Links For 2-20-2010

Misc

School district halts webcam surveillance. I guess they were shamed into being intrusive and creepy.

Why was the Tiger Woods speech treated like a presidential address? I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that I don't care in the slightest about Tiger Woods. Was there anybody really that surprised that a rich celebrity was out cheating on his wife? I also don't care that Kevin Smith is too fat to fly on an airplane. Call me silly, but if anything the media should be apologizing to us for reporting on that nonsense "news".

Entertainment

William Shatner cast in 'Shit My Dad Says' pilot. Well, that's one show that just gained a viewer!

New DOCTOR WHO trailer. Kinda dumb. Hope the actual show is better. It should be. I believe in Moffat.

KICK-ASS red band trailer. Looks like they're going to try and sell it as a comedy.

Pilkington’s idiocy animates RICKY GERVAIS SHOW. I watched the first episode Friday night. An animated version of podcasts that I listened to years ago. Still, I'm a fan, and it gives me something to watch before THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TIM.

SCREAM 4 begins shooting in May. I like the first one, but is there anybody, aside from the studio and film-makers, who wanted another one?

Quentin Tarantino saves L.A. theater. Whether you like his movies or not, and generally I do, you have to admit, Tarantino loves film. This was a really cool thing that he did.

Video Games

GameStop says HEAVY RAIN pre-order DLC delayed. This effects all pre-orders, not just ones from GameStop. (I pre-ordered through Amazon, who also offered the DLC for free.) I'll be so busy playing the actual game, that I'm not too bothered about DLC, even if it is a prologue to the main game.

Remedy explains decision to release ALAN WAKE on Xbox 360 only. Sounds more like they just realized that PC sales would be low and the majority of people playing it on the PC would've just pirated it.

Remedy has 'no plans' to revisit MAX PAYNE. Too bad the original developers are done with MAX PAYNE. I guess we'll never find out for sure if the things they hinted at, like Max being crazy and everything in the games just being in his deranged mind, are true or not. I doubt Rockstar plans to pick those plot threads up, and even if they do, we won't know if that was the original creator's intent. Sigh.

How to unlock the RESIDENT EVIL 5 DLC "classic" camera. The camera that people spent the last decade or so bitching about. HAH!

Kitase: FINAL FANTASY VII to be remade only if takes a year to do so. So, yeah, given development time on games, that means it's not gonna happen.