One of the producers of the Transformers trilogy plans on making THIS into a film. Good luck buddy!
Yep. You read it right. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 1978 video game Space Invaders is preparing to invade the big screen. Producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Odd Lot Entertainment’s Gigi Pritzker have teamed up and got their hands on the rights to make film adaptation of Space Invaders. And yeah, I know what your thinking! Your thinking ‘Oh no! Lorenzo di Bonaventura? Isn’t he behind that Doom movie and that GI Joe movie? Sad Panda!’ Well cheer up emo kid, he’s not Uwe Boll! di Bonaventura also produced Constantine as well as all three Transformers movies. The two are currently looking for someone to write the script, but many are wondering how the hell a good script based on Space Invaders in the first place. Apparently di Bonaventura thinks makings movies based on 80s videos games are a good idea, because he agreed to produce a movie based on the game Asteroids when Universal Studios snatched up the rights to make a movie for it back in 2009, with Matthew Lopez writing the script who wrote Race To Witch Mountain. Oh well, it can’t be much worse than that Mario Bros movie. Can it?
September already has a great lineup of Madman DVDs (you can check them out here), and now they’re is adding to it: here’s a few of the SBS shows that will be coming to DVD and Blu-ray in September.
Sex: An Unnatural History
It has been five decades since the release of the contraceptive pill in Australia. Could the scientists who created it ever know of the sexual revolution it would create? We like to believe we are more sexually liberated than our parents or grandparents, but are we really? What is it that makes us tick and how has our sexual behavior changed since the 1960s?
Starting with a look into why we started having sex and how we became hardwired to monogamy, and moving through to the subject of taboos and where we go from here – from top to tail – presenter Julia Zemiro explores these and more questions encompassing the last fifty years of our sexual landscape in this witty, frank and factual six-part series.
Release date: 31st August 2011
Go Back to Where You Came From
Following its phenomenally successful screenings on SBS in June, GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM will be available on DVD August 31st, 2011. Igniting the Twitter universe upon its broadcast on SBS in June, GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM is one of the most controversial series ever made in Australia, and a must-see program for all, no matter what your political bent.
Choosing six Australians with deeply differing views on refugees and asylum-seekers, GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM takes them on a very real refugee journey, in which the participants agree to challenge their preconceived notions by living with and as refugees for one month. To do so, they will trace, in reverse, the journeys that real refugees took to reach Australia. Along the route there will be debates, arguments and changes of their opinions, but not one will be untouched by the experience.
Release date: 31st August 2011
Seduction and the City
In 1852, French entrepreneur, Aristide Boucicaut, created the world’s first department store, Le Bon Marché. His genius idea was to target the new middle class woman and attract them into a fantasy world which could be enjoyed without a chaperon, and where all types of goods are available to purchase. The concept is so successful that it is very quickly copied all over the world. Soon there is Selfridges in London, Myer’s in Melbourne and Macy’s in New York – all of which invent ever more enticing ideas to attract customers and sell industrial goods in huge numbers.
Through expert interviews, beautiful photography and extraordinary diary excerpts, SEDUCTION IN THE CITY tells the story of the department store, and the social history of the phenomenon of shopping which took hold of the world and transformed the lives of women, national economies and societies forever.
SMASH! Con has always been home to a great number of vendors, selling all sorts of bits and bobs, however this year we saw an unprecendented amount of vendors. This year held so many great vendors, it was difficult to keep track of them all. For interest of time I will highlight some particularly awesome vendors at the event this year, as well as provide a list of who was present with a booth or stall.
Stand out vendors included:
– Madman with there giant booth featuring a plethora of manga ($10 per book!), anime (discounted prices) and plenty of other Madman licensed merchandise.
– Siren Visual giving out free posters for When They Cry, The Tatami Galaxy and Clannad: After Story as well as selling a bunch of anime from them.
– Hondarake – Full of Books was there with awesome discounted manga and anime, some of which are incredibly rare or out of print, so if you managed to pick some of them up, congratulations!
