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New Dark Knight Rises Trailer Looks Mighty Fine

2012-05-01T06:31:00.001+02:00

Returning to my blog for a second for today's obligatory quick news of the new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, which stirs up my anticipation really well. And after you couldn't understand Bane in the first promos, he's louder than everyone else now. Oh well! Check out the fresh snack of our upcoming summer superhero movie highlight: The Dark Knight Rises – Official Trailer #3

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Announcing My Indie RPG Debut: Eule's Awakening

2012-04-17T12:40:00.000+02:00

I already teased my new project in my latest post, but I have some more information for you today! Right now, I'm more than busy creating my first own old-school RPG called Eule's Awakening: The Lord of Sin with Eule as leading character and many more friends and folks. I'm working with the awesome new RPG Maker VX Ace, which isn't cheap but efficient and addictive to work with. Eule's Awakening features a dark but fun storyline, about 8-10 hours of gameplay, the Island from Lost, all-new...

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3 Pieces of News and Some Oldie

2012-04-11T11:12:00.000+02:00

I've been embarrasingly lazy blogging here over the last few days, but I have good reason for that! And of course I'm not on my way to closing the Buzz down, how could I? It's just that I've got a month full of a very personal project ahead of me, and I will tell you what it is right at the first following bullet point. And some other things I wanted to add right now after that, too. I'm currently creating my own and first RPG with the utterly awesome RPG Maker VX Ace, which I can only...

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Al Lowe Plans Leisure Suit Larry Remake!

2012-04-04T12:53:00.000+02:00

A few months ago I told you about adventure veteran Tim Schafer's new project on Kickstarter, which collected an easy million dollars in only 24 hours. Now another veteran sets out to revive his baby and I couldn't be happier! Al Lowe, once Sierra's most famous personality, and Replay Games plan to remake Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, which was not only one of history's most pirated games, but also my first English computer game at all. I remember how I sat in front of...

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Google Upgrades Maps to 8-Bit for April Fools'

2012-04-01T17:39:00.000+02:00

Google, always known for creative and fun April Fools' jokes, have done it again and prepared over 10 pranks for this year's first April Sunday, although there could, of course, still be more floating around. My personal favorite is the "upgraded" Google Maps technology, which even warns you that "your system may not meet the requirements for 8-bit computations." Heh! By clicking the "Quest" button, you'll enter the new world of 8-bit Dragon Warrior GMaps, which doesn't only look super-cool...

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Russian LOST Clone "Ostrov" Doesn't Even Try

2012-03-30T21:43:00.000+02:00

Well, if that's an April Fools' joke, they're a bit early with it...but well, it's not, and it's airing since January 31 in Belarus: The Russian Lost, which they apparently call OCTPOB...uhm nope, it's actually Ostrov, meaning "the Island", with the whole title translating to The Island of Unwanted People. I'm already exhausted now, so I will just leave you with the synopsis so you can form your own opinions: A group of tourists out of thirteen people, including Lisa and Andrew, arrives in an...

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Nosoyo: "Just Before The Faint" Cover & Tracklist Revealed

2012-03-30T17:43:00.002+02:00

Today I've got a little exclusive scoop straight out of awesome Amsterdam for you, by which I mean the tracklist for the upcoming debut album of our favorite six-piece Nosoyo. If you're following the alt-pop ensemble centered around singer/songwriter Donata on Facebook, you may have already discovered the album's title and cover (another pretty design by Joost Stokhof of the things we are), and now you also get the final tracklist. "Just Before The Faint" will most likely become available...

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Sarah Donner Rocks the Oatmeal's Pterodactyl Poem

2012-03-30T10:07:00.000+02:00

Over half a million people have watched the Motherfucking Pterodactyl Song (based on this Oatmeal comic) while I'm writing this, and most of them, me included, have wondered about the beautiful voice that's singing the Oatmeal's lines along the clip. Well, that's Sarah Donner, indie folkpop "singer/songwriter/creative type who likes cats, 90s mixtapes, musicals, and sequins." She has a lot of good music on her official website, much of it available for free, and I really recommend checking her...

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Game of Thrones: HBO's Hot Season 2 Sneaks!

