Ben X

Welllll, Leon was distributed by Disney's Buena Vista and Touchstone labels....

As per this thread, the most recent word seems to be a message from Tim Schafer saying "Brutal Legend is fine" when you hover your cursor over a particular photo in Double Fine's blog.

Braid review is up.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation Ninja Gaiden 2, plus Age Of Conan (which no one seems to have linked to).

Crap, I missed it. I was in Nottingham that day anyway. Ah well, I'm sure I'll be around for the next big London Thumbs meet-up...

Um, I got confused by all the 'not the next Saturday's, but if anyone arranges a Thumbs meet up and posts a date, time and place, I'll try to make it!

Glad you're enjoying it, twmac! There's now an updated version at www.zombie-cow.com/btdt with keyboard shortcuts and a few other little improvements/fixes. Possibly not worth your re-downloading if you're quite far in, but then again it wouldn't take you too long to get back where you are now, and enjoy all the benefits of hotkeys. We've hit the 5000 download mark, which is great, and hopefully we'll get a lot more people playing it off the upcoming PC Zone coverdisc (not the updated version though, sadly).

I'm up for a London meet-up too!

Hurry hurry hurry! A Londoner such as yourself will get extra enjoyment out of it, I'll warrant.

Thanks for all the response! You'll be glad to know that there's a news item up on Adventure Gamers now. @ brkl: It's a shame we couldn't get ambient Mike Watts music throughout the game, but that would have involved paying him, which we couldn't do with a budget of zero! We tried to put a fair few ambient sound effects in to make it less quiet, though... @ vimes: I can see your point with a lot of the stuff you didn't like, but in the end, we were writing it as freeware in our spare time, and couldn't polish it forever... Regarding the beginning, we were inspired by the beginning of Day Of The Tentacle, which eases the player in magnificently - great intro, find-a-door single-room puzzle, great cutscene, find-an-item whole-house puzzle, great cutscene, open up new character and whole game. I hope at some point we'll be able to get Tim Schafer to take a look at Ben There, Dan That, especially with all the DOTT and Full Throttle references in it. Anyone else played it yet?!

Gibbage 2 is a strong possibility, with much wider compatibility, better cartoony graphics, more accessible gameplay, destructible terrain, a level editor and online play. Zombie Cow has one or two other things in the works first, though... Thanks bud, good to see you at the all-new forums! We defo tried to make the game accessible for people who have never heard of an adventure game before, now that the genre has fallen from its golden age. I think we mix the wordy with the succinct quite well, but I can see your point. And we decided not to spend huge amounts of time on stuff like what we considered in the end to be just niggles with the UI, as it's a freeware game. We wanted to have fun creating the story first and foremost, without worrying too much about the odd rough graphic or UI 'quirk'! EDIT: We're having a few teething problems with the hosting company, so the site may be down for a little while. If so, please try again later!

Didn't twmac mean he bashed the name of the game (because it's similar to 'Halo')?

Day The Earth Stood Still is a great film, and I can actually see how the planned contemporary remake would work, as long as they keep it very low-budget. Even with Keanu Reeves in it. The Happening was indeed balls, as was Incredible Hulk - two hours of time-killing until the final fight sequence, which was quite good.

Personally, I'd much rather watch Jurassic Park as normal for the 50th time than with some jackass making jokes about how Laura Dern's opened her mouth quite wide after seeing a dinosaur for the first time...

I cannot stand Rifftrax, Mystery Theatre, any of that stuff. It's like trying to watch a film with an unfunny, irritating person yelling obvious jokes in your ear constantly. Am I alone?

http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/book_vs_film_jumper I recommend checking out this site every week, the writing is excellent, and there's always loads of new content.

I really enjoyed Diary. It had the same strengths and weaknesses as Land Of The Dead, despite being a very different style of zombie movie. The politics are heavy-handed, and there's a fair bit of bad acting, but it's cool, inventive, creepy and funny, with some ace gore.

That was the best one I've seen for a long time - fast, funny, packed tight and visually exciting.

It was a rip-off rather than an official remake. Wikipedia sez:

Fuck off.

I didn't really like Life On Mars very much at all - the creepy insane?/coma?/timetravel? stuff was all good, but the other 25(?) minutes of boring cliched cop show was awful. Ashes To Ashes is just shit.

This fan-collated timeline is pretty cool, although it does go into Eps 1 and 2, so you'll only want to read up to 1.6.

Quite cool, but it could have gone a bit quicker in the opening stage - it took me so long to figure out the conceit, I would have given up if it wasn't thumbs-recommended.

Yayyy! Well done! Gibbage is the better of the two, obviously. Everyone get the free demo!

Am I the only one who doesn't like these shows? It's exactly what I don't want from a gaming show - two idiots performing sub-Why Don't You? sketches and favouring bum jokes over copy. At least Bits conveyed some information in between the tits.