Monthly Archives: February 2011

Star Wars Last Supper Shoot

by Franky Branckaute
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Star Wars Last Supper Shoot

I just recently did a Star Wars photoshoot in Central GA with the 501st Legion and some amazing models and wanted to submit my blog that shows some of my favorites for your site and would love to get in the magazine! I am planning a larger scale shoot mid year that will hopefully include sets and such but this one turned out really well. It’s making waves over the internet- just do a search for Star Wars Robin Cook and you’ll see TONS of links such as It’s gone worldwide viral on twitter and every blog including IMDB and geekologie and USA Today and buzzfeed and so much more!!! Read more »

Battlefield 3 Coming Fall 2011

by Robin Parrish
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Battlefield 3 Coming Fall 2011

EA Games and DICE Studios have challenged Activision’s Call of Duty juggernaut by making a long-awaited announcement: Battlefield 3 is coming, marking the first true sequel in the series since 2005′s Battlefield 2. DICE’s next-generation game engine, dubbed “Frostbite 2,” is powering the new first-person-shooter, and the developer is promising cutting-edge visuals with “earth-shattering destruction” and remarkably realistic combat. Battlefield 3 of course includes multiplayer (with up to 64 players on PC), as well as a full single-player and co-op campaign. DICE says that plenty of fan-favorite features including jets and prone positioning will return in this new entry. The new Battlefield 3 website describes the gameplay better than I can: Read more »

Seeing Through A Single Eye

by Darren Burr
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Seeing Through A Single Eye

I would be remiss if I didn’t bring Archaia’s Cyclops to your attention. As the tagline says, it’s brought to you by the creative team of ‘The Killer’, but although I heard good things about series I missed it. So the team of Matz and Luc Jacamon is new for me. The premise of the story is that a successful young man finds it surprisingly difficult to get a job, and gets hired by the first successful company to tender for international peace-keeping services. The company subsidises its services by providing a nearly real-time video feed of the action to all the networks interested worldwide. As you can imagine, the Read more »

Etsy Find: Geeky Crayons

by Noemi Twigg
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Etsy Find: Geeky Crayons

You have got to love sites like Etsy, which provide an outlet for people to express their geekiness creativity and allow them to make money while they’re at it. While some things may tend to be on the pricey side, I do like to check out Etsy for interesting stuff. Here’s something worth your while. As the guy who submitted the link to Reddit said, “If you love Star Wars and you have children, you practically owe it to them to buy these.” These Star Wars Crayons may be the ones that got my attention in the first place, but after browsing through the shop, I found some other cool Read more »

Dawn of the “Zombie-Survival” Genre

by Robin Parrish
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Dawn of the “Zombie-Survival” Genre

Didn’t you know? Zombies are the new vampires. Gamers have fought zombies ad nauseum for the last few years in games like Left 4 Dead and its sequel, and zombie-themed expansion packs for games like Call of Duty: World at War and Red Dead Redemption. Even the hero in the Dead Space games battles a futuristic version of the reanimated dead. And let’s not forget the casual title mega-hit Plants vs. Zombies. So why is Microsoft Game Studios publishing yet another zombie-themed game, exclusively for Xbox 360? Because this one is unlike anything you’ve played before. Developer Undead Labs was formed with the intention of creating the world’s first zombie apocalypse MMO. While the Read more »

25 Years of Pixar

by Robin Parrish
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25 Years of Pixar

Today, the world’s greatest animation studio turns 25 years old. I know — I can’t believe it either. Naturally, this milestone cannot be allowed to pass by without celebration. So put “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” on repeat, because we’re going to take a trip into the past, present, and future of Pixar Animation Studios. 1979 Believe it or not, it started with George Lucas. Before there was a Pixar Animation Studios, there was The Graphics Group, which comprised a full third of the computer-generated-imagery unit at Lucasfilm. The Graphics Group produced the first CGI effects ever used in filmmaking, including the “stained glass knight” in Young Sherlock Holmes Read more »

First ‘LEGO Pirates’ Screens & Trailer

by Robin Parrish
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TT Games and Disney Interactive have released the first trailer for LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, the latest LEGO game to emerge from the iconic company’s partnership with Disney. (I’m still waiting for LEGO Tron.) There’s no gameplay shown in the video, just what I’m guessing is probably part of the opening cinematic. But TT Games’ trademark quirky/playful humor is firmly in place, so have yourself a look. They’ve also unleashed a set of screenshots from what looks like the game’s first few levels, and some concept art that’s really quite lovely. The graphics in these games has really come a long way since the first LEGO Star Wars came Read more »

Darth Vader Does Volkswagen

by Noemi Twigg
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Darth Vader Does Volkswagen

Or maybe that should be the other way around – Volkswagen does Darth Vader. Whichever sequence you prefer, you won’t be able to help but chuckle as you watch the latest commercial from Volkswagen. I am no advertising expert, but I think I am not totally off the mark if I say that the auto makers are targeting families and geeks with the 2012 Volkswagen Passat. How can one not want to see a commercial that features a kid with Star Wars music in the background? In this commercial, you will see a teeny weeny Darth Vader trying to use the Force – unsuccessfully, of course. The dog just ignores Read more »

A Summer Of What-If?

by Darren Burr
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A Summer Of What-If?

So now we have seen the first bookend of the Age Of X. This is a world without the X-Men? But I see most of the X-Men still sat all together anyway. Maybe it was a world without Xavier. No wait, that was the Age Of Apocalypse. Could mutant history have taken a better turn? Doesn’t look like it, and wasn’t that the House Of M? So mutantkind is being hunted. Just like the Days Of Futures Past? I can’t shake the feeling that I have seen all this before, and thus I find it difficult to get very enthusiastic about this latest X-Event. I wonder what ‘lasting consequences’ there Read more »