Check out the first trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man.
I saw this in 3D last night before Captain America and got super excited. The first person shots were excellent eye candy in 3D (and a direct homage to Mirror’s Edge which I enjoyed).
I sure do love me some Spider-Man!
The National is a great band. Portal 2 is a great computer game. The former did a great song for the latter called Exile Vilify (7.6 MB MP3) but sadly it only gets played from a tinny radio in the game. You could easily miss it while playing the game (or maybe you’re one of those weird people who doesn’t play great games).
Valve means to fix the low billing of the song in the game with the Portal 2 Music Video Contest.
I don’t know how to fix the problem of not enough people playing amazing games that represent some of the most creative work I’ve seen in years.
In any case, the point of this post was that it’s awesome when things you love come together.
Here’s why national televised award shows are stupid: Lots of people are confused (or worse) because they’ve never heard of Arcade Fire before the band won the Grammy for Album of the Year.
Thanks to Kottke for the LOLs.
Holy shit! Clint Mansell is composing the score for Mass Effect 3.
Jack Wall did excelent work on the first two Mass Effect games, but Mass Effect and Mansell is like peanut butter and jelly!
For the details, check out Mansell’s recent interview with The Quietus where he also muses on composing the score for Black Swan and working with Aronofsky.
The Decemberists have finished up another record, titled ‘The King is Dead’, which is due out on January 18th, 2011.
You can download the first single, ‘Down by the Water’, in exchange for your email address on their site right now. It’s kind of country and folksy but with that unique Decemberists quality.