be wiped out because our
vehicles will make us sitting ducks during a battle, but you don’t have to take
my word for it. Look at these vehicles and tell me that you actually enjoyed
using them in the respective games: the Warthog (Halo), the Mako (Mass Effect)
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Seriously, these vehicles will be the largest cost of human life
during any war in the future, they handle like shit, if you so much as chip the
paint they will explode, their weapon systems are useless against anything
other than the most basic of enemies and for the most part they have the
annoying tendency of flipping over if you hit anything larger than a mole hill.<o:p></o:p><br />
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I recently introduced Dash to the Halo series and as the Halo
veteran I called dibs and drove whilst he manned the turret. As we drove along
Dash commented on my driving, pointing out that he “can’t aim for shit if you
keep swinging the car wildly around corners”. I swear to Joe Pesci that I
was slowing down to give us a hope in hell of Dash actually hitting what he was
aiming at. To make matters worse he found it hysterical when I hit a small rock
with the back tyre and almost flipped us both over a cliff. Fair play, I fucked
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Fast forward several hours to our roles being reversed as Dash and
I were ambushed by a series of Jackals, Grunts and Elites and our only way to
escape would have been to make a suicidal dash for the Warthog and gun it, both in the driving and the shooting sense, out of danger.
In truth what happened was in a highly coordinated effort Dash headed for the
Warthog and, whilst he had everyone distracted, I legged it in the opposite
direction. I must say that for the few seconds he had the Warthog moving Dash
did quite well, until the giant rock jumped in front of him causing him to
crash into said rock and get thoroughly ripped a new one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After much laughter, and gloating, from me Dash conceded that whilst
yes, I may have nearly killed us both by hurling us over a cliff, it had
been a miracle and a true testament to my Warthog driving skills that I had only hit one
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If this affliction had only affected the Halo universe I wouldn’t
mind too much because there would still be some hope for humanity in the
future. But then Mass Effect and the MAKO screwed the pooch just as badly.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The Mako is Mass Effect equivalent, and a hybrid between Halo’s
Scorpion tank (hence forth referred to as Sheila) and the afforementioned
Warthog. What it did was take the size and the turret of Sheila, add an extra
set of large chunky Warthog tyres and keep the Warthog control system. What this
ultimately lead to was my version of Shepard getting blown up, a lot.</div>
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Not even the Junker is immune from this. In the first game Marcus crashed it through a wall and it promptly blew up! OK, it didn't blow up exactly but it may have well as done. they barely scratched the paint and it stopped working</div>
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I think a true testament to how crappy these vehicles are when
instead of utlilising them as the developers wished I prefer instead to walk.
That’s right, walk. It could be a 2 minute drive (providing there are no
enemies trying to kill you) versus a 10 minute walk and I shall choose to walk
every single time. Better yet, I will be playing co-op and my team mates decide
to use the vehicles and I can walk. They take the hammering and draw all the
attention whilst I craftily, using the super secret technique of walking, sneak
up behind the enemy and destroy them, preferably with a melee attack conserving
my ammo. <o:p></o:p><br />
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My friends and colleagues here at InfinityFeed now expect that this is the status quo and that they
are to drive off without me. At the end of the day they will get to a check
point first, which will teleport me ahead meaning I will get to where they are
going at the same time as them without sitting in a death trap, and that if
they die there is somebody sensible acting as a mobile spawn point to get them
back into the game ASAP. Cheap tactic admittedly, but it works.</div>
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I know piggybacking like this is not applicable in a real life war
but we as a species had better perfect cloning a fallen soldier and teleporting
him to his team mates side PDQ otherwise we are all fucked, our vehicles are
certainly going to be useless.<o:p></o:p><br />
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</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04216994232649331750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980815957059835463.post-9723910421868297132012-03-13T19:47:00.000+00:002012-03-13T19:47:15.113+00:00Dish's Stack: Marvel and DC Comics 14/03/2012<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's amazing how big a difference a couple of light weeks comic-wise and a week off work can make to getting through a stack of comics - I only have four comics left to read and I am 100% up-to-date! Wowzas!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, <i>Venom</i> wasn't out over here, so I am still yet to read the concluding parts to the 'Circle of Four' event, but I am reliably assured that they will be out this week. Fingers crossed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.dccomics.com/">DC website</a> has had a revamp, and it's a little more awkward to work out which comics are out and when than it used to be, but I just about have it sussed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some great comics out this week, including <i>Fantastic Four,</i> <i>Journey Into Mystery, The Punisher, Batman and Robin</i> and more! Read my fore-thoughts after the jump!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not 100% sure that I'm going to get this, but I'm going to write about it anyway because it's kind of an interesting comic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a comic released to create <i>even more</i> buzz for the ever-nearing Avengers film, and to latch onto anyone looking to get into comics because of the film, and features a lineup of heroes to match the blockbuster movie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The comic will almost certainly have the obligatory introductions to the characters, just in case you haven't heard of some of them by now... And the team will be facing off against one of the most iconic <i>Avengers</i> villains - Zoidiac!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though the book will feature a team-up of the characters in the film, the story is set in the mainstream Marvel continuity, so a little explaining is potentially required - I don't think Hulk is involved with the Avengers at all anymore, and some of the others belong to various spin-off Avenger groups, so who knows how they're going to wrangle these characters into one tale?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Had this comic been cheaper I would have definitely got it, but whether it's because Brian Michael Bendis has written it or to take advantage of the hordes of the movie-fans, this comic has ended up with a $3.99 pricetag, and in a relatively busy week I don't think it'll make the cut - unless my comic-shop has it priced against the RRP!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, the most obvious surprise since I've been reading comics was finally revealed last month! The identity of Marcus Johnson's father! I won't say here just in case anyone reading this happens to not have read the last one, but if you've been reading the comic it shouldn't particularly be a surprise anyway..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The trouble with keeping up-to-date with my comics is recalling what happened in the more forgettable series, which this book kinda firmly falls into. There have been some cool action sequences, but I can't recall very much happening story-wise last month other than the 'reveal'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do remember quite enjoying it though - Deadpool hanging around generally makes things exciting, so his appearance was welcome. And the clichéd "It's too dangerous, I gotta do this alone" was also present, with Marcus leaving a character he brought in for a mere two issues...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With only this and one more issue to go, the series is going to have to wrap things up a little but I can't see this being too great a finale. The identity of Marcus' father means that very little needs explaining anymore, and everything that has happened will lead back to him one way or another, so I'm not expecting life-changing narrative to end the story, but there should be fireworks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last issue ended with quite an odd cliffhanger - future versions of the Reed children came bounding through a portal, apparently to save the day!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Seeing events such as this really show you just how powerful the Fantastic Four are - the mix of super-powers and super-science have meant they are about to defeat several </span></span><i style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;">massive</i><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> threats to existence over the course of a couple of issues. The focus shifted from the Kree vs. the Annihilation wave to the presence of the Celestials almost seemlessly and, though things appear in a bad way, you never get the impression that the FF won't pull through - though that could be a thing in general with comics - despite the massive scale of the threats.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">This is another extra-sized issue and will end the epic three-year story that Jonathan Hickman set out to tell - if the whole arc was as good as the last few issues, I'll definitely be checking out the earlier stuff!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">It has been announced recently that Hickman will be leaving <i>Fantastic Four</i> in the Autumn, with rumours saying he will be taking over <i>Avengers</i>, and I'm sure many will be sad to see him leave this series, but leaving a story such as this in his behind him will leave no-one wondering 'what could have been'.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This series just continues to pull out all the stops! Last issue was another incredible comic! Taking place partly in Loki's mind it was filled with strange imagery and themes, including a superb breaking of the fourth wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The story is getting some pretty good traction as well - evil/fear gods looking to take advantage of the fall of the Serpent during 'Fear Itself' are scheming in various ways, and one (Nightmare) is using Loki as a storage place for lots of "Fear stuff" left over and will use it to unleash an "ultimate weapon" - pretty vague storytelling, but I really didn't mind at the time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This book may have also unleashed one of the most endearing new characters to hit comics since Bucky came back - I'm talking about Thori, the Hellhound! She steals <i>every </i>scene that she's in, and is so adorably 'evil' but without the power to do anything about it...yet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Presumably, being a remnant of the 'Fear Itself' story, this arc will be wrapping up fairly soon since AVX starts next month, so I expect things will come to a surprisingly quick end this issue, but I can't imagine anything less than an awesome comic from this series, so I'm sure it'll work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being only two issues in, it's difficult to say whether this series is going to be any good in the long run; after all, it took <i>Venom </i> a good half dozen issues or so to get <i>really </i>quite good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But signs are promising. Kaine has issues with a world that has beaten him down and tried to kill him on numerous occasions, but he appears to be a good guy, if he acts so a little reluctantly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On his way out of the city, Kaine turned back when he saw something big was going down near the hospital - so he has <i>some</i> semblance of a conscious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fight with flame-boy was pretty cool too, and the standard twists and false-ends did nothing to diminish a stellar performance from our newest spider-based superhero! The crowd seemed to like it too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It appears like there is a recurring story being hinted at involving the girl that keeps needing saving, but just what that is/means I couldn't possibly guess at this moment in time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoyable enough books to start with, the series is going to have to pull something out soon for the people for whom that isn't quite enough....