Where MY Wild Things Are…

Still looking forward to the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers Where The Wild Things Are adaptation, and all the screenshots still look amazing, but wow, this first trailer is pretty em effing epic. Hopefully it’s just an extra-bombastic trailer, because I have no idea how a three-page book could be adapted into a film that makes Braveheart [...]

Gazillion Rocks It!

Nirvana for the video game industry looks a lot like World of Warcraft, except without the arcane rules that mystify the average player.
That vision is the driving force behind Lego Universe, a new online game based on the building bricks franchise that’s scheduled for release in 2010. Developed by a San Mateo company called [...]

Massive list O’ links for the week

Here we go (newest finds to older finds):

Rock Band & the Beatles coming this September
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118000861.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1&nid=2570
NBCU wants to create some branded content
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=101650
Pixar’s gender problem
http://www.film.com/features/story/pixars-gender-problem/26520445
Dark Superheroes and Childish Action Figures
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-03/pl_brown
Young Adults gravitate towards Tween/13 year old girl literature?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/05/AR2009030501541.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
Parents think games are a great social exercise for kids
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/microsoft/4942975/More-than-half-of-parents-view-video-games-as-a-great-social-experience-says-survey.html
Firefox more popular than Internet Explorer 6??
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/03/04/firefox.overtakes.ie6/
Yahoo Sports selects National Football [...]

Vampires to Save Literacy now that Wizards are Retired?

Booksellers say Meyer’s books are helping fill the void left by Harry Potter after the last instalment in the stories the boy wizard was published in 2007.
Publishers had fretted openly about how they would maintain sales after the publication of the final part of the series [...]

Amazing: The Future of World Creation

Think of Star Trek TNG’s Holodeck, but re-imagined in the present, now add on to that the creation tools of Second Life. Bruce Branit’s World Builder gives you a vision of what that could be like. It is a stunning short movie, well worth a watch.
The Future of Virtual World Creation. – SLOG
FYI, this was [...]