Archive for February, 2007
The Ettatorial for the Week of 2-21-07
Well, while a big week of releases, nothing truly stood out. And even though I’m loathe to just put a book as my pick of the week, this one partially feels like that’s just what I’m doing. My pick of the week this week is Civil War #7, the final issue of the [...]
Bruce Lee rules
Justice League of America movie announced
Settle down already. This is very likely going nowhere:
Warner Bros. is aiming to make comic-book geeks around the world pee their pants. They have hired a team of writers to script a live-action feature film which will include most of DC Comics superhero line-up: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash, and more.
Kiernan and Michele [...]
First screenshots of Wing Commander Arena
Yesterday I mentioned that EA was releasing a new Wing Commander game. Now just 24 hours later, the first screens have shown up online. I’d say it looks pretty decent, remember, this is an Xbox Live Arcade title. Click through for more screens.
WCNews.com
Xbox fanboy is full of crap. Or an idiot
From the Article:
Of the seven failed machines, three were ones he used personally and four were in the game center. Even one of the replacements failed. He said that all of the machines were within sight of the counter and that no one ever spilled anything on them.
“Nobody pounded them with hammers,” he said.
“We’ll sell [...]
New Wing Commander for Xbox Live Arcade
Not much info yet, but EA has announced a new game in the Wing Commander series for Xbox Live Arcade:
Wing Commander Arena is a fast-paced space combat game where players can team up to attack other teams of ships. The game introduces the classic franchise to an arcade-style experience that allows up to 16 players [...]
Daily Flickr
I don’t know why, but I have always loved trains. The aura and mystique of transportation from a simpler time has always appealed to me. This shot captures that perfectly.
Zeroes
Eleven year old boy jailed for shooting a ‘deadly’ missile (aka: slingshot)
After spending nearly 72 hours in an Ocala juvenile jail, the 11-year-old Lake County boy detained for his ‘deadly’ makeshift slingshot returned home to his parents Tuesday night.
Kevin Cottle said he didn’t deliberately try to hit another student at Tavares Middle School with his home-made slingshot.
‘I wasn’t trying to hit him. It was an accident [...]
Nintendo Wii tops January console sales
Unsurprisingly the Wii continued to have huge numbers in January despite still being nearly impossible to find. What is surprising is how poor the PS3 did, despite being relatively easy to find.
Sales of the Nintendo console came in at 436,000 units, followed by Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 at 294,000 units, and Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 [...]
