We have 3 copies of Dollhouse: The Complete First Season on Blu-Ray to give away
“As an “Active”, the mysterious Echo (Dushku) serves as an unwitting agent of Dollhouse, an illegal underground organization that provides its elite clientele with programmable human beings. Actives receive personality imprints, allowing them to temporarily become anyone or anything—the perfect burglar, lover, spy, or assassin. Now, with the FBI and her own shadowy past closing in, Echo must face a rogue Active who will stop at nothing to bring Dollhouse down—forever.”
TO WIN
For your chance to win a copy of Dollhouse: The Complete First Season on Blu-Ray simply caption this image above from the show.
Lucky winners will be selected on November 3rd, 2012. The best captions will win! Good luck to you all!
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If you can’t wait then you can buy your copy of Dollhouse: The Complete First Season here
Trick or Treat? PopCap and American Dental Association are giving away free copies of Plants vs Zombies for the PC and Mac for free. No trick, just treats! This is part of an ad campaign to teach kids about the importance of brushing and flossing teeth, good diet, abstaining from tobacco, and visits to the dentist to prevent cavities and gum disease.
American dentists are also giving away limited edition trading cards with a code for a free download at their offices. Printable coupons are available on the Stop Zombie Mouth website here in case you’re looking to give away a healthier alternative to junk food this Halloween. Check it out here.
Take a good look at that brand new Pokémon themed Nintendo 3DS XL because that will be the only way you will ever see this version fo the handheld, even if you are lucky enough to be a Japanese resident. Today it was announced by the Pokémon Company that this special Charizard themed 3DS XL will be sold at special Pokémon Centers in Japan.
However you will not be able to simply purchase this 3DS XL as you please. Instead you must reserve a right to purchase it, then be placed in a lottery which will be held from November 3rd to November 26th. If your reservation is picked in the lottery then you will be able to purchase the special Charizard 3DS XL for 18,900 yen between December 15th and January 14th. Nothing says rare like Pokémon eh?
Capcom has kicked of an interesting contest for fans that are looking forward to playing next year’s Remember Me, which is a futuristic action title being developed by Dontnod Entertainment. The story of Remember Me is based around the idea that memories are a commodity in the future which can be sold, traded, stolen and even modified.
This contest they are holding involves creating a fake product advertisement for a fake brand in an attempt to have them featured in Remember Me when it is released. There are five different categories for creations, which are: an alcoholic drink, fast food, a sport/sports event, a dating service, and a children’s toy company.
For those of you who are artistically challenged, there is a second contest being held where you can send Capcom photographs of your chereished memories as well as a description of why they are important to you. Capcom will then select photos at random and use them as a part of the special effects that will be used during Remember Me’s Memory Overload sequences that will occur whenever the main character Nilin performs a signature attack. Details about the contest can be found here and it will end on November 29th.
Indie Royale has released a blockbuster bundle to celebrate Halloween this year in a frightening horror themed manner. As usual, the bundle is pay what you want with a moving minimum price. As more people pay the minimum, the the minimum price rises, those who pay more drive the price down for other buyers.
The bundle is headlined with Telltale Games third season of hit adventure game Sam & Max, Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse for Steam. Next up is 2d horror game by Benjamin Rivers called Home for Steam and Desura, Ice-Pick Lodge’s first person adventure game Pathalogic, Brawesome’s comedy adventure game MacGuffin’s Curse for Steam and Desura, and finally Chaosoft Games’ retro action RPG EvilQuest. Those who pay more than $8.00 USD will receive the customary chiptune album. This bundle’s album is by C-jeff, Preschtale.
As a bonus, the highest contributor will receive the sold out HOME: Old SChool Collect’rs edition. The physical bundle contains a printed town map, mapping tools, a classic game manual, exclusive game artifacts, and a digital download code. Check out the Halloween Bundle here.
If you were still tuning into G4TV then you will probably stop doing so by the end of the year because today the company announced that they are planning on dropping the last two video game related shows on the channel as Attack of the Show! and X-Play will be ending at the end of 2012.
