Who is Jeremy Bentham?
May 30, 2008
By now Lost fans have already seen the season four finale that ran last night. After a year, they’ve finally revealed the person inside the coffin. In order to keep leaks from happening around the set, the Lost producers actually shot three versions of the coffin reveal.
This video from Good Morning America shows off the two fake reveals, but they do say who was in the coffin for real. So, DO NOT WATCH THIS IF YOU DON’T WANT LOST SPOILED FOR YOU! This video is SPOILER HEAVY!!
I remember when I used to hate this show…
Xav in Review May 18-24
May 25, 2008
Here are the stories I worked on from May 18-24. Been a busy week outside of work so I haven’t done as much as I would have liked to, but still 37 stories ain’t bad.
Xbox 360 Fanboy (Xav Links)
- X3F LIVE visits Liberty City [Update 2]
- XBLA this week: Penny Arcade Adventures
- Sega Gamers’ Day Round-up
- Reminder: X3F LIVE tonight!
- Beware of the ‘Meat Shield’
- Next Gen: Ninja Gaiden II’s major design flaw, a bad camera
- X3F TV — Points>Life: Fire It Up! (Video Feature)
- Xbox Live Community Games launches beta test
- Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode One hits XBLA
- Gyllenhaal freezes time, becomes Prince of Persia
- Pre-ordered Fallout 3? Have some tunes! [Update]
- GTAIV papercraft is adorable, violent
- Cliff Bleszinski gets serious, kills CliffyB
- Would You Rather … Ahh! Real Downloads! Edition (Survey Feature)
- Bleszinski gets questioned on all things Gears 2
- Telltale still looking to bring Sam & Max to XBLA
- 2008 Yearbook: Microsoft Game Studios (Gallery Feature)
- id leaves the ESA
- Community Content: Sky High Edition (User Generated Feature)
- Bad Company achievements one-up kill count, again
- Rumor: Street Fighter IV uppercuts Xbox 360, PC for winter release
- RBI Baseball to grand slam on XBLA
Big Download (Xav Links)
- Shipping this week: MMOh, Conan! (Release Date Feature)
- New indie Halo-based titles sweep the net
- Introducing World of Wifecraft
- Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike 1.6 added to CGS Pro-Am division
- Postal 2 multiplayer released for free, no reason given
- Fallout 3 pre-orders come with Apocalyptic tunes
- Cliff Bleszinski answers 10 for the fans
- Penny Arcade Adventure media postmortem
- GameDaily wants your questions for Sid Meier
- Telltale on lack of Sam & Max on Mac, Season 3 release
- Analysts talk summer movies versus games, Alone in the Dark potential
- Rumor: Street Fighter IV hitting PC
- Halcyon plans to transform Philip K Dick’s work into games
- ArchLord breaks half million milestone
Slower week than usual this week, but I expect a surge of work to hit me this upcoming week. I’m going to try to shoot out a regular blog post asap as this seems to be the only thing I’m writing here these days!
Xav in Review: May 11-17
May 18, 2008
Here’s what I wrote between May 11-17 on Xbox 360 Fanboy and Big Download.
