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There's a "new" series on tv today. Well "new" in Belgium, since we get everything late here.

I hear it's about a nerd who becomes a secret agent. Sure why not.

<- but here is the nerd in question.

Well excUUUse-me, but they're doing it wrong.

This guy is wayyyyy too good looking, cool, hip and permed to be a credible nerd.

Hell, take off his pocket protector and he could even appear in an Apple ad ;)

Even Weird Al in his caricatural (and so good) White & Nerdy is a more convincing nerd.



In conclusion : FAIL!

I already posted about an ARTag-related application, Julian Oliver's levelHead

Someone ported the technology to Flash :



and you can try it here : http://interactive.digitalpictures.com.au/?p=392



Obviously it's going to be a very popular technology in the coming years...

Here's a very Japanese* commercial product based on it :
*It's very Japanese. And by that I mean NOT SAFE FOR SOME WORKPLACES.



Mh.. yeah.. I know........

The Monty Python Channel on YouTube



They might be old (and jeez, they are old), but they seem to have understood Youtube better than.. most.
Go them!

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-> Ah! Jerry Yang!

dino burger, originally uploaded by ♥ginettesquelette.

and it's awesome.

*cough cough cough*

And it's not a spoof or anything : see another (not funny) scene from the same game here.


Now maybe the translators were having fun, like the devs of Spanish for Everyone ;)

But last time I checked we weren't really close to April 1st, and it doesn't seem to come from the Onion or anything...

So... obviously, they* are going to make a Monopoly movie.
* some men in black who need to launder some money, I suppose



Yes, *that* Monopoly. No, it doesn't make no sense.

But that's not all...

"The feature project has brought on Pamela Pettler to write the screenplay; She penned Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride," Gil Kenan's "Monster House" and the upcoming animated adventure "9," produced by Burton and Timur Bekmambetov.

And Ridley Scott, who has been attached as a producer on "Monopoly" and has been mentioned as a possible director, is now officially attached to helm the project, with an eye toward giving it a futuristic sheen along the lines of his iconic "Blade Runner."

WOW! WOWOWOW!
(or even "HAHA! HAHAHAHAHHA!").

Well.. at least it's an.. original idea... I mean, who would have thought of mixing together Blade Runner with Monopoly?


It, at least, inspired this parody by some blogger tumblr (?)

"I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Boots mortgaging property to tiny dogs. Apartments torched on Baltic Avenue just for the insurance money. I watched someone roll triple sixes and land on Free Parking where a Get Out Of Jail Free card had been tossed into the kitty. All those moments will be lost in time, like a bank error in your favor. Time to die."

But wait, there's even more in the original, serious, non-humorous article from the hollywoordreporter.com :

"Monopoly" marks the latest Hasbro property to look to pass go and head to the big screen. Board games and branded properties have become more attractive as studios look to mitigate risk by finding built-in audiences.

Universal is working with Hasbro on several projects as part of a long-term development deal. Platinum Dunes is producing its feature adaptation of "Ouija Board," while the maritime classic "Battleship" is also in development. Elsewhere at Hasbro, Paramount this summer is set to release Stephen Sommers' feature based on its "G.I. Joe" character. And "Trivial Pursuit: America Plays" is now airing as a syndicated television program."

...

Ouija Board - The Movie ?

...

Seriously, guys ?

Should we expect, like, Simon - The Movie, Welcome to Connect 4, The World of Hungry Hungry Hippos ?
Operation ? Well, they could actually make a movie out of that...

But still...

Today I've met Auriea & Michaël from Tale of Tales to alpha test their upcoming game, The Path.


(This is the Alpha 2, my Alpha was more recent ;) )

I've been reading for some time about The Path (and a somewhat linked project called Drama Princess), and while being somewhat familiar with the project, it really was a discovery, and an interesting one.
The game is, for many reasons, very different, be it the pace, the aesthetic(s), the controls or its "replayability" (which is not, in this case, how you replay the game when you've beaten it.. but something else).
And still I feel I'm missing a lot by reducing its interest to that short list ;)

I know it's a game (or is it actually one, muhahahah :p) that will... somewhat "annoy" the typical gamer, because it requires a bit of patience ; not the one you use in the Hitman series (aka : observing and hiding for a long to achieve the stealthiest murder), but something more arbitrary, in a way (in a good one ;)). It's actually not frustrating if you forget your gamer's reflexes and get into the pace of the game.

And it looks nice (not in a "my polycount is bigger than yours" way), and it sounds nice (Jarboe, but the musics blend pretty well in the game experience), and it has a (new) niiiiiiiiiiiice typography ;)

So yay :D

And more later, some day, obviously.

It doesn't make sense. I mean, I "know" John Maeda, but I have no connections with him, we never talked or anything... Well maybe Flixster is really clever :p

(obviously his daughter is a fan of High School Musical.. you'd think that Great Artists' Kids have Great Tastes ;))

but it obviously doesn't relay the sound very well yet ; that's why Jessica has to be yellin' via hologram to be heard from Chicago.

Yay ! All the Peanuts comics are online for freeeeeeee :D




Do you remember ? ;)

C'est un tournant historique qui à coup sûr va provoquer pas mal de changements. La fin d'une époque, une page qui se tourne, etc

Jacques Mercier a pris sa retraite de la RTBF.

Alors qui diable va présenter le Jeu des Dictionnaires ?

But still, hahahaha



Obama & Palin as dowloadable characters in the game Mercenaries 2

(via.. guess what ? RPS again)

The gameplay experiments at Ludomancy are really cute And interesting.

They're maybe not games as we usually mean it, but it's just another reason why you should try them ;)



Storyteller is like a pure form of "interactive fiction"




I wish I were the Moon is a bit different.. hard to explain.
Read here, and play here.


This is (of course) via RPS again ;)

Two other interesting indie videogames videos via RPS


Ian Dallas' The Unfinished Swan




And the still mysterious Eskil Steenberg's Love

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