While some may think it’s too soon to launch a series of next-gen consoles from the two major industry players, others are always looking forward to the latest and greatest with cash burning holes in their pockets. Whichever side you sit on, this morning at the Microsoft campus, Don Mattrick of Microsoft unveiled their long awaited and much speculated about next-gen console with Yusef Mehdi and Marc Whitten fleshing out the feature details of the new console. Putting to rest all of the rumored console names ranging from Durango to 720 to Infinity…behold the “Xbox One“.
The new sleek black console (I’m sure a white option will be offered eventually) rests horizontally, is about the same height as the existing 360 console and slightly wider, is likely designed to take the place of and consolidate the footprint of your existing Blu-ray DVD player & 360 console in your entertainment center, in an all-in-one, space-saving endeavor. With a large portion of the top of the console appearing to be vents for cooling, perhaps this will aid what is hopefully a juiced up processor running a nice and cool, and have the console run a bit quieter than the existing 360 console.
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This week’s episode, A Nightmare in Silver, featured a redesigning of the Doctor’s old enemies, the Cybermen. Show runner Steven Moffat’s goal was to make the Cybermen “scary again”. Did he succeed? Well, my answer would be a resounding: Meh. The redesign was sleek and mimics the current trend with technology, but was missing a core of mechanic of what made the Cybermen scary. The episode in total was also fairly okay. I didn’t love it.
deus ex, but what do you expect when the enemy you are facing has been built up to such a degree that the only answer is something of that magnitude. This reveal was, at least, sort of established and hinted at throughout the episode. When meeting with the soldiers on the planet, Davis does act pretty regal and it came off really well. The way he held himself and spoke was phenomenal and certainly intimated experience with this sort of thing.
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As I’ve said in the past, I am less than enthusiastic about Dark Horse’s currently-ongoing revival of their Comics’ Greatest World imprint. Representing an attempt by The House Richardson Built to create their own superhero-comic universe, a la the MU and DCU, the line proved short-lived for several good reasons. Chief among these, I think, is that the time for this sort of thing is pretty much passed. Both when DC (then National) adopted the idea in the early Thirties, and when Marvel put their own spin on it in the mid-Sixties, the idea was one whose time had come. While both those continuities are still around, with varying degrees of success, they’re sort of coasting along on inertia at this point, which is not to denigrate the efforts of the many talented creators who contribute to them. Hoping for lightning to strike again is anything but the way forward for American comics; rather, its salvation lies within the constant striving for new ideas and innovation, and to their credit Dark Horse does plenty of that.
The other main reason I oppose the CGW reboot is that, while I haven’t read anything close to all of the original comics, what I have seen of them has proved unimpressive to say the least. While few were outright irritating–with the exception of Barb Wire, which somehow managed to be even worse than the movie–they were mostly just dull, consisting as they did of somewhat more literate and artistically-inclined iterations of the standard Nineties trash.
