Deus Ex: Human Revolution has been declared the victor in an otherwise depressing month for US video game sales. As detailed in retail analyst NPD’s August report, Square Enix’s role-playing shooter was the best selling title in a month that otherwise saw a year-on-year decrease of 23% in total retail …
Read More »“But will it run Crysis?” Turns out your console actually will, NEXT MONTH (your console is not a Wii)
You see people, this is how you make an exciting video game announcement. You don’t put out an empty web-site with a countdown timer to a countdown timer to a countdown timer for a crap online puzzle that the world has to spend six months solving by providing free marketing …
Read More »Clint Eastwoods J. Edgar to open AFI Fest 2011
The world premiere of Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar will kick off the 25th edition of AFI Fest, the American Film Institute announced today. While it wasn’t confirmed in the announcement, the gala screening in LA will almost certainly be attended by the director and/or lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio. J. Edgar …
Read More »Luhrmann picks Bollywood legend for The Great Gatsby
BOLLYWOOD megastar Amitabh Bachchan is the latest talent to join the cast of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. The name may not immediately set bells ringing because this will be the first time that Bachchan will star in a Hollywood film. That’s despite being voted the greatest star of the …
Read More »Assassins Creed Revelations beta now open to all UK PSN users
The Assassin’s Creed Revelations beta began on Sept. 3 as an exclusive event for PlayStation Plus and PS3-based Uplay members. But as of today, it opened up to all PS3 users in the UK as well. Although the beta will remain open through September 11 (this Sunday), there will be …
Read More »GameStop will begin selling Apple devices
GameStop will soon be carrying Apple devices, including iPads, iPhones, and iPods. This week the retailer began accepting iOS devices as trade-ins for in-store credit, which is likely a method of phasing in used products before introducing new devices. GameStop made the announcement Apple’s devices would be sold in its …
Read More »Car chase clip from Killer Elite online
Nice tache mate! Sadly, Jason Statham is too focused on putting his pedal to the metal to throw out a one-liner, as he speeds away after being spotted by Clive Owen’s enforcer. The clip from Killer Elite may not be as good as the bit with the chair from the …
Read More »Steven Soderbergh talks about his Hunger Games involvement
A few weeks ago, a now deleted tweet from a crewmember suggested that Steven Soderbergh was at work on the set of Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games . Naturally, this sent the interweb’s rumour mill into overdrive, suggesting that Soderbergh could be taking over, directing a sequel or retiring from …
Read More »Lucasfilm meddles with Star Wars films for Blu-ray release
Has The Empire struck again? Is it true that the Star Wars Blu-ray collection contains slightly different versions of the films as George Lucas tinkers once more? Lets roll that slowly crawling plot reveal and see… A long time ago and far, far away, a company called Lucasfilm released some …
Read More »John Moore to direct Die Hard 5
The dream is over: Joe Cornish won’t be directing Die Hard 5 . Instead that job goes to John Moore. The fifth film in the Die Hard franchise does a Police Academy 7 and sends cop John McClane to Russia. Cornish ( Attack The Block ), Nicolas Winding Refn ( …
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