A few weeks back I posted about Nina Paley's masterpiece Sita Sings the Blues, which is free to watch on her site. Being the good creative commons kind of sport that Paley is, she just recently made available the original Flash files for the movie at Internet Archive. So if you're a budding animation artist and want to know how she accomplished a certain effect, here is your chance to examine in detail the inner workings of the Flash scripts. From her blog:All the Flash authoring (.fla) files I used to make Sita Sings the Blues have...

I'm sure this is old news to most of you, since I've heard the same news repeated ad nauseum over the last few days. But I'm sure you won't mind me parroting it again here. Hey, that's what I do. Recently CBS recently acquired ad space in Entertainment Weekly to showcase its fall lineup. which isn't all that newsworthy unless you consider that the space will be filled with small display screens featuring video and sound. From Cnet:The screen, which is 2.7 millimeters thick, has a 320x240 resolution. The battery lasts for about 65 to...

Gamezplay.org have the scoop on Hudson Soft's striking new puzzle-platformer for the Wii titled The Tower Of Shadow.This gorgeous trailer was shown at Gamescom 2009.The ethereal premise and setting will surely interest fans of Sony's Ico and Shadow of the Coloss...

Hooray! A horror film that I actually might want to see! Judging by the trailer the movie looks promising. Great visuals.Looks like a lot of money went into this picture, plus its release has been pushed back a couple of times. Let's hope it will be worth the wait.The Wolfman will be released on February 10th, 2010.See it he...

Chair and Epic Games Shadow Complex is based in the fictional world of popular author Orson Scott Card's Empire. I had never heard of him before this game was announced and was surprised to discover that he is a controversial figure.Card is a vocal opponent of gay-rights, something that doesn't exactly sit well with a website called gaygamer.net.While some gamers are proposing a boycott of Shadow Complex (guilty by association?) gaygamer.net suggests that "if you want to play the game, play it. Enjoy it, but offset the hate: if you buy...

The arcade maestros at Housemarque are ditching the glitzy space lasers of Super Stardust HD for gooey entrails with their newest title for the Playstation Network, Dead Nation.So how does this splatter-fest differ from the undead hordes of other arcade-centric zombie shooters like Zombie Apocalypse and Burn Zombie! Burn!? The developers promise a meta-game within Dead Nation that tracks player stats by world region, allowing players to reduce the viral outbreak within their own country.This could be really exciting if implemented properly,...

As most major media outlets predicted, Sony unveiled their new Playstation 3 at this years Gamescom in Germany.Thankfully the PS3 has dropped it's trashy Spider Man font and shed about 33% of it's weight. The new Playstation 3 Slim is much more attractive than it's Haagen-Daz slurping predecessor in more ways than those strictly cosmetic. It sports a 120g hard-drive, runs quieter, and is more reasonably priced at $300 (only about $50 more than the new PSP!), the same price as the similarly spec'ed XBOX Elite.I'm totally loving the new...

It was only a matter of time before someone made a game that looked like this...From Software brings "dot art" to the Third Dimension in 3D Dot Game Heroes (PS3) and the results are quite stunning.I sense a developing trend here...This is what happens when Nintendo rests on their laurels. Other game developers are capitalizing on Nintendo's unwillingness to make retro-remakes of their most beloved titles. Just recently Epic games released Shadow Complex for the XBOX 360 that is a spiritual tribute to the classic 2D Metroid series. Judging...

The Dark Knight and all 3 Lord of the Rings really?You can check out the other eleven greatest films of the millennium here. Of course there can never be a "greatest film of all time" or "greatest film of the millennium", at least not one that is unanimously agreed upon, but these arbitrary lists are always good for a chuckle, a gasp, or for just getting your blood boilin' with anger because they left out all your favorite films.Where are all the other big boy titles like No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Children of Men,...

Okay, so whether or not you care, I'm going to post this because it gave me a major chubby. Most of us have a DVD player, an Xbox 360/PS3/Wii, a Blu-ray player, a receiver or some sort of combination of these sitting on a stand somewhere close to our televisions, not to mention our hearts. The deeper you get in to A.V.ology the more you realize you need a proper storage unit to house these devices for proper ventilation, cable management, etc. This unit is affectionately referred to as a rack. But what happens when you own Wayne Manor...

Ever wondered how the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ended up in IMAX 3D, or at least eight minutes of it? Wired has a neat little article and video where they discuss ins and outs of the conversion.Oh man am I excited for this next one. Shadow Complex:This game comes out this week and is getting pretty positive reviews. I can't wait.Good news, according to Cinematical You, the Living is actually getting released in the states; it has a new distributor. I'll keep an eye out for this o...