Recent content by mishagale

The thing about ~24fps that we see on TV and in the cinema, is that it actually is kinda too slow. You can't do a very fast pan with 24fps because there aren't enough frames to show the changing image. A lot of games, that wouldn't be a problem, but in just about any modern FPS, you need to be...

It is pronounced "ki-ri-bas", to rhyme with bass, the fish. They only use about half the Latin letters in their written language, and 'ti' makes a 'ss' sound.

"Oh no, we might get bad publicity at home if we let this porn star attend our event!" Except that were it not for the uninvitation, no-one outside the Netherlands would even have known she was invited in the first place. I sometimes wonder if Activision actually has a PR department, or just...

Simon Pegg et. al. are still working, right? Also, Radio 4 makes some really super comedy shows. Bleak Expectations, The Museum of Everything to name but two. And Misfits is often hilarious, though maybe the jokes are a bit culture-specific. Or more super-hero comedy, the lamentably...

Woah, who the fuck does he play L4D with? This happened *often*? Is his nick OsamaWasRight or something? I've never seen behaviour like that in L4D, it's one of the best games I've ever played for being nice to each other online.

I know it was massively flawed, having blocky graphics, ropey animation and dodgy controls, but for some reason I still loved Enter The Matrix. It had the usual tie-in problems, but it also had a decent narrative and was actually pretter fun to play. Aside from that, I had Die Hard Trilogy on...

I know I already asked this at http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.245285-Black-Ops-8-players-with-2-PS3s but this thread seems so curiously appropriate to my needs that I thought I'd ask again: Does anyone know whether it's possible to play Black Ops 4-player split-screen on two...

I'm planning a LAN party tomorrow, and we want to play some CoD:Black Ops on PS3. What I'd like to know, if anyone can tell me for sure, is if it's possible to have 8 players in the same game, using 2 networked PS3s and 2 screens? Like 4-player splitscreen, twice? PSN ids aren't an issue, since...

As several people upthread have pointed out, the US version does kinda look better. Is it too charitable to say that this may have been an aesthetic decision, not a censorship one? Maybe the original art crossed the desk of someone who thought it (the clothing) looked impractical and...

Dr Michio Kaku posits that you could make a lightsaber using a plasma torch with a telescopic ceramic core. Check out the TV shows Science of the Impossible, also his book Physics of the Impossible (but I don't think the saber idea was in the book.)

It's not as nonsensical as it sounds, you just have to stop thinking of a robot having to be constructed out of transistors and integrated circuits. Instead, consider the T1000 as a conglomeration of millions of tiny nanoscale robots (like the replicators in Stargate Atlantis) and it's somewhat...

This is a pretty old debate, so I shouldn't have to say this but... to all the people saying "silent space battles would be boring": Yes, you are quite right, watching a long action sequence with a completely silent soundtrack would be pretty boring. But there are plenty of ways to accurately...

Well, it's got stargates in it... isn't that quite Stargate? I don't see why it needs to pick up the thread of the previous series, since between season 5 of Atlantis and Ark Of Truth all the dangling plot threads got resolved. As for Atlantis being at Earth, presumably they just flew it back...

I'm looking forward to it too! It does seem that most of the criticism of Universe (apart from nearly all the cast apparently being models who remembered to pack an awful lot of beauty products during the evac) is along the lines "waaah, it's all different from how stargate was before!" Because...

I was going to post "what's the name of that new zombie show? That looks like it could be awesome." But now I don't need to do that :) Other than that, I'm mostly holding my breath for series 3 of Being Human. But that probably won't be till early 2011 so I might asphyxiate.