Archive for August, 2004

Professional BitTorrent?

A startup, Atzio, is now claiming that they have the first peer-to-peer internet platform for television, apparently ignoring something like BitTorrent. Of course, the technology can basically be described as… BitTorrent with copy protection (how innovative). Plus, they only allow a select group of clients to seed material on the network, making it [...]

The Longest Yard Pics & Videos

Paramount Pictures is starting the marketing campaign for Adam Sandler’s The Longest Yard early with new pictures and behind-the-scenes videos hitting the web.
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D&D Online wants to be digital pen and paper

A surprisingly detailed look at the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons Online game is posted on Games Domain. The
interview with Ken Troop, Lead Designer, gets into how the team at Turbine is trying to make the MMG a digital
translation of the pen and paper game we all know and love. Perhaps the most interesting snippet is [...]

Evil Genius [Demo]

Evil Genius demo
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Chris Evans Talks Fantastic Four!

Chris Evans talks about the ‘Fantastic Four’ movie including his anticipation of seeing Michael Chiklis in his Thing costume. “They’re not going to do computer stuff with The Thing. I am so excited to see it. So he’s going to have the full body thing and I’ve heard it looks awesome. I was talking to [...]

Paramount Pictures Enters Area 51

Paramount Pictures has acquired worldwide film rights to Midway Games’ upcoming video game Area 51 . Christine Peters ( How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ) will produce the live-action thriller in collaboration with Midway. The game is scheduled for release in March for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
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City of Heroes: the animated movie

NCsoft has announced a new contest celebrating the success of City of Heroes. This time around,
fans will be able to express their adulation by competing in the City of Heroes Film Festival Contest. NCsoft has asked
participants to create a short animated featurette (up to 3 minutes) based of the CoH universe—actually, entries don’t
have to necessarily [...]

The Rock goes Far Cry ?

Just when you thought you had heard it all, news appears that a movie based on the popular game Far Cry is under production and IMDB is reporting that The Rock (previously mentioned as having a role in the upcoming Doom movie) will be starring as Jack Carver
An adaptation of the first-person-shooter video game where [...]

COH: MMORadio Interview – Fan Highlights

A nice forum goer over in the official COH forums has compiled a list of highlights from the Statesman Interview with MMORadio. You can find the post and a thread to comment upon it all in the General Forums. Whether you’re a zone nut and are looking forward to probably needing vehicles for underwater zones [...]

Web Turns 35, but Still Work in Progress (AP)

AP – Thirty-five years after computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way for exchanging data over networks, what would ultimately become the Internet remains a work in progress.
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