Archive for January, 2008

Del Toro’s Hobbit

January 31st, 2008 – 11:49 pm Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Movies

Dreams do come true, it’s been now unequivocally proven. It was announced sometime ago that New Line was planning on making the J.R Tolkien Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit into a movie. It was later announced that Rings director Peter Jackson would be taking the producer seat on this one and that a [...]

Melbourne Gamers Meetup - Sat 9th Feb 2008

January 29th, 2008 – 5:48 pm Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Events

Coming up next month is the Melbourne Gamers Meetup, run by Australian Gamer and sponsored by Space Meat, PALGN and Gamers Events. Organised by Yug from Australian Gamer, this event is a social gathering of Australian gaming communities and forums. I will be attending the BBQ and it’s bound to be a blast judging from [...]

GTA IV Dated, Simultaneous World-Wide Release!

January 25th, 2008 – 1:15 pm Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Games

After many delays and sometime after the old scheduled date of October 16, 2007, the next chapter in Grand Theft Auto has been slated with a worldwide release date of April 29, 2008.It seems the first delay was entirely based around market competition, Rockstar holding their financial juggernaut back for the right moment to release [...]

RIP: Heath Ledger (1979 - 2008)

January 23rd, 2008 – 4:57 pm Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Movies

Well known and talented Australian actor Heath Ledger was found dead today in his Apartment in SoHo, New York, of an apparent drug overdose. Ledger was found by a housekeeper and a massage therapist, who entered the bedroom to find him face down, naked, and unconscious at the foot of his bed with sleeping pills [...]

Top 5 Albums 2007

January 18th, 2008 – 9:36 pm Posted by: Ben
Filed as: Music, Music Reviews

Review: National Treasure: Book of Secrets

January 18th, 2008 – 4:21 pm Posted by: Kyle

Jerry Bruckheimer might produce a lot of crap, but if he’s done any good in this world it has been the Pirates of the Caribbean films and the National Treasure films. National Treasure came out in 2004 and featured one of greatest (and admittedly, perhaps the most ridiculous) premise I’ve heard of in an adventure [...]

Diary of the Dead trailer

January 16th, 2008 – 4:05 am Posted by: Kyle
Filed as: Movies

Zombie pioneer George Romero has recently released the trailer for his latest film in his ongoing series of zombie horror films. This one is titled Diary of the Dead and seems to take on a different format to his previous films. The lead character Jason (Joshua Close) is an apsiring documentary filmmaker who keeps the [...]

Review: Enchanted

January 11th, 2008 – 5:14 pm Posted by: Kyle

It’s been a long time since I’ve enjoyed a kids Disney movie. For the past few years the only good Disney have been doing is the Pirates of the Caribbean and releasing Pixar films. While that’s still pretty awesome, it’s been far too long since they’ve created a feature length animated children’s film that [...]

Canned Geek Podcast - Episode 11

January 6th, 2008 – 3:54 am Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Pod/Vodcasts

Just to prove how much of a glory whore I am I was yet again the extra special guest host on this weeks CannedGeek.com podcast. After several hours of Rock Band Kyle, Will and I finally sat down and talked about Action Girlz Racing, Asterix at the Olympic Games, Sweeny Todd, Spamalot, Harold and Kumar [...]

Review: House Of The Dead 4 (Arcade)

January 2nd, 2008 – 7:14 pm Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Game Reviews.

Publisher: SEGA
Developer: SEGA
Available On: Arcade, 360 (TBA)
The House Of The Dead (HOTD) light-gun shooters were always a tentative affair when fiddling with the tokens in my pocket. While the first 3 sported great graphics for their time with a bunch of fun and great zombie shooting action, there were always a few things a little [...]