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tables, if not turned, shifted somewhat last issue. We found out why Nobody has such a vendetta against Batman, and why he took such an interest in Damian/Robin, and after refusing to join him Nobody took Damian hostage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite my protestations that this idea of Damian working against his father could have been drawn out and made more interesting, I now think a pretty good go has been made of it and the development of both Bruce and Damian has worked pretty well. Bruce now knows he can't keep Damian in the dark, and Damian understands the way his father does Batman the way he does a little better.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The arc looks like it will come to an end this issue, and I'll admit it turned out a lot better than I thought it would after the first couple of issues. Obviously, it's not as good as the phenomenal <i>Batman</i> with Scott Snyder, but I reckon it's a closer second place (in Batman-central comics) than I think most people are giving it credit.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm glad I stuck to <i>Green Lantern, </i>I'm sure what it was, but I enjoyed last month's issue tons more than what had come before. It might be that it was set on Earth; there were other human characters; we saw Hal Jordan kick ass - sans power ring. That last one was probably the most important in my opinion - for five issues, Hal had to do what Sinestro told him to do, or else he'd take Hal's powers away again - and he went along with it! It's not nice seeing the star superhero of a series look so impotent and practically submitting himself to the will of one with such a volatile and unpredictable past. Thinking back, it kind of resembled the relationship between junkie and drug dealer, though I may be reading too much into it...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, last issue was good! And it looks like we're going straight into the whole 'New Army' of Universe-wide protectors - good call in my book, that was the most interesting part of the first five issue, despite only being mentioned in passing on a handful of pages. I just hope that with Hal presumably going off with Sinestro again the series can keep whatever it was that made me enjoy issue #6 so much...</span></div>
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<i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dish's Stack is where I talk about the comics I will be buying this week! Judge my taste all you like, but that's what this is! I will normally focus on my thoughts of previous issues and possible developments, but nevertheless be wary of minor (or possibly major) spoilers if you do not keep very up-to-date with series or previews, but I'll do my best not to reveal anything too surprising!</i></div>Dishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605097882443928329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980815957059835463.post-39816472586293339932012-03-07T22:02:00.001+00:002012-03-07T22:02:16.728+00:00The Infinite Stream 07/03/2012<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdJ4Bz14eoEYXSb9KSCbpswgNUWaVsmpU2lv_xBFwfux1JeLZDOAtr7bIT4sKewX_ym7Th4DzcRWGCWNz6CXEPumEzud8XZMHc_bSfZFERAVhmTwcKs25PB2EnRSo2tOroIu2SMwoIsY/s1600/infinitestream.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="82" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdJ4Bz14eoEYXSb9KSCbpswgNUWaVsmpU2lv_xBFwfux1JeLZDOAtr7bIT4sKewX_ym7Th4DzcRWGCWNz6CXEPumEzud8XZMHc_bSfZFERAVhmTwcKs25PB2EnRSo2tOroIu2SMwoIsY/s200/infinitestream.png" width="200" /></a><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">The Infinite Stream </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">is where we post about items that are news-worthy but do not necessarily require their own full article. Check after the jump for news from 07/03/2012!</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just in case you don't know, Peter Molyneux is one of the most famous and well respected game developers in the world, responsible for game series such as <i>Dungeon Keeper, Black&White </i>and, of course, <i>Fable.</i> Originally plying his trade with Bullfrog studios, for the last decade he has been working with Lionhead, a studio he co-founded, and is also head of Microsoft Studios Europe - but not for much longer it seems!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He today announced to Kotaku that once <i>Fable: The Journey</i> is completed, he will be stepping down from both roles to join a new project (almost certainly videogame related) called '22 Cans'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Known for his bold ideas and limitless passion for videogames, Molyneux is likely to land on his feet with this new venture, no doubt being quoted about how wildly innovative his new game is going to be, before the year is out. The same may not be true for Lionhead for whom losing an individual like Peter could be a catalyst for rough times ahead. Hopefully this won't be the case, and we wish everyone the best!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Via <a href="http://kotaku.com/5890594/peter-molyneux-is-leaving-lionhead-studios-and-microsoft-will-finish-kinect-fable">Kotaku</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to '24 Frames', <i>Chronicle </i>director Josh Trank is in talks with Sony to make a Spider-Man spin-off film about Venom, the black, alien symbiote of the comics and (terrible) Spider-Man 3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trank is big news in Hollywood at the moment, with <i>Chronicle </i>(great film by the way) making a lot of money on its meager budget, so Sony handing a relative newcomer a (presumably) big budget superhero film could be seen, paradoxically, both a big risk and a no-brainer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Venom film has apparently been in the works since before development of the rebooted <i>Amazing Spider-Man </i>film, and a script exists but producers are looking for a new writer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Personally, I don't think a standalone Venom film would work without it/him being first introduced in a Spider-Man film, and even then only if they went with more of an antihero spin rather than out-and-out villain - like the new comic series is doing. I don't even know whether I would look forward to a Venom film, especially one handled by Sony, who have such a hit and miss record with superhero films. I'm pretty sure <i>everyone</i> will wait to act on the potential of this film until after <i>Amazing Spider-Man </i>is out...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Via <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/03/chronicle-josh-trank-spider-man-venom-topher-grace-marvel.html">24Frames</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mere hours ago, Apple held one of their famous 'events' during which they unveil new technologies and upgrades to their existing products - the iPod, iPhone and iPad have all been announced at similar events. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Expected were announcements on both a new iPad, potentially the iPad '3' or 'HD', and just what the heck AppleTV was going to do - and we got both! Kind of...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new iPad was revealed, boasting HD imaging - 3.1M pixels - and 4G/LTE wireless connectivity. Prices begin at $499 (yowza!), and will come in 16, 32 and 64GB flavours. And as stated in the headline, it is going to be available from March 16th in the US, with versions coming out around the world by the end of the month - no official name yet though it seems..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And for all the buzz surrounding AppleTV, it ended up just being a media browser from all reports - but don't quote me on that, info seems a little scarce on the web, it being pretty fresh, but it does seem their was a widespread "meh" reaction to it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I personally don't care about all the iGadgets Apple are bringing out, but it seems a lot of people do, so this is kinda big news I guess(?). I doubt any of us here will be sampling any of this new tech, but it's out there if you want it!</span><br />
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</div>Dishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605097882443928329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980815957059835463.post-63086747837537048942012-03-07T18:00:00.000+00:002012-03-08T18:05:24.711+00:004 RPGs Great for Beginners<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When starting out in the hobby, deciding what game to play
can be pretty daunting and more often than not you will probably settle on the
game you have heard most about, which will most likely be <b>Dungeons and Dragons</b>, which is certainly not a bad game and the
current edition is the most beginner friendly one yet, but there are many more
out there that can introduce new players much better. Here are four RPG's for beginners.</div>
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released back in 2009. Based on the Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition rules, It
aimed to resolve many of the problems of its D&D counterpart and has
certainly done a great job as establishing itself as a major force in the RPG
world. Recently Paizo released <i>the <a href="http://paizo.com/beginnerbox">Pathfinder Beginners Box</a> </i>and as the
name suggests its intention is to help introduce new players to Role Playing
Games. It does this by providing a streamlined version of the rules that offer
a simpler and faster way to play, that some people argue should be the
definitive rule set. The rule books explain how to play the game better than
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<b>2. Tunnels and Trolls<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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was first published way back in 1975 as a more accessible alternative to <i>Dungeons and Dragons</i>. Though it never
gained the same recognition as its competitor, that isn't to say it isn't still
an awesome game. Currently in its 7th edition T&T is a great and simple
game. Character creation takes minutes, combat is fluid and fast paced and
there are few rules to get bogged down with. But probably the most important
reason this game is so good for beginners is that it is fully capable of solo play. There is actually more community support for solo adventures than
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<b>3. Savage Worlds</b></div>
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first released in 2003. It is a setting-less rules system, allowing you use the
rules to play any game that you want. Though many settings have been released
for it. It is known for speed of play and simplicity, which is great for new
players. A little bit more investment may be needed in order to get the rules
and a pre made setting but Savage Worlds definitely has the most room for
expansion once you have gained some experience.</div>
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along with <i>Castle Ravencroft</i> and<i> Legend of Drizzit</i> are <b>Wizards of the Coasts</b> attempts to turn <b>Dungeons and Dragons</b> into a board game
and therefore making the game as a whole much more accessible. Some could see
these board games as more diluting of the D&D franchise but personally I
think they are a great idea. The rules are simple, using cards to indicate
powers and magical weapons, each game box comes complete with rule books, dice
and miniatures, everything needed to play not only the board game but the
proper D&D game as well. So without even realising it players learn the
basics of D&D mechanics and get a good taste of what an RPG is like.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of months ago I wrote about how the <a href="http://www.infinityfeed.com/2012/01/infinite-stream-240112.html">Avengers' tie-in perfume/aftershave</a> set was possibly the strangest piece of merchandise I had seen - well now it has competition from another Marvel brand!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The product on the right is indeed a set of several colours of nail-polish, and with names like "Call Me Gwen-ever", "My Boyfriend Scales Walls" and "Your Web Or Mine" I can see these flying off shelves in the near future!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Call me cynical, but slapping movie-based names on the same old red/pink/white etc. varieties of nail polish seems a shameless and unnecessary cash-grab! But clearly not being the target audience for such a product, I'm sure OPI don't exactly care what I think...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forgive the exclamatory headline but, if true, this is pretty massive news. Though it seems I somehow missed the news as it was spreading yesterday, it has been reported by several sources, including a swiftly removed leak from Amazon, that Blizzard's latest click-fest dungeon-crawler will be out on April 17th - a mere six weeks away!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blizzard previously announced that the game would definitely not hit a 2012 Q1 release date, so April would be the first possible time after this. Jay Wilson of Blizzard, though declining to comment on the leak, also stated via Twitter, on a scale of one to ten (ten being imminent), that a Diablo 3 announcement is a "9".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have my doubts about this 'leak' personally, despite its seeming legitimacy. Six weeks is not an awful long time to prepare for a game release, which would need to include pressing CDs, distribution and marketing - though the game is one of the most anticipated releases of the year! If Blizzard are expecting most people to buy the game digitally, then I can potentially see this working, but the market for Special/Collector's editions will be massive and something I'm sure Activision will make sure is taken advantage of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some 'official' information should be heading our way soon enough I suppose; and I don't really mind when the game comes out, so long as I can finish Mass Effect 3 first...</span></div>
