Self-proclaimed Nintendo-core group Horse the Band have always been about the nerd love. They sampled The Wizard for crying out loud! Now they’ve received—by request—the biggest compliment any geek can give a band: an 8-bit remix. You can check out a rotten bit’s remix of “Horse the Song” and his other work at 8bitcollective. You can listen to the original track here.
The Jetsons film is apparently still happening, much to everyone’s chagrin. Today, Warner Bros. announced that Peter Segal, the man behind Tommy Boy and 50 First Dates, will be stepping in for Robert Rodriguez, who left the project to work on other films.
According to Cinema Blend, Rodriguez already had a script, but the WB will be scrapping it and starting fresh. Anyone think they have the ability to put together a decent introduction everyone’s favorite family from the future?
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Below you’ll find the Astonishing X-Men Motion Comic “Rise Up” music video, which debuted on G4’s Attack of the Show earlier this week.
In an interview with MTV, J.J. Abrams revealed that he’s unlikely to sit in the director’s chair for Mission: Impossible 4.
“My guess is,” he said, “given other things, that I will not be directing the movie.” Abrams’ will, as we’ve mentioned in the past, be producing the film alongside M:I 3 star Tom Cruise. Cruise has yet to announce whether or not he’ll reprise his role as Ethan Hunt in the fourth film.
While Abrams’ direction is one of the things that made M:I 3 work so well, the first two installments of the film series were also quite entertaining. As long as the project isn’t handed over to the hack, we’re sure M:I 4 will be worth seeing.
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(We occasionally get things tossed our way that don’t exactly fit within our demographic. So, for the few that might be interested in things like Lionel Richie’s Greatest Hits, we thought we’d share them with the group verbatim as they’re quite hilarious sans commentary.)
Los Angeles, CA – Legendary drummer Carmine Appice (Each email we receive regarding Mr. Appice prefaces his name with “Legendary drummer” so often we’re beginning to think it’s part of his name. – wj) will appear live in person at Best Buy, 3415 E. Foothill Blvd. in Pasadena, CA on Saturday, November 7th for a CD signing, performance, and a drum off contest. Appice has been on a whirlwind publicity campaign supporting the August 25th Carmine Appice Guitar Zeus CD release Conquering Heroes.
The Best Buy instore appearance begins at 2PM with Appice accompanying a set of… … What’s in The Inbox: 10/30 Edition
It seems that Apple’s sole reason for updating iTunes these days is to prevent Palm Pre owners from being able to sync their device with the software. On Thursday, iTunes 9.0.2 was released and it appears to do little more than disable the aforementioned Palm Pre synching ability. This is the third time Apple has done such a thing.
The PC World article we sourced mentioned that Palm should give up and create their own syncing software. Do you feel this is the most viable course of action for the company or should they keep fighting the good fight?
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To celebrate Halloween, GOG has dropped the price of all their Horror games by 30% for the weekend. Pick up Obscure, Personal Nightmare, and Waworks for $4.19 each. Playing them will be much less harmful for your body than indulging in sugar.
The Horror Sale will run from now until Monday, November 2 at 11:59 PM EDT. For details on how to purchase, see the source link.
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Jarret, Jonah, and Wesley get together again for discussions, hilarious hijinks, and more. Jarret’s dog also barks a few times, too. How much would you be willing to pay to hear such a thing? Well, whatever it is, it doesn’t matter! We’re giving it away for free!
For a glimpse at the stories discussed on the episode, keep reading.
Steam and Valve have a small treat for your Halloween sack. Right now—and we mean right now—you can get Team Fortress 2, one of the best cooperative shooters EVAR!, for $2.49 until 2:00PM Pacific/4:00 Central this afternoon.
If you haven’t given this game a chance, now’s the time. The system requirements (1.7 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX® 8.1 level Graphics Card) are pretty spare, so there’s almost no excuse to not have this on your PC.
The sale helps promote the TF2 Halloween Special. For details, check out this “pumpkin patch.”
The Who’s Roger Daltrey hinted in an interview with MassLive that a Who-centric version of Rock Band may eventually be released. “The game, yeah, yeah, they’re going to be doing a Who one next year, he said. “… Anything that gets non-musical people interested in music is wonderful.”
While Daltrey didn’t mention whether the game would be a Rock Band or Guitar Hero property, a Harmonix rep mentioned to Kotaku that they were working with The Who on “what’s next,” but they didn’t detail exactly what it was they were working on.
Think The Who is worthy of their own Rock Band? If not, who would you prefer to next see get the standalone rhythm game treatment?
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