Screen legend Charleton Heston died Saturday April 5 in his home. He was 84.

ActionFigureInsider brings us news that DST will be shipping a prop replica of the flux capacitor from Back to the Future. According to DST’s mySpace page, the key to time travel ships next month.
One can only imagine how many people will mount this in their car.
 

I don’t watch the Tyra Banks Show, simply because it’s Tyra Banks and I have no interest in anything she says, as it tends to come out sounding like the adults in Peanuts cartoons to me. However I happened to watch a little clip from the show that had a segment on “Decoding Your Man”, where a poor hapless gamer geek is verbally castrated by his girlfriend and Tyra both. Then to add insult to injury, “Gaming Goddess” Morgan Webb is brought in as the expert opinion.

Here’s the clip:

Basically, Webb disses and degrades the very genre that gave her the popularity and stardom she [unfortunately for us] now enjoys. Rather than helping the girlfriend understand why her guy plays video games like he does and come to a mutual agreement, Webb re-enforces the girlfriend’s desire to all-out change her man altogether as she sees fit. Morgan spouts a whole lot of nonsense about gaming genres and tries sounding like some kind of psychologist on the subject, and fails miserably. I had little regard for Webb to begin with, since I see her as being a poser when it comes to trying to act like some kind of gaming expert. This just knocks any respect I had for her down to 0% as she proves she’s just another bimbo who thinks she knows her stuff, but instead is just flailing her ego around.

Guys, not all women are like this. Honestly. This is a poor representation of women understanding guys, and more importantly understanding gaming. This video is just an estrogen-filled globe of stereotyping on all gamers as being “obsessed” with their games. Obviously this is not true, as the majority are casual in their gaming exploits. If more women took the time to try and get inside their guys heads and understand their man, rather than control him and mold him into their own personal plaything, then there would be alot more happy gamers out there with happy girlfriends.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army is set to open July 11, 2008. That seems like a way off, but fear not, Yahoo has a new trailer up for the movie.

You can see it here.

Director Michael Bay has been hard at work on the sequel to 2007’s mega hit Transformers for some time. He’d scouted locations in Philadelphia and Washington DC and even Egypt. He got the ball rolling on preproduction while the writer’s strike was on so they could be ready to go as soon as the script was done.

Now the pieces are falling into place, and the stars of the show are being spotted in Culver City, California. Not Shia LaBeouf, John Turturro or Megan Fox, but the Transformers! Last week a motorist snapped photos of 3 Saleen Mustangs with the Barricade deco. Just this week SuperheroHype spotted Optimus Prime as well as Ironhide and Ratchet. Its a safe bet more cars are on the way, as we’re sure to see more Autobots and Decepticons join the battle for the sequel.

Also of note is filming is confirmed to be taking place in Sedona, Arizona and actress Natassia Malthe has been cast in an unspecified role.

You all got a peak over a week ago of the Sonic Unleashed video leaked onto the internet. After a stir up on SEGA’s part over the video and various screenshot images being posted on numerous blogs, the bigwigs decided to cut the attempted cover-up charade and just come clean by formally announcing that the game is indeed real and upcoming.

Because we didn’t know that already.

Making use of the aptly titled “Hedgehog Engine” to deliver a supposed combination of oldschool gameplay with 3D graphics, Sonic Unleashed is being claimed as the new way to infuse the series with an injection of it’s past glory. (a over-used claim already tried with Sonic Next-Gen and Sonic and the Secret Rings)

“Sonic Unleashed will introduce a new, unexpected storyline along with innovative gameplay that compliments traditional skills and features, allowing players to experiment and engage in new ways.” says Vice President of Marketing at SEGA of America, Sean Ratcliffe.

If they’ve decided to dub the already notorious news about Sonic changing into a were-hedgehog as “new and unexpected”, then I guess they hit the nail on the head, though probably not in the positive way they meant. Regardless, the game is slated for a release during the holidays for Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, and Wii.

You have got to give props to IGN for their ability to create pretty convincing fakes. It appears as a April Fools joke, the media news giant released a supposed “World Debut” of a live-action Legend of Zelda film trailer to trick fans.

It also appears they have way too much time on their hands to make such a realistic full-length trailer for a movie that’s not, in fact, real. But, kudos to them.

Read more at The Daily Page: Going old school at the 2008 Midwest Gaming Classic

See also
midwestgamingclassic.com
www.twingalaxies.com