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</div>Dishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605097882443928329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980815957059835463.post-65443431679960596952012-03-06T19:58:00.000+00:002012-03-06T19:58:51.656+00:00Dish's Stack: Marvel and DC Comics 07/03/2012<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Some characters are just made for team-ups, and Spider-Man and Johnny Storm are two such guys. The interplay between the two was just perfect with them riffing on eachother like brothers - harsh words but not mean-spirited in the slightest.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The comic would have been a fantastic one even if it was just a standard 'Adventure of the Week' with Pete and Johnny, but the tale was taken to awesome heights with the story set in space! The setting required both heroes to think outside the box; the lack off gravity and oxygen affecting both of them of them greatly.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The stakes are high, with many lives on the </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">space-station</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> in the balance, but the threat </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">on board</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> is more than a little bit tongue-in-cheek, in my opinion, and is just the sort of thing needed to offset the potentially quite serious issues coming in the 'Ends of the Earth' event.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">In all, I have no doubt that this week's issue will round off a fantastic first 'proper' story for the newbies gathered from the Point One issue!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems characters in the Marvel U were thinking along the same wavelengths as I was a couple of weeks ago since, in the last issue, Captain America and Doctor Strange gathered to tell Valkyrie that she needed to accept their help.</span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">But what a double-edged sword this offer turned out to be(!) when her </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">sanctuary was breached by Crossbones as a res</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">ult of the Steves' entrance creating a path for the villains the track the hammers.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I hope the action speeds up a little now that we are nearing the end of the series, as the last couple of issues have kind of breezed through with very little happening - even Valkyrie's encounter with Storm was over before anything had particularly happened...</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I'm pretty disappointed that I'm wanting this series to be over with, and feeling an obligation to see it through to the end. It started so well, but with so many lackluster issues in a row I can't bring myself to get excited about it any more. Hopefully this and the final two issues will vindicate my (and others') choice to stick with it, and give us the kickass ending the beginning seemed to promise! </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As mentioned above, I have not been able to read last week's <i>Venom</i> due to a problem with shipping the issue and, as a result, I don't have very much to say...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the final issue of the 'Circle of Four' event, and it has been quite a ride considering this will be the 6th straight week that we've had a <i>Venom </i>comic and, though there have been multiple creative teams, that is quite the laudable effort!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I think this comic has struck a lovely balance, so far, between the gritty espionage and comic excesses (minigun and jetpack-toting gorilla anyone?), and the story is developing at a pace which has allowed the issues to cram lots of things into the 20-odd pages.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last month's <i>Action</i> was a little bit strange, and I didn't always follow what exactly was going on, but I guess I got the gist of it and some more of Superman's background was filled in for anyone who was hazy on the details.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This month's issue, however, returns to the arc that was begun in the first four issues - an alien race has captured the entirety of Metropolis, and intends to vacuum-seal it away in its collection (I think that's right - I'm trying to remember without re-reading). Superman had a plan to save everyone, but in all honesty I'm just expecting it to be "I'm going to fly over there and kick alien butt! Okay?", but I'm prepared to be pleasantly surprised!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was one of my favourite comics prior to the two-issue interlude, which has kind of taken the wind out of my sails for this series, but with the action (*wink*) returning to the 'proper' story, you'd think the comic will be hitting the highs that we saw before Christmas!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From one comic I'm expecting to knock it out of the park, to one I'm expecting to strike out (if it hasn't already!).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not secret that I'm finding this comic a little dull, especially when compared to <i>Batman </i>and <i>Batman and Robin</i>, which have both been consistently good through their short runs so far. But I'm still willing to give this series its chance - last issue provided some signs that it could come good any time now, and possibly just needs a spark for it to really get going.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though saying that, despite remembering that I thought last issue was a step in the right direction, I can't for the life of me remember what happened - not exactly a good sign!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do remember taht everyone has ended up on Penguins boat, and Bruce's latest lady-friend is doing some sleuthing of her own, and came across her (villainous?) sister! There are also mysterious murders that have been taking place, but I'd guess this story is about to wrap up anyway - such densely packed characters inevitably lead to explosive confrontations!</span></div>
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<i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dish's Stack is where I talk about the comics I will be buying this week! Judge my taste all you like, but that's what this is! I will normally focus on my thoughts of previous issues and possible developments, but nevertheless be wary of minor (or possibly major) spoilers if you do not keep very up-to-date with series or previews, but I'll do my best not to reveal anything too surprising!</i></div>Dishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605097882443928329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980815957059835463.post-82234016385177968652012-03-05T21:59:00.000+00:002012-03-05T21:59:22.259+00:00The Infinite Stream 05/03/2012<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdJ4Bz14eoEYXSb9KSCbpswgNUWaVsmpU2lv_xBFwfux1JeLZDOAtr7bIT4sKewX_ym7Th4DzcRWGCWNz6CXEPumEzud8XZMHc_bSfZFERAVhmTwcKs25PB2EnRSo2tOroIu2SMwoIsY/s1600/infinitestream.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="82" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdJ4Bz14eoEYXSb9KSCbpswgNUWaVsmpU2lv_xBFwfux1JeLZDOAtr7bIT4sKewX_ym7Th4DzcRWGCWNz6CXEPumEzud8XZMHc_bSfZFERAVhmTwcKs25PB2EnRSo2tOroIu2SMwoIsY/s200/infinitestream.png" width="200" /></a><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">The Infinite Stream </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">is where we post about items that are news-worthy but do not necessarily require their own full article. Check after the jump for news from 05/03/2012!</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mysterious 'red button' countdown has ended over at <a href="http://lionhead.com/">Lionhead.com</a> to reveal a new look website and the announcement of <i>Fable:Heroes - </i>a four-player co-op game for the XBLA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First impressions lead me to believe this is what you'd get is you crossed <i>Little Big Planet</i> with <i>Castle Crashers - </i>adorable patchwork aesthetic mixed with hack-and-slash combat featuring melee, ranged and magic attacks - and looks like it could be a lot of fun, as the trailer shows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Heroes</i> is set to tie into <i>Fable: The Journey, </i>coming out September 4, and will let players unlock rewards and provide money and items for use in the latter game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No release date has been mentioned as yet, but as with other <i>Fable</i> tie-in games (such as the Kingmaker and Coin Golf games) you should probably expect to see <i>Heroes</i> released a couple of months before <i>The Journey.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Assassin's Creed 3 </i>was last week confirmed to be taking place during the American Revolution, and today Ubisoft gave a first glimpse at what we can expect the game to look like in the trailer below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The trailer goes someway to allaying fears that this installment would be missing be iconic Parkour mechanics that made the series famous - suggestions were that the setting would not provide many options for running and jumping across rooftops - by showing the, still unnamed, protagonist free-running in the treetops which, while not the same, is a reasonable compromise if there will not be many 'urban' environments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Nintendo said at last year's E3 that the Wii U would have the <i>Assassin's Creed </i>series in its lineup, it has only been confirmed today that this entry in the series will definitely be coming the Nintendo's new console, though whether the Wii U will be released in time for the October 31st release date of the other versions of <i>Assassin's Creed 3 </i>remains to be seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The game isn't out until tomorrow (in the US, we in the U.K. must wait until Friday) but the inevitable has already occurred - pirate copies of <i>Mass Effect 3 </i>are already available on the internet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been confirmed that over the weekend, versions of the final cut of the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game have been making their way to torrent sites - some are also claiming the Playstation 3 version has also been cracked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Strangely, the PC version is still currently unplayable, despite the crack, due to the requisite install/play through EA's Origin platform but, if this is even the case, I'm sure it won't be long before this condition is also removed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The game is out worldwide this week, so those moral-minded of you won't have long to wait before getting your hands on legal copies of the game, though this does make you think how desperate some people must be to play the game that they're willing to crap on the developers who have brought them this incredible series of games...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Via <a href="http://www.gamezone.com/products/mass-effect-3/news/mass-effect-3-xbox-360-and-pc-versions-pirated-ahead-of-tomorrow-s-release">GameZone</a>)</span></div>Dishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605097882443928329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980815957059835463.post-37987909786146720782012-03-03T11:34:00.001+00:002012-03-03T19:17:57.845+00:00Netflix Catalogue: 'Never Back Down'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uahlOBWQ-BQ/T1H42aCWwFI/AAAAAAAAAG8/0toPnMcAh8A/s1600/neverbackdown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uahlOBWQ-BQ/T1H42aCWwFI/AAAAAAAAAG8/0toPnMcAh8A/s1600/neverbackdown.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Today I'll be taking a look at another film in the Netflix catalogue: 'Never Back Down'.<br />
Released in 2008, this film featured a fresh face in Sean Faris, a familiar face in Cam Gigandet, and the girl who seemed to be in every film featuring teenagers, Amber Heard. The film's main story focuses on troubled teen Jake (Sean Faris) as his family moves to Florida and he gets drawn into the underground fighting world.<br />
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When this was first released, and I was working in a well known rental shop, I took one look at the cover and dismissed it as garbage. When I finally got around to recording it on MTV at some point during 2010, I loved it. I sat down to re-watch it on Netflix to make sure everything was fresh in my head for a review and to see if my opinion had changed at all.<br />
