Archive for October, 2004

2004-10-31 :: Images of the New Godzilla Memorial Box

Large (500+ k) image of the Bandai Memorial Box, showing new sculpts, repaints, resculpts, and just plain ol’ reissues….
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New Intel Chipset and Extreme Edition CPU Tested

Today sees the launch of both a new CPU and chipset from Intel. The CPU takes the form of a 3.46Ghz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, running at 1066FSB, and the chipset is the i925XE, the first Intel chipset to support this new FSB. HEXUS.net have a review of both. It looks like AMD still have [...]

The Many Faces Of… Jor-El and Lara

KryptonSite’s Russ Dimino takes a look at the many actors and actresses who have played Superman’s Kryptonian parents throughout the years - from the original movie serials all the way through ‘Smallville.’
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‘SNL’ to Spoof Campaigns Past and Present (AP)

AP - Just to get you fired up for Election Day, “Saturday Night Live” will be making fun of campaigns past. Airing 10 p.m. EST Monday on NBC, “Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash” will feature candidates’ debates from three decades — as spoofed by “SNL.”
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The Grudge Atop a Second Weekend

Columbia Pictures’ horror thriller The Grudge , starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, held on to the top spot for a second straight weekend making an estimated $22.4 million to take its two-week total to $71.3 million. The Sam Raimi produced film carried a production budget of less than $10 million.
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Halo 2 DVD video clip available for free download

If you want to get a peek at the extras that the Halo 2 Collectors Edition will have, head to the link below.
The 88 MB video (at the bottom of the download page) is a high-resolution Windows Media file that shows off some
multiplayer action. Unfortunately, the thing is mostly hype and bravado, with the standard “Halo [...]

DC: Green Lantern: Rebirth #1

Green Lantern: Rebirth #1 makes a critical mistake. The whole purpose of the miniseries is to put things back the way the old fans loved them: Hal Jordan as hero Green Lantern, not the vengeful Spectre or the villainous Parallax.
Instead of focusing on that future, this issue dwells on the past, delving into all [...]

JLA #107 REVIEW

Ever since Mark Waid and Bryan Hitch left this series to make way for Joe Kelly and Doug Mahnke, I have felt for a long period of time now, that the following issues after their departure have been lacklustre to say the least. Mark Waid followed on from Grant Morrison’s epic and awe inspiring run [...]

Garner: Elektra Is Dark

Jennifer Garner, who plays the title role in the upcoming comic-book movie Elektra, told SCI FI Wire that her character goes to a dark place in the film, the follow-up to 2003’s Daredevil. “Elektra is lethal,” Garner said in an interview during a break in filming last June. “In Daredevil, [she] was somebody who was [...]

Sneaky Spyware Becomes Internet Scourge (AP)

AP - Spyware, an amorphous class of software that mostly gets onto computers without their users’ knowledge, has become epidemic in the past year as people spend more time online and spyware developers get more aggressive. The resource-hungry programs often render machines unusable.
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