Merry Christmas ya monkeys! Now go spend time with your family and get off the computer.
Finally a new character has been added to the Yeah! The Movie site. Check out the captured girlie. Creator Vadim Pietrzynski expects to release an animation of her next week so check back for that. But for now you can get a Christmas wallpaper of her and some of the creeps. For more on Vadim Pietrzynski, checkout Spellcraft Studios.
It's time for the Tuesday Trailer review! Today's trailers of interest are...
In the mood for a whacky teenage comedy? Dreamworks' Eurotrip¹ could be just what you're looking for.
Like your movies a little bit older but the comedy just as stupid? The guys from Super Troopers are back and they've dragged Bill Paxton along in Club Dread¹.
Club Dread isn't the only island movie coming to a theater near you. Owen Wilson has a beach movie too. Who's scamming who in Warner Brothers' whacky The Big Bounce¹.
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore hook up again and again and again in 50 First Dates¹. Drew's been konked on the head and can't remember anything that happened the day before. Hijinx ensue.
Jon Favreau tries to make an easy buck in Artisan Entertainment's The Big Empty¹.
Ok, enough of the comedies. Now it's on to the action flicks...
Ben Affleck's new movie Paycheck hits theaters on Christmas day but even better than the trailer is the behind-the-scenes clip that you can check out that shows some of the high-tech camera tricks they used to make the movie. Check out the behind the scenes featurette here¹.
Denzel's back in Man On Fire¹. Looks like Denzel's on his way out as a big name action star. Check out what could be his last big screen appearance before he goes the way of Jean-Claude Van Damme and the direct to video market.
Who let the dogs out? Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed². You'll probably need Netscape to watch this one because it's a java app that I.E. didn't like when I tried to watch it.
The truce is over in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village.
And the DOH! Network Super Trailer Pick of the Week is...
Sky Captain and The World Of Tomorrow¹. Who doesn't like giant robots attacking major metropolitan areas?
¹ Link courtest of QuickTime.com
Woohoo! Version .6 of the Desert Combat mod is available for download. You can find one of the mirror sites to download from over on the official site. Also check out the huge list of updates. This is an update from version .5L so you will need that first. The version .6 patch weighs in at 239 megs.
Finally a new location to watch the new Spider-man 2 trailer thanks to Apple.com.
It's Super Trailer Tuesday!! New trailers to check out are...
The Chronicles of Riddick. This is the continuing saga of Vin Diesel's character Riddick from Pitch Black. If the trailer is any in indication, this could be a pretty good movie. Nice futuristic Dune-y theme going on and not much Diesel.
Next up is a trailer I linked to like a year ago. I thought Torque was supposed to hit the big screen a while ago but was shelved because Biker Boys prety much tanked at the box office and they wanted to distance themselves from it but that's just speculation on my part. It could be they released a teaser trailer that long ago as studios have been known to do lately. Anyway, check out the trailer for Torque.
And as always, you can find these trailers and more on QuickTime.com
All the game file download sites are up in arms again over Game Spy getting exclusive download rights to some upcoming demos again. 35 download sites have banded together to say they will not feature any demo that was at one time an exclusive of any particular download site after the exclusive deal expires. I say good on them! I hate this having to wait in line crap because only one site is hosting a demo. I stand behind the download sites 100% and will not download any exclusive demos even if I have a membership.
Work on Desert Combat v.6 continues. The Trauma Studios guys released a couple of pictures of another new helicopter, the MH-53, and their new aircraft carrier. No more waiting for a plane on this bad boy. For more pictures, check out the official Desert Combat website.
Ooooooh. The new trailer for Spider-man 2. Looks mighty tasty but I don't know why Sony did it this way. There's only one site on the net that is hosting it and it is killing the streaming. Take a look for yourself but you'll probably have to play it twice since it will be too choppy the first time.
In case you haven't seen the news today, Saddam Hussein has been captured. Check out cnn.com for more info.
I think I've finally gotten Quake 3 running again. Turns out the constantly getting kicked to spectator mode wasn't a Quake problem. It was Punk Buster! Frikkin figures. If you're like me and reinstalling Quake 3, you have to make sure your Punk Buster is up to date to play on a Punk Buster enabled server. And if you are also like me and it refuses to update in-game, download pbweb.exe from the Even Balance website. Drop that file in your quake3/pb folder and then double click it to run it. It will go through all your Punk Buster files and delete old files and download new ones as needed. It takes about 5 minutes to go through and then you should be good to go.