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Never Back Down is basically an updated 'Karate Kid' story, which is fine with me because I loved Karate Kid. It features a pretty decent soundtrack with the likes of Rise Against, Red Jumpsuit, Kanye West etc, and also contains a lot of '80's movie' ingredients: <br />
<ul><li>Set in high school</li>
<li>Getting the shit kicked out of you so you can go improve yourself</li>
<li>Training montages</li>
<li>Becoming buddies with the character no one can take seriously</li>
<li>Bonding with your mentor</li>
<li>Having a foot race eerily reminiscent of Rocky vs Apollo Creed from Rocky 3</li>
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So it sticks to the tried and tested formula, but it works. Sure it's not going to be a blockbuster movie, but it is going to entertain those that watch. For extra bonus points the film has Djimon Hounsou as the mentor, adding yet another great performance to his ever growing list.<br />
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So if you have a Netflix account, or just using the trial, then give this film a chance, you may just love it. <br />
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Pixel Punk's verdict is a strong 8 out of 10.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980815957059835463.post-38150069762737625912012-03-02T21:54:00.000+00:002012-03-05T17:52:30.602+00:00The Infinite Stream 02/03/2012<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdJ4Bz14eoEYXSb9KSCbpswgNUWaVsmpU2lv_xBFwfux1JeLZDOAtr7bIT4sKewX_ym7Th4DzcRWGCWNz6CXEPumEzud8XZMHc_bSfZFERAVhmTwcKs25PB2EnRSo2tOroIu2SMwoIsY/s1600/infinitestream.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="82" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdJ4Bz14eoEYXSb9KSCbpswgNUWaVsmpU2lv_xBFwfux1JeLZDOAtr7bIT4sKewX_ym7Th4DzcRWGCWNz6CXEPumEzud8XZMHc_bSfZFERAVhmTwcKs25PB2EnRSo2tOroIu2SMwoIsY/s200/infinitestream.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">The Infinite Stream </b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">is where we post about items that are news-worthy but not necessarily require their own full article. Check after the jump for news from 02/03/2012!</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span></span>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnvgR8_mMalDsfYXKsgNYk-3atuC2K9jaDAIO_bwRTjBkp2zWd_UBqZ9jy3nKj3oHSpBWI6imiB1qjYxGydXmBHN3260lseWCNnLqjF9A9xFd0as5nmomRwHgGigLxw45MiGjaPRh0aH28/s1600/Assassin's+Creed+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnvgR8_mMalDsfYXKsgNYk-3atuC2K9jaDAIO_bwRTjBkp2zWd_UBqZ9jy3nKj3oHSpBWI6imiB1qjYxGydXmBHN3260lseWCNnLqjF9A9xFd0as5nmomRwHgGigLxw45MiGjaPRh0aH28/s1600/Assassin's+Creed+3.jpg" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">A couple of weeks ago Ubisoft confirmed that <i>Assassin's Creed 3 </i>will be coming out on the 30th of October, less than a year after <i>Revelations</i>, and rumours abound that it would be set during the American revolution. It appears now that those rumours were correct, as several pieces of artwork have apparently 'leaked', including boxart, confirming the time period in which the game will take place.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">This is all well and good, the American revolution is a very interesting period of history - fighting against the British, interaction with the Native Americans etc. But many people have been wondering about how the series' trademark parkour/free-running will feature in a setting whose overwhelming image, to most people, is of wide, open plains and dense battlefields...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Last year, to quash rumours of <i>Half-Life 3</i> and prevent disappointment when it wasn't present, Valve did not appear at the 2011 E3 convention but have recently announced that they will, however, be showing their faces at this year's event.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Obviously, internet message boards will be going wild over speculation that Valve may once and for all reveal just what they're doing with Half-Life, but it seems much more likely that they will merely be showing off <i>DOTA 2</i> and the new Counter Strike game: <i>Global Offensive.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">There is by no means any reason to say that Valve <i>won't </i>have anything Half-Life related at the expo, but it's probably safest for gamers everywhere to not go holding their breath...</span></span><br />
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</div>Dishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605097882443928329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980815957059835463.post-79387906601169114742012-03-01T22:00:00.000+00:002012-03-02T21:54:32.875+00:00The Infinite Stream 01/03/2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2k Games just announced that the hugely anticipated <b>Bioshock Infinite</b> will <i>"revolutionize action storytelling" </i>on October 16, well, at least for its North American fans, the rest of the world can pick it up on the 19th, including the PC version.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've never been a huge fan of Bioshock, I just couldn't get into the games. Despite my lack of enthusiasm towards previous titles Infinite does indeed look promising and I am looking forward to its release!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Top Gun 2 gets a writer</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">So it seems that for some reason, that I can only assume is the result of excessive use of narcotics and alcohol, plus a few strippers and Tom Cruises alien friends, Top Gun 2 has moved one step closer to actually being a movie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Peter Craig, known best for penning '</span><i style="line-height: 18px;">The Town</i><span style="line-height: 18px;">', has signed on to write the sequel to the 1986 hit(?) </span><b style="font-style: italic; line-height: 18px;">Top Gun. </b><span style="line-height: 18px;">The movie will be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Skydance Productions with I believe </span><b style="line-height: 18px;">Tom Cruise </b><span style="line-height: 18px;">to be returning as </span><i style="line-height: 18px;">Maverick. </i><span style="line-height: 18px;">They at least seem to be taking it seriously, but does any one really want another Top Gun movie? It did extremely well upon release, grossing $354 million worldwide and I'm sure a few people still remember it fondly, but its mostly seen as a homoerotic pile of dog poop now-a-days. Plus its not if Cruise himself is the star he used to be, I suppose only time will tell what exactly will happen with this movie, but personally, I am not looking forward to it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Dan Aykroyd recently had an interview with The Telegraph, in which he confirmed that <i>"</i></span><span style="background-color: white;"><i>It’s a surety that Bill Murray will not do the movie</i>, <i>but there is still interest from the studio". </i>I have mixed feelings about this news, Ghostbusters is an awesome franchise (mostly) but I think it is difficult to disagree that much of its success is due to Bill Murray, so a Ghostbusters movie without him...will it work?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Thankfully Aykroyd did say that<i> </i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic;">“We’re not going to do a movie</span><span style="background-color: white;"><i> that exploits the franchise. The script has to be perfect. I’m the cheerleader, but I’m only one voice in the matter".</i> So if this project does go ahead it should at least be done right and not simply a way to make some quick cash. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Minecraft has a brand new update after its official release and it doesn't disappoint. The trailer above is pretty awesome and introduces some of the new features. These include:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ New jungle biome</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ Added ocelots</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ New AI for mobs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ Tame wolves can have puppies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ Villagers will have children if there is room in their village</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ Added rare drops for mobs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ New items and blocks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* New map height limit (256 instead of 128)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* Doors have been updated so that double-doors work better with redstone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* Many other minor tweaks and fixes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I guess it's time to dust off and become obsessed with Minecraft again! I can't wait to play with those giant Golems!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Nothing new revealed in it, but it looks friggin' amazing! Still no good look at the 'aliens', but if anyone can tell me what that awesome flying serpent at the end is I'd like to know!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">This is the UK trailer, with a US one going up later, which I will also post if there is much different!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Surprising little has been heard from Lionhead studios over the last year or so; hard at work on <i>Fable: The Journey,</i> it seemed like all attentions were on the Kinect exclusive. But the appearance of a mysterious countdown and a red button (the clothes variety) on the <a href="http://lionhead.com/">Lionhead website</a> have left many wondering what will happen when the counter reaches zero.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">A new-look website has been promised, but the tantalising "Who knows what other surprises are coming..." implies an announcement will be made at the same time.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The countdown runs out next Monday (March 5) at 2PM Greenwich Mean Time, and inference has lead many to believe the announcement will be made at the Games Developer Conference, which runs all next week.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I personally never got round to playing <i>Fable 3</i>, so the prospect of another game in that particular series hasn't got me excited; but with legendary innovator Peter Molyneux around, the unexpected should be expected...</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">(Via </span><a href="http://www.computerandvideogames.com/337589/lionhead-countdown-suggests-gdc-announcement/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">ComputerAndVideogames</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><b>Beamdog will be making Baldur's Gate announcement "soon"</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">In what has all the hallmarks of an internet-based Augmented Reality Game, secret messages have been found in the page source of <a href="http://baldursgate.com/">BaldursGate.com</a> :</span><br />
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<span class="webkit-html-comment"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Perhaps you will find a clue" eh? "Patience would reveal it all" huh? Seems like an invitation to do some delving into Baldur's Gate websites code for hints. Pop to it then; I'll wait here...</span></span></div>
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<span class="webkit-html-comment"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trent Oster, former Bioware designer and founder of the Beamdog studio, has admitted that there will be a <i>Baldur's Gate</i> announcment "soon", and tells that it will have nothing to do with the upcoming Steam release of <i>Baldur's Gate 2. </i>This narrowing down pretty much tells us to expect a HD remake of one of the games (presumably the original), or an entirely new entry to the series. Either way, expect more from this apparent ARG, or Bioware themselves if I have jumped the gun somewhat...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">(Via </span><a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116066-Website-Teases-New-Baldurs-Gate-Something-UPDATED" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The Escapist</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">)</span></div>
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As a follow up to my<a href="http://www.infinityfeed.com/2012/02/adventurer-school-roleplaying-tips-for.html" target="_blank"> roleplaying tips</a> for beginners, I
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">The Poor Bastard</b></div>
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You left home at a very young age, your parents could barely
afford to feed you and never really cared enough to give you much when they
could. You lived on the streets in a big city, it was difficult at first. There
were many times you thought you were going to die and wondered if you should
try to go home. But you began to get the hang of life on the streets and
realised it wasn't so hard after all. </div>
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You fell in with one of the many street gangs in the city,
they took in a lot of runaways like you.