2012-03-29T00:15:00.000+02:00

If HBO's countless specials, previews, interviews, first looks, and announcements haven't raised your anticipation for the second season of Game of Thrones yet, the six brand-new sneak peeks from the season opener "The North Remembers" should be more than enough to fire up your excitement for April 1st, when we can finally follow this awesome show on our screens again! I don't want to say too much and will just leave you to enjoy the first official scenes from the new season, which adapts...

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Tenacious D's New Video Stars...Wait, Yoshiki?

2012-03-27T23:54:00.002+02:00

A new video by the mighty Tenacious D will soon enter our world, foreshadowing the new album "Rize of the Fenix" (due March 15) and it features a lot of famous faces like Dave Grohl, Val Kilmer, and...wait, Yoshiki? Now how did that happen? You can spot him at about 0:45 into the clip below, which is actually much more interesting in the beginning. Because of Maria Menounos, of course. What did you think? Click the clip below for a first look at the new Tenacious D video for "To Be The Best"...

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Alcatraz' Season 1 Ends, Let's Have a Second!

2012-03-27T23:27:00.000+02:00

So Alcatraz' debut season is over and guess what? The season finale even answered quite a lot questions – or at least allows you to form your own conclusions on many levels that won't be that far off if the show should return to a second season. Fox still hasn't decided on the fates of two shows I'm following, one being Alcatraz, the other one being Fringe (which, by the way, ends its current season with a two-parter titled "End Game". Does that sound promising?), and I could live with...

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L'Arc~en~Ciel Cast & Pay Their MSG Audience

2012-03-22T19:05:00.000+01:00

L'Arc~en~Ciel are the first Japanese band to appear live in New York's famous Madison Square Garden this Saturday and you might even get paid to see them live. No jokes: Gotham Casting is really looking for paid audience and I can only guess it's either because the band didn't sell as much tickets as they expected or because they want only beautiful people to fill the front rows for their recorded live material, which will be sold on DVD later. So it's up to you, New Yorkers: If you want to...

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Review: Yellow Fried Chickenz - "I" ("One")

2012-03-20T15:15:00.000+01:00

Gackt's seven-man boygroup Yellow Fried Chickenz has released their first full album, the 11-song compilation "I" ("One"), and after their latest single flop "Mata, koko de aimasho" my expectations weren't that high to begin with. But it's not completely awful. In fact, some titles like the opener "Circle" or "Mousou Girl" are quite what you would expect from an album like this: straight-forward, sweeping party rock that is instrumentally flawless. Gackt's potential for catchy melodies is...

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Tim Burton's Dark Shadows Trailer Revealed

2012-03-16T10:46:00.000+01:00

The first trailer for Tim Burton's latest project Dark Shadows, a re-imagining of the popular '60s gothic soap, has arrived online and it looks like a lot of fun! Johnny Depp stars as the 200-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins and the rest of the cast is stuffed with other big names like Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jonny Lee Miller, Christopher Lee, and even Alice Cooper as himself. I already love the look and feel of Burton's take on the material, which looks...

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Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition Announced!

2012-03-16T00:05:00.000+01:00

Gaming news don't get much better for me than this: Atari, Wizards of the Coast, and Overhaul Games have announced a summer release of Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, which will be...well, an enhanced edition of one of the most influential and gorgeous RPGs to ever see the light of day. And I can't tell you how much that excites me! I utterly loved Baldur's Gate, which took storytelling and intuitive gameplay to the next level back in 1998 and spawned not only an epic sequel and some add-ons,...

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12012 Release Self-Titled Dir en grey Cover Album

2012-03-15T20:24:00.000+01:00

You rarely hear me spilling nice words about 12012 nowadays, which is because they once made hot shit like this or that, and then went on to produce crap like this. Also because their vocalist almost strangled a girl once. Now, after going on hiatus for a year and a half the guys return with their new album "12012", likely called like that so everyone is convinced that this album presents 12012 in their purest form. But guess what? As early previews already indicated, the sound of 12012 is...

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Sterling Archer, My New Hero

2012-03-12T17:03:00.000+01:00

Continuing my apparent penchant for being late to the party, I just caught up with Archer, one of the coolest and funniest animated shows I've seen recently. The show's titular hero is a secret agent who has more in common with Charlie Sheen than with James Bond, and hilarity ensues in almost every scene. Here goes Wikipedia: Set at ISIS, the International Secret Intelligence Service in New York City, suave but incredibly self-centered master spy Sterling Archer deals with global espionage;...

