#September2011
Star Wars: The Old Republic Gets Release Date, My Winter Break Gets Meaning.
So I was legitimately bummed that Diablo 3 had been pushed back into 2012. Big time! Emptiness. I should have known better. But I must cheer up! It seems that another title that I have anticipated (while something sludging it on the website, because I fear it won’t be good) will be dropping round around Christmas time. Star Wars: The Old Republic, say hello!
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Friday Brew Review – Autumnation
James Taylor once penned a tune called Country Road. I’m not exactly sure that it was Taylor’s intention, but when I hear Country Road I can’t help but imagine myself walking through an apple orchard in the heart of autumn. Perhaps I’m some sort of modern day Johnny Appleseed, walking along a deserted October highway and handing out smartphones to indigent children. “Help us, Techno-Papa, help us! We want to download apps and steal music and message our friends in Vietnam! We’re tired of burning these orange leaves to make smoke-signals! Techno-Papa, we need you!”
And I’ll look at these children, plagued by rickets and smiling their Pepsi-stained smiles, and I’ll deliver. Against the backdrop of autumn, decay and decrepitude as beautiful and wondrous, I’ll hand these diseased scamps the modern-magic they need to survive.
Or, at the very least, to die with smiles on their faces.
Is this what James Taylor thought of when he wrote Country Road? Probably not. But the motherfucker spent so many years on heroin, I wouldn’t rule it out.
Tonight, I’m celebrating dragon-chasin’ pop-song daydreams of autumnal techno-wizardry. It feels good, real good, but it’s parching me out. So it looks like I’m washing these dope-sick delusions down with a cold can of Autumnation.
Artist Daniel Acuña Joins Bendis On ‘Avengers’. Crap, Now I Have To Buy It.
I don’t read none of them Avengers books. Don’t like them. Don’t care about them. Marvel knows this, and they aren’t playing fair. They’re adding Daniel Acuña to Avengers proper starting with issue #18, and his artwork is enough to get me to buy the rag.
Hit the jump for a preview of his premiere issue. It’s sexy.
‘Ghostbusters’ Returning For Three Nights In October. Pants Covered In Ectoplasm.
Last week it was revealed that Ghostbusters was going to be getting a limited re-release in theaters. Well, now we know when.
Press Start!: Suck Your D**k For A Diablo 3 Beta Invite.
Man, I have to write myself a new edition of Press Start. Harumph! I haven’t written one in a few weeks. Out of a lack of a time, out of a lack of interest. Combine those two and you can almost hear Hegel groan under the power of his dialectic! Shazam! Synthesize. Out of the opposite of those two comes! New column! Press Start! Five things that caught my eye in gaming this week.
The joke! Of course! I’ve been too busy to really come across anything. I mean fuck man, I have an unopened copy of Gears of War 3 sitting in my car. I haven’t even brought that shit in yet. Since Tuesday. I am not elite. I am not select. Definitely not worthy of considering spelling my name using numbers and the what-not.
So let’s go exploring the internet together!
Blockbuster Reveals ‘Movie Pass’, $10/Month Netflix Streaming Competitor.
Netflix has fallen into mud fucking quickly. Shitty pricing plans. Splitting the physical side of the service into the laughably named Qwikster. Perhaps this is the moment Blockbuster has been waiting for, revealing their unambitiously named ‘Movie Pass’ service.
‘Uncharted’ Originally Had Tolkien-esque Elements. Bullet Dodged!
I love me some Uncharted. Like, love me. I love me some Lord of the Rings. Originally these two beauties were going to collide in the original premise of Uncharted. It never happened, gritty grunting shooters causing Sony to demand “realistic” games, whatever that means.
Such did not pass!
80 Year-Old Lady Arrested For Dealin’ Crack. Again. Gotta Stay On Her Grind.
It’s a rough life, stayin’ on your hustle. Take Ola Mae. 80 year-old crack dealer. This story runs the gauntlet: horrible, hilarious, surreal, absurd, a condemnation of us as a society and how we treat our elderly.
Facebook Getting Hulu Integration, Meet Facehulu. (Didn’t Make That Up.)
Facebook is endeavoring to integrate everything ever into it. The latest application to be swallowed whole and reappropriated within the confines of the Social Network Juggernaut is Hulu. Now you can watch all those episodes of Glee with fellow Gleeks without having to navigate out of your Gleeky chat.
Game of Thrones Creator Praises Marvel For Killing Characters. Not The Same At All, George.
I love George R. R. Martin. He brought me one of my favorite artistic wankeries in years, in the form of both the Game of Thrones books and television shows. So I respect the man. Yet it’s a bit off. He praises Marvel for killing off important characters, while failing to notice and important comic book trope that undercuts everything.