They taught you to steal and sneak and as you grew older how to kill. A boy who
joined the gang at the same time as you quickly became your best friend, he had
a very similar story as you, most of the runaways did. In your late teens
another gang tried to take your territory and a full blown war began between
your gang and this other. </div>
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One day you and your best friend were captured by this rival
gang, you were beaten and tortured for information before being slung into the
river to die, somehow you survived but your friend wasn't so lucky. Returning
to your gang you find out that they set you up as scapegoats for the rival gang
and intended for you to die. Finding yourself again with a family that didn't
want you, you ran and ran until decided if no one wanted you then you would
prove you don't need them anyway. So you turned to the life of adventuring,
easy money for those who had the skill and you certainly do.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Silver Spoon</b></span></div>
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You were born into a rich merchant family, as a child you
travelled a lot, moving from city to city while your family sold their wares.
Your Father made sure you always had a tutor on hand to teach you writing,
reading and numbers as well as all about the different areas you travelled to
and most importantly about his business. </div>
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You were a smart child, but never had much interest in your
family's business. This caused your Father to become very distant with you,
favouring your younger sister instead. You were 10 when you first ran away from
your chaperon. For the first time in your life you felt free, you would go to
the docks and watch the sailors, in fact that's all you did at first, watch. As
you got older you began to talk to those very same sailors, doing odd jobs for
them, delivering messages and the like. Soon you were fluent in how cities
really worked, behind all the shining signs and grinning merchants, you saw the
real world and you loved it. </div>
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One day your Father gave you a choice, get involved in the
business or you will be disinherited in favour of your Sister. You chose
disinheritance, you had been wanting to leave for a while and this was the
perfect opportunity. After saying your goodbyes you left in search of one of
the contacts you had made over the years, you knew he could get you a job and
he did. He handed you a poster, a wanted poster. It seemed a group of Goblins
had been terrorizing local farms and the Duke had put a bounty on their heads.
Your contact introduced you to a small group of people who seemed happy to have
an extra pair of hands and together you killed the Goblins. After that you knew
what your new job was to be.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A lot of potential</b></span></div>
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You were born to a simple family of farmers, they never had
a lot but they loved you and you never wanted for much. When you were barely
old enough to talk it became clear that you had an aptitude for magic. Your
parents noticed odd things happen around you, and as you got older you could
somewhat control it. Your parents told you to keep it a secret, scared of what
may happen to you if anyone found out. But despite those warnings you would
often show off to your friends and one day a stranger saw you.</div>
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Two days after you had been seen there was a knock at the
door to your farm late in the night. You were in bed and couldn't make out what
was being said, but you knew your Father was angry and that your Mother was
crying. Before you knew what to do you were hurried out of bed by your mother,
quickly dressed and marched onto a carriage by a stranger, with no idea what
was happening.</div>
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You were taken to a religious order who thought you had potential
and trained you in magic. They taught you a lot, gave you more education than
you could have ever hoped for as a farm boy, despite that you still despised
them for taking you away from your family and you escaped the temple at 15 with the intention of going home. but
with no idea where you were and not even entirely sure where it was you lived
you become a con artist, using your magical abilities and educated mind to
trick people out of their money. Maybe now you will con the wrong people and
offer your services to save your life, or somehow manage to get caught up in
some grand plan to save the world.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Five Wednesdays this month means my monthlies have been spread out over an extra week: resulting in the fact that I have nearly caught up with my stack! A small week this week is slightly disappointing, but does mean I may actually be reading comics the week they come out some time soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 'Point One' a couple of weeks ago was one of the most fun comics I have read in a long time! Told partly from a kid's point of view, it was everything a prospective <i>ASM</i> reader could want in terms of a jumping on point.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 'mystery' of who was in Horizon's 6th lab was finally revealed after months of hints and major clues, and their consequent escape leads nicely onto a story coming in a couple of months that will tie into the upcoming </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amazing Spider-Man</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> movie. But best of all were all the science-y things we were shown: Peter showed a couple things he has been working on to help with the inevitable clash with the Sinister Six, and Uatu (a kid genius working at Horizon) showed that he's doing what anyone would do with a mind like his - make weapons to fight supernatural creatures!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That was a great issue, so hopefully this month's wont be a let down for any newbies sticking around. As hinted/shown/teased months ago, in a 'flashforward' of sorts, Spidey will be going up into space to rescue astronaut John Jameson from Doctor Octopus's schemes! According to ComicBookResources there is also a special guest appearance, so keep a look out for that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doctor Doom, Nathaniel Richards and the kids of the Future Foundation have bought the time they needed to save the universe - now they get to kick some ass!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last issue was really quite cool, even if it seemed a little short; it only spanned maybe 20 minutes or so, but tensions were built up so brilliantly and the converging 'scenes' meant that so much happened that you barely noticed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The downside to having so much happen so quickly is that there can be a sense of "wait, so what exactly happened there?". A couple major story points happened within a couple pages of each other so I wasn't 100% sure what went down, but a part of me guesses that that was intentional to future developments rather than a story-telling oversight.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 'event' will be winding down over the next couple of issues of this and </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fantastic Four </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">proper and I'll be quite sad to see it end - a </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fantastic</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> return to form for Marvel's first family!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't remember if this book had been cancelled before I last wrote about it so, if it hadn't, let me tell you (again?) that this series will be ending with issue 12 - a mere 2 months away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I possibly started giving Moon Knight a little too much credit after his first encounter with Count Nefaria, in which he held his own </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">really</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> well against a foe way out of his league - but after the events of last issue I really think I jumped the gun on heaping praise on Mr. Spector.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm pretty sure it's part of his character, but Moon Knight is so reckless and out of control that he doesn't even seem to know what the hell he is doing half the time; and that he </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">knows</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> he is outmatched by this villain makes his recklessness all the worse - he is literally putting people's lives at stake.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, don't take this as me saying I no longer like this book: quite the opposite! I just feel like the whole split personality thing may be being overplayed right now. The scenes in which he kits himself out like his alter-brains was a little too much for me, and I feel the 'present' could have used the extra pages taken up by those parts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be disappointed to see such a promising book end but, unless the final issues are something special, it may turn out that Marvel was merely saving Moon Knight from it/himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I was a little off! I don't think Doctor Strange and Hellstrom featured at all last week, in an issue I thought would be devoted to explaining a little more about the supernatural-ness of the event - but it was all the better for it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seeing each characters' personal 'heaven' and see it twisted and distorted to torment the heroes was a masterstroke and pretty much perfectly done - seeing how 'Hell' works in the MarvelU for the first time was quite en enlightening experience for me. The deal brokered with Mephisto (it was Mephisto wasn't it?) was also a suitable, if reasonably predictable, solution to the whole 'dead' thing going on with the good guys, and the resulting 'favour' owed will no doubt fuel future stories with all characters - hopefully not to be misused.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this is the penultimate issue in this month-long event, and I would expect some major action this week with a more 'winding-down' kind of a finale next week - though with my track record for predictions, make of that what you will!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It didn't feel like an awful lot happened in the last <i>Justice League</i>, though Batman did take his mask off which I thought was supremely frivolous of him especially considering Bruce's usual cautious self. It <i>could</i> have made sense, and they really tried to make it seem like an act of trust between new allies, but the threat has never seemed bad enough for the team to need a bonding exercise like that - though that may just be me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Geoff Johns has done his best to make the threat seem massive, but I'm just not feeling it: Darkseid's laser-eyes, for example, were just assumed to be an insta-kill, which I don't remember ever seeing any evidence of...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did like Batman's 'infiltration' of the spaceship/planet/alternate plane/whatever, and that was the only thing to give me a real sense of scale of what was happening, and that has been restricted to a single page so far.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really want to like </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Justice League,</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and there are some really promising parts, but I just think it may be trying </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">too </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hard to be the epic it so wants to be...</span></div>