Xbox 360 Fanboy (Xav Links)
- GTAIV: Mainstream reaction roundup
- Activision boasts 15 million Guitar Hero song downloads
- What They Play tours parents through Liberty City
- Graphics Comparison of War
- Gears of War 2: 4 screens from Assault
- Enemy Territory achievements rescued
- X3F TV — Points>Life: The Beginning and the End (Video Feature)
- Velvet Assassin sneaks onto Xbox 360 this fall
- GRID vs Gran Turismo 5: Prologue
- Rumor: Spring update adds game installs, DRM fixes, “motion sensor” features
- Would You Rather … Demo Edition (Survey Feature)
- Microsoft: No Alan Wake release day yet
- Dyack may step down as Silicon Knights lead
- Rumor: Take-Two buyout news coming Monday
- Lost Planet: Colonies goes gold
- EA deadline for Take-Two offer ends tonight
- South Park Rock Band tracks ditched
- Rick Nash covering NHL 2K9
- ‘Pimp supreme’ Ken Levine to keynote PAX
- Community Content: Back at Blackout Edition (User Generated Feature)
- Frank O’Connor leaves Bungie for more Halos
- Alert! Microsoft Points scam sweeps Xbox Live
- Castle Crashers is so done, you don’t know how done it is
Big Download (Xav Links)
- 10tacle and TGC cancel acquisition deal
- Shipping this week: Who needs GTAIV anyway? (Release Date Feature)
- Race Driver: GRID demo speeds online
- Warhammer Online promises “five years” of content
- Force Unleashed skips PC for being ‘too varied’
- First Penny Arcade Adventure available May 21
- Velvet Assassin hits PC this fall
- Pixel Mine launches gateway Portal
- PopCap to spend over $1 million on next title
- Rainbow Six Vegas 2 patches wounds, heads back to fight
- NCsoft games to add Vivox voice tech
- Shane Hensley to helm Superstition Studios
- Razer launches new soft-mat lineup
- Europa Universalis: Rome declared patched
- LucasArts leaves the ESA
- Stronghold 3 and Crusader 2 coming … eventually
- Ken Levine keynotes PAX 08
That’s a solid week of news.
The Console War, explained…
May 14, 2008
Xav in Review: May 4-10
May 12, 2008
I thought it would be a good idea for me to document my stories for easier access, personally and professionally, so here’s what I wrote between May 4 and May 10.
Xbox 360 Fanboy (Xav Links)
- EB Canada offers full value for select GTAIV trades
- GTAIV cheat codes surface [Update]
- Qmotions skateboard controller coming to Xbox 360
- Rocketmen: It Came from Uranus – New screens and concept art we hope came from the studio
- X3F TV — X3F Impressions: Bourne Conspiracy Demo (Video)
- Select Rock Band tracks on the cheap
- South Park DVD includes mystery Rock Band DLC
- Take-Two sues the Chicago Transit Authority
- X3F TV — Points>Life: Six Golden Stars (Video)
- ‘Big-ish’ Fable 2 news expected next week
- Customize your Nascar 09 experience
- EA reveals casual sub-brand, Freestyle
- Fight Night Round 4 announced, Mike Tyson included!
- Would You Rather … Episodic Edition (Survey)
- Ninja Gaiden 2: Ryu has daddy issues
- Rumor: Beyond Good & Evil sequel in the works
- CNN’s Beck ‘could care less’ about games, bloggers are ‘losers’
- Introducing Joystiq’s newest sibling: Big Download (Beta)!
- MK vs DC includes ‘modified fatalities’
- Trials and tribulations of Gamertag recovery
- New setting for Call of Duty 5, Bond game powered by Call of Duty 4 engine
- Rumor: Napster creator to join EA
- Community Content Recap (User Generated Feature)
- Battlefield: Bad Company demo dropping June 5
Big Download (Xav Links)
- Dracula Origin: 5 new screens to slay
- Freaky Creatures: 9 screens and info to fight over
- Flash Portal gets real Portal map pack treatment
- Mirror’s Edge gameplay leaps online (Download Feature)
- Zune XNA games preview aims for May
- EA announces Freestyle sub-brand, ignores PC market
- Portal in real life
- SR-388 re-imagines a classic franchise on PC
- BBFC confirms Alone in the Dark will give you the willies
- Eye-Gaze tracking your MMOG habit
- THQ to ax 200 jobs, institutes quality control to halt future layoffs
- XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP now available
- EA reiterates its E3 attendance plans
- Prince of Persia speed-paints into our hearts
- Online petition requests nudity toggle in Age of Conan
- Beyond Good & Evil 2 rumors resurface
- Wrath of the Lich King detail explosion
- Gamecock mocks ESA & E3 with a single zing
Holy hell. That’s a lotta stories.
