There’s no doubting Apple’s marketing is immensely effective, however the constant stream of overzealous rhetoric used by its executives often makes Apple easy targets for lambasting. Take the iPad launch that took place in January for instance and let the parodies begin!
Banned iPad Promo
Welcome To The Future | Epad | E4
When you want to be more technologic with your period… Get the iPad
and finally…iPad Keynote in less than 180 Seconds: Incredible, Beautiful, Amazing!
After getting tired of listening to friends tell me how good David Simon’s The Wire was, I finally caved in and started watching it. I’m immensely glad I did. The show is certainly one of, if not the best series (along with Band of Brothers) I’ve seen on TV, and arguably the finest cop drama ever produced. With such deep respect for Simon, a former police reporter for the Baltimore Sun turned writer, I’m really looking forward to his latest project, Treme. Set in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina, the show features some familiar faces including Steve Zahn, John Goodman, and The Wire’s Wendell Pierce (Bunk Morland) and Clarke Peters (Lester Freamon).
Here’s the latest trailer to get you in the mood before it begins airing on HBO April 11.
This morning I had the privilege of being asked to appear on a News at Noon segment about DJ Hero’s release (the game came out today in the UK in case you didn’t already know). You can watch the segment below, which originally appeared on today’s News at Noon.
Guy Cocker and I recorded a quick video preview for Fat Princess last week on Start/Select and I thought it was worth sharing here. For those in the dark, FP is basically a team-based RTS game that involves feeding the enemy team’s heir to the throne (locked in your dungeon) so much food that she’s all but impossible to drag off to safety, while staging your own rescue mission. If that makes no sense at all check out the video for all of the gooey goodness.
Everyone loves playing with Lego and Flickr user notenoughbricks has made some pretty sweet mosaics using Lego, including some 8-bit videogame characters such as Mega Man, Mario, Luigi, Zelda, Pac Man, Bub and Bob from Bubble Bobble, and 1 Up mushrooms!
I was invited to attend Paramount’s UK media screening for Star Trek last night in Leicester Square. A full review is yet to come but let me just say that fans of Star Trek and JJ Abrams previous works should be pleased with the end result (unless of course you’re a pedantic, nitpicking Trekkie in which case you may find something to pick fault at. The rest of you, however should be quite pleased and relieved in equal measure.)
I got a chance to check out Ubisoft’s brand new WWII strategy game R.U.S.E. last week in London, ahead of the game’s official unveiling today at GDC 2009 in San Francisco.
Developed by Eugen Systems (Act of War) and published by Ubisoft, the new IP looks like it has the potential to be a pretty solid addition to the strategy genre, combining decent graphics with some fresh ideas when it comes to gameplay. The battlefield can be viewed both as a 3D environment, or a 2D playing board and the inclusion of 10 special “RUSE” cards gives you access to some interesting tricks, such as setting up decoys with fake units, and the ability to steal intel on enemy plans. Check out the full preview on GameSpot.
GameStation’s got a pretty sweet offer going for their Deal of the Week at the moment, allowing you to get a Nintendo DSi at half price, 75 quid, when trading in a DS Lite. Considering the RRP on a DS Lite is £99.99 that’s only going to put you out of pocket by £25 on your trade in–I know I’ve certainly got that much value out of mine over the years.
The DS Lite launched back in June 2006, almost three years ago (hard to believe!), and the Nintendo DSi is launching in Europe on April 3rd. Gamestation’s sister company GAME is also doing a similar deal.