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<i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dish's Stack is where i talk about the comics i will be buying this week! Judge my taste all you like, but that's what this is! I will normally focus on my thoughts of previous issues and possible developments, but nevertheless be wary of minor (or possibly major) spoilers if you do not keep very up-to-date with series or previews, but I'll do my best not to reveal anything too surprising</i></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">The Infinite Stream </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">is where we post about items that are news-worthy but not necessarily require their own full article. Check after the jump for news from 27/02/2012!</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Just like he promised last week, Junichi Masuda made an announcement on the Japanese TV show </span><i style="line-height: 18px;">Pokemon Sunday - </i><span style="line-height: 18px;">this year will see the release of two (?) direct sequels to </span><i style="line-height: 18px;">Pokemon Black </i><span style="line-height: 18px;">and </span><i style="line-height: 18px;">Pokemon White</i><span style="line-height: 18px;">, which will be, imaginatively, titled <i>Pokemon Black and White 2.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Almost controversially, the game(s) were revealed to be Nintendo DS exclusives, meaning Poké-fans will have to wait for their 3DS-only Pokemon games, but it was hinted that DSi and 3DS owners may be able to take advantage of extra features in the games.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The games will be released in Japan over the Summer, and will reach shops in the West, relatively soon after, in the Autumn (Fall).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Just as comic-book geeks are digging into this week's comic releases, Marvel will apparently be providing us with a new Avengers trailer for desert.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">It doesn't seem that long since the last trailer came out (can't be more than a month or so) but I guess Marvel just don't want this film leaving our thoughts. </span><i style="line-height: 18px;">Entertainment Tonight</i><span style="line-height: 18px;"> have some exclusive backstage footage from the Avengers' sets and, due to Marvel having a history of supplying that particular program with trailers, it seems likely the final trailer for the superhero epic will also be shown.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">And if German Facebook are to be believed, the trailer will be available from iTunes on Wednesday, even if ET <i>don't </i>have it - though I find it hard to believe it would be dropped on iTunes without a proper 'premiere'.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><i>The Avengers</i> is out April 27th or May 4th, depending on where you live - U.K. wins this time America! =)</span></span><br />
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<br />Dishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605097882443928329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980815957059835463.post-6970978362312176812012-02-26T19:19:00.000+00:002012-02-26T20:41:48.338+00:00Adventurer School: Roleplaying tips for Beginners<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everyday people are introduced to the awesome world of Role
Playing Games (of the table top variety), many of these people will have played
so called RPG video games but these often require very little, if any, actual
role playing so it is easy for those people to play their character in a tabletop game the same way. Help is out there on the internet but it can be
difficult to find, especially for people new to the hobby, so today I present
you with <b>5 tips </b>to get you started
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your character isn't just a bunch of numbers and dice rolls,
she has a personality and motivations. It can be easy (especially if you have
little experience) to just concentrate on the mechanics, but this sort of
defeats the purpose of the type of game you are playing. In an RPG you have the
chance to create a whole and completely new identity to assume when
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your character has a personality and motivations, you should know what these are, if only on a
small scale. I find it a good idea to write down about 3 personally traits
about my characters on the character sheet which I can keep referring back to,
it helps me think just how my character would react in different situations. Of
course you can take this much further, but just having a short and clear idea
of how you're character acts is usually enough. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not understanding your character can not only slow the game
down but destroy the suspension of disbelief, pulling everyone out of
character. So this is something you should be considering right after sorting
out all your stats. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you create a new character you will almost certainly
not be making a new born baby<i> - unless you're playing a very strange and
uneventful game of crying and poop -</i> that means your character has had many
years of experience before you took control of her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These experiences shouldn't just be forgotten when she goes
out adventuring, they should affect how she reacts to different situations.
Maybe her parents were killed by Kobolds, so now whenever a chance arises to
kill Kobolds she will drop everything else and go to slaughter. Maybe she still
wants to avenge her parents' murder and tries to get her adventuring group to
help her find the very Kobolds that took her parents from her. The loss of her
parents could have made her tough and headstrong and she finds weakness
disgusting, or maybe she now has a soft spot for sob stories and always wants to
help people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's easy to come up with backgrounds for your characters,
just think of your favourite characters from movies, comic books, video games
and books for inspiration and you will soon have a rich back story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay in character! That needs repeating: <b>Stay in
character! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This often happens when someone doesn't have a clear idea of
who their character is - they end up just acting as themselves all the time
which can lead to a lot of meta gaming (covering that next) and distractions.
It is a good idea to adopt a 'character voice' and a 'passive voice' in order
to differentiate between when your character is speaking and when you are
speaking. This doesn't mean you have to put on a silly voice, but you certainly
can if you want. It just means that when in character you should have a way of
speaking that is different than you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your character may speak very flamboyantly or in short and to-the-point sentences, whatever it is just make sure to be consistent. It
can get very confusing if you're constantly talking in different ways. You
should use your character voice whenever your character is speaking, or making
an action - pretty much anytime you're talking about anything in game! You
should use your passive voice if you have a question for the GM which you can't
ask in character (like a rules question) or you're saying something not relevant
to the game. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meta gaming is out of character thinking being used to
dictate your actions in game. Everyone does it, it is very difficult not to.
After all, as players we will know more about the game than our in game counterparts do, just as they know things about the game world that we don't. But
just because it is easy to do and can often give you an advantage, doesn't mean
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When faced with a decision, stop and think "what would my
character think of this situation?". For example, you and your group have
nearly defeated the big-bad-villain when he suddenly grabs a hostage and uses
him as a shield. A Paladin, the protector of the weak would probably stop his
attack and try to save the hostage, but the more morally grey Rogue would be
more likely to take the risk of killing the hostage in order to defeat the
villain. Neither is the wrong decision, it is simply how that character would
react. Just make sure to know your character and be consistent. Meta gaming
can be very destructive so do your best to lose yourself in your character and
worry less about the rules, that's why there is a GM after all.</span></div>
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that Dragon, don't simply say you "attack the Dragon", explain how
you take a deep breath, gather your courage before charging the dragon with
your sword held high, and plunge the blade deep into its throat. This makes for
a much more exciting time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must admit I am a huge culprit of this one, in fact my
whole gaming group is, personally I blame the power/encounter mechanics of
D&D4E that we are currently playing, the flavour of attacks is so
complicated and encounters take so long you sometimes can't be bothered saying
anything more than I use "Ardent Strike on that Rock Golem". But that
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">With very few car-based exceptions, Pixar films are consistently some of the best around and their latest effort, Brave, already looks like it will reach those lofty standards as the newest snippet below shows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Via <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Blizzard-Free-to-Play-F2P-World-of-Warcraft-Titan,14797.html">TomsHardware</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it seems Nintendo are looking into having video services on the Wii U from the get-go. They are apparently talking to TV stations and music record labels to have their content available for download and streaming on the Wii U - with an alleged focus on sports and music.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To me this seems like a very smart move - ever since the original Playstation you have been able to listen to CDs on home consoles, with technologies gradually getting better to allow both DVDs and blu-rays to be played on the same machine as your videogames. It would be almost suicidal for Nintendo to not be thinking about providing entertainment other than videogames on the Wii U, with Sony and Microsoft both attempting to turn their consoles into the ultimate home entertainment hub.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing official yet, but you can pretty much take this one as a given until told otherwise.</span></div>
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Filesharing: most of us have done it at some point (maybe you have
uTorrent running right now) but that doesn't make us criminals...right? Well, filesharing itself isn't illegal of course, but most of the files that are uploaded/downloaded are. This is a problem that has had a lot of attention lately with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act">SOPA</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act">PIPA</a> Acts in the US. and more recently filesharing has come into the spotlight right here in the UK.</div>
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lot of fire from UK <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/20/pirate-bay-blocked-uk-high-court">courts</a>
this month as many demand for it to be blocked by UK ISP's. The problem people
have is that filesharing is damaging the creative industries such as music, TV
and films. I'm not about to debate if this is true (it is), but I am going to
discuss how forcing ISP's to block websites that are deemed 'illegal' is a terrible
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Any action such as the proposed blocking of The Pirate Bay would be a huge breech of free speech and freedom of
information by taking away the ability to choose which websites we can and can't access. Censorship is just not the answer. First of all, go ahead and block The Pirate Bay or any other of the hundreds of torrent sites, it wouldn't
have much of an effect, because there is just that: hundreds of them, that if shut down, can easily be recreated. All that would be achieved is negative reactions aimed at the government for allowing something like that to happen - which
doesn't benefit anyone except the very people they are trying to stop. The scary thing would be the precedent that would be set by allowing this 'law' to go through - if they can block The Pirate Bay today, what will they try to block tomorrow?</div>
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People will always pirate. It isn't a new thing - from recording songs off the radio to going to a local carboot sale and buying
10 games for £10 for your 'chipped' Playstation, <a href="http://clutch.mtv.com/2011/05/19/photos-somali-pirates-who-look-like-pirates-of-the-caribbean/">piracy</a>
has existed for a long time, and it isn't going to stop just because the
government try to force it to. People will always <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_16816_the-7-most-ingenious-and-insane-smuggling-techniques.html">find
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It is was <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16382648">reported</a> that CD sales
in the UK in 2011 dropped by 13% and piracy was quick to be blamed. However the
