Yearly Archives: 2018
Final Fantasy 8’s Train Heist Is Its Most Underrated Moment
Final Fantasy VIII was a divisive entry in the beloved franchise when it released in 1999. For many, things like the junction and draw systems felt like too much of a departure from previous games, and an out-of-left-field plot twist near the end left a lot of fans scratching their heads.
These days, Final Fantasy VIII is remembered a little more fondly, if not necessarily as a masterpiece. One reason why is the world; it feels slightly more grounded than the high sci-fi and fantasy settings of previous games. There’s nothing wrong with FFVII’s Gaia or FFVI’s World of Balance, it’s just that they were occupied by fantasy archetypes and threatened by otherworldly beings that are hardly relatable to us as players.
Incredibles Director Reveals the One Superpower They Almost Had
Every member of the Parr family has a distinctive ability tied specifically to their personality and role within the family, but that doesn't mean they didn't go through changes in pre-production.
In a recent conversation with IGN, Incredibles and Incredibles 2 director Brad Bird revealed that, at one point, everyone in the family except Bob had the ability to fly.
"Originally, in the early version of the Incredibles, all of
could fly except Bob," he said, explaining that the gimmick was "it was always a hassle for them to do everything, because Bob couldn't fly."
As you can watch in the above interview, Bird and Incredibles 2 producer John Walker went on to describe a drawing made by Pixar artist Teddy Newton, in which the family was flying while Bob was beneath them driving a station wagon.
Incredibles Director Reveals the One Superpower They Almost Had
Every member of the Parr family has a distinctive ability tied specifically to their personality and role within the family, but that doesn't mean they didn't go through changes in pre-production.
In a recent conversation with IGN, Incredibles and Incredibles 2 director Brad Bird revealed that, at one point, everyone in the family except Bob had the ability to fly.
"Originally, in the early version of the Incredibles, all of
could fly except Bob," he said, explaining that the gimmick was "it was always a hassle for them to do everything, because Bob couldn't fly."
As you can watch in the above interview, Bird and Incredibles 2 producer John Walker went on to describe a drawing made by Pixar artist Teddy Newton, in which the family was flying while Bob was beneath them driving a station wagon.
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Christmas Movie or Halloween Movie?
It’s that time of year again. No, not Halloween, and no, not Christmas. It’s time for every movie lover to express their extreme and passionate opinion about whether Henry Selick’s beloved classic The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Christmas movie… or a Halloween movie.
The Nightmare Before Christmas, produced by Tim Burton and based on one of his poems, tells the story of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween, who lives in Halloweentown and orchestrates the scariest night of the year, every single year. But he’s suffering from serious artistic burnout, so when he accidentally stumbles into Christmastown, he decides to try his hand at Christmas instead.
The film deftly combines Halloween and Christmas by adding freaky touches to beloved yuletide iconography, like a giant snake instead of a stocking, or a sleigh driven by skeletal reindeer. Even the stop-motion imagery of The Nightmare Before Christmas is a pastiche; before Burton’s film came along, the most famous stop-motion cartoons were beloved Rankin/Bass holiday specials like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Christmas Movie or Halloween Movie?
It’s that time of year again. No, not Halloween, and no, not Christmas. It’s time for every movie lover to express their extreme and passionate opinion about whether Henry Selick’s beloved classic The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Christmas movie… or a Halloween movie.
The Nightmare Before Christmas, produced by Tim Burton and based on one of his poems, tells the story of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween, who lives in Halloweentown and orchestrates the scariest night of the year, every single year. But he’s suffering from serious artistic burnout, so when he accidentally stumbles into Christmastown, he decides to try his hand at Christmas instead.
The film deftly combines Halloween and Christmas by adding freaky touches to beloved yuletide iconography, like a giant snake instead of a stocking, or a sleigh driven by skeletal reindeer. Even the stop-motion imagery of The Nightmare Before Christmas is a pastiche; before Burton’s film came along, the most famous stop-motion cartoons were beloved Rankin/Bass holiday specials like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.
Red Dead 2 Is Not for Short Attention Spans
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Twitter May Be Removing the ‘Like’ Button
Twitter may be removing the 'like' button feature on the social media platform.
CEO and co-founder, Jack Dorsey, mentioned the news at a Twitter event last week, originally reported by The Telegraph.
Twitter responded Monday in a tweet from their communications team, saying they have been rethinking the service to make sure they provide options for "healthy conversation" among its users.
As we've been saying for a while, we are rethinking everything about the service to ensure we are incentivizing healthy conversation, that includes the like button. We are in the early stages of the work and have no plans to share right now. https://t.co/k5uPe5j4CW
Twitter May Be Removing the ‘Like’ Button
Twitter may be removing the 'like' button feature on the social media platform.
CEO and co-founder, Jack Dorsey, mentioned the news at a Twitter event last week, originally reported by The Telegraph.
Twitter responded Monday in a tweet from their communications team, saying they have been rethinking the service to make sure they provide options for "healthy conversation" among its users.
As we've been saying for a while, we are rethinking everything about the service to ensure we are incentivizing healthy conversation, that includes the like button. We are in the early stages of the work and have no plans to share right now. https://t.co/k5uPe5j4CW
The Best Wireless Headphones
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There is so much audio out there to consume: music, audiobooks, podcasts, news, games. With our busy lives a lot of this consumption needs to happen on the go, and while regular wired headphones are a perfectly viable solution, there’s nothing better than the freedom afforded by a set of wireless headphones. Plus, phone manufacturers seem intent on killing the headphone jack for good, so it seems certain the future for audio on-the-go will be wireless.
THQ Nordic Bought My Teenage Years – So What Are They Going to Do With Them?
In 2002, I was 13, and I spent as much of my time as possible playing TimeSplitters 2. Six years later, I spent a sizeable portion of my 19th year in the extremely purple company of Saints Row 2.
Between those two fairly formative experiences, I invented my own game modes with my brother in Red Faction 2. I had my mind blown by blowing up minds in Second Sight. Adult pangs of nostalgia already setting in, I rented Stuntman: Ignition to recall its PS2 predecessor. Friends introduced me to Destroy All Humans, and Painkiller. I’m also fairly sure I played doomed racing sim Juiced but, looking at it now, god knows why I would have chosen to.
Aside from the fact that I played them at some point, there’s little to connect these games. That list represents different genres, developers, publishers, levels of quality. Some games I can remember as well as the alphabet, others I’d forgotten about until looking them up for this piece. Now, 16 years after I lost myself to TimeSplitters 2, they’re all connected – because THQ Nordic bought them.