Browser games, such as Flash games and Java games, have now been around for over 10 year and recently their popularity has seen a marked increase. The problem with Flash games however can be the cost. There is now however a more affordable and accessible option, of licensing existing Flash games.
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Why review a Japanese-language film without sensational violence, naked ninjas, or giant robots? Because when it’s a movie as smartly comic, raggedly rocking, warmly appealing, and richly rewarding as Yoshihiro Nakamura’s Fish Story, you want the whole world to know. Or, at least, people who don’t happen to be in Austin right now.
Not that Fish Story is the best movie ever made, but it certainly deserves to be seen by a wider audience than will have a chance to see it at special events like Fantastic Fest. And distributors tend to shy away from films that don’t have easily marketable elements, like those mentioned in the opening line. In several important ways, this is a rather modest little flick, and I
Rather than a fish, or fishes, the linchpin of the narrative is a song entitled “Fish Story,” recorded by an obscure Japanese punk band in 1975 (one year before the Sex Pistols were formed). Unappreciated in their own time, the band’s song takes on a life of its own over the years, still entrancing listeners in a record store in 2012. A comet is about to strike the earth, and mankind only has five hours left to live. With the rest of the populace departed to supposedly safer high ground, three men come together, listening to the record and fantasizing that, somehow, the song will be able to save the world.
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While we’ll pretty much make up any reason to watch a zombie any time day or night, much less one written and directed by the de facto creator of the genre, George Romero, the release of Zombieland gave our appetite for undead entertainment some legitimacy this week. And while Zack Snyder’s 2004 reimagining of Dawn of the Dead might be the more obvious candidate for a “Shelf Life” column given Snyder’s status as an emerging auteur himself, not to mention the fact it’s the best American zombie movie in the last decade, we elected to go back to Romero’s 1979 original and see if its classic status is still deserved.
The Facts: Also known as Zombi, George Romero’s follow-up to the 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead was released May 24, 1979 after premiering in Italy almost a year before. With an estimated budget of $650,000, Romero’s film grossed $55 million to date worldwide (equal to $181 million in 2009 dollars), and is widely acknowledged as the best zombie movie of all time - even if its predecessor likely remains the most influential.
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Make gold on WoW. Here are some simple tips and hints for you if you are just starting to think about raiding. Raiding in theory is basically just a more difficult instance. Technically a raid group is at least 10 people, though most hard core WoW players only consider it a raid if there are at least 20 members in the group. Few players will PUG a raid, unless it is to fill in the odd space or two needed to complete the group.
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There are many different types of online games now available for families and people to enjoy. This can be a great family pastime that you can all enjoy together. Many adults still look at video games as child’s play and they
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Lauren Conrad has definitely had a charmed life thus far. While in high school, she took part in the MTV reality series Laguna Beach. Then she gets her very own spin-off called The Hills, a job at Teen Vogue, and her own fashion line. But that’s not all. If you keep an eye on the New York Times’ bestseller list, you’ve seen that she’s also a bestselling author. Oh, but the luck doesn’t stop there.
Variety reports that Temple Hill Entertainment nabbed the rights to L.A. Candy — Conrad’s debut novel that’s spent 14 weeks on the NYT list. Heavily influenced by Conrad’s own experiences, the book follows a young woman named Jane Roberts who moves to Hollywood, joins a reality show, finds fame, “and then has to deal with the ramifications of living a fishbowl life.” It’s also said to be the first of three, so hello sequel potential.
Conrad isn’t adding “screenwriter” to her ever-growing resume quite yet, but it seems she did charm the Temple Hill peeps with “a structure of how to tell the story in an interesting fashion that was separate and apart from the book.” Who knows what that means. A faux reality show vibe to a big-screen feature perhaps? Whatever the case, the girl seems to be unstoppable.
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Every week, look for Indie Roundup to provide a snapshot of what’s been happening in the independent film world.
News. Have you been keeping up with the foreign-language film submissions for the Academy Awards? Our friends at indieWIRE have compiled a very handy list, ahead of the Academy’s official release. More than 50 countries have made their choices known, while more than a dozen portential entries have not yet been announced. Notable flicks include The White Ribbon (Germany), Forever Enthralled (China), A Prophet (France), and Police, Adjective (Romania).
Deals. Matthew Broderick stars in Wonderful World, which will be released by Magnolia Pictures in early 2010, according to indieWIRE. Josh Goldin (Darkman scripter) makes his directorial debut. Broderick plays a “failed children’s folk singer and less-than-extraordinary weekend dad” who becomes involved with his Senegalese roommate’s sister. Romance and either heartache or happiness — or perhaps both — follow.
Indie Weekend Box Office. No surprises last weekend, as Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story blew away the competition, averaging $57,991 at the four theaters where it opened in New York and Los Angeles, per the calculations of Box Office Mojo. While the totals are good so far, they
How did the four other indie openers perform? And what about those film festivals? Read more after the jump!
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Strength is in numbers. No gangster will survive on his own. You need a loyal family to have your back. The bigger and stronger, the better. Fortunately Mafia Wars is a very community orientated game for this reason.
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Those lucky ducks at Fantastic Fest got to peep many weird and fabulous films, not the least of which is Gentlemen Broncos. The movie, which is directed by Jared Hess of Napoleon Dynamite fame, stars the always-dreamy Jemaine Clement from Flight of the Concords as an utterly ludicrous author who steals a book manuscript from a dorky teen, played by Michael Angarano. Sam Rockwell has two parts in Broncos — one as a super-hairy superhero with a bald ladylove and one as a sort of, uh, tranny Captain Kangaroo. In this exclusive clip, Sam, in all his hairy glory, tries to explain why you can’t look tough while drinking a smoothie. It’s also really hard to drink a smoothie with a giant beard, as you’ll see after the jump.
As Peter Hall wrote in his Fantastic Fest review of Broncos, “there is no denying, though, that seeing Sam Rockwell ride a fake deer shooting rockets out of all its orifices is the answer to a dream I
Me too, Peter. Me too.
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With Web 2.0, we have a more communicative, user engaging web society. Browser Based Games are web pages. Hence Web 2.0 applies to it. And here is Browser Based Game 2.0.
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