November 9th, 2006
Sony is now cancelling or delaying PS3 launch titles. Nothing new there–it happens every time a new console launches.
But how bad is it for Sony? In Japan, the PS3 is hitting stores with five game titles. And talk about killer aps! Genji, Resistance, Ridge Racer 7, Gundam and Sega Golf Club.
Makes you want to run out and drop $600, no?
0 commentsCowboy Nation
November 9th, 2006
If they still had managers in the WWE, this guy would be the Bobby Heenan.
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0 commentsOvechkin = Jordan?
November 9th, 2006
For all my newly-minted hockey homeys, Galley Friend B.W. sends along this great story about Alex Ovechkin making up insults in order to get himself fired up.
To all of you Jordan obsessives out there, this is candy.
0 commentsPS3 First Game Review
November 9th, 2006
IGN has the word on PS3’s Genji: Days of the Blade. They give it a 6 out of 10.
0 commentsElection Night
November 8th, 2006
Sure, everyone else is watching politics, but TNT just started rolling the Law & Order episode where Briscoe and Green find the remains of a student radical who was murdered in the ’60s by an undercover cop and McCoy is all, “You don’t understand–it was a different time!”
And Abby is all, “Yeah, a different time where filthy fucking hippies ruled the earth, Jack. The bastard got what he deserved.”
So hot.
0 commentsFaith Hill = Kanye West
November 7th, 2006
Blog Crush has the video from the CMA’s. Just skip to the 35 second mark and watch Faith Hill flip out when Carrie Underwood’s name is announced. Someone, somewhere, must have the rest of that footage . . .
0 commentsGilbert Arenas: The Assassin
November 7th, 2006
Every once in a while, magazine editors do something so right that you have to stop and doff your hat to them. Washingtonian editors did just that by getting Fred Barnes to do this super-fantastic profile of Gilbert Arenas.
If I was King at a big newspaper, I’d do this sort of cross-specialty assigning all the time, getting my best political writers to occassionally do big sports pieces, my sports writers to do some movie reviews, my movie critics to do some literary criticism, etc. Think of how much fun it is to read Anthony Lane doing Wodehouse or Tony Kornheiser doing real estate or Barnes, here, doing sports.
0 commentsHow Big Was Borat?
November 6th, 2006
Brandon Gray puts it in perspective:
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan packed an estimated $26.4 million from around 1,100 screens at 837 theaters, boasting the highest-grossing wide opening ever for a picture playing at less than 1,100 theaters (The Blair Witch Project did $29.2 million at 1,101 sites). The closest recent comparison in terms of release pattern and style was Fahrenheit 9/11, which started with $23.9 million at 868 venues.
Blair Witch and Fahrenheit 9/11 are pretty amazing company to be in.
In other box office news, The Departed registered a 19 percent decline over last weekend, putting it over the $100M mark.
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