G4 said in a statement that “Both shows will include original episodes through the end of the year, and will look back at their most memorable moments as we lead up to their final episodes.” Both of these shows were very memorable in the past, with X-Play starting back in 2003 and Attack of the Show in 2005. However in recent years the favorite hosts for these shows had chosen to leave their respective shows and the quality of both has been on a downward spiral since then.
By the Power of Grayskull, iHave the Power! He-Man: The Most Powerful Game in the Universe was released to the iTunes App Store. Chillingo and Mattel teamed up together to bring this classic cartoon to the mobile arena. The game is a 2d platformer with 27 levels across 7 areas of Eternia. Players will play He-Man as he slashes his way through big boss fights featuring classic enemies such as Skeletor and Beast Man. He-Man is fully upgradeable.
He Man: The Most Powerful Game In the Universe is available as a universal download for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch and costs $0.99 on the iTunes App Store here.
All the big names were out at Woolloomoolloo Wharf to lend a hand to Sony Foundations annual Wharf4Ward fundraising charity lunch where 850 of the countries stars enjoyed a water front treat of fine food , wine and entertainment, raising over half a million dollars in the process for Sony’s charity campaign ‘You Can’ which through a combined campaign effort setup by Sony and Canteen helps to raise funds and awareness for specialised youth cancer care and services Australia wide. Some of the Sony Artists aiding the appeal included Timomatic and Justice Crew as well as a special appearance from Jessica Mauboy as well as performances from the X-Factor finalists.
Each major network also helped support the event with such household names as Channel Sevens Natalie Bassingthwaite, Nines Georgie Gardner and Channel Tens Natarsha Belling amongst many others all hosting the event. Peter Garrett made a surprise appearance and many other celebrities all helped to achieve such an amazing amount which will give so much to many who have so little.
Sophie Ryan, Chief Executive Officer, Sony Foundation Australia, said: “800 guests, six restaurants, 200m of wharf, five live music acts and 11 hosts – the recipe for an amazing day. It was also a great example of how people can come together to raise more than half a million dollars for a much-needed cause. This money goes to Sony Foundation’s ‘You Can’ campaign to help young Australians survive cancer and we’re ecstatic with the result. This money will make a measurable difference to the lives of young Australians with cancer”.
The guests enjoyed the food of some of Sydneys finest dining establishments along the wharf including Akis, China Doll, Mantra, Otto Ristorante, Cristinis and Kingsleys Steak and Crabhouse.
Ghost Recon Online is a free-to-play tactical shooter for the PC. Delivering hardcore team based combat, players can choose between three unique classes to dominate the battlefield. Update 0.9.0 adds an entirely new slew of features to the game for players in Europe and North America.
Players new to the game will be able to access the Beginner’s Playlist. This means that gamers can take it slow and learn the ropes with other newcomers before jumping in the deep end with Ghost Recon’s more experienced sharks.
Along with these changes, 6 new and exclusive Halloween weapon skins and stat differences will be available in the update. These are sure to bring a spooky edge to the game’s Elite Ghosts.
Clans have been highly requested by fans of the game and Patch 0.9.0 is certainly set to satisfy. With the new ability to create and join alliances with other players, fans can form bonds and create friendships. Clan tags and clan crests further help to personalise each squad and competitive clan battles will come into effect on January 13th 2013.
Ghost Recon Online’s Halloween update has been released as of today and Ubisoft seem to be planning much more support post-launch; great news for fans of the game.
The Best Red Vs. Blue DVD Ever. Of All Time. Studio: Roosterteeth Publisher: Hanabee Format: DVD Release Date:Out Now Price:$9.95 (Buy Here)
Overview
Red Vs. Blue is one of the longest running Machinima series of all time. What started out as a group of guys just playing Halo and recording some hilarious clips of the game has turned into a phenomena of its own. As far as I know, the series is currently on its tenth season and is still going strong. In fact the series has maintained a comedic quality throughout most of its tenure and this best of DVD reflects that.
