Who ya gonna call?

Awesome news indeed is sweeping across the Intertubes. The December issue of Game Informer has an exclusive - Vivendi Universial will be bringing us a new Ghostbusters game! Variety have even more details on what will be coming our way.

Not only will the original cast - Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Ackroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts (Janine Melnitz the secretary) and William Atherton (Walther Peck) - be providing voice overs, but the original (and fantastic) writing team of Murray, Ramis and Ackroyd will be writing the script. This will be as close to Ghostbusters 3 as we're likely to see.

Behold the obligatory screenshot:

The title will be coming to ... well, pretty much everything. All the current consoles, as well as the PS2 and the DS, as well as the PC. And it will be coming soon - autumn 2008 apparently.

That's pretty quick for a cross platform release, which hints at one of two things:
1) it's going to suck. Nooooooo!
2) The video of a Ghostbusters game by Zootfly that appeared - and disappeared just as quickly - on YouTube earlier this year was a sign - a portent - of what is to come.

Personally I'm desperately holding out for option 2.

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Who needs a bouncy castle for a party?

That's right - why bother a boring old bouncy castle? AirWorks Inflatables have a wide range of .... different ... options for your party.

For example, how about this tentacle wielding ..... inflatable vagina? What?

I give this about a week before Orangina start using them on the streets in France to promote their drinks.

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Killer Bean Forever

This deserves a much wider awareness, if only to help out the guy who created it. Lead animator on Matrix Reloaded, Jeff Lew, has created a full-CGI movie - Killer Bean Forever: When Beans Go Bad.

The effects are great - this is very well done CGI - but more than that, he's done it all himself, on his own gear, using his own money.


"Several years ago, I was the Lead Animator of Matrix Reloaded. It was a great job. I learned a lot from it, but I wanted to make my own feature film. So I quit to pursue my dream. For the past 4 years, I’ve been working at my computer 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. I’ve spent my entire life savings and maxed out credit cards. After all this time and effort, my movie is almost done. I present to you a preview of my feature film directorial debut… Killer Bean Forever."




Killer Bean Forever - Official Trailer - video powered by Metacafe

You can check out the official site at http://www.killerbeanforever.com/index.html. Support Jeff and buy some merchandise from the online store - his instruction DVDs are well worth a watch.

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Those wacky French

This deeply disturbing video comes from France, and is supposed to be advertising Orangina.

"What the hell is *in* that drink?" I hear you cry. Well, a while ago a scientist managed to create oranges with THC in them, so I guess that's the answer.

Keep an eye out for the freakish octopus girl and her orgasmic expression as she squeezes her pert fruit.



Awesome. Clearly Disney need to hire these marketing gurus for a Bambi remake.

Also: bouncing panda boobs. That is all.

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Jack Thompson Music Video!

I have to admit, I feel a bit sorry for Jack Thompson. He's yet to win any lawsuits against game companies, he emailed gay porn to a judge in Florida (who was overseeing a hearing to have Jack disbarred), and he's the constant object of ridicule from gamers everywhere.

At least, I feel a bit sorry until I realise he gets paid obscene amounts of money, and until I read the latest lawsuit/media stunt.

Then I laugh. Lots.

Helping the laughter is this awesome video from SarcasticGamer. Everyone sing along!

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More Half Life 2 fun

Following on from yesterday's daring reporting ;-) a friend has sent me a link to this excellent video on YouTube:

Half Life in 60 Seconds



Have a look at Rompkows other videos on there - fantastic stuff.

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Half Life 2, slowly coming true

Cleverly photoshopped, or the true backup to eastern european riot police?

Is this the real reason anti-democracy protests in Georgia are getting so brutally suppressed?

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Awesome concept desk

Australian design student Marcus Curran has come up with a fantastic new concept for a working desk - the Eclipse Partition System.

Featuring a sort of folding leaf design for privacy, which can also have ambient images projected on to it, this looks fantastic. I'd certainly be tempted to buy one, the whole idea looks great for focussing you on your work and cutting out distractions.

Check out the video of how it would work:



Not sure if it would ever see the light of day, but it certainly deserves to be. Maybe some enterprising Scandinavian company would go for it?

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Hybrid racing cars

I have a first generation Honda Civic hybrid, and I love it. I do a fair few miles for work, and being able to get over 600 miles out of a tank - that can only cost £30 to fill up - is awesome. The fact that it's a family sized car that can fit my wife, three kids, and all their junk, is also a huge bonus.

I predicted to a friend when I got the Civic, almost 3 years ago, that within 5 years we'd be seeing Formula 1 start to use hybrid technology. So I was pretty chuffed this week when the FIA announced an unprecedented 10 year freeze on engine development, in order to force F1 manufacturer's to invest in green technology.

With hybrid's giving a nice boost in torque and low end acceleration, hybrid motors in Formula 1 and performance cars make a lot of sense.

In related news, a team in the UK will be fielding a second generation Honda Civic hybrid in the Formula 1000 rally championship. This follows on the heels of a Honda Insight hybrid winning the Formula 1000 Class A championship last year.

A hybrid Toyota Supra has also won Tokachi 24 hour endurance race in Japan. The GT spec HV-R lead the entire race, finally finishing 19 laps ahead of the second place car. This success can only fuel the rumours (ha ha, see what I did there? :-) that the Toyota FT-HS concept hybrid is heading for production as the next Supra.

Interesting times ahead indeed. I'll look forward to swapping my hybrid Civic for a hybrid Ferrari 612 in the next few years :-)

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