Got a bonus trailer for you to end the weekend. Check out Mindhunters.
The DOH! Network E-cards are finally done going through testing. I believe all the bugs have been worked out and it should even work if you have a popup blocker or AOL v9.0. Click here to send your very own e-card.
Trailers, trailers, trailers. Got a bunch of new trailers for you to check out today. First up is a couple of movies coming soon where the main character is computer generated. Scooby Doo 2 and Garfield. Wonder why they went with a CG Garfield and not a CG Odie.
If you're a Charleze Theron fan, you probably won't want to see Monster cuz she's looking reeeallly bad in it.
If you're looking for a murder mystery suspense drama type movie, Taking Lives may be exactly what you're looking for. Featuring Keifer Sutherland, Angelina Jolie and fresh off of cheating on Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke.
All these trailers and more can be found on QuickTime.com
Fans of the WWE's The Rock can check out the trailer for his next movie, Walking Tall, by clicking here. (thanks Mrblue365R)
Jet Li is going the Crouching Tiger route for his next movie, Hero. At least I think it's his next movie. The site is in japanese so it's kinda hard to tell. Sabre says the clips on the japanese site are better than the english site but I can't even find the english site so there ya go. (thanks Sabre)
The Quake saga continues. After reinstalling Quake 3 and Team Arena two more times tonight I can now get into games but whenever I kill somebody, I get booted to spectate.
And then there's the Battlefield 1942 Live page that just broke for no reason. I went to view it and all I got was the banner and now I am trying to fix it and it will not recognize the stylesheet. Looks like I'll have to scrap that and redo it from the stock templates again.
DOH! No Team Arena for me tonight. I uninstalled/reinstalled Team Arena three times and I still get the 'invalid_cdkey' error even though it's a legitimate cd key. I'll have to look around the Internet tomorow and see if I can find anything on this problem. Maybe the id Software authorize servers are down or something.
Finally got Quake 3 running again at like 10:00 last night. Had to do a complete reinstall and updates and check it after every step to make sure it was still working. That said, I think tomorrow I might have to jump into Lori's >>TF<< TA server tomorrow for Team Arena Tuesday! If you've got Quake 3: Team Arena, check out the DOH! Network server stats page for the server info. There's a couple of bots in there so you can jump in any time and still have some action to keep you occupied.
UPDATE: So much for that idea. Just tried to connect to a couple of Team Arena servers and the game keeps saying my cd key is invalid. Maybe it's a sign that I should be working on my Johnny Leche e-cards.
Make sure you have your Quake 3 installed and updated because tonight the name of the game is Quake 3 Excessive. I'll be hanging out on the Deathcon server some time between 8 and 9 looking to try out the new joystick in some crazy anything goes Excessive action. You should be running version 1.32 of Quake 3 and no downloads are required for the Excessive mod if you have downloads enabled.
UPDATE: So much for Excessive Sunday Night. I jumped in several times today to make sure everything was set with the server and my computer and all was fine but now at 9:00 when I try to jump into any Quake 3 server, I get an error popup and dumped back to my desktop with my gamma all jacked up so that I have to reboot to get it back to normal. Frikkin Quake!
The official Doom³ site has been updated with some new screenshots, wallpapers and a killer trailer with some in-game footage. Check out the trailer by clicking here. (Action Trip)
Woohoo! I was just checking the game servers and noticed that the DSL Extreme Soldier of Fortune II server is back online and it's still using the config I set up. I can't do stats on it anymore but it's still a faster connection than the Deathcon server so the game play should be nice and smooth. Check out the server stats page to see who's online.
Subotai is back in an all new movie. Check out the trailer for Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London.
I think I may have posted this before but here it is again in case I didn't. The new trailer for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Both trailers are brought to you courtesy of QuickTime.com.
In gaming news, the single player demo for Breed is now available on 3D Gamers and other file download sites. It's a little bit Tribes 2, a little bit Unreal Tournament 2004. Viewing the trailer (here or here) kinda makes me think this is what Tribes: Vengeance shoulda been before they switched from their own engine to the Unreal Tournament 2003 engine. Check out the official Breed site for more info. (Action Trip)
Doh! I just spent like an hour looking for some info on setting up an Enemy Territory server with low experience levels so you could have the full experience benefits on a stopwatch mode server. It looks like it's not easily done because there is nothing on how to do it that I can find so far.