Archive for September, 2008

• UK Release Dates Now – Early 2009

  We know how annoying it is trying to find out when that game or peripheral you want is allegedly coming out, so we have done you a favour and managed to get our hands on a list of the upcoming UK release dates between now and early 2009. As you know release dates slip (remember GTA) so take the...

• Retro Game Packaging

  Video game packaging has changed quite a lot over the years, to the current stage where you know what system a game is for just based on the colour of the plastic box, but all evolution isn’t a good thing as the Minus World points out. They have come up with a fantastic look at how some of to...

• Nintendo Wii Finally Hacked

  We reported on the first hack of the Wii quite some time ago now, which involved modifying a game save from the Twilight Princess game, since then homebrew enthusiasts have been busy making all manner of programs that can work with the Wii. Now a hacker team that go by the name of TehSkeen, hav...

• Shutter Competition

  The past returns to haunt the living…. On DVD Monday 8th September 2008 The chilling real-life phenomenon of spirit photography provides the inspiration for terrifying supernatural thriller Shutter, available on DVD from Monday 8th September from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment....

• You Don’t Mess With The Zohan

  Now before I continue with the review let me tell you that I am a big Adam Sandler film fan, The likes of The Waterboy, Happy Gilmore, Eight Crazy Nights and Big Daddy all rank highly in my list of favourite comedy films, so if you’re like me and appreciate this type of silly, easy on the mind, ...

• How Amy Acker Got Into Dollhouse

  If your an aspiring actor, you would think that your first move would be to get yourself an agent, and start appearing at casting sessions, but you’d be wrong, you’re first step should be to get to know Joss Whedon. Amy Acker who will be appearing in Whedon’s latest show “Dollhouse” a...

• Del Torro: Frankenstein – Yes Please

  Guillermo Del Torro is a master of creating the weird and wonderful, all the more fitting that he has apparently signed up to do remakes of Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Del Torro has been waiting all of his professional life to remake the classic stories with his own twist, and in a ...

• Lost Star Hates Lost

  You would expect that stars of TV shows and movies actually like their respective shows, and enjoy working on them, but you would be wrong, so very wrong. Australian actor Alan Dale who initially shot to fame in the soap Neighbours has spoken up about his dislike for Lost, in which he stars as ...

• GG: Love In A Cold (Economic) Climate

  Over at our sister site Girlie Gossip, they have an amusing look at Love In A Cold (Economic) Climate. With comments like this about finding love in a charity shop: Do say: “I love helping the aged.” Don’t say: “I bet someone has died in this dress.” Definitely worth a loo...

• Milo Ventimiglia Wants To Play Robin

  Milo Ventimiglia who plays Peter Petrelli in the cult TV show Heroes has expressed a wish to play Robin in the new Dark Knight movie. Milo in an interview with Showbiz Spy said "I always thought I would make a great Robin, I would love to be Christian Bale's sidekick in Batman. Even when I was ...

• New Lost Cast

  I don’t think anyone has ever questioned how so many beautiful looking people managed to board flight 815, was there some sort of modelling contest in the airport, and the winners won a flight? Anyway, since there is a severe lack of attractive people in the show, they have cast some more ey...