Archive for August, 2008

Max Payne theatrical trailer

August 29th, 2008 – 8:48 pm Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Movies

Max Payne theatrical trailer – Flash | QuickTime HD | YouTube
Source: Yahoo Movies

Canned Geek Podcast – Episode 23: Awkward Delivery

August 28th, 2008 – 5:32 am Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Pod/Vodcasts

This podcast is perfectly balanced. We started talking about The Dark Knight (a comic to film adaptation) which leads onto a discussion about Watchmen (a comic which has film adaptation in progress).
We ended up talking for some time on both topics, but we still had quite a number of other topics we meant to [...]

H.A.W.X. – I Can See My House From Here!

August 27th, 2008 – 6:46 pm Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Games

Tom Clancy’s latest upcoming series starter H.A.W.X. was already looking technically promising before the latest news of the incorporation of US satellite imagery company GeoEye’s technology within the game engine.
Apparently Ubisoft have teamed up with GeoEye to include real life satellite images of terrains and landscapes for use in each and all 16 locations throughout [...]

Rock Band 2? Let’s See Rock Band First

August 26th, 2008 – 8:30 pm Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Games

Rumor Control at Gamespot have reported a finding of Rock Band 2 classified PG in Australia’s Classification Database.
While this is a good notion of EA’s intent to eventually push Rock Band 2 to our shores apparently the original Rock Band, still to be released, received a similar classification back in ‘06.

Tropic Thunder Competition *Closed*

August 25th, 2008 – 12:48 am Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Movies

Thank you to everyone who entered, the winners will be contacted shortly and have their prizes sent out to them. If you didn’t win don’t worry we have more competitions coming soon. Enjoy!
Paramount Pictures are giving THREE lucky Space Meat readers the chance to win the Tropic Thunder Official Movie Soundtrack and a double in-season [...]

Gotham City posters

August 22nd, 2008 – 6:47 pm Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Movies

After the success of The Dark Knight the much rumoured third Christopher Nolan Batman film has got one Batman fan (Australian artist Josh McMahon) excited enough to Photoshop some fantastic fake posters. Not only is this some brilliant artwork it’s also pretty ingenious casting; I especially like the casting of Kristen Bell as Harley Quinn. [...]

Team Fortress 2 Increases Net Weight; Same Price

August 20th, 2008 – 7:29 pm Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Games

A patch for Team Fortress 2 (known as the ‘Heavy Patch’ for it’s Heavy class specific updates) has just been released featuring a new game mode Arena with 5 maps, Heavy class weapons and achievements, 2 new regular maps and some nice new changes.

Click that smacking gob for Valve’s low down on the patch.
Considering this [...]

Unleash Some Force – August 21st

August 18th, 2008 – 6:33 pm Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Games

A demo for the upcoming action adventure title Star Wars The Force Unleashed will be available on XBOX Live and the Playstation Network come August 21st.

Click the image for the official site.
Much hype has been surrounding this game and rightly so considering both the technical and conceptual promises surrounding force powers and our new Star [...]

Fallout 3 rated MA15+ in Australia

August 12th, 2008 – 9:55 am Posted by: Jordan
Filed as: Games

Aah but what we are missing is the question.

The upcoming third person RPG Fallout 3 from Bethesda Softworks was recently refused classification in Australia by our OFLC due to particular drug references and other potential nasties such as blood use.
Well the inevitable good and bad news has occurred as Fallout 3 is now listed in [...]

RIP: Isaac Hayes (1942 – 2008)

August 11th, 2008 – 8:19 am Posted by: Liam
Filed as: Movies, Music

Source: BBC News