LUCAS, GEORGE WALTON JR. 1983. Return of the Jedi [motion picture, later retitled as Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi]. San Francisco, Los Angeles: Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox. via ↑entry at ↑kueperpunk … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2012
At boingboing they currently have ‘a ↑series of essays about movies that have had a profound effect on our invited essayists.’ The day before yesterday it was ↑Gareth Branwyn’s turn. From his ‘Like Tears in the Rain:’ I can’t really say what made such a fundamental impact on me. The dark noir mood of the film, certainly, and the questions it raises about the nature of life, memory, what constitutes humanity, and whether “androids dream of electric sheep…” What I didn’t know I was looking at was a cyberpunk aesthetic that I would soon become completely immersed in, through … Continue reading
‘Watch Dogs’ as presented by Ubisoft at E3 They kept it a secret until some days ago. I am not closely following the coverage of ↑this year’s E3, but from what I read it seems that a lot of the major players in the industry put some disappointing shows on the floor. Not so Ubisoft—here I have to admit that ↵since ‘↵Far Cry 2‘ I am a regular fanboy—they stunned the audience by presenting ‘↑Watch Dogs,’ which is heavily cyberpunk-drenched, truly just twenty minutes into the future, ↑at the most. Gamezone was the first to sum the available information … Continue reading
‘Im just five hours old … Truly beautiful to behold …’ Fresh from the mint, here is KerLeone’s very first frag movie—high quality definition, editing, and frags, plus a gorgeous soundtrack. It was he, my old on- and offline pal, who brought me to ↑Quake more than a decade ago … and it took him that long to create a frag movie :) Enjoy! … Continue reading
[Finally the ISP came around and switched the whole thing on. Now that I’m back the starving’s over, content at xirdalium will be updated regularly again, and of course zeph’s pop culture quiz will be maintained again. I’ll try to update as fast as possible.] … Continue reading