– Anime at Abbotsford were selling a truck-load of anime merchandise, particularly figurines and models as well as plushies, and other miscellaneous merchandise.
– Pinin were also great and featured a wide range of plushies, cuddle pillows and other anime merchandise all for great prices.
– Lets not forget the Hobbyco booth which had all the great Gundam models on display and for sale.
– Finally another stand-out was the Japan Foundation, who do alot of great work with bringing Japanese culture to Australia through various means.
If your favourite vendor wasn’t above, don’t fret, they were all brilliant, here is the full list of vendors below:
Madman
Hobbyco
Japan Foundation
AIE
Alice Overture + Forgotten Memories
Animavericks
Anime at Abbotsford
Armoured Heaven
Battle Axe
Critical Hit
Design Centre Enmore
DJ Cosplay/X-Seven
Graphic! At the Sydney Opera House
Hondarake – Full of Books
JMC Academy
JP Mode
Kiseki Magazine
Manga Arts
Meon
Panda Sparks
Pinin
Quantm College
Siren Visual
Sugart
Supanova
Transreality Simulations
Wacom
Zombster
Plus of course all of the artist circle and anime clubs which were also great. So what did you guys think of the vendors? Who was your favourite? Leave a comment below letting us know!
Well… things were never looking very good for Mega Man Legends 3, Capcom never green lit the game, and had only been saying that Mega Man Legends 3 may get a Prototype version to test the waters of the market. Still, the news is rather depressing tonight as Capcom has officially put the final nail in the game’s coffin by saying that Mega Man Legends 3 is canceled.
Capcom didn’t go into detail about why they canceled the title besides that they performed “an assessment of whether the title will go into full production… is based on a number of criteria with input from different sectors of the company. Unfortunately it was not felt that the Mega Man Legends 3 Project met the required criteria”
Some people may think that the reason this game was canceled was a grudge against Keiji Inafune who quit Capcom last year who was the co-creator of Mega Man, but Capcom also said that “The cancellation of the MML3 project is in no way related to Inafune-san leaving the company.” This news is still very depressing simply due to the fact that millions of fans around the world were anticipating this game greatly and it would have been a great addition to an otherwise lacking 3DS lineup.
Rebecca Black went from spoilt rich girl to even more spoilt and even more rich girl in what is without a doubt one of the most beautiful tales of triumph against all odds. Black rose from the mediocrity of priveleged Los Angeles life with nothing but a $4000 cheque from her mother in hand and used it to propel her unrivaled vocal talents to become one of the most famous pop-sensations in recent history. She is indeed a modern day Rocky Balboa. Congratulations Rebecca, you truly are an inspiration to the human race world-wide.
Black has now finally released her much anticipacted follow up to her world-wide smash-hit Friday with a equally daft and souless song, My Moment. Black seems to be giving a big ole’ shout out to all her haters who doubted her when she said her mother would give her 4000 dollars if she had some spare pocket change. So if you hated on Black, well you better take it back guys, because this is her moment! Whether the moment she speaks of is on a Friday is still to be confirmed but you can check out the latest music video for yourself below. Look’s like Black is Back!
Usually on this website we post our own unboxing of special editions when they are released, however how about an unboxing video from the developer themselves. Or at least Aram Jabbari, a rep from the company who will be able to provide viewers a full run down of everything players can have if they purchase the Love is Over deluxe edition of Catherine.
In the video we are shown the pillow case that contains Catherine stretched out across the front side, a pair of polka dot boxers that match the ones that Vincent is wearing in the game, a soundtrack CD with music from the game, the game itself of course, a pizza box from The Stray Sheep bar, a T-shirt that looks quite similar to the hearts from another game and of course that new game smell. The game will be released next Tuesday on July 26th for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
While we’ve known that North America would be getting Final Fantasy XIII-2 ever since the game was announced, we did not know exactly when other than a vague 2012 window. Thankfully that confusion has been cleared up because today Square Enix revealed that those of us in North America can expect to be getting the game in January.
