Archive for July, 2003
After a season of losing a third of its audience, the Star Trek prequel Enterprise has been called back to spacedock for a refit and retooling.
“The show is going to be more action-oriented, faster paced,” says co-producer Brannon Braga. “We’re always looking for ideas to ramp up the show.”
Changes this season include an earth-shattering alien [...]
July 29th, 2003 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
The Official Transformers Collector’s Convention was this past weekend, and there were obviously some fairly big announcements on the future of the franchise.
The first word is that the movie is still on track, but there is no script yet or director. Desanto is working on a story that will remain true to the comics and [...]
July 29th, 2003 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
Okay superhero fans… a number of retail sources have checked in over the weekend with tentative street dates for a couple of big titles. 20th Century Fox is reportedly soon to announce 9/12 as the street date for its 2-disc X-Men 2: X-Men United DVD. And Universal is reportedly eyeing October 28th for its The [...]
July 29th, 2003 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
ComingSoon.net recently chatted with Jamie Lee Curtis, who believes that “True Lies 2″ will never happen.
You know why? I found out why. Because terrorists aren’t funny anymore. They never were, but, it was distant enough from our psyche that we could make it funny. It’ll never be funny again. I just think that that is [...]
July 29th, 2003 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
EA looks to be taking the best of the worlds of racing - arcade style gameplay (if that’s your thing), exquisite track design, loads of speed, and a huge array of customization options to let you create the best street racer around - and throwing it together into one very promising game. Keep your eyes [...]
July 29th, 2003 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
Yesterday the Mozilla Foundation released Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1. The former is a standalone browser, which has seen many stability improvements and bug fixes in this latest release, along with a few minor extra features, such as extra toolbar buttons.
The latter is the first release of Mozilla’s standalone mail client, designed to [...]
July 29th, 2003 | Posted in Software | Comments Off
As part of GameSpy’s coverage of GenCon, they have posted a Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna Q&A. Tara Teich of Mad Doc Software answers questions about their relationship with Gas Powered Games, features from Dungeon Siege 2 that will make it into the DS1 expansion, party improvement plans, new monster plans and more.
Shacknews
July 29th, 2003 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
The fabled name is resurfacing on a new online music service. But this time Napster has the blessings of the Big Five record companies, giving it little in common with its beloved, ill-starred predecessor.
Wired News
July 29th, 2003 | Posted in Technology | Comments Off
Michael Crawford over at Movie Poop Shoot has a pretty darn good spread on ComicCon. Check it out:
The Big Wrap Up
This isn’t the end all of what was at the show. Four and a half days of geek central, and there’s tons of information on every subject under the sun. If you’re looking for [...]
July 29th, 2003 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) now has a record market share of 95.4%, according to the most recent report by Web analytics firm OneStat.com. IE 6.0 has 66.3% of the market, with 14.5% for IE 5.5 and 12.7% for IE 5.0. “Mozilla is in fourth place with 1.6% of the market, but the total market share [...]
July 29th, 2003 | Posted in Software | Comments Off