Story
Red Vs. Blue follows the story of the Red team versus the Blue team of characters set in the Halo video games. The series is generally quite funny, but as you’ll see from this best of, it gets more and more serious and less and less entertaining as the series numbers increase.
So in this best of DVD, we have what appears to be some kind of award show where the fans of the series have voted for their favourite scenes in various categories online. The winners of these have been selected for showing in this feature.
So whilst the DVD itself doesn’t really have a story, it doesn’t really need one. I mean, like, this is really something that only the fans of the series would be picking up anyway. For someone new to the franchise though, I don’t see this being the best way to being introduced to it. It requires a lot of foreknowledge to get the jokes and references within the show considering that they only sparsely show entire episodes on the disc.
I have to admit that I have seen a fair few entire seasons of Red Vs. Blue in the past (I stopped when Monty Oum started doing the well choreographed CGI scenes) and even I couldn’t recall some of the scenes that had won awards. I’m not the die-hardest of fan with this show, so this has impacted my viewing experience a little bit. For example, the clips from the earlier episodes were absolutely hilarious and I can absolutely agree with them being in the best of show-reel. However, as we get more and more into this CGI misrepresentation of the core concept of Red Vs. Blue, it becomes abundantly clear the series has suffered a massive decline in quality from a storyline and writing perspective.
Visuals
How do you rate a show like this visually? I mean, from a gaming perspective, it looks just like Halo does only you have to account for when each generation of game was originally released. You could look at it from an animation perspective, in which case it isn’t very fluid and it is a bit jerky at times. And obviously speaking, a lot of the earlier effect work was very stuck over the top, so to speak.
I’d say that visually, the Red Vs. Blue series has transferred on to the DVD format quite well. There didn’t seem to be any kind of hitching or stuttering or any kinds of negative aspects to the overall quality of the show.
What I actually liked about the visuals though, was how they’ve re-purposed one of the more straightforward maps from Halo 3 into the setting of the award show. It worked really well for this award ceremony and I never would have linked that map with this kind of thing until the guys over at Roosterteeth had thought of it. I also really enjoyed how this ceremony brought back a lot of old characters from the show, and seeing them represented visually once again was quite enjoyable to watch.
The one thing I didn’t like about this show visually was that they showed segments of the incredibly well choreographed fight scenes done up by Monty Oum. Now this guy is a genius, I love his work, but does his stuff fit Red Vs. Blue? No. No it does not. As a once off gag for a season, it would have been tolerable, but for them to still be using more and more in-house footage it really feels like they’re killing what made the franchise great, which was a bunch of jokes spoken through some poorly puppeted Master Chief clones.
Audio
Much like the visuals, this is a hard one to judge. This is because of the nature of this particular DVD. You see, some of the really early episodes of the series were very obviously recorded with a low quality set up whilst the later episodes are very recognisably recorded with higher end gear. This creates a kind of unbalance in the overall audio quality simply because of the nature of the series.
As for the disc itself, there are no audio mistakes or errors present from what I could tell. The audio plays in sync with whats happening on the screen which is to be expected of this kind of product.
I really liked the way that the award show was scripted. The voice overs really brought the script to life and it added that classic Red Vs. Blue feel to the ceremony. This is important because the show needs to feel authentically Red Vs. Blue for it to have worked. And it does, so that’s good.
Extras
I was a little saddened by a lack of any real bonus features with this package. The stuff included on the disc were nothing more than previews to other Roosterteeth shows that are currently available online. Whilst not having a prolonged bonus feature section doesn’t damage the value of the disc, it also does nothing to enhance it.
Overall
Overall The Best Red Vs. Blue DVD Ever. Of All Time. is a great purchase for any Red Vs. Blue fan. However, if you’re a newcomer to the franchise you may not get all of the jokes and references made within the show which may cause your viewing experience to be dampened. Fortunately, Roosterteeth air all of their Red Vs. Blue episodes online and you can catch up on those if you’re really interested in checking this series out.
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