same report states that digital download sales rose by a whopping 24%. So even
though many people may be illegally acquiring music, many are willing to
purchase it legally and I bet there are many people out there who would be willing
to pay for their music. Amazon, iTunes and so many other places offer digital
music downloads, but with Apple essentially monopolising the portable music market, not
allowing all file formats on their devices and them restricting what is
downloaded doesn't make legal digital downloads very attractive or convenient.</div>
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industry: until Steam came riding in on its magnificent white horse and saved
the day<b>, </b>the (best) gaming platform
was dying. Now PC gaming is just about as huge as it has ever been, with Steam <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/06/steam-sales-increase-100-percent-for-the-seventh-straight-year/">reporting</a>
a 100% increase in sales for the seventh year in a row(!) and competing platforms and services, such as <a href="http://store.origin.com/store/eaemea/home/">EA's Origin</a> and <a href="http://www.gog.com/">Good Old Games</a>, are popping up all the time.</div>
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Why can't this success be found in other areas? It may be
more difficult in the music industry, what with a serious lack of competition for iTunes, Spotify constantly being fought by record labels, disproportionately high prices etc; but movies and TV shows could benefit greatly from 'proper' digital distribution. Here in the UK, we
have a few services - BBC iPlayer, 4od, Sky player and the newly launched
Netflix. These are certainly not bad services but, let's be fair, our UK show's aren't
exactly the highest pirated things out there - we love what comes from our friends
across the Atlantic! Without piracy many of those shows wouldn't be seen or
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Piracy is mostly about <b>convenience -</b> why wait for that
awesome show from the US to be picked up in the UK, shown on some obscure
channel at a stupid hour when you can just download it? Why wait months after
it's been aired to buy the DVD's for a ridiculous price when you can download it now? Why pay for Raunchy School Babes 4 when you can jus.......you get the idea. </div>
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Instead of trying to fight piracy, Governments and Companies/Organisations should be <i>competing </i>with it - offer us a better, more convenient and <i>legal</i> service, and watch the customers and, more importantly, money come rolling in. It will take some
serious effort and a lot of money to start up (more than it would to force a
law through I'll bet) but developments for the digital age will always be better than a 'patch-up for now' legal fix and has much more potential - both innovation-wise and fiscally.<br />
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is pretty dry in terms of decent movie releases. I’d like to use this as the
excuse for why this column was absent last week, and it was partly due to the
lack of any major releases but also due to some unforeseen work commitments.</span></div>
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the close of February sees only a few worthwhile releases entering our cinemas over
the next few weeks. This could be because of a little thing called the BAFTA's, but sure isn't helped by the re-release of many of last years 'best' films. But if you missed out on some of those “must see” films go check out the listings, you might just be in luck.</span></div>
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comedy trying to re-create the magic and sheer awesomeness that was <i>Mr and Mrs
Smith</i>. Like its predecessors, <i>The Killers</i> and <i>Knight and Day,</i> this film
tries to combine action for the guys with romance for the girls. Unfortunately,
what film makers who copy this idea don’t seem to be able to get is that it was
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spies and best friends find out they are dating the same woman, and then proceed
to embark on a huge competition of one-up-man-ship to prove to the girl who is
truly the better man. Now, call me a
little bit cynical here but having discovered that some girl was playing me off
against my best friend I would be doing my hardest to get my own back
on her and not him. This is the beginning of many unbelievable events
throughout the film, which can clearly be separated it two distinct films: "This
scene is action; and this one romantic". At least, <i>Mr and Mrs Smith</i> attempted to
combine the two genres - pumping the action scenes with sexual tension and the
romantic scenes with guns and violence. Now, Pine makes a reasonable attempt at being
funny but somehow he just doesn’t pull it off and his co-star rival Tom Hardy always
feels like a B-rate actor, always second best. Witherspoon as the two-timing
she-devil however is very believable and whilst she does a good job of the
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in parts, but probably you’ll end up just wishing you’d stayed home spent the
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much about this film until now as it’s been kept pretty quiet, and even
rumours of a straight to DVD release. But that does not mean you should write
it off, remember “Taken”? Starring Amanda Seyfried, this intense thriller looks
like it may be the saving grace of her career after the awful performance she
gave in Red Riding Hood. Here Seyfried plays a girl who returns home to find
her sister abducted, fearing the same serial manic who kidnapped her has
returned she goes to the police. Unfortunately they are less than co-operative
as after her abduction, and eventual escape, no evidence could be found to
prove her story. Thus our heroine grabs a gun and sets out to track down her
missing sister before it’s too late. Whilst no Liam Neeson, Seyfield does an
excellent job of being a badass whilst also being able to show the emotional
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with some well placed twists and turns that are hard to spot. But one would
expect nothing less from the award winning Brazilian filmmaker Heitor Dhalia
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might just save the day and kick start the beginning of March into some good
films. But be warned it isn’t really everybody’s ideal film; it will require
you to think and concentrate to get the most out of it, so if you struggled
with films like Inception or Memento then this probably isn’t for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a classic feel good film
based on the Deborah Moggach novel “These foolish things”, with an all-star
cast of veteran British actors including Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie
Smith. The film tells the story of a group of retirees who flee the UK and head
to the bright lights of India seeking to live out the rest of their lives in
sunny luxury. As we explore the characters and their varied personalities we
see how the country, its people and the Indian way of life changes and affects
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that really does its best to capture the colour and vitality of India, and to a
certain extent it succeeds. The actors portray their characters superbly and
there are so many different types everybody will find somebody to relate to. Unfortunately
its variety is its downfall, and with so many excellent actors in one film they
do tend to overshadow one another. Add on the fact that the plot is very
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Apparently the navigation will be dealt with using head tilts to scroll and click, this stirs up a lot of images of people twitching their heads like some junkie detoxing, but apparently it is easy to learn and almost indistinguishable to outside users. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The glasses will use a low-resolution camera to monitor your surroundings and overlay information about what you are looking at. It will achieve this by interfacing with many of Google's current software, such as Latitude, Google Goggles and Google Maps. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I have no idea how well this will turn out, just like any new piece of technology its first iteration will certainly </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeToy" style="line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">suck</a><span style="line-height: 18px;">. Though it is promising to hear that someone is actually working on this, I'm sure many gamers, geeks and plain old ordinary folks have dream't of having your very own HUD over the really world, well at the end of the year you may very well have just that! Personally I will most likely be waiting a few years until the technology is improved </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The trailer does a good job of introducing each of the characters (though I still don't get why you cant create your own) showing each of them have a badass moment. Personally I like the look of the cyborg ninja guy 'Zero' or the magic wielding Maya. It then goes on to show some game play and show off the environments, it looks very similar to the first game, which certainly isn't a bad thing by any means. It then introduces a tiny bit of the story, it seems some guy is bad and has some kind of big...dragon?? and I suppose your the only one(s) who can help. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">That's right folks, the glorious day has finally come that we can sign up for the beta to <b>Guild Wars 2!</b> </span></span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980815957059835463.post-70251730790057952182012-02-21T22:03:00.000+00:002012-02-21T22:03:37.905+00:00The Infinite Stream 21/02/2012<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdJ4Bz14eoEYXSb9KSCbpswgNUWaVsmpU2lv_xBFwfux1JeLZDOAtr7bIT4sKewX_ym7Th4DzcRWGCWNz6CXEPumEzud8XZMHc_bSfZFERAVhmTwcKs25PB2EnRSo2tOroIu2SMwoIsY/s1600/infinitestream.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="82" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdJ4Bz14eoEYXSb9KSCbpswgNUWaVsmpU2lv_xBFwfux1JeLZDOAtr7bIT4sKewX_ym7Th4DzcRWGCWNz6CXEPumEzud8XZMHc_bSfZFERAVhmTwcKs25PB2EnRSo2tOroIu2SMwoIsY/s200/infinitestream.png" width="200" /></a><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">The Infinite Stream </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">is where we post about items that are news-worthy but not necessarily require their own full article. Check after the jump for news from 21/02/2012!</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For most of last year the world was pretty indifferent to the 3DS despite its potential to be one of the great handheld consoles, and the only attention it seemed to get was based around the price-drop controversy and the resulting Ambassador program. The end of the year however, in Japan at least, the 3DS saw phenomenal sales figures, which were reported at the time but I don't think anyone could have predicted just how big a difference those weeks before Christmas would make to the 3DS' yearly total.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When it was revealed that a full blown orchestra would be touring the world playing music from the series' 25-year history I may have actually fainted. Original dates were invitation and competition-winner only I believe, but a full ticket-tour to follow made up for the disappointment, though dates and locations haven't exactly been coming thick and fast - or outside North America for that matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you can imagine my excitement to see an email in my inbox this afternoon announcing new dates! "Finally!" I thought, "Take my money and give me a ticket". But alas! The new dates, too, are solely located in the USA, so I and all other non- North Americans (not that there are many of us) must continue to wait for our chance...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you who will be in the U.S. this summer (living day-to-day or holidaying), the new dates are as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a conversation with my good friend Scott, I have decided to ween myself off Marvel and DC Comics in the coming months and support some of the other comic publishers, and do my part to support the industry! So I'll be doing some research over the coming weeks/months, and then you can expect to see me writing about Image, IDW, Dark Horse, 2000AD etc. comics, rather than exclusively focusing on the 'Big Two'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But until then, I will carry on my 'mainstream' ways! This week I take a look at <i>Deadpool; Fantastic Four; Superman</i> and more! Read on after the jump!