Archive for January, 2004

The Razzie Nominees are Here

Oh Yes! The Razzies are here! For those of you who may not know, the Razzies are the Anti-Oscar. Each year they give out the WORST awards, and a lot of people (including me) have come to anticipate them almost as much as the Oscars themselves! Even Al Pacino is nominated this year for Worst [...]

CLAREMONT TALKS EXCALIBUR VOL. 2

Returning Uncanny X-Men writer Chris Claremont recently provided more details about the upcoming relaunch of Excalibur in the latest issue of Wizard: The Comics Magazine (#149).
Set to launch in May, Claremont will be joined on the new series by X-Treme X-Men artist Igor Kordey. The new Excalibur will reportedly spin out of writer Grant Morrison’s [...]

City of Heroes’ Interview

GameZone Online have an interview with Michael Lewis, CEO of Cryptic Studios:
Q: Players will be allowed to create their own superheroes, but obviously, these characters won’t be all powerful. Will the characters have weaknesses akin to Superman and kryptonite, or will they basically be mortals endowed with limited powers in certain areas?
Michael: We made [...]

“Halo 2″ Release Date OFFICIAL

Posted on the bungie forums tonight, was a note stating that HALO 2 will be released Fall 2004.
Update: Check out the Halo 2 MP screen shot.

[Upcoming] IE update clears up spoofing issue

“Microsoft garnered kudos from security experts this week when it announced it would release a software update that modifies a long-protested default behavior of Internet Explorer (IE) 3.0 and later versions.
IE’s handling of user information in HTTP and HTTPS URLs allows Windows Explorer and IE to open HTTP and HTTPS sites by using a [...]

Bounty for Virus Creator has been raised.

Microsoft has added $250,000 to the bounty for the capture of the creator of MyDoom. Combined with the reward already offered by SCO, that puts a cool half-million on the head of the virus creator. Law enforcement has a poor track record of catching virus authors, but this might provide a hefty incentive to his [...]

True Crime coming to PCs

Activision confirms a PC version of its best-seller is in the works. Following the success of True Crime: Streets of L.A on consoles, Activision is now bringing the game to the PC. The publisher confirmed to GameSpot today that Nick Kang will be making his PC debut sometime later this year. Activision also confirmed [...]

Dynamic Forces to Collect Chaykin’s American Flagg!

Dynamic Forces has announced that it will collect Howard Chaykin’s groundbreaking series from the 1980s, American Flagg!, in a series of definitive editions. The first volume - collecting the first six issues of the series, as well as new art and materials from the creator - is scheduled for a late June or early July [...]

Xbox for $99? Xbox 2 in 2005?

CNN is reporting that Microsoft’s Xbox may be on the verge of a substantial price cut, falling from $179 to $99 by Labor Day, and Microsoft will launch its next generation console in late 2005 - a year earlier than has been previously rumored. That would put the Xbox 2 on store shelves up to [...]

ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #2 REVIEW

Story by: Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Millar
Cover by: Bryan Hitch
Pencilled by: Adam Kubert
Inked by: Danny Miki
Reviewer: Brian E. Wilkinson
While the first issue filled me with a lot of hope and excitement for this series, I have to say that issue #2 is giving me a minor case of the jitters.
Nothing is really wrong with it, [...]