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First Promo for The Killing's New Season

2012-03-12T12:02:00.000+01:00

This year's April Fools' Day can't come soon enough for many, because it's the take-off date for the new seasons of several hot TV shows like Game of Thrones. AMC's crime drama The Killing also belongs to the shows that received quite a lot of praise for its debut season, even though it presented its followers with quite the anticlimactic finale and didn't resolve its main mystery, the murder of Rosie Larsen. The show, a U.S. remake of the Danish original Forbrydelsen, still convinced most...

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Watch Some Game of Thrones Blu-ray Specials!

2012-03-11T22:10:00.003+01:00

A lovely Vimeo user called Amanda did all of us who are eagerly longing for the second season of Game of Thrones a big favor and uploaded some of the cool season one Blu-ray specials. Of course you still want to buy the awesome Blu-ray set to watch the greatness of this show in super-high quality, so I guess those clips will make you even more excited to grab the set as soon as possible. Enjoy! Game of Thrones – The Targaryen Dynasty See below for links to all of the clips: The...

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Postal III: Worse Than Its Promos

2012-03-10T06:17:00.000+01:00

Running With Scissors must be the only video game developer that has only one extremely notorious franchise in its portfolio. So one may be tempted to ask: How could they churn out such a crappy Postal III, after the second game was such a popular and satirical milestone throughout all the borderline violence? Hell, the expansion pack with crazy demon Gary Colemans appearing randomly in a dark asylum even belongs to the most frightening sequences I have ever played through. And now look at...

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Listen to Luna Sea's 23-Minute Comeback Epic "The One"!

2012-03-09T01:02:00.001+01:00

Luna Sea are gearing up for their first official single release in almost 12 years, a 23-minute epic called "The One", set to hit stores on March 21. The song finally appeared on UStream and made it's way to other video sites for the world to listen. The song feels like a modern-day medley of gorgeous old Luna Sea goodness and features many sequences with the beloved Sugizo playfulness at work as well as some beautiful melodic compositions. I would almost bet Sugi wrote the whole...

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Don Pettit Announces Angry Birds Space

2012-03-08T22:36:00.000+01:00

If you were wondering if Rovio's Angry Birds franchise was on the decline after the sequels Seasons and Rio, you'll be asking yourself a totally different question after watching the "NASA Announcement" trailer for Angry Birds Space – "Just how much money did they put into that ad?!" Don Pettit reports from the International Space Station and has some fun with plush birds and balloon pigs before we get to see some gameplay with the new game physics, which look pretty cool and should pose...

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Holy Tonto! First Image of Johnny Depp in The Lone Ranger

2012-03-08T17:56:00.000+01:00

The first image from the production of the upcoming remake of The Lone Ranger surfaced on the net and, as Film School Reject Cole Abaius correctly remarked, it seems as if Johnny Depp's new interpretation of Tonto is going to be quite the "Goth Captain Jack Sparrow." I vaguely remember myself being a big fan of The Lone Ranger as a little kid, but that's too far back to remember anything else. Gotta admit that I'm excited for the new Tonto, though. The movie also stars Armie Hammer as the...

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IAmTheRain: "Regression Therapy" Best Of Album & Exclusive Bonus Disc

2012-03-07T00:07:00.001+01:00

David Händel's project IAmTheRain is no longer active, instead he's in the midst of finalizing his brand-new first ProximaShines album right now. But before the new recordings hit the net I present you with a pretty vast package of IAmTheRain hits and unreleased songs assembled into a two-disc best of album, plus an exclusive bonus disc filled with further unreleased leftovers and demo recordings. "Regression Therapy" is the title for the final IAmTheRain release, which I strongly recommend...

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The Simpsons' Great Game of Thrones Spoof

2012-03-05T18:48:00.001+01:00

Last night's episode of The Simpsons came with another surprisingly fun couch gag – a spoof on the burning-hot franchise Game of Thrones. Featuring the score and style of HBO's epic fantasy series, the Simpsons writers certainly hit the weak spots of all fellow Game of Thrones followers, and if you haven't seen it yet, do so now: The Simpsons – Game of Thrones Couch Gag via a thousand Tumblr posts like this one & thanks Jane!

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