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The main problem with the reveal is that, from the perspective of someone who does not read comic books, it felt like I was not getting something I was supposed to get. That's a problem even if in the end even the comic books reader are not too sure of what it was supposed to be. My assumption...

I think it's commendable in its radicalism, but I feel the movie had two option to be satisfying: the first was to manage to surprise us and take us places we did not expect, the second was to stretch and stylize it and make it a sensorial, almost mystical experience (something like the lost at...

In all fairness, the Xbox One numbers would be deemed very good if not for the fact the PS4 numbers are stellar. I must say the thing that impresses me the most is the share of current gen sales for multi-gen titles. For a game like Call of Duty: Ghosts, almost 20% of the Xbox and Playstation...

It's difficult to weight this piece of news until we know why she left and what she will do next. All I know is that if I was in the movie business, animated or otherwise, I would be interested to hire her before she goes no another game company considering her mimicking Hollywoodian...

Indian Wells draw is out. Nadal, Wawrinka, Murray and Federer are in the top half, Djokovic, Berdych, Del Potro and Gasquet in the bottom half. Amusingly, Dimitrov and Gulbis are likely to face each other for a third time in a month. It's 1-1 for now.

Wait... if Lebron's 61 is better than Kobe's 81 because of efficiency, doesn't that mean that Durant's recent 54 is better than Lebron's 61? I mean he even made 6 assists!

Since it reeks of drab teen-lit, I suspect she is a janitor because she has not yet realized her inner greatness. She will first deny it and then embrace it to save the day and become a marvelous little autocrat. How inspiring!

I am pretty sure a single stat counts when it comes to points scored in a match, and that's not the number of assists. Last I heard 62>61. Also 62 > 'could have been 64 but ended up being 61.'

Almost as good as Carmelo Anthony!

The problem with the PS2 is that it launched in Japan something like 8 months before the US and Europe so a global sales comparison is a bit skewed. That said, I checked some articles wrote during that time and it seems supply was scarce after all three launches, so I guess the comparison could...

Time to reach 6 millions global: PS4: 3.5 months Wii: 4.5 months XB1: ~ 8 or 9 months (not there yet) X360: 12 months PS3: 12 months Wii U: ~16 months (not there yet)

I have a number of issues with 12 years a slave, but the fact we can hardly perceive the passing of time is not one. I would even argue that it serves both the discourse (his life is put on hold, in a stasis) and the ending of the movie. An ending that I found very powerfulbecauseof its...

Edit generated a double post somehow...

I tried to check the years where there were nominated actors plying in movies related to gays and racism: So in 21 editions, 105 nominations, 5 for gay related movies for 3 wins (though all three wins also played the dramatic weight loss card), 4 for racism related movies for 1 win...

It also happens that The Wind Rises, while very original and with moments of pure cinematic grace, is a bit shit. The insufferable 'by mouth' soundscape and atrocious dubbing - and I mean the original dub: mumbled lines, no intent, horrible timing the whole way through - made it almost...

I only saw 5 of the 9 nominees for best pictures and I would have voted for 12 Years a Slave or Captain Phillips over Gravity, Wolf and Hustle. Captain Phillips probably should have won the adapted screenplay award.

For best actress, my personal pick was not even nominated: Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha (not seen Philomena nor Osage County though).

For my money, Cuar?n should have been nominated and have won the best director award for Children of Men, not Gravity and McQueen should have won tonight (though I have yet to see Nebraska).

I have some problems with the movie, but if you think 12 Years A Slave is 'nothing special whatsoever' you must not have a great eye for film direction. That said, I would not have given the best supporting actress award to Lupita Nyong'o over Jennifer Lawrence.

I don't get the punchline...

Humiliate?

I have not followed this thread too closely as it's not really my cup of tea (for both genre and platform reasons), but what's the verdict at this point? Is there any truth to the following sarcastic quote?

Another week on the ATP before Indian Wells and there are some ups and downs: The big UP is Federer in Dubai who managed to beat Djokovic in the semi and Berdych in the final to claim the title. More than beating two opponents that had his number as of late, more than winning it's biggest...

Only 36% of it is beef.

I guess I am not too optimistic about ManU's ability to make it a contest. It could be a fun match though, provided the greeks don't score first.

Unless they forget to tell that market that the movie is out!

How much did Way of the Samurai 3 and 4 sold on PS3 though? I suspect the numbers are not very encouraging for Sega.

The previous medieval spin-off was easily one of the best PS3 game. In the whole serie the writing of the many side quest is regularly hilarious, tackling unusual subjects with a satirical angle, but the main story in Kenzan also had moments of pure classical brilliance (NB: the game is very...

This is not entirely true: items have required stats and a number of things scale with stats other than hp and stamina (weapon damage, spell damage, equipment load, spell slots, casting speed...). Because of diminishing returns, it's less true by the end of the game, but early and mid game, you...

- The UK is without a doubt a massive gaming market and it has been for a while. During the PS2 era the video game market in the UK was something like 3/4 of the Japanese market with half the population (most of these PS2 were Fifa / Sing Star machines though). - I am not seeing the #2 market...

I think some of you do not realize how big 15 is as a number. I can't think of a boss that killed me more than 5 times and even with the backtracking I doubt I killed more than a handful of non-farming enemy more than 10 times (the skeletons that guard the aqueduct, the ones under the fire...

Considering Canada has less than half the population of the UK, it's pretty safe to say the UK was the 2nd market for Xbox 360.

By Hitoshi Yoneda (mostly known around here for his work on Phantasy Star). I like this painting because of its original composition (the character walking toward us, the scarf responding to the tree) and its non-heroic nature. Actually have a poster of this piece by Kazuhiro Otomo...

It's seems not that many return matches in the Champions League will be suspenseful... Galatasaray vs Chelsea should be fun though and Atl?tico vs Milan too.

The meaning of a text does not solely resides in its words. Part of it also comes from its layout, so they need some trick to convey things like paragraphs and chapters... but I find it pretty interesting. I can see it becoming an option on kindle-like devices (provided the display speed and...

Switzerland was in the same group as Faroe Islands a few years back and for some reason it has a ridiculous number of football fields and football players compared to their population (wikipedia tells me they have a championship with 10 teams, which is pretty crazy when you consider there are...

Oxygen Destroyer.

Stephen Elop is also the guy who was CEO of Nokia when it went down in flames... We are in a 'this could turn it around for Xbox One' scenario here.

I just read the Kotaku review and this is about the only positive thing Kirk Hamilton had to say:

Who qualifies again? Best two team + some of the best 3rd teams?