A lot has been said recently about the “Record Profits” of the oil industry. Words like “Price Gauging” and “Insane Profits” fall from the lips of would be pundits all over the Internet. what I would like to do today is show you that Exxon Mobil is not the big bad profiteering company many people…
Month: February 2008
Two New Items Coming to the Wii Menu System
The Nintendo Wii has been a raging success. Everyone is buying the console and if you don’t get to the store when they come in you just can not buy one.Just the other day I was taking a break at work when one of the guys i worked with started talking about the Wii. He…
Nintendo Announces Two Wii Ware Titles
Now that the Nintendo Wii Ware program has been given a release date in the US (May 12, 2008) Nintendo is beginning to tell us about what sort of titles we will see there. Currently two titles have been announced:Square Enix is creating FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES: My Life as a King, a simulation game…
Vollee Brings ‘Second Life’ to Mobile
SAN FRANCISCO –(Business Wire)– Feb. 18, 2008 The Second Life(R) experience is coming to mobile. The 3D virtual world platform, created by Linden Lab(R) will soon be available on 3G handsets via Vollee’s streaming mobile games service. Beta trials for Vollee’s new mobile offering for the Second Life Grid platform (an inter-connected platform which extends…
Movie Review: Freedom Writers
Freedom Writers is a non-fiction movie about a teacher who inspires her at-risk students to greatness. The Netflix jacket has a little bit more information on it but that is all that you need to know now.Starring Hilary Swank as Erin Gruwell this movie is set in the inner city. Gruwell is a new teacher…
Game Review: Bulp!
I tend to look at older games with a bit of nostalgia, although there are some that simply make me nauseous at the very thought of them. Waterworks is one of those games; it has brought joy to many – but never to me, and I got rid of the game long ago. When I…
Movie Review: Stardust
>When this movie came in the mail (Netflix.com) I had no idea what to expect. All I knew was that it was over two hours long. My wife picked it out in part because of the big name actors (Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer) in the cast. tonight we watched it.Deep in the countryside…
Super Smash Bros. Tournament Dates
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 13, 2008 – Attention all Smash fans: Put up your dukes! Just before the launch of the much-anticipated Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario and friends are hosting four regional Wii tournaments. The competitions will visit Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and finally New York for a Midnight Madness Launch event at the…
Game Review: Power and Weakness
In my search for Power and Weakness (JKLM Games and FRED, 2007 – Andreas Steding), I noticed that it’s the only game with the word “weakness” in the title. Yes, that’s not an interesting fact, but really – the game gave off this air of incredible boredom that resonated from the medieval artwork to the…
Guitar Hero Goes Handheld
One of the biggest hits of Christmas ’07 has to be Guitar Hero III. Today the battle persists between the Guitar Hero franchise and the newcomer Rockband. Guitar Hero just got a leg up in the battle because toy maker Basic Fun will be launching a handheld version of the game at the International Toy…
The Dragonlance Movie or Butchering My Childhood Memories
>A few years ago someone finally made a Dungeons and Dragons movie. It was bad. A little while later someone made a sequel to that movie. It was so bad only one actor returned. I knew those movies would be bad but I hoped they would be bad in a good way. When I heard…
This is just wrong
I was out shopping with my daughter today and I ran into this in the toy store. The Han Solo Torture set?What the heck is Hasbro thinking these days? Putting the poor guy in carbonite (that was a whole play set) was bad enough but now this?Look at his face, it looks like he is…