Archive for December, 2006

Wii breaks Australian launch record.

December 14th, 2006 – 2:47 pm Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Games

With the Australian Wii launch on the 7th, retailers nation wide were overwhelmed with the response.
Within 4 days, approximately 32,901 units were sold across the country. This breaks the XBOX 360’s record of 30,421 units at launch.
Seems the Wii really is appealing to a wide audience, as Nintendo intended.

Sony’s marketing campaign caught out.

December 14th, 2006 – 2:34 pm Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Games

Sony have had a few questionable marketing campaigns over the past. Their graffiti movement comes to mind, when last year they covered American capital cities with PSP graffiti as advertisement, only to be forced to pay $20,000 to have it removed. Apparently Sony weren’t aware that graffiti is illegal now.
One of their latest campaigns for [...]

Square-Enix - Ivalice Alliance

December 14th, 2006 – 3:48 am Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Games

It seems that Square-Enix are going all out on portable gaming now. With the recent release of Final Fantasy 3 for NDS, what they’ve titled as the “Ivalice Alliance” project is underway. This project includes three games set across the world Ivalice, including two Tactics titles and an FF XII sibling.
Final Fantasy XII : Revenant [...]

Wii injuries getting out of hand.

December 10th, 2006 – 2:48 pm Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Games

Surely by now most of has have heard/seen the dangers of flinging a Wii-mote around. The site http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/ comes to mind, featuring a good bunch of photos and videos of those who have injured themselves or their surroundings.
The first time I got my hands on a Wii-mote I thought, “how could you really let [...]

New Halo 3 trailer.

December 8th, 2006 – 5:27 pm Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Games

Launched over EPSN and Xbox.com on December 4, a new Halo 3 trailer hit the air for the world to see.
You can see it via the official site here, or just clicky click below.

It’s certainly packing the hype and production values we’ve learnt to expect.
Also -
Halo 3 - Trailer 2
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WMV [7.9 MB]
MP4 [...]

3rd 300 trailer hits the web!

December 8th, 2006 – 4:11 pm Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Movies

The 3rd trailer for the upcoming comic based epic 300 has been released and holy hell, I didn’t think it was possible but it’s even better then the previous trailers. Based on the trailers and the source material this movie will easily be in the top 5 best of 2007.
Check out the trailer here. [...]

Barracade Pic.

December 8th, 2006 – 4:06 pm Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Movies

Yet another CGI picture of a Transformer has been unleashed apon the world. Check out the awesomeness that is Decepticon Barracade in both his transformed and robot forms.

Thanks to the cool peeps at Jalopnik.

2 new Hot Fuzz posters.

December 7th, 2006 – 11:14 pm Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Movies

There is so much white hot anticipation for the new film Hot Fuzz that it’s practically setting the fuzz on fire. Check out the 2 brand new posters for the movie below.

The Number 23 trailer.

December 7th, 2006 – 5:03 pm Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Movies

The trailer for Jim Carey’s upcoming thriller The Number 23 has been released and it looks pretty cool with Carey showing us again that he has the acting chops to do more then comedy.
The Number 23 Trailer:
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HD QuickTime

Hot Ghost Rider poster.

December 6th, 2006 – 11:46 pm Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Movies

Here’s the cool new poster Sony Pictures just released for the upcoming comic book adaptation Ghost Rider.

Also check out the recently updated Ghost Rider official website.