| 11/17/2008 01:37 AM |
| Vivek turns to action with parkour stunts (New Kerala) |
If you thought Vivek Oberoi has been a bit out of news, here's what the actor's been up to. Vivek's just completed a two-month long schedule for Kumar Taurani's untitled film in South Africa.
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| 11/16/2008 07:20 PM |
| Games Without Frontiers: Victory in Vomit — The Sickening Secret of 'Mirror's Edge' (Wired News) |
Mirror's Edge Screenshot courtesy Electronic Arts By now you have probably heard the warning: Playing Mirror's Edge will make you vomit. The hot new videogame is a sort of "first-person runner": You're a courier who travels across the rooftops of a locked-down, police-state city, delivering black-market messages by using acrobatic feats of parkour. You're constantly ...
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| 11/19/2008 08:03 AM |
| Rough Trade (New York Press) |
First, it’s got a great title. Quantum of Solace is worthy of the best Bond movie labels ( From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, Octopussy ) because it transfers the series’ familiar sexual innuendo into droll morality.
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| 11/19/2008 01:21 AM |
| Game review: 'Mirror’s Edge' is innovative (The Pantagraph) |
Occasionally, a video game will reshape the way gamers see virtual worlds. Much like “Wolfenstein 3D,” “Super Mario 64” and “Half-Life” before it, the stunning first-person action-adventure game “Mirror’s Edge” (Electronic Arts, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, $59.99) smashes the conventions of its predecessors.
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| 11/18/2008 03:01 PM |
| A video game that's so real, it may make you vomit (Scientific American) |
It's been in stores for only one week, but Mirror's Edge (a first-person video game developed by Electronic Arts, Inc.) is apparently causing quite a stir. Literally. People playing the game have reported feeling dizzy and, in some cases, so nauseous that they vomit, writes Clive Thompson in his Wired.com blog, "Games without Frontiers." [More]
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| 11/19/2008 08:00 AM |
| Virgin America Brings Gogo(r) Inflight Internet and YouTube Live to the Skies (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance) |
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19, 2008 -- Virgin America, the California-based airline, today announced the launch of Gogo Inflight Internet, via the first air-to-ground video stream during YouTube Live -- YouTube's first official real-world user event on Nov. 22.
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| 11/19/2008 12:37 AM |
| Scene Articles (The Observer) |
Auric Goldfinger Played by Gert Frobe, Auric Goldfinger was a gold-crazed business man who tried to break into Fort Knox before getting thwarted by 007 (Sean Connery) in "Goldfinger."
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| 11/18/2008 04:07 AM |
| World At War Doubles CoD4's Sales News (Total Video Games) |
Call of Duty: World at War has doubled the amount of UK unit sales that CoD4 managed during launch week...
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| 11/14/2008 05:05 PM |
| Mirror's Edge Reviews Find Game Brilliant, Frustrating (1up.com) |
Mirror's Edge generated a fair bit of hype when it was debuted, and its parkour-inspired platforming from a first-person perspective was enough to grant it a cover story in the October issue of EGM. We even recommended it as far back as February in our Decision '08 feature, and more recently highlighted it as one of the Best of E3 2008 . Perhaps taking all this as a positive sign, ...
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| 11/16/2008 03:13 AM |
| V-game review: 'Mirror's Edge' (SouthtownStar) |
Much like "Wolfenstein 3D," "Super Mario 64" and "Half-Life" before it, the stunning first-person action-adventure game "Mirror's Edge" smashes the conventions of its predecessors.
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