Posted in: Dare to Play the Game, News and Opinions by Michael Durr on May 2nd, 2007
Halo 3 grublings, A fine Wine, & Centipede - Welcome to the column that earns its living as a backup to the Tequila worm known as Dare to Play the Game.
Welcome to another edition of Dare to Play the Game. My air conditioning busted on Saturday and my house got up to 82..83 at one point. Thank goodness it wasn't the summer yet but it wasn't fun either. I took quite a few cold showers so I could store up my energy. I also went out on Saturday night, by myself and spent m...
Posted in: Highly Defined, News and Opinions by Archive Authors on April 30th, 2007
And how did you spend YOUR NFL Draft weekend?
This seems to be a week where things just aren’t happening news wise (granted, the $299 HD-DVD player remark was clarified to be a little vaguer this week, but that’s about it), but there’s some fun things on the disc release front, most of it for Blu-Ray fans. Sony pimps out The Patriot, Wild Things and Flatliners on 7/3. Lion’s Gate puts Season Two of Weeds out on 7/24, and Waiting comes out one week prior. Warner will be rel...
Posted in: Brain Blasters, News and Opinions by David Annandale on April 27th, 2007
Complaining about remakes is a lazy, fish-in-the-barrel sport. Any scribe can and has done it, especially, one suspects, when ideas are otherwise running low. But remakes are on my mind thanks to a recent encounter with a particularly bad one, so screw it, I'm ruminating.
Received wisdom posits that remakes are inherently a bad thing, on a par with sequels (but even more morally suspect, depending on the quality of the original film), and a sign of creative stagnation in the film industry. This is true as f...
Posted in: Dare to Play the Game, News and Opinions by Michael Durr on April 25th, 2007
Panzer Dragoon Orta on 360, Pinball Live style and a GTA Lawsuit dropped - Welcome to the column that is compatible on Colecovision's and Apple IIc’s but not the Odyssey known as Dare to Play the Game.
Welcome to another edition of Dare to Play the Game. In addition to redheads, I realized this week I have a thing for Eastern European accents. My mom was born in Poland but to be truthful, her accent is rather Americanized. My grandmother (bless her soul, may she rest in ...
Posted in: Highly Defined, News and Opinions by Archive Authors on April 23rd, 2007
Apologies to all last week for the postponement of last week’s column. As one who has a personal interest in the activities surrounding Virginia Tech, I had a lot more on my plate to digest. Anyway, onward and upward in the next generation news and opinion.
Several big things have happened over the course of the last couple of weeks, the first being Samsung’s announcement of their own hybrid player. Like the current LG player, it will play both formats, unlike the LG player, it will support HDi, which is go...
Posted in: Brain Blasters, News and Opinions by David Annandale on April 20th, 2007
The horror film’s energy seems to move in cyclical patterns from country to country. At different points of the genre’s history, the best work tends to cluster geographically. I admit that my evidence for this is rather anecdotal, but let’s look at the patterns.
France is where it all begins, with Georges Méliès creating the first horror movies in 1896. The genre is, admittedly, in very embryonic form at this stage, but in the early years of the 20th Century, this is where the action is. The American film i...
Posted in: Dare to Play the Game, News and Opinions by Michael Durr on April 18th, 2007
More Space for your PS3, Putting your XBLA, & OutRun Til You Drop - Welcome to the column that promises to bring you 11,796 more bytes known as Dare to Play the Game.
Welcome to another edition of Dare to Play the Game. I'm glad your back, whoever you are. My honest hope is that you are a 5'4 redheaded girl who likes to watch movies and play video games. I'm picky I know. And call me. Some weeks, I just think I float in space until friday and then I think I wake up for...
Posted in: Highly Defined, News and Opinions by Archive Authors on April 16th, 2007
Sorry guys, in between starting a new job today and the news ongoing at Virginia Tech, I'm busy trying to find out what's going on at a school I'm very familiar with. Back with more news and updates next week.
Posted in: Brain Blasters, News and Opinions by David Annandale on April 13th, 2007
Before anything else, some housecleaning. In my piece on BluRay and HD-DVD some time ago, I quoted Video Watchdog as saying the BluRay machines would not be backwards compatible. This has turned out, of course, to be inaccurate. Video Watchdog printed its correction, and I now follow suit.
Right, then. So, after a disappointing opening at the box office, the first reports about how Grindhouse will appear on DVD have surfaced, and that’s all the excuse I need to talk about the film again...
Posted in: Dare to Play the Game, News and Opinions by Michael Durr on April 11th, 2007
Confessions (of a WoW addict) part 2, Xbox Spring Dashboard update and Jam! - Welcome to the column that lays bricks like nobody’s business known as Dare to Play the Game.
Welcome to another edition of Dare to Play the Game. I didn’t do much this weekend, you hardly knew a holiday was passing through. I was going to see Grindhouse but the super awesome girl that I wanted to go out with was called out to work at the last moment. I try, I try. But...
