Emo-SPLOSION!

Wired has a great article depicting the plight that Mexican Emo Kids are going through right now. According to the story, Emo Kids in Mexico are being viciously attacked by their Punk and Rockabilly counterparts. But what makes the story so interesting is the sexual undertones outlined by Alexis Madrigal, the article's author. Go head over and check it out, it's pretty fascinating stuff.

There's a video in the article (you can find it below) from a Mexican TV news show, but it does give some interesting visuals to this story.

W... W.... What???

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Elizabeth Banks has been cast as Laura Bush in the Oliver Stone directed George Bush biopic, W.

I don't know when the movie takes place, but damn if Ms. Banks is a bit young to be playing the first lady, and for that matter former Goonie Josh Brolin playing the afformentioned Dub seems a bit off too. But I do love those durn Goonies.

But I do trust the 'Stone, so I'll wait and see. Hopefully this comes off more like Nixon or JFK than, say, Alexander...

Sorry about the link for Alexander being messed up, but I figured images of things called Alexander might be more interesting than the film itself.

Check out the (fake) Trailer for W below:

Yeah Democracy!

The Video Game Voters Network is reporting that the proposed New Mexico bill that introduced legislature taxing video game sales was struck down. This is a great win for the industry, and hopefully serves as a warning to other states trying to legislate the games we love. I'll let VGVN take care of the explanation, but I just thought I'd throw it out here as well.

Snap Judgement: Lost: Via Domus

So here we go again, sorry it's been so long.

Lost: Via Domus is the official video game adaptation of ABC's hit show.
Unfortunately - the game is a 4. (on a scale of 4-42)

Despite an actually interesting connection to the show (the guy who is slammed into the roof of the plane during the crash in the pilot is actually after the character in the game) and terrific in-game character models, the game falls flat in every other respect.

Lets start with play mechanics. Is it 1997? Or is not being able to jump a retro thing? On the serious - the game control is atrocious. Your character (no name - he's a photographer with amnesia! SO ORIGINAL!) runs about the jungle following Vincent the dog or runnign from fuselage to fuselage navigating your way around. The sensitivity is ratcheted way up, so a simple tweak to the right spins the camera around like it's mounted on a stick of butter.

Stick of butter? Where did that come from?

Like I said before, the models are terrific (Claire looks a bit like a pregnant zombie) John Locke is a spitting image of Terry O'Quinn and Jack Shepard is a doppleganger to Matthew Fox. That being said, the quality of voice work runs the gamut. Jack's voice actor sounds pretty believable and Michael Emerson voices Ben Linus (the same character he plays in the series - other actors voice their video game counterpart).

The game is basically a 1999 PS1 survival horror game with prettier graphics and better sound. I wish that Ubisoft - the studio that created the relatively great Assassin's Creed had done more with this license that has such an abundance of terrific content and writers. But alas, as most licensed movie/tv games do, Lost: Via Domus fails to live up to it's source material.

Too Damn Long!!!!!!!!!!

SORRY!

We've been MIA - but we're back, we're here and we are gonna blog like it's 1992.

Oh, wait.

2002.

Right.

Coming up - Lost: Via Domus (The Lost video game) snap judgment!

Word!