Brian K. Vaughn Adapting Stephen King’s ‘Under the Dome’ For Showtime.
Brian K. Vaughn wrote some of my favorite episodes of LOST, but more important to most is that he is the writer behind Y: The Last Man. He can script with the fervor, thunder, et cetera. It is this thunder he’ll hopefully bring to his forthcoming Stephen King adaptation.
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PETA Claims ‘Battlefield 3’ Will Turn You Into Animal Murderer. Oh C’mon Now.
You have to hand it to PETA. Somehow a group that is designed to protect animals generally comes off like unbearably pious pricks. That’s difficult. From what I’ve gathered via the news reports, there’s a moment of Battlefield 3 when you kill a rat. PETA has come to the obvious conclusion that this will turn us into animal-destroying blood drinks.
The CIA Uses Social Media To Track How The World Feels.
Who the fuck needs spies, when you have social media? The CIA uses the various interlacings of our internet lives to track the moods and vibes of the world. Scanning and analyzing data and composing a view of which group of us is about to wile out.
Asteroid Close Encounter Tonight! Bruce Willis On Standby.
We’re getting fucking buzzed tonight! I’m not talking the alcoholic-tinged pukey sense. I’m talking there’s an asteroid coming! Meet YU55. It’s a 1,300 foot piece of space refuse, and it’ll be coming closer to us than the moon.
The end (isn’t) nigh!
NASA: We’ve Discovered Something Completely New On Mars.
Manchu WoW: Pandaria, 5.0, and Where World of Warcraft is Now
Did you look as confused as I and my friend Kiki here did when Blizzard unveiled World of Warcraft‘s fourth expansion at Blizzcon last month?
Blizzard’s golden child is going into its eighth year, and Mists of Pandaria is the game’s early, bi-curious, bipolar adolescence, rife with identity crises and plenty of confusion about its future and its present.
Pandaria and the future of WoW, however, have real, hidden meat (#unnecessary) that the average or even relatively-savvy player can’t see unless they frequent Blizzard news posts or community chat.
Unless you’re an insane WoW addict like me or my kind, you don’t do that and can’t be expected to; your barometer on the wildly successful MMO is whatever Blizzard’s handsome devil of a mouthpiece (and resident head of creative, Chris Metzen) dishes out every year on stage to a convention hall packed with nerds, later carved into bite-size youtube clips.
So what’d we get this year?
Bamboo-stic, panda-rife, Asian-stir-fried nonsense in place of a genuine, thrilling tease for a new expansion, one that’s been conceptualized and billed as a return to almighty WAR in a game that’s largely been lacking it for years.
The reveal smacked of something less timely than Blizzard’s usual spectacles. It almost seemed like the company — which, let’s get real, has just about the greatest track record in game development, ever? — was unaware that its greatest threat is coming on December 20th of this very year.
Rumor: Next Xbox Codenamed ‘Loop’, Running On Windows 9.
I’ve said it before, but I love the lifespan of his console generation. No new hardware to buy! Titles upon titles. It’s been a fruitful five years. Yet, nothing gold can stay. We have ourselves some Next Xbox rumors afoot.
Used and Digital Sales Make Up 35% Of US Console Spending.
US gamers are like US anything – we like our shit cheap and easy. This explains why 35% of our console spending is on titles that are either used, or digitally accessible.
Scientists Have Created ‘Cyborg Yeast’. The Robots Have Invaded Even Our Mead.
Welcome to the future, where we spend our time interfacing with yeast. It isn’t a classy job, but some futurist has got to do it.
Monday Morning Commute: Wartribe Anthem
Ahoy! How goes it, bros and babes of the OL Nation? It’s been awhile since I’ve danced aboard this burning ship of nerd-revelry, as I’ve needed some time off to lick the wounds inflicted during my stint as the OCTOBERFEAST emcee. But alas, I’ve returned to the command center, eager to help Caffeine Powered steer this conflagration-barge right into the hearts of the willing.
Whether its pounding in your chest or blackened by loss or fluttering amorously, we want you to open your hearts to the Omega Level. So come on, don’t just stand there! Hop aboard! ALL HANDS ON DECK!
This here’s the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE, the weekly salvation-via-distraction show and tell feature. The fact of the matter is that the workweek sucks – we kill ourselves at jobs that date rape our spirits and then can’t even be bothered to drive `em home in the morning.
How uncouth.
To thwart forty-hours’ worth of ruin, we’ll take turns showcasing the bits of entertainment we use to ensure our souls’ chastity. I’ll go first, then ya’ll can hit up the comments sections and follow suit.
All together now.
