J.J. Abrams’ giant monster movie Cloverfield opens today, and it’s still a mystery as to what the giant monster is. We here at GGL Wire don’t have any special information you don’t — but we have given it some thought, and we’ve identified ten things the monster from Cloverfield is not. Continued…
DSvision, a product to allow DS owners to watch movies on their handheld, is slated to launch in Japan next spring. The product is supported by Nintendo.
Users will need to buy a ¥3,890 ($37) kit; a USB dongle with a microSD card slot, a 512MB card and an adapter that fits into the DS Lite cartridge slot.
Movies have to be purchased from the DSvision website on a PC, then transferred to the microSD card with the supplied hardware.
There will be around 300 films, TV shows, manga and e-books available at launch.
Via Digital World Tokyo.
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This summer has seen two films about retro gaming, Chasing Ghosts and King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters, with both based on the 1982 LIFE Magazine article that assembled the World’s Greatest Gamers for a photo shoot. At the time, Walter Day had created Twin Galaxies to become the place to submit all electronic game scores. Twin Galaxies set the rules and standards and also posted a list of the top players across the nation.
There is a pantheon of gods in the Comic-Con universe: George Lucas, Joss Whedon, Stan Lee, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Hiyao Miyazaki. But none of them, not even Lucas, garners the kind of devotion felt by fans of British fantasy writer Neil Gaiman.
Gaiman is the author of six novels, including Stardust (the basis for the film starring Robert DeNiro and Michelle Pfeiffer that opens August 10), four short story collections, and many other works. But he’s still best known for The Sandman, his 75-issue comic series that ended in 1996.
He appeared in a room of 4,000 fans, admitting that he had nothing prepared to discuss. So he talked about his earliest Comic-Con experience in 1989, when he could still walk around and meet comics professionals without getting mobbed by rabid fans. Continued…