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was only two weeks ago, when I was writing about <i>Deadpool #50, </i>that I was really quite worried that this event wasn't going to be very good, after the debacle that was <i>Deadpool #49.1 </i>But now I have no worries whatsoever that these next couple of months are going to bring some of Deadpool's finest moments (in the mainstream Marvel line anyways). </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought issue #50 was absolutely fantastic - I've never read two comics in a row from a single series that differed in quality quite this much. The setup was done really well, clearly referencing things that had happened in the series previously but it was never confusing despite continuing pretty much (I assume) where issue #49 left off.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Deadpool is </span><strike style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">often seen as</strike><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the lunatic running around the MarvelU, stirring up chaos wherever he sees fit/feels like; but in these early stages of the event he is manipulating people and pulling people's strings like an evil genius - in a great bit of dialogue he tells Hydra Bob, after being accused of not being able to play chess, that he can indeed play the game, he just doesn't know how to play by the rules: the perfect introduction to/summary of Deadpool (no matter what that mess of a 'Point One' issue has to say about it!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This latest <i>Fantastic 4 </i>arc has been, in a word, epic! <i>This</i> is the sort of scale that MarvelU events should try to emulate, and even here things just keep getting bigger!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a plot point not often covered when stories deal with threats just outside the Earth's atmosphere, the planet is being bombarded by the shrapnel and debris of destroyed ships from the space-battle occurring just miles above the surface.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an effort to save the day, Reed and Sue called a certain cosmic entity, to fulfill a promise of aid, and at first Galactus seemed slightly confused as to why he had been called so soon (apparently hundreds of battling spaceships are a triviality to him). But is not long before the true threat that Galactus predicted actually appears, leaving appetites suitably whetted in anticipation for this week's issue.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jonathan Hickman and co. are still knocking this book out of the park every month, so I'm not really looking forward to the end of the arc as anything compared to this will surely feel muted and/or dull - hopefully I'm wrong!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <i>idea</i> of 'Tannarus' was an interesting idea, but I feel like it wasn't played with as much as it could have been and isn't going to last any where near as long as it could have, which would have made it <i>very </i>interesting - what if Tannarus and Thor coexisted for a couple of months? That could have been cool.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But instead the arc is likely to be resolved either this week or in the next issue, and will have been a decent, if lacklustre, 'aftermath' story for 'Fear Itself'. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My problem is that Tannarus doesn't seem to have done an awful lot since his introduction, and the following comics have focused more on Loki trying to figure out what was going on and Thor's attempts to regain his identity - good enough stories on their own, but when combined with eachother <i>and</i> showing snippets of Tannarus' goings-on and the forming of 'Asgardia' by the All-Mothers has made the series very fractious the last couple of months.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel the apparent 'rush' will have been due to Marvel wanting Thor available for the AVX event in Spring and Summer, and for the inevitable movie tie-ins; but I can't help but think how much better this comic could have been this year without a marketing department breathing down the team's necks...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are only halfway through the <i>Venom</i> event, and characters are dropping like flies - I normally try to avoid spoilers but I pretty much can't talk about this event without letting some things slip, so I apologise in advance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the event began I wondered how the writers would manage to fit four character's worth of story into the one event, but even three issues in I already know I shouldn't have worried. X-23 is off doing her own thing; Alejandra (Ghost Rider) is being given difficult choices to make that will, literally, change the face of the Earth; and Red Hulk and Venom have a pretty nice, if subtle, thing going on between them about duty and honour. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the looks of the 'teaser' image in last week's issue, this week's comic is going to focus more on the sideline characters - Jonny Blaze, Doctor Strange and Daimon Hellstrom - though at this point I really couldn't guess quite how the series is going to play out for the final three issues: Just the way I like it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being new to Aquaman mythos, I know pretty much nothing about Mera, his girlfriend(?), so that this next issue seems to have a great deal of her in it is pretty good for me, and anyone else who jumped on at issue #1 of the New 52 reboot. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last issue alluded to her past in the form of dehydration-hallucinations Aquaman suffered while in the desert, suggesting she has some sort of dark secret and may not be as she appears - a loyal partner. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also introduced last month was the premise of the new arc, which I reckon could last quite a long time - it certainly has the potential to do so. A mysterious object was found among the 'wreckage' of the trench of the carnivorous sea creatures from the first four issues, and it was releasing a deafening sound that turned out to be a kind of hologram message when submerged in (Atlantean?) water. The message was from the fall of Atlantis, and it seems the coming months will see Aquaman attempt to solve the mystery of just who could cause such an advanced civilisation to disappear into myth and legend...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forgive the pun, but I felt like last month's <i>The Flash</i> was a little bit rushed - almost like there wasn't quite enough material to fill a whole comic. I feel like the arc would have been improved if they had figured out a way to make it only four issues, but it was a good story nonetheless and being 'too long' isn't (usually) too terrible a complaint. I also felt the resolution and aftermath with 'Mob Rule' was a little odd and, unless I had completely misinterpreted what exactly Manuel was hoping for, I think a lot of readers will feel the same.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so begins a new arc in issue #6! A nice villain is here to torment Fla- sorry... An ice villain is introduced in this week's issue as Barry attempts to solve a mystery murder over a century old! Apparently we will learn more about the Central and Keystone cities, though just how interesting or relevant this proves to be remains to be seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last <i>Superman</i> was a bit of an odd one if I'm being honest - Supes appeared to be losing his mind, turning into a <i>Punisher-</i>style vigilante and killing all those who had wronged the city of Metropolis, only doing it with superpowers, and the city had no idea how to stop him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a cool idea showing villains who will, presumably, be showing up in <i>Action Comics</i> over the coming months but it was a little jarring seeing these characters and hearing about these plot-points that had <i>happened</i> but hadn't been shown yet, though I bet the payoff in <i>Action Comics</i> will be nice enough when they get around to showing us what happened.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ending of last month's issue was also slightly ambiguous, but I'm not sure it was supposed to be. This will likely be resolved very early on in the new issue, but I still thought it was a sloppy way to end the comic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite this, if what I think has happened has happened, then this week's issue could be a very fun one - especially for fans of he Christopher Reeve films...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arash Amel is set to write a follow-up film that, according to <a href="http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/warner-bros-plans-more-i-am-legend/">Deadline Staten Island</a>, will not be a prequel and so, you would think, only offers a slim hope that Robert Neville, Will Smith's character, will return. However, with Smith consistently being one of Hollywood's biggest box office draws of the last decade or so, you would think Warner Bros. would be desperate to have him in the film, no matter how ludicrous the explanation....aaaaand it seems like this <i>is </i>the case. Will Smith has said he won't sign onto the sequel until he has seen a finished script, but I'm sure Warner's will make every effort to ensure he appears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I quite liked <i>I Am Legen</i>d, it had some good moments, but it was by no means a classic and shoe-horning a sequel into the IP seems like a pretty strange move, despite the first making so much money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Valve head-honcho Gabe Newell has revealed in an interview with Penny Arcade that he would consider developing and releasing a home-console "if they had to".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He sees the need to develop and innovate gaming continuously as being of utmost importance, and if no-one else were doing it, he said he and his company would be willing to take up the torch. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF81goCnDiWKj5kYActfolXsvgIQXH8dh00Gmbd4U-pnGi-LzePQxQ9PELPiWR3degDNQNTJDlUtRLSYcG6Z2fyFPpn5k9zPbv4stbPHqNSnPshfqTELHBGwStaSz7o-iwPSELmRf8W_7i/s1600/ValveHead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF81goCnDiWKj5kYActfolXsvgIQXH8dh00Gmbd4U-pnGi-LzePQxQ9PELPiWR3degDNQNTJDlUtRLSYcG6Z2fyFPpn5k9zPbv4stbPHqNSnPshfqTELHBGwStaSz7o-iwPSELmRf8W_7i/s1600/ValveHead.jpg" /></a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We have no reason to believe we're any good at it, it's more we think that we need to continue to have innovation and if the only way to get these kind of projects started is by us d</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">oing and developing and selling the hardware directly then that's what we'll do."</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So don't go holding your breath for seeing <i>Steam: Living Room Edition</i> any time soon, but it is encouraging that should Sony and/or Microsoft die a console death (Nintendo is going to be around forever) that there is someone willing to pick up the slack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Via <a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/valve-wed-consider-making-hardware-1064790">TechRadar</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dragon Age had one; so did Assassin's Creed; and Dead Space had it's anime. So after years of rumours and speculation of a Hollywood film, is <i>Grand Theft Auto</i> finally getting a video series? If trademarks filed by Take-Two are any indication, that answer could be "yes!".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'GTA TV' and 'Rockstar TV' have been trademarked in the U.S. and could reveal intentions to make and release separate video content based on the best-selling criminal sandbox series. The 'Rockstar TV' trademark is also interesting in that it could suggest that there could be other series developed around other Rockstar properties such as <i>Red Dead Redemption, LA Noire, or Max Payne.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obviously the registering could mean no more than Take-Two thinking they need to protect their properties, but the gaming-scene is developing into a multi-media industry with books, comics, soundtracks and video series from other publishers providing additional revenue streams, it would make sense for one of the most popular (never mind one of the best written and most <i>suitable</i> for video accompaniment) videogame series to get some sort of non-interactive tie-in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Via <a href="http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1252347/gta_tv_and_rockstar_tv_trademarked_by_taketwo.html">NowGamer</a>)</span></div>Dishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605097882443928329noreply@blogger.com0