It looks like Loki will be leaving Asgard to play the avenging hero Eric Draven in Relativity Media’s reboot of The Crow. The studio has confirmed talks with the actor and Hiddleston even sent in his own makeup test for the character.
Now this is something I can get behind much more than the horrifying rumors of Bradley Cooper trying to smart ass his way through the role.
If Hiddleston takes the part, filming could begin this fall.
Are you, like me, covered with framed pictures on your wall of randomness like comic characters and The Walking Dead, making all the women you bring there instantly turn around and leave?
I’m kidding, we both know that there are no women coming there, so keep filling up that wall space! Here is a great suggestion!
Artist Laura Racero has created these prints of The Avengers with one of there quotes from the movie. Each one is availbale on her website and are reasonably priced. Check out the rest of the prints below and be sure to check out the rest of her site also (she has some really nice Fringe prints too).
Since the days of arcades – big rooms that had video games you paid for with quarters, but that’s not important right now – fighting games have been a staple of the industry, and my personal favorite on-again-off-again gaming niche. From the classic successes like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, to relative unknowns like TMNT: Tournament Fighters, some game where two people beat the piss out of each other has always graced my consoles. Battle Arena Toshinden 3 was one of the first three games I had on PlayStation, and my PS2’s very first title was Tekken Tag Tournament.
Part of the appeal was that I had a younger brother, and fighting games provided the much-sought-after ability to let us both play at the same time. Of course, that didn’t always work out so well. As I got older, my best friend Jay and I made a habit of renting pretty much any fighter we hadn’t played yet from the local Blockbuster. Eventually, I came across a copy of Guilty Gear X on the PS2. It kicked my ass, and with no story mode, limited my desire to learn the system; my copy was unfortunately stolen with all of my other games later that year.
Instead of re-purchasing it, I waited until Guilty Gear X2 came around, having heard that it contained a full story mode and new characters. Jay and I would wind up pouring countless hours into that little disc over the next two years, and below is a list of some of our rewards.
Achievement #1
Let’s Rock! – Pick up a copy of X2, excited to see the new characters and modes. Foolishly forget how hard X was. Get ass kicked repeatedly. Cry in shame.
Achievement #2
A New Challenger – Play with best friend instead of against computer. Enjoy it so much that you buy him a copy for his birthday so you can both practice and get better. Start sharing save data so you both reap the rewards.
*Achievement #3
On the Battlefield of History – Finally get good enough to try story mode. Realize that each character has multiple endings that are accessed in bizarre ways.* Print out an extensive FAQ on the subject.
*Achievement #4
Dr. Feelgross – As you try and push through the entire story arcs, develop a deep loathing for playing as Faust. Force your friend to learn his move set for story mode. Repeat process for Bridget, Zappa, and Eddie / Venom.
*Achievement #5
Paradise City – Insist on blaring Guns ‘n’ Roses anytime you are playing through Axl Low’s story sections. Become intimately acquainted with how parents feel about waking up at 2 am to Slash’s sick guitar riffs.
*Achievement #6
Not the Good Guy – Play as Sol Badguy to the point where you can defeat almost any opponent with a precision combo as soon as the match starts. Blow through his story mode, only to be told that you are never, ever allowed to use him in another “versus” match with friends.
*Achievement #7
Dizzy With Joy – After literally months of trying, get a call from your best friend that he has finally managed to beat Dizzy’s primary story scenario, meaning the two of you together have officially completed the game. Race over to view the ending.
*Achievement #8
Missions: Impossible – Realize that there are special unlocks tied to completing the special matches in “Mission” mode. Overconfident from story mode, attempt to beat each of them. Afterwards, swear never to speak of it again.
*Achievement #9
I-No The Feeling – Spend lots of time browsing the in-game gallery and deviantArt for shots of I-No, Dizzy, Millia and Jam… for, you know, artistic purposes…
*Achievement #10
Full of Fighting – Watch the animated trailer for Guilty Gear X in the gallery so many times that you can still recite every word of it years later. Remain exceedingly sad that there was never a badass GG animated movie or series.
*Bonus*
Calamity Trigger – Hear about the upcoming release of BlazBlue while living in Germany. Go and reserve the special edition as soon as you get home. Quickly realize that you and your best friend no longer have the free time or energy you did as teenagers. Almost never play it. Buy the sequel.
* Seriously though, look up a walkthrough for the different paths in this game. Simply beating each fight in story mode will usually net you the worst ending. You have to do things like “win the second fight with half heath, wait until the last 20 seconds and then lose the fifth fight, and win the seventh fight using only light kick on a Tuesday.”
Previously on Retro Achievement List:
We here at Nerd Rating love achievements and trophies. We are admitted whores for them, but when you think about it, the practice of gamerscores is only seven years old with the introduction of the Xbox 360. We have 30 years of backlogged video games that need to be updated! So that is what we are venturing to do. Our new feature called Retro Achievement List will look back at games of the past and give them a set of achievements to strive for even if they may not seem serious.
Alright, here we are. Battletoads. The game that begged to ask “will kids buy a game with roided up toads whipping the ever loving shit out of pigs and rats?” The answer to that was a rather large and emphatic SHIT YEAH WE WILL! The game also fed our underlying addiction for punishment because I am not sure about you, but Battletoads was hard as shit. When you look back at some of the games we played as kids, it’s no wonder some of us grew up with anger issues.
It’s time for Battletoads to get its due with an achievement list of its very own. Radical!
*Achievement #1
Spend an excessive amount of time in your room, not playing Battletoads, but staring at a picture of the Dark Queen in your EGM.
