Monday, December 08, 2008

Trailers of the Week 3: Gamer Edition!


Unfortunately, there aren't any decent new movie trailers to speak of. For this reason, I've decided to find three future Video Games that look appealing. Again, understand that these may turn out to be the worst games ever--but if their trailers hold up, they should be fucking awesome.

1. Rise of the Argonauts


This is a Christmas pick of mine. Hopefully it comes to me wrapped in pretty bows. At my old house, we didn't have a chimney, so we decided to leave the door unlocked for Santa.

That was the year Santa decided to take away a majority of my Playstation 2 games. He did, however, leave The Bible Game and some a handful of others...

Santa knows what he likes.


Will Santa like this game enough to bring it to me and not take it away? We'll see.

Rise of the Argonauts will mark the third RPG release for the Playstation 3. I was never a huge fan of RPGs until I played Fallout 3...and now I'm addicted.


I think my main interest in this game comes from my fascination with the LucasArts game: Herc's Adventures--or as I like to call it: The Best Game Ever Made.

This game brings back my nostalgia for Herc's Adventures (even though I still own the game for PSone):

The oversized Hercules, the characters of Jason and Atlanta, and most importantly, what are bound to be some ass-kicking battles of mythological proportions!





The first Godfather game was epic. I have it for Wii, which may or may not be a mistake; however, the controls served the purpose. Like the Manhunt 2 controls for Wii, they made the game a unique experience and allowed me to take the unneccessary brutality into my own hands. Who wouldn't want that?


The only thing that fucked up the game was that the map was too large and the cars too slow to navigate across the whole thing for every mission.

From what I've seen, the new Godfather game seems much larger in scale, but also much more involved. Hopefully these modifications serve to improve the game and not to take everything fun out of the first game.





Little is known about this game, and I won't pretend to know much. I'll treat you to a few sneak previews of it (which turn out to merely be a graphics trophy case). The only thing I know about it is that it plays out like a film and tells the story of several characters dealing with a crisis.

Supposedly, if you die as one character, they're gone, and you continue play as another.

That's what I read, that's all I know...

...but this game looks stunning.

(those last two links aren't from the game. FYI)


-Alex (SYNT!)

Sunday, December 07, 2008

CraigsList and The Great Review Experiment


As some of you may have discovered (somehow we neglected to spread the word), we have a post on CraigsList encouraging anyone to send us any kind of material or website (that they created or have a personal connection to) and we will review it.

I'm not exactly sure what would prompt someone to do such a thing...but obviously they don't know us yet. I don't want to be a total dick...so I'll look at a few of the websites we received objectively...and then I will offer my opinion; for what it's worth.

So, without stalling any further, let's get to some reviews!




This is a Blogspot site much like our current domain. It is piloted by "Princess Honah" (or Anastasia Beaverhausen), a twenty seven year old blogger from Bumblefuck, Pennsylvania with a knack for keeping track of her daily goings-on.

There isn't much to say about the blog itself. It's relatively clean and well-maintained. There's no clutter and (like our blog, currently) almost no Comments. Objectively, it's a weblog. Nothing less, but sadly, nothing more. I like the style, passion, humor, and personality Honah/Anastasia/Whatthefuck brings to this endeavor, though. Her personality makes it stand out; however, what does it stand out from?

I usually don't bother with daily bloggings...They're annoying and only serve to give the disgruntled author a false sense of purpose and importance. This blog takes a few steps beyond the mundane details of life and brings style and flair to the equation. And that's a good thing!

There's also a podcast that I couldn't get into; but if you like the idea of listening to the daily happenings in the life of a woman inching ever-closer to thirty...it'd be right up your alley! Hey, she's got a nice voice!

She describes her work as "a gay-friendly podcast" which is...good, I guess? I'm not 100% sure what that means aside from the fact that it's not a "gay unfriendly podcast." I'd imagine our website is a "gay friendly website" as well. We sat down and listened to the podcast for awhile. It's not my thing, but I can't complain too much. The only real criticism I have is that the "episodes" are far too long for my taste.


I linked to Sylvea's Artbreak site above, but here is her Blogspot Address as well. The reason I chose to link to the Artbreak site is because that's all you really need.

Sylvia Johnson from Portsmouth, NH is an artist (really? Yes, really!). The blogspot address has a few explanations of the artist's process and insight into her world, although I'm not sure it is a world that particularly interests me.

Sylvia's art is very interesting, however. Her paintings have a rolling psychedelic quality like a Salvador Dali Lava Lamp. To say that they are pretty pictures with no actual content would be a stretch, so I won't say it...I'll just think it.
The work obviously has meaning to Sylvia. The main purpose of her art is to stimulate the imagination and for the viewer to come to his own conclusions.

My conclusions are: Pretty cool--but where's the "Play" button? Let's get these bitches moving!!


This review request came with a "Sure, Why Not?" As if Zach sought us out on CraigsList on some kind of alcohol-induced whim (which is incidentally how I wind up purchasing things on the Playstation Network).

Zach is an artist with a MySpace account--which is such a rarity in today's America, you know? I had made a MySpace for Super Dudes Power Squad, but I deleted it within the same week. I fucking hate MySpace.

Anyways, let's get back on topic, shall we? For a moment, seeing that Zach had a YouTube account, I got excited! Then I saw that his account is just a collection of other people's videos that he likes and I murmured "fuck."

The star attraction of course is his MAIN website, which I admittedly haven't been building up to very appropriately. His artwork is fucking awesome. Zach's paintings are a combination of Oil, Acrylic, and Latex on Canvas, mostly having to do with Controversy, War and Pop Culture. Doesn't sound too original, but the cliche works.

His art has a kind of Grand Theft Auto IV look...which, whether or not this was his intention, brings life and immediacy to his work.
And in the words of the great Forrest Gump: "That's all I have to say about that."

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