Blizzard job posting points at more ‘Diablo 3’ content coming

Not particularly news, is it? Blizzard wanting to keep churning out content for a cash cow (world) like Diablo? But I suppose it’s reassuring confirmation to those who are dying for more from the franchise.

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Ernie Cline (‘Ready Player One’) is writing third sci-fi novel; has signed enormous deal for publication rights

Ernie Cline.

Ernie Cline is not a good writer. RPO was a decent, enjoyable pastiche. I read the description for Armada and laughed out loud. And yet despite both of those bullshit notes, I’m glad he’s making bank off of his cheap peddling of 1980s nerd nostalgia. ‘Cause that’s pretty much what I wish I was doing in life.

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‘Contra’ Arcade Ad from 1987 is about the important things in life

Google creates new parent company, “Alphabet”

Alphabet.

Google has evolved, folks. The SkyNet creating, immortality seeking, data devouring nightmare machine (and producer of really neat products, and a sweet search engine) has created a new parent company to oversee all of its machinations. Called Alphabet.

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‘Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst’ Gameplay Trailer: DystopianFuturoParkourTime

‘Daredevil’ Season 2 Set Photos: Jon Bernthal’s Punisher does Punishing

Punisher.

Want some looks at Jon Bernthal’s Punisher? Punishing? After the jump.

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New ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Set Photo: Angel runs the Fight Club

#eastberlin #1982 #fightclub #benhardy #angel #xmen #xmenapocalypse

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New ‘The Hateful Eight’ Poster: Bloodshed & Snowfall

Monday Morning Commute: The Red Planet Was A Promise Broken

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The Red Planet was a promise broken. I don’t know, half-baked phrases that wiggle up out of the sludge of my brain. Dying on the shores of over-caffeination, lack of self-esteem, and attention deficit disorder. Never to evolve past their primordial stage. Never to take shape as anything other than a “hey, that may be neat to write about.” At least not in the last few years. Who knows. Maybe with a new home, my own room, and a distinct desire to create something, I’ll get beyond the “concepts generated while taking a crap-taking a drive-taking a shower” stage of my (lack of) creativity.

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Netflix’s upcoming Dystopian Show is called 3%, developed entirely in Brazil

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Netflix has itself an upcoming Dystopian show titled 3%. And the show, which is being developed entirely in Brazil, is aiming to stimulate all of my anarcho-rebellious glands.

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