*Achievement #2
Get into more than two arguments with classmates that Battletoads is not a ripoff of TMNT even though you know in your heart that it is.
*Achievement #3
Realize that your sophomoric humor comes from playing games that have enemies named Gonnad.
*Achievement 4
When you kill an enemy and your fist becomes large, wonder why the older people in the room laugh when you say “I fisted it!”.
*Achievement #5
Discover new meanings of rage when the vehicle levels boil down to pattern memorization….and your brain does not do that.
*Achievement #6
Perverted Star Wars fans disappointed when the level Wookie Hole does not meet expectations.
*Achievement #7
Break your big toe kicking your coffee table as you yell about every game having a fu**ing ice level that makes you slide around like an idiot.
*Achievement #8
Due to your age, have the complete phallic symbolism of riding giant snakes escape you.
*Achievement #9
Try and get a Battletoads movie Kickstarter going because of TMNT being sodomized by Michael Bay.
*Achievement #10
Write down a list of your favorite video game characters as a kid (Rash, Zitz, Pimple, Toe Jam, Earthworm Jim). Begin to see why your parents took you to see the “special doctor” when you were nine.
We want to hear from all of you also! What achievements would you add to Battletoads? Leave us a comment below or tweet us your responses on Twitter (@nerdrating) and use the hashtag #RetroAchievementList
Here is the first poster for Thor: The Dark World that should take the bad taste out of your mouth from the Red Dawn remake and Chris Hemsworth’s god-awful hair in the Ron Howard racing movie Rush. You haven’t seen it yet? Here ya go.
I guess Hemsworth is playing the Tom Cruise/Cole Trickle part and the other guy (sorry, I didn’t have the time/want to look him up) is playing the Michael Rooker/Rowdy Burns part. I have gotten off on a Days of Thunder tangent….it happens. And yes, I realize it is an F1 movie.
So the Thor poster. It’s….pretty and full of lightning. He is fighting Dark Elves by the way. The poster is vague on that. By vague I mean mentioning nothing of it.
Thor: The Dark World releases on November 8, 2013.
Joss Whedon may be Hollywood’s golden boy now, but back in the late 90’s he was a promising writer and show runner who had a cult hit show on television. Many were excited to see him get the opportunity to try his hand at the fourth Alien movie, but when Alien: Resurrection was released it…..well it sucked. Joss Whedon knows this and he still has to live with that even though the studio made a lot of changes to his initial script that he had no control over.
In an interview with Total Film, Whedon discusses what it was like to see things changed and how it feels to have his name attached to the film.
“Casting is storytelling, I wrote two characters for Alien: Resurrection and their arc was that you would not know what way they were going to go. One of them turned out to be insane – and what do they do? They call Brad Dourif. So there is no plot twist. Brad is a very good actor but he has been pigeonholed into these roles. Then they cast J.E. Freeman as a thug – and his character was also supposed to be a mystery. So there you go again – the mystery is gone. Those are just a couple of examples because there are thousands of them when it comes to Alien: Resurrection.”
Whedon gets brutally honest when asked about being involved in the Alien legacy.
“Yeah – you don’t ever get over it. When you are making a movie you are making something that is going to last forever, especially now with the internet. So there is always going to be a shitty Alien movie out there. A shitty Alien movie with my name on it.”
He also had quite the interesting name for last year’s Prometheus.
“Yes, I did see Pro-meaningless,” he joked. “In all seriousness,Alien: Resurrection was, I thought, the lowest I could ever feel. And then they cancelled Firefly. ‘Yup, there you go. That’s me feeling even lower.’ Let me quote King Lear – ‘The worst is not, so long as we can say, ”This is the worst.”
Three of the best platforming games ever are coming the the PS Vita this summer. Sony announced the Jak and Daxter Collection that was released on the PS3 last fall would make its way onto their handeheld in June. You will get Jack and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Jak II and Jak 3 for only $29.99.
Check out the trailer below.
Researchers recently created the first qubit (quantum bit), a critical ingredient in building quantum computers. You heard me. The epic computers of your favorite sci-fi fantasy are going to be here faster than 1980’s Scott Bakula can put on a white leotard and be engulfed in blue flames.
Somehow these scientists figured out how to manipulate the direction electrons flow within a single atom. So instead of the binary code computers use now that’s built of one’s and zero’s, the quantum computer would use the electron flow directions; up, down… or both. So the qubit has 3 possible states, where the classic bit has only 2. (Face melts.)
That jbberish just means these quantum computers will be extremely fast. Watch this video and it’ll make sense:
With this breakthrough, plus recent advances in battery technology, we’re getting closer to a world where Tony Stark’s inventions could come alive and the Xbox will start to look more like the holodeck.
Harrison Ford visited Jimmy Kimmel last night to promote his new movie, 42, and like any interview these days with the actor, the conversation switched to the new Star Wars movies. Ford was evasive, but decided to answer some audience questions as long as they were not about Star Wars. Well, things did not go according to plan especially when Jimmy tried to reunite Ford and Chewbacca, things went to hell in a handbasket quickly.
I never took Chewie for the back stabbing kind.
The dream of Sakred Diamondz will not die!
Mega64 has posted a video detailing exactly how they are coming along with the game that was funded through Kickstarter and to ask for a little more help. When I say the game is “coming along” I mean that in a “we bought a boat” sort of way.
But dammit, with our help Sakred Diamondz will become a reality! Keep donating!
That reminds me, would any of you be interested in my Kickstarter to fund a true sequel to the Judge Dredd SNES game?