Browsing all posts in July, 2009.

Gungrave Live Action

The rather excellent anime action series Gungrave may see life as a live action film. Convergence Entertainment, known for The King of Fights, has secured the rights to the manga.

Variety reports that the film will have a budget between $30 and $35 million and that it will be Asian partners response for raising most of that.

Weird Al and Skipper Dan

Skipper Dan is the latest single from Weird Al Yankovic’s Internet Leaks EP. The official video is up at MySpace and shown here.

The story is classic Weird Al. Dan’s all set to be the next big thing. A fantastic actor he sets about making a name for himself with his early stage performances.

Alas; poor Dan! He winds up as the tour guide in Disney’s Jungle World where he’s forced to make the same lame jokes about hippos with their wiggling ears.

Futurama with new voices?

The good news is that Futurama is making its way back to TV. Is there bad news? According to Forces of Geek (obsession is not a choice) a casting notice has gone out to replace DiMaggio, LaMarche, Billy West and Katy Sagal.

If true this would mean new voices for Fry, Leela, Bender, the Professor, Zoidberg as well as the Mom, Zapp Brannigan and Kif.

Stefan Blitz, of Forces of Geek, wisely theorises that this may be a cost cutting issue by FOX. Sound-alikes could be hired at a lot less than the original cast. However FOX risks a terrible backlash from the fans and perhaps even a boycott.

Christina Aguilera self harms to promote Wii Sports Resort

Okay; perhaps the title is a little misleading but the ever savvy Libe Goad the editor in chief of Game Daily has the cracking story of Christina Aguilera hurting herself playing Wii Sports.

As it happens the sexy siren was in a heated game of Wii Sports and had her play rudely interrupted by a table lamp. Some say the pop princess clashed with the lamp others say the lamp had been stalking her. The bad news is that the voicey vixen lost the game and bruised her hand. The good news is that this is all perfect timing to help promote Nintendo’s planned blockbuster Wii Sports Resort.

Confirmed: Resident Evil 4 to iPhone

Thanks to Capcom you too can enjoy zombies in your pocket. After the accidental release of RES 4 for the iPhone in Japan the gaming giant Capcom has stepped forward to confirm that the game will be available for iPhone gamers in the West too. Not just America; Europe too.
The news of Resident Evil 4 [...]

Blogger grounded by the law for his Guns N’ Roses leak

Kevin Cogill leaked Chinese Democracy, the Guns N’ Roses album which is said to have taken 17 years to make, has been sentenced to 2 months at home and a year of probation.
The home confinement sentence is companied by a requirement that he appears in an anti-piracy television ad. We suspect Kevin will hate that [...]

Codemasters reveals Jumpgate Evolution’s Quantar Nation

The Quantar Nation is the first of the playable races Codemasters has let people browse the Galactic Database for their forthcoming Sci-Fi MMORPG. The other two significant races for Jumpgate Evolution are the Solarin and Octavian.
The Quantar have splinted into different philosophical factions each following their own view of the universal truth but are united [...]

Recreating The Dark Crystal with Spore

Do you remember the fantastic 1982 Jim Henson movie “The Dark Crystal“. It featured two brave gelfings in a struggle to cope with the Dark Crystal and perhaps help the wise and kind Mystics against the evil and cruel Skeksi.
Fast forward the clock to today and EA’s rather addictive creature creating game – Spore. Spore [...]