Kyle here;
A very special guest visited the NPC Comics Studios recently, and I just had to post a picture:
We wanted to get an interview with him, but all he wanted to do was “phone home”.
(Shockingly gaudy early-80s plaster bust of ET courtesy of my aunt and her desire to finally get her basement cleared out)
Let it never be said that Dave Gray of Podcasters Emporium, the Two Schooners Podcast, and the Aussie Geek Podcast is not a man willing to share the love with his fellow podcasters. We’ve been looking for a solution to record interviews over Skype, and not only did Dave point us in the right direction, but he actually spent his own money to buy us a copy (yes, an actually legally-bought copy) of Ecamm Skype Call Recorder as a gift, just to share the love and help us create a better podcast.
So we’ll proclaim it: Dave is a true mensch, a friend to podcasters everywhere, and an all-around great guy. And if you’re not listening to his podcasts already, you should be.
Pints are on us next time you’re in NorCal, mate!
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Kyle here;
So according to IGN, Dark Horse is bringing a Mass Effect comic to iTunes. Not only that, but for one day; Wednesday, January 3rd (which is tomorrow, as of this posting), the first issue will be free to download.
Here’s what Dark Horse says the storyline will be:
Liara T’Soni searches Omega – the most dangerous space station in the galaxy – for clues that could save Commander Shepard, humanity’s greatest hero! A compelling adventure for any fan of smart science fiction, Mass Effect: Redemption exclusively tells a pivotal chapter in the story of Mass Effect 2.
But who cares? It’s free to check out, so even if you don’t like it, you’re not out anything.
And… comics on iTunes, eh? Being pushed with a promotion? Right after the iPad announcement? Hmmm…
The nominations for the 2009 Razzies were announced today, and I just had to share. The Razzies, in case you don’t know, are like the anti-Oscars – given for the worst films of the year instead of the best. The full list of nominees are:
WORST PICTURE:
WORST ACTOR OF 2009:
WORST ACTRESS Of 2009:
WORST SCREEN COUPLE OF 2009:
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF 2009:
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR OF 2009:
WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF OR SEQUEL:
WORST DIRECTOR OF 2009:
WORST SCREENPLAY OF 2009:
WORST PICTURE OF THE DECADE (3 SPECIAL 30TH RAZZIE-VERSARY AWARDS):
WORST ACTOR OF THE DECADE:
WORST ACTRESS OF THE DECADE:
Hey there, it’s Dave here, posting from inside Star Trek Online head start. Or rather, *trying* to post from inside Star Trek Online head start. You see, it seems that when tried to log in, I got a ’server is full’ message and was placed in a queue to log into the game.
Let me say that again: I was put on hold while trying to log into a game that I have invested a not-inconsiderable amount of my finances into…2 days before the official release.
This is really not a good sign. Now more than likely, 90% of the people that were going to play this game already pre-ordered it, and there’s a lot of Star Trek fans world-wide that have been waiting for this. However, I don’t think the player base is going to be nearly the size of WoW (11 million +), and I’ve never had an issue logging into a WoW server whose status is ‘Full’.
Another little matter that I discovered Friday morning: all throughout Beta-testing, we were limited to only 2 character slots. I figured that this was only for the durration of the beta test so as not to overload the game. But lo and behold, I log in on Friday morning when the servers go live and for real for the head start…and I’m still only limited 2 character slots.
Seriously, what the Hell are they smoking over at Cryptic? They already have a char-gen issue by forcing players that only want to play Klingons to grind to level 6 before making a Klingon character; now they’re forcing those players to devote 50% of their character slots to a Federation character that they’ll NEVER PLAY AGAIN?
Of course, if you get the lifetime subscription of the locked in 1-year subscription (a program which ends the day before the official release date), you get a whopping *2* extra character slots. Fascinating.
Come on, Cryptic. Get your act together here. I’ve been defending you for a while now. Don’t let this turn into the ‘Kamp Krusty’ episode of ‘The Simpsons’ with me and quite a few others, curled up, rocking back and forth, and chanting ‘The fixes are coming…the fixes are coming…the fixes are coming…’
Kyle here;
So today Steve Jobs got on stage and read the obituary of print comics. A light, portable, color device with a big, bright OLED screen, a fantastic, easy-to-use interface, and universal connectivity to a huge, slick online store at an affordable price point – this addresses every single problem that was holding back e-comics. Marvel may be cautious, but so are all old media companies when faced with the future. Some purists will turn up their noses, but some music purists still haven’t given up vinyl records either. There’s no accounting for prickly purist cranks, but they don’t dominate the market.
Trees everywhere can rejoice – the dead tree model is, well, dead.
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