This is just insane... Video games soon as big an advertising medium as television? We PAY for our video games! We don't WANT commericals popping up when we pause the game!
Quote:Earlier this morning, there came reports of John Woo optioning a film based off of the popular Nintendo franchise, Metroid. This is only one other major step in his involvement within the videogame industry since he is already knee deep in three original titles yet to be revealed at his own Tiger Hill development studio.
"We are very fortunate that there is such an extensive amount of material to draw upon for the film due to there being so many iterations of the game over the years," Woo said.
The film will reportedly center on Samus Aran's origins and her action-packed battles with the Metroids and Mother Brain.
"We have to assume the mainstream audience is unfamiliar with the property," said Brad Foxhoven, who also serves as a producer. "As for the rest of the film, we will stay true to the game and have Samus battling the Metroids and Mother Brain in a fight for control of the galaxy."
Producers Warren Zide and Craig Perry once optioned the film rights back in January of 2003 but has since let them expire. John Woo's Tiger Hill leaped at their first possible chance.
On a seperate note, Nintendo is all set to unveil the eighth Metroid title, tentatively known as Metroid Prime 2 during this year's E3 on May 11th. The game will be shipped to the GameCube in November. (als)
Source: GameSpot; Yahoo! News
I'm a huge fan of John Woo's Hong Kong work but he hasn't made a good movie since 1992's Hard Boiled, so I'm not as thrilled as I would be if this were the early 90's.
Quote:Quentin Tarintino will write and produce an animated prequel to his 4th movie, Kill Bill. The prequel will be drawn in "Japanese manga style" and will be animated by Production I.G. The film will "focus on the three men - pimp Estebian Vihaio and martial arts masters Hattori Hanzo and Pei Mai - who turned Bill into a ruthless killer."
It's being done by the guys who did the anime part of Kill Bill vol.1 and the Ghost in the Shell anime, so I'm definitely looking forward to it.
I'm watching the local news, who knows why, and their top story is a "for the people" piece about a crosswalk with no crossing guard near a local school. Honestly, has it been reduced to this? A minor "problem" that countless schools have?
So, I made this thread. This thread is a CELEBRATION of the mediocrity of local news! Post your favorite utterly pointless news story from your local area here!
Wee. Okay so it's nothing special, but it might be our first peak at a new Zelda game so I'm very excited. If this is real I'm glad they're still using the water aspect of the game as if improved upon could be really amazing (even though I still loved it in WW). I just hope they improve the water effects.
When you get too caught up in chasing women around, working a job and trying to do 10,000 things at once, sometimes, you forget who you used to be, or in this case, really are.
I have to admit, during this time, I got away from playing video games. I didn't have the desire to play them, despite everything I invested in them I kept buying games, just kept most of them in the shrink wrap and never got around to them. When I wasn't sexing some woman, have my nose buried in some book or working at troubleshooting someone's network. I certainly wasn't holding a controller in my hand.
It wasn't until one day, I was playing Mario Kart Double Dash with my daughter was when I had this little revelation. She beat me. A 7 year old beat me. Now, this is no ordinary 7 year old (she is my daughter after all, and I did buy her Gamecube and N64), but for her to beat me at Mario Kart Double Dash????
AW HELL NAW! :mariowin:
I whooped her ass and she didn't win a game afgterwards. Afterwards she attacked me and tried to take my controller away from me. LOL I'm competitive as hell, and she gets it from me, so I knew she was pissed :D. But I learned a valuable lesson that day: never stray too far from the roots that gave you good in life. :D
You can view a gallery of them over here, but unfortunately you need to register a Nintendo game in Europe in order to get them... legally. If anyone wants to know how you can still get them if you don't live in Europe, just send me an e-mail. Right now I'm using the very cool Zelda theme, but there are tons to choose from.
If only you had XP ABF, you could get this super keen ED theme:
They're easy to do! Just search 'posts' under your username in a forum, and copy the number down.
Tendo City-46 posts
Ramble City-492 posts
Multiconsole City-12 posts
Debate Forum-152 posts
Star Wars WOOO!-18 posts
Which gives me a total of 720 of the 45, 669 posts on the immediate forums. (I have 18 posts in other ones, mainly, Emulation District).
Furthermore, I have approximatly 0.0157 % of all posts (in the immediate forums) and on average since these forums opened. And, according to my profile, I post 1.17 times per day, but according to the day that these forums first opened (Jan. 3, 2003, the day the very first post made in TC was) then my posts/day is more like 1.50.
And, new stat that I forgot. I've started 34 threads, with "Favourite Movie Trilogies" garnering the most replies...165.
This is the most boring Saturday of my life. :hmm:
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