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Very cool vids!! Congrats again!! I didn't even think of hitting the pause button to check the full map view. Thanks for the tip.

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The New Zealand TV network that ripped off a PS3 ad and was called on it by fake executive Kevin Butler sent the PlayStation "vice president of everything," a large gift basket as a gesture of goodwill. Butler, noticing that New Zealand's TV3 straight-up copied the PS3's "Montage" ad from earlier this year, didn't send a cease-and-desist (though the ad was soon pulled) but did spell out in pretty clear terms what he wanted from the broadcaster. Namely, "TV3's support in making the PS3 the Official Game Console of New Zealand. ... That, and a box set of Flight of the Conchords." Ask and ye shall receive, Kevin. In addition to that plaque, and the DVDs (but were they Blu-Ray?), SCEA's marketing folks also got a bunch of Kiwi goodies, such as ... Marmite? Yum? [via Kevin Butler's Twitter]

A gaming cafe in Kaneohe, Hawaii was robbed last week, three youths storming in and demanding money from the customers inside. They got the money, but I don't think they were ready for one guy to fight back. As you can see in this clip from KHON2 news, things were going pretty well for the bandits early on. They come in, threaten the front desk employee, rough him up then start taking money from the kids inside using the computers. Then they try and take one guy's DS. Nunh unh. He goes bananas, flying straight at his would-be thief with a flurry of punches. He even manages to land one. He receives several more (with interest) in return, but his actions help inspire the rest of the cafe's inhabitants, who eventually fight back, stealing the mask of one robber and causing the rest to flee. Three of the thieves were apprehended by police around a block away. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb7CNfMs65c

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If only we could get all three at the same time!! Hookers, Cold Beers, & Socom!! I could die a happy man.

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Saw the date was changed at Gamestop the other day to 1/1/2011. Time to bring this out:

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Here's the cast @ Comic-Con. From left to right: IronMan, Agent Coulson, Black Widow, Thor, Captain America, Nick Fury, Hawkeye, & The Hulk.

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Probably the most exciting thing we saw at Comic-Con today was a surprise chunk of footage from Jon Favreau's scifi western, Cowboys and Aliens. It was gritty and action-packed, plus there was a showdown between Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig. Favreau, whose previous films were Iron Man and Iron Man 2, said they've only been shooting for a month, but he wanted to prep some great footage for Comic-Con. Holy crap did he deliver. He called the movie a "by the book Western," in the vein of John Ford, which will definitely be in 2D. (Why no 3D? He just doesn't think you can shoot a Western in digital.) And he said his scifi influences include Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, and Predator. "We wanted it to look like practical effects, with minimal CGI," he added. And it really worked. We saw several interlinked scenes that introduce our main characters. The first clip opens with Zeke Johnson (Daniel Craig) riding his horse into a tiny old west town, accompanied by a scruffy dog. He looks wary, and his face is covered in grime. Seeing nobody around, he slips into a house and begins to clean up. Immediately, we notice that he has a bulky, steampunk-looking wristband on one arm; then he pulls aside his shirt to reveal a deep, bloody bullet wound. As he's cleaning that, the house's owner pokes a shotgun into his ear and he's forced to put his hands up. The man says to Zeke, "Only two kinds of people get shot: Criminals and victims. Which one are you?" "I don't know," Zeke replies. Next time we see him, Zeke is in jail and a scruffy teenager in the next cell is spitting on him, saying, "I want to see you suffer for a long time." Finally, after a few more seconds of torment, Zeke gets up, grabs the kid by the scruff of the neck, and smashes him unconscious against the bars dividing their two cells. So Zeke is a tough character. And when the lawmen arrive, they tell him he's been charged with murder and he's being taken for a trial - chained to the snotty kid he knocked out. The two of them have been bundled into an armored carriage when a large group of armed men ride out of the night and into town carrying torches. Their leader is Col. Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), and he's a venomous bad guy who refuses to hear the pleas of his son, who turns out to be the snot-nosed kid who spat on Zeke. Pointing at Zeke, Woodrow says, "That's the son of a bitch who stole my gold." He wants to snatch Zeke out of the carriage right that minute to find out where his gold is, but he's interrupted when the horizon begins to glimmer with lights. It's a very Close Encounters-esque looking UFO, which zooms toward the town, fragments into several ships which disappear, then reappear directly overhead, shooting blue lasers and blowing up the town house by house. Fires erupt from windows, people run screaming (including Sam Rockwell), and the jail carriage is knocked over. Zeke and the kid scramble out and we see Zeke's wristband has grown to cover his lower arm. It's also glowing blue. He aims it at the ships, and shoots out a beam of light that brings one down in a haze of dust and fire. A hush falls over the town as everybody stares at the fallen ship, looking a little like a TIE fighter surrounded by mounds of displaced dirt. Woodrow is standing next to Zeke, who is still in a fighting stance, his arm outstretched. His wristband suddenly closes back up, becoming the small band we saw earlier. The two men exchange a significant glance, their faces lit by UFO fire, and the clip ended. It was an amazing series of establishing scenes, and gave us a real taste of the film's pacing and style. And it was simply amazing - one of the most intriguing things I've seen all week at Con. I like the fact that it's Old West science fiction but not steampunk at all (except for the style of Zeke's wristband). It actually reminded me of what The Adventures of Briscoe County would have been if it were a drama: a perfect blend of cowboy justice and UFO weirdness. Along with the rest of the crowd, I was left breathless and wondering how this would all play out. Will this be hard science fiction, or more fantastical like the Indiana Jones series? What will the aliens look like? Is Harrison Ford actually playing a bad guy? And Daniel Craig as a cowboy? Sign me the fuck up. Seriously - I predict that this film, based on a comic book by Scott Rosenberg, is going to be mindblowingly awesome when it comes out this time next year.

Here's the trailer for the upcoming ALIEN ANTHOLOGY Blu-ray. The 6 disc set includes all four movies in the series (each movie with two different cuts) and more special features than there are stars in the sky. Grab your copy on October 26, 2010.