Geek vs Life

After a very long wait, and much anticipation, American McGee is presenting another twisted/macabre version of stories that brought us such joy growing up. American McGee’s Grimm.

Rather than the normal methods of release, AM has turned to Gametap, promising a release in 2008, and new episodic content every month for a total of 24 episodes.

Exactly how this new game will work with the Gametap release style is still up in the air, since it’s an adventure style game with a sandbox system. Oh, well, I’m still excited.

It started with this:

It turned into this:

This is next:

I’m afraid that my childhood memories are about to be savagely fubar-ed. Hard.

Transformers hits teaters July 4th.

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I spent the better part of my youth enjoying the wonderful tales from the street, Sesame Street that is.

Even into my teens, when I would stay home because I was sick, the Street would be on my tube, later followed by THE Bob Barker show, The Price Is Right. Other childhood favorites included: Mr. Rogers, Mr. Dress-up, Romper Room, The Friendly Giant, Math Patrol and Today’s Special.

My favorite character was Grover. Recently while searching for his origins I stumbled upon a wonderful biographical tale in which Grover talks about his youth with a father spending all the family money on prostitutes and how he REALLY feels about being replaced by the talentless hack that is Elmo.

See for yourself, read it here.

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Many LJ users found their journals gone. Why? The

Wariors For Innocence went hunting for pedophiles.

Which is a good thing.

The Bad thing is in order to calm the pressures from

WFI the staff at Six Apart went over board.

Deleting journals by a quick scan of interests.

Journals which had words like “Lolita” were deleted.

Completely over looking that “Lolita” is a classic

novel and a fashion style. Now, I know this because my

journal was temporarily deleted because of my interest

in Lolita. My journal did not (and still does not)

depict sex with minors.

Instead, three years ago, I wrote a nationaly

published paper on the book. After digging and

searching the net for the article and submiting to the

staff at Live Journal they undeleted my journal.

Thought this was pretty interesting while I was trolling around the newspapers. Appearently Microsoft has come up with a new “tabletop computer” that uses hand movements and touch to manipulate what you’re doing. For now they think its going to be pretty commercial, if it is used much at all in the next few years, but it’d be really interesting to see how they do gaming on this thing (rock paper scissors with your computer… heh)

The company plans to unveil a computing device today called Microsoft Surface, featuring a 30-inch screen embedded in an acrylic tabletop. The device’s electronic guts are hidden in the low-slung table’s thick pedestal.

At first glance, Surface is reminiscent of an old-fashioned arcade game table around which patrons played Pac-Man. But there is no joystick here, and no mouse or keyboard either. The device is controlled by touching the tabletop display.

Buckethead is scary good. Anyone who can imitate him is probably scary good. The following is either scary, or good. I’m still undecided. Any takers?

Ubisoft announced that they are making a Wii/DS exclusive sequel to the awesomely twisted Rayman Raving Rabbids. It’s set to be out Fall of this year.

This title includeds 60 new games, customizable Rayman and Rabbids, and a new map style that will allow players to travel all over the world.

We here at the GvL Lair are very excited about this, mostly because we’ve played way too much of the first one. Full release information below.

Ubisoft Announces Rayman Raving Rabbids^TM 2 Exclusively For Nintendo^® Systems

Those Crazy Bunnies Are Back and Ready to Invade Planet Earth!

Here is a list of the games being released till the end of May.

Grow back that mullet and strap on that bandanna because the 80’s are coming back!

Activision has been slowly releasing the names of the new tracks which will be included in the expansion of Guitar hero 2 which will be sold this Summer entitled Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80’s.

Obviously enough, the main theme of the expansion will be music that made people bop their heads in the 80’s. The list I must admit is making me giddy. Have a look:

Twisted Sister in the House!

“Round and Round” by Ratt
“I Want Candy” by Bow Wow Wow
“Metal Health” by Quiet Riot
“Holy Diver” by Ronnie James Dio
“Heat of the Moment” by Asia
“I Wanna Rock” by Twisted Sister
“I Ran” by Flock of Seagulls
“18 and Life” by Skid Row
“Bathroom Wall” by Faster Pussycat
“Lonely is the Night” by Billy Squier
“Nothing But a Good Time,” by Poison
“Play With Me” by Extreme
“Shakin’ ” by Eddie Money
“Synchronicity II” by The Police.

For those who thought that Dead Rising, F.E.A.R. or Oblivion weren’t good enough reasons to buy the Xbox 360, rejoice!

The mack daddy of all Xbox 360 games is on the horizon. Far on the horizon but coming.

Halo 3 will make it’s North American debut on September 25 and will be released 24 hours later in Europe. So the time to start saving your money is now.

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Grand Poobah (Joe) says:

In a summer of sequels, and oddly enough, a summer of tertiary episodes of trilogies, it was good to see one that really captured our attention.

Psyfall says:

Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At Worlds End was a good movie. No scratch that. It was a great movie. It tied up so many hanging plot threads in an unhurried manner. It just all made sense by the end.

Grand Poobah (Joe) says:

Although, it was the WORST movie to watch when you have to go to the bathroom.

Psyfall says:

It is a pirate movie after all, what did you expect dry land? Although we did first find Jack Sparrow walking through a salt desert of all places.

Grand Poobah (Joe) says:

With a plethora of Jacks as his crew. A la “Being Jon Malchovich.”

Holy cow, Batman! This site opens up so many legal problems, I can’t even begin to imagine the possibilities. Want to check out a newspaper’s website without having to register?

Bugmenot lists totally valid logins to use at your leisure. You can even submit your own login, should you be foolish enough.

If a pay site, like OED.com finds out, they totally ban it, but other sites apparently don’t care.

If you haven’t heard, Blizzard has announced Starcraft II, to the the delight of gamers everywhere.

I am geek, I will readily admit to that. We all are in some shape way or form.

Some people are sci-fi geeks. Some people are comic book geeks. Some are both. Some folk have some geekiness that other geeks find geeky. It’s the natural order of things.

I, personally, am not however a tech geek. I can run system cleanup programs, I can update whatever driver I need to have changed. When it comes to clocking the motherboard or reconfiguring drive specs I will usually defer to other geeks, like Joe for example.

Really there is a point to all this, wait for it.