Along with many geeks (and lovers of good TV), I love Game of Thrones. The last time someone asked me who my favourite character was, I answered with one word: Dinklage. I know that I should have said Tyrion but Tyrion Lannister just wouldn’t be half as awesome a half-man if it wasn’t for Peter Dinklage.
Now, you can catch all of The Dinklage’s greatness in a short compilation of all of Tyrion’s greatest quips and one-liners.
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I’m terrible at pinball but that’s never stopped me from playing a game whenever I get the chance. Given the chance, I would definitely try this Duck Hunt pinball machine by Skit-B Pinball. The game was built as a side project but it’s absolutely spectacular. The playing field (Is that the right term for a pinball machine?) uses visuals that look straight from the game and the video board uses graphics and sound effects straight from the classic NES game.
Best of all, you can give that stupid dog what’s coming to it. This game is probably the only thing in history that has resulted in people wanting to shoot a dog.
As a Superman fan, I am equal parts excited and scared of the upcoming Superman re-reboot Man of Steel. On the one hand, Christopher Nolan is involved as a producer and he brought rebooted Batman back from a joke to something closer to the comics. On the other hand, Man of Steel is being directed by Zack Snyder of 300, Watchmen and Sucker Punch fame. That’s reason to be nervous.
However, the latest trailer for Man of Steel has me optimistic for June. After all, more Jor-El, more Jonathan Kent and more Lois Lane is a good thing.
Are you one of the millions of gamers who regularly buy one of EA Sports’ football games? Thanks to a lawsuit over EA Sports’ exclusive licenses to make games for various sports leagues, you can get some money back. If you bought an EA Sports Madden NFL, NCAA Football or Arena Football game between January 1, 2005, and June 21, 2012, you’re entitled to a not insubstantial claim.
LucasArts is and was one of my all-time favourite publishers. They facilitated some great games from when I was growing up like the Dark Horse / Jedi Knight series, Tie Fighter, Rebel Assault (Shut up! I liked it.) and Knights of the Old Republic. That’s not counting the other massively popular LucasArts games like Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion and Grim Fandango.
Victor Lucas of the popular Canadian gaming news show Electric Playground looks back at the history of LucasArts. For a quasi-Easter Egg, watch for a young Geoff Keighley at the 3:34 mark as he worked in his early days in the gaming press.
The third Star Trek Into Darkness trailer brings us a little less Cumberbatch and a lot more Kirk as we finally get to see a bit more of what the crew of the Enterprise is up against.
In the last trailer, Cumberbatch came off as smarter and more charismatic than Kirk. Now, Cumberbatch comes off as a bit crazier and much scarier thanks to his massive ship with epic armaments. Kirk looks to be in over his head and has gotten his ship in and crew into some pretty deep shit.
Star Trek Into Darkness is hits theatres on May 17th.
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but I’m a DC Comics guy. I feel as though that would make a good t-shirt. Specifically, I’m a Superman guy. I know I mentioned this one last week. Now, we finally get our chance to pit Superman against Batman. Oh, and most of the other DC Comics regulars also appear in NetherRealm’s new fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us.
We’ve gotten a DC Comics fighting game from a Mortal Kombat developer before. That was the entirely forgettable Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe by Midway. With NetherRealm now at the helm of Mortal Kombat and having just released the best story in fighting game history in Mortal Kombat (9), could they do something special with Injustice?
Since I like telling stories to make these comic book pull list post less listy, here’s one for this week. I’ve gone to the local comic book emporium enough that they offered me my own file. See, you don’t have to namedrop yourself as an occasionally read internet blogger to get a file at your neighbourhood comic book shop.
Right, time for the quick hits of the week. Superman and kryptonite makes this week’s Justice League #19 one of my must reads. Okay, that and the release of Injustice today has me hyped about all things DC/Justice League. In Judge Dredd #6, technology has gone rogue in Mega City One which leaves Dredd stuck without a weapon or backup against a large gang of thugs. And who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows. Hahahaha! I mean, The Shadow: Year One #2 is out today, too.
I’ve not exactly made a secret of the fact that I’m a Judge Dredd fan. That’s thanks in large part to the great Dredd movie of 2012. I honestly think that Dredd (3D) was every bit as good as The Dark Knight Rises. Since then, I’ve become a regular reader of IDW’s Judge Dredd comic.
Now, 2000AD has sent out an image that teases some sort of Dredd sequel based on the 2012 movie. It’s likely another comic book series but we can always hope that it’s a new movie.
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