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Mass Effect 2 gets surprise weapon DLC
Mar 9th
Those who’ve activated Mass Effect 2’s in-game DLC portal aka Cerberus Network will find a new toy to download today; the Arc Projector.
“The Arc Projector ionizes targets with a non-visible laser to ready them for a high-voltage electrical attack,” explains the official game site, apparently resulting in a Raiders of the Lost Ark flashback, “As the lightning-like bolt hits its first target, a sophisticated auto-targeting system paints succeeding targets with the ionization laser, allowing the electricity to take the path of least resistance and arc between them.”
“An entire enemy strike team can be shocked to death with a few pulls of the trigger. Careful aiming will also allow the user to arc shots to nearby explosives as well.”
More free content — the Firewalker DLC — is expected later in the month.
Screen Grabs: the Marriage Ref trots out an iPad for all its 11 viewers
Mar 9th
Critics may have called The Marriage Ref everything from "painfully bad" to an "ugly, unfunny, patronizing mess," but how would we know? We couldn't find an Engadget editor who would fess up to DVRing the thing. In fact, when we received these screen shots from an eagle-eyed reader, we had to Google it to find out what he was talking about! And here we have it: either this cookie sheet has Bluetooth, or this is an iPad complete with Magic Mouse and wireless keyboard. Now if you'll excuse us, we're switching back to the Lifetime network to see if we can spot ourselves a JooJoo.
[Thanks, Doug Warner]
[Thanks, Doug Warner]
Screen Grabs: the Marriage Ref trots out an iPad for all its 11 viewers originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | CommentsBattlestar Galactica goes Online
Mar 9th
Battlestar Galactica Online, a browser-based MMO based on the reimagined tv series, has been announced.
The “tactical space combat and adventure” game from Bigpoint, co-developed by Unity, offers mission-based gameplay and allows players to play as both humans and cylons, and, with its “beautiful 3d graphics and innovative game mechanics,” is looking to create a new standard in browser-based games.
Assets from the series’ production have been made available to the developers, so expect those Vipers and Raiders look authentic as the game launches this fall.
Look What Broke Into The Wrong Rec Room! It’s TREMORS THE COMPLETE SERIES ON DVD
Mar 9th
Burt Gummer lives! I've never grown tired of the Tremors franchise even as it got sillier and sillier. The chance to dig in to the TV show was just as rewarding. Only those who don't care about video quality need apply though. On my 52 inch screen this looked pretty grainy. And there aren't any real special features to speak of here. Just all 13 episodes of worm killing, graboid grabbin, ass blastin fun. Christopher Lloyd has a fun turn as a scientist turned desert rat and there's some enjoyable tension between cast members but, like the sequels, the show never quite caught the magic of the original film.
Could Plastic Surgery Kill Dramatic Performances?
Mar 9th
As hordes of actors attempt to stave off aging, we watch on, amused. It's hard not to laugh or snicker when a person who has clearly had plastic surgery claims that their face is natural. They might as well claim to be a relative of Stretch Armstrong, trying to feed us bull that their skin doesn't fall and change no matter how old they get, that their chin was always that shape, their lips always that puffy, their eyebrows always that arched.It's also inspired many of us to complain about the lack of emotion these actors can offer, how it affects performances and ruins a role -- emotions desperately trying to escape from the clutches of Botox and injected fat. But It's more than just a threat to random roles. We must ask: could this rampant love of plastic surgery effect or essentially change how cinema is made and performed? New York Magazine recently looked into the issue, inspired by the unmoving faces in the television show Damages.
The most telling piece of the article deals with emotion as a sort of compromise, actors figuring out what facial movements are necessary for their careers. Plastic surgeon Stephen Pincus told the magazine: "I ask them, what expressions, what emotions, are you concerned about losing? They'll say, 'I have to be mad, or surprised, or I'm worried about my eyebrows, I don't want to be a blank stare.' I say, 'I can paralyze your forehead from this point up, but you're not going to be able to wrinkle a good part of the forehead. Is that an issue for you? If it is, we shouldn't do it.' They're more concerned about wrinkles than about the five seconds of emotion people might not notice anyway."
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