Kotaku is reporting a fun little story about a new crusade from the "ministry" behind educational site The Porn Talk. It seems the minds behind the site have decided to stage a little campaign against the Wii, because Little Johnny can browse the web on the console, and discover an abundance of boobs. The group’s … Continue reading
Welcome to a new feature for CHUD’s DVD coverage, joining the regular-as-good-shit Special Edition and our constant barrage of reviews. Each month we’ll be giving a little spotlight coverage to new discs being released by Anchor Bay. You may have noticed the advertisements on the right-hand bar of the main page. If you haven’t, please … Continue reading
I considered yesterday some of the implications of the rising costs of game development, and today I’ve got an article to show you that stands as a convergence point for CHUD’s fascinations: movies, games, television, and John Saxon. This article from Japanmanship (via GameSetWatch) proposes a game development business model that emulates the current Hollywood … Continue reading
There has been a fair amount of coverage on game development costs expanding beyond control, resulting in an entertainment medium dominated by the major publishing houses with the bankrolls to hire huge teams across several years. We’ve also dealt with, and are way past, the grumbling about Xbox 360 and PS3 games costing an extra … Continue reading
Look at this! I bitch and moan and then, in an act of pure coincidence, something happens to appease me. The Xbox Live Arcade will be receiving a new title this Wednesday, ending the drought with a tease of a shower. Alien Hominid HD will be yours for the buying, in all of its 2D … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE! STUDIO: Starz Home VideoMSRP: $19.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 77 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Feature Commentary w/ directors and creator• "To Hell and Back" featurette• "A New Breed" featurette• "Conquering Hellboy" featurette• "A View From The Top" featurette• "Keepers of Hellboy" featurette• "Hellboy Goes East" featurette• DVD-ROM content The Pitch "It’s like Sandman: … Continue reading
[Note: Wild Tigers I Have Known is set for a limited theatrical release starting February 23. IFC’s website has full release information.] This is the sort of film that draws memories out of its audience. In a critical landscape in which unquantifiable things, such as what experiences a given viewer brings to the theater, can’t … Continue reading
When I was a kid, my mother often told me that I had eyes bigger than my stomach, which resulted in a couple of years during which I thought that I could let anyone punch me in the gut because, hey, my stomach was the size of an eyeball and wouldn’t get hurt. The poing … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: TouchstoneMSRP: $39.99RATED: TV-PGRUNNING TIME: 625 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES: "Thank You For Being A Friend" featurette The Pitch "Picture this: You’re eight years old. You get up in the middle of the night because you need a drink of water. As you pass the guest bedroom where your grandparents are staying … Continue reading
While the Wii remote’s motion- and location-sensing technologies are nearly inextricable from the console’s games, Johnny-Come-Later Sony’s SIXAXIS functionality seems generally an afterthought. Putting that hypothesis to the test, Ars Technica ran this article comparing how the PS3 controller’s tech contributed to those games which have been released thus far. Their opinions won’t shock anyone, … Continue reading