Electronic Arts, the latest licensee of the official Scrabble name, is taking its duty seriously. They just issued a press release rating the acceptance speeches during the Academy Awards for their best Scrabble scores. And the winner is…
Inexplicably — Score:28 (Meryl Streep, Best Actress, “The Iron Lady”)
Indefatigable — Score:20 (Eugene Gearty, Sound Editing, “Hugo”)
Provocateurs — Score:17 (Christopher Plummer, Best Supporting Actor, “Beginners”)
Prosthetics — Score:17 (J. Roy Helland, Makeup, “The Iron Lady”)
Chameleon — Score:15 (Gore Verbinksi, Director “Rango”)
Financier — Score:14 (Michel Hazanavicius, Director, “The Artist”)
Resilience — Score:12 (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Documentary Short, “Saving Face”)
Virtuoso — Score:9 (Colin Firth’s introduction speech for Best Actress)
I can hear half of America going, “Oh no…oh, come on…why? Her. Again.” But, whatever.
Midway Arcade for the iPhone sounds too good to be true. All these classic arcade games — some of which are probably still worth playing! — on your iPhone? As the old saying goes, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
After the jump, experience the Midway Arcade experience Continue reading →
Sequels can do things originals can’t. Superhero movies, for instance. The first movie is an origins story. That’s when you have to explain the rules to people like me who didn’t read the comic books. The superhero frets about great power. Aunt Martha gets killed. The superhero stops fretting and punches a few punks. Finale. But once you get to a sequel, your superhero fights better villains and maybe even trashes the city, since sequels have bigger budgets for special effects.
Ascension: Storm of Souls, a sequel to Ascension, gets down to the serious business of serious spectacle now that the ground rules have been laid. It may not be better than the core game — the elegance of basic Ascension is a tough act to follow — but it’s different, it’s more, and it’s the logical next step if you’re an Ascension fan.
After the jump, is it as good as fighting Terence Stamp? What about Heath Ledger? Continue reading →
Can Electronic Arts recapture the glory days of the SSX series? Find out this week with SSX Rebooted, which isn’t actually called that, but I can’t very well just call it SSX. Yeah, sure, that’s the name, but how are you going to know I’m not talking about the original Playstation 2 game?
I also can’t very well call the other four games out this week what they’re actually called, because I can’t keep the names straight. Can you? Here are four shuffled titles. I defy you to pluck the actual names from the list!
Pokepark Neptunia
Black Domain 2
Deep Hyperdimension: Wonders Beyond
Binary mk2: Reloaded
After the jump, you will be scored Continue reading →
You know that scene in Broadcast News when William Hurt proves himself by adroitly speaking while Albert Brooks talks in his ear? Kelly Wand is the opposite of that as he delivers a synopsis for The Secret World of Arrietty, the latest movie from Studio Ghibli. At the 35-minute mark, our 3×3 for this week is great actors in great movies who give bad performances.
Next week: The Son. Yes, this one.
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