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Wired News talked with three japanese very big names at E3 about their futures, and how these guys hope their new games will become the next generation big hits. These three were Eiji Aonuma (producer of Zelda series), former Square hitmaker Hironobu Sakaguchi (creator of Final Fantasy, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey) and former Nintendo designer Masahiro Sakurai (designer of Kirby games, Super Smash Bros Melee and creator of Meteos).

http://www.slate.com/id/2117309

From wikipedia: "He's able to secure the investors (mostly German, in Hollywood often derisively referred to as "stupid German money"), secure the rights for cheap, picking games with only moderate brand recognition, does all of the actual production himself, and swiftly cranks out a film. While under normal circumstances a director's movies could gross so little he's eventually shut out from every operating studio, Boll is exempt because he funds them under a loophole in German tax law that is supported by contributors and actually rewards films that perform badly, via a writeoff at the end of the year."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4114936.stm Sarah Michelle Gellar will take the role of Alice in the movie adaptation of the great American McGee's game from the year 2000. Alice is now a Universal Pictures project. Sorry to disappoint you guys, but like the Hitman movie, this film is not going be directed by the peoples favourite, Dr Uwe Boll. The film will be directed by Marcus Nispel, who recently made a new version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The fractured fairy tale, adapted by Erich and Jon Hoeber, picks up Alice after her home has been destroyed and her family killed. The sole survivor of the disaster, she returns to a dark and threatening Wonderland where she must confront her fears before returning to her normal life. Variety also reports on the news.

Someone suggested on some other forum that Fairuza Balk would've been perfect for the role of Alice.

I wonder when all these games are going to come to Europe? Nintendo's finnish pages say that Meteos is still three months away and Kirby is five months?! Well, I guess there's no hurry to buy the DS yet, even though Another Code will be released in three days from now.

http://www.hbo.com/deadwood/

http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=913 Somehow I find that ad to be very, very excellent.

Hitman the movie gets made and Mr Riddick, Vin Diesel himself is going to portray Agent 47. He's also going to produce the film, like he always does on his primary projects. My thoughts on this, excellent choice. But let's not ruin the movie with too much explosions, ok? Deadly stealth is still the middle name of Agent 47.

This beginning to sound like a broken record, but... It was Christmas in 1993 or 1994 and I finally got what I had wanted for over an year, a brand new Sega MegaDrive II console bundled with the super awesome Sonic the Hedgehog 2. One Christmas earlier I had like only one real gift that I begged and begged and it was this very machine, but I didn't get it. I was quite furious at my dad because of that, but everything was instantly forgiven a year later, now that I finally had received it. Many of my friends already had MegaDrives, and I had played at their houses countless times. I remember the first time I turned on my own console, damn it was magical to hear that "Seeeeeeeegaaaa!" shout and sonic spinning past the screen and revealing the Sega-logo. I did play earlier a lot with Vic-20, Commodore 64 and Amiga 500, but those were computers, this was a real gaming console.

I do now.

Also this is shaping up to be a very good Diesel powered movie: http://imdb.com/title/tt0419749/ At least he looks really different in it. http://art-of-vin-diesel.com/findmeguilty/

Where is it? In Helsinki? Some years ago there used to be game shops around here where I live, actually about five shops that were specialized in selling games. Now there ain't even one left. Well anyway, I buy all my games through internet these days so really doesn't matter that much.

Hmm, I checked my kitchen and found out that I have several Knorr spaghetti sauce mix packages in my cupboard.

Allrighty then. http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=28

Knorr products have been over here for decades or something like that. I've never used them though.

Well Lik-Sang is very reliable, I've ordered stuff from them.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8135239

My favourites were Lungfishopolis, The Milkman Conspiracy and Waterloo. All the levels were great, I loved the fact that every level was so different from another. I laughed so hard on the Lungfishopolis level during all those news bits, they were excellent.

Hmm, the sequel was only made to MegaDrive or SNES, if I remember correctly?

Now that's a sick game. How can a firm go from Crashday to that, I really don't know... There's even talk about adding the Tsunami disaster into the game at replay studios forum.

Looks nice.

Yeah, Zahn's trilogy from the 90's is excellent. I've always considered them to be the episodes 7-9, they are that good.

There's a feature on an independent music site called Pitchfork that details the many different aspects of Video game composition and how it differs from composing music for a Hollywood picture. They talked with some game composers such as Peter McConnell , Jesper Kyd and Russell Shaw. Also mentioned is the issue of publishers paying big bucks to sign popular musical talent as opposed to giving creative freedom to a singular artist to create a soundtrack that is representative of the action on-screen.

I just saw Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me from 1992. Damn that was a really freakishly scary movie. I'm not really sure if it is a good movie, but it was definitely a Lynch movie.