This news means that Western gamers will only need to wait a month after the Japanese gamers have a chance to access the title in December. Also announced today is that FFXIII-2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dead Island and Wakfu will be available to play at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend. If you can’t make it to Comic-Con, then we have our hands-on impression of the demo of the game back at E3 last month here.
Last year The Walking Dead became AMC’s highest rated series opening in the networks history even beating out such television giants as Breaking Bad and Mad Men, also from AMC.
With such huge ratings a second season was a given and AMC has now delivered us a trailer attached to last nights Breaking Bad Season 4 premiere episode.
The Walking Dead tells the tale of Rick Grimes as he leads a ragtag group of survivors as they struggle to survive the harsh new world over-run with a zombie apocalypse. The first season was 6 episodes long in total so if you have yet to do so, go check it out before the series returns this Halloween.
Boy, oh boy, now this was a big one. This was the biggest SMASH! Convention thus far and needless to say it blew me away, there was so much amazing things going on and the guests all were brilliant. The convention as a whole was easily the best Australian con this year and perhaps in the past few years.
For those who are unaware, us crazy blokes and bladies (bladies = blokes +ladies) here at Capsule Computers were covering the event in a pretty in depth fashion. I was one of those covering the event, I was the guy cosplaying as that one guy in the background who raises his arms in the air to help Goku do the Spirit Bomb to defeat Buu. Yeah I was that random guy amongst every other person on the planet. In other words I wasn’t cosplaying and you probably didn’t notice me at all!
But you may have noticed our other awesome staff members cosplaying or just being all around good blokes, interviewing people and what not. I loved the way SMASH! handled media access with us being able to interview the guests as well and cover the event as well as enter at the price of a few articles on our site. All the staff was really friendly and it was just a great experience. Although I did hear from MasterAbbott that the Maid Cafe wasn’t so friendly, but that’s another thing altogether.
We also held a contest here at Capsule Computers, with the goal being to find Capsule Computers Editor-in-Chief MasterAbbott. Unfortunately no one found him, even his own staff struggled to get into contact on the day! We did however manage to snap a sneaky shot of MasterAbbott as he was lurking the vendors hall.
All in all I had a great day at the event, loved all the panels, loved all the cosplayers, loved all the vendors and loved covering all the news of the day for you all to see. I’m looking forward to next years SMASH without a doubt.
When you mention upcoming zombie games, two games come to mind. The remake of Dead Rising 2, and of course Dead Island which is so hotly anticipated that many are searching for any snippet of information they can get a hold of. The ESRB is of course here to give the game a rating and Deep Silver’s Dead Island certainly sounds like a game to remember.
You can catch the full rating below; which includes plenty of blood and gore as well as drug references, sexual content, bikinis and dismemberment. Needless to say the game has been given an M rating.
This is a first-person shooter in which players join a group of survivors who must battle a zombie infestation on a tropical island. Players use baseball bats, knives, axes, shotguns, and rifles to kill waves of zombies. Battles are accompanied by screams of pain, realistic gunfire, and slow-motion effects.
When zombies are knocked to the ground, players can sometimes stomp on their heads to complete kills. Large blood splatter stains the surrounding environment and players’ weapon. Players can also dismember zombies, and various scenes depict bloody torsos, legs, or other mutilated body parts.
As the game progresses, alcoholic beverages can be consumed to increase damage output, resulting in screen-blurring effects; in one cutscene, drunken characters are depicted stumbling around a party. Some sequences also reference drug use; one mission requires players to retrieve drugs for a character (e.g., “I haven’t shot up since the day before yesterday and I’m getting the chills.”).
The game also contains a handful of sexual references in the dialogue (e.g., “One rich bugger I investigated was clearly molesting his fourteen-year-old daughter.”); one scene depicts a bikini-clad woman tied to a bed and surrounded by video cameras. The words “f**k” and sh*t” can be heard in dialogue.
