I'm not all that familiar with the source material From the Council of Elrond: ‘At once I took my leave of Denethor, but even as I went north- wards, messages came to me out of Lorien that Aragorn had passed that way, and that he had found the creature called Gollum. There- fore I went first to mee...

The first film, which hails from WB and New Line Cinema, is Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum :? I have minimal confidence in this. Peter Jackson et al did a fine job of adapting LOTR. They did a poor job of adapting The Hobbit, and though the circumstances around that were very different, one...

This is an overview of the project which is worth it for a laugh. Having just watched it, the Line is even dumber than I imagined it would be. My favourite potential disaster that the video touches on is if there's structural damage at one end that causes a domino effect that wrecks the entire city...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68945445 This is ridiculous in so many ways. I remember watching Game of Thrones thinking that all the characters who dismissed the idea that the white walkers ever existed were all nuts, because clearly something happened in the past which caused people ...

Taxi Hunter A 1993 Hong Kong dark comedy slasher about a guy who has beef with taxi drivers and goes round taking revenge on them. It's not bad! It was supposedly inspired by Falling Down, though there's little resemblance other than a guy who's pissed off with society (specifically bad taxi driver...

Hopefully we'll start to see a bit of a rethink around suitable scale and budgets of games of certain genres, and rather than see things like immersive sims disappear we'll instead see proper labours of love being produced (ie not Redfall) by teams of an appropriate size using sustainable resources...

Aside from Deus Ex, I'm struggling to think of any immersive sims that have been commercial hits.

Dishonored 1, maybe, but the sequel I believe was something of a commerical flop.

It will also dissuade external talent from moving to Microsoft, as well as making everyone at an MS studio feel like they've been put on notice. It's all stick and no carrot, not just an abhorrent move but a short-sighted and dumb one too.

The suggestion I saw (and again, I'm dubious) was that shutting the studios down would provide the funds to create a new Fallout team. Whether they'd hypothetically keep on any staff from those studios - which would seem like the right thing to do - is another question.

There are rumours that Bethesda is being given a dedicated Fallout team and this is the reason for the cull. Not convinced it's true yet but there was a comment from Todd Howard last week that they're trying to increase their output for their core RPGs. If it is true then what a shitty way to go abo...

Just started playing Dragon's Dogma 2 yesterday. I wasn't a fan of the first game so I went in with doubts, but I'm really enjoying it after a few hours. The combat is great - it has a real physicality and flow to it that makes you feel like you're being more dynamic than you actually are. I'm still...

I go now to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed.

RIP.

There have been seven Boeing whistleblowers since 2019, so two of them dying in the space of the month is... uh... totally normal. Nothing to see here!

<shifts slowly away from laser target>

Little Shop Of Horrors Directors Cut Went to see it at the cinema. Its still a perfect movie in its DC form. Is that the version where the plants win at the end (i.e. as per the stage play)? I think it's included as an extra on the blu ray. I still prefer the happy ending, but I like how the darker...

Just had a weird experience. I was on the phone to my mum, having a catch-up, when the call went silent. This in itself isn’t especially unusual as the mast near me is a wreck (it’s been repeatedly vandalised), but what happened next was very odd. After five seconds or so of silence and me asking if...