Things that are wrong

I'm more scared of this than I was of the real Vader when I was 5!

Optimus Prime revealed

Fear not, Transformers fans! It was made official that Peter Cullen, the voice behind Optimus Prime in the original Transformers cartoons and films all those years ago, WILL reprise his role in next years live-action movie. Marvelous.

Venom IS in Spidey 3. Fact.

*spolier alert*

At the San Diego Comic Convention, there was great excitement as a little Q&A was held with the cast and stars of Spider-Man 3. The most exciting bit was the trailer footage of Eddie Brock becoming Venom. Yes, it is official, Venom is indeed in the film in all it's glory. Many thought that the third installment was just an introduction of the symbiote, that it would just engulf Peter Parker and Venom would appear in the next film, but ooooooooooh no. To quote a rather gleeful reporter after seeing the trailer, "Venom is fucking great!". Quite.

Here is the teaser poster of the action occuring, followed by said reporters description of the events. As I said, spoilers WILL occur..............

"The footage opened with Topher dipping his fingers, crossing himself in a church. He looks completely distraught, eyes red... he looks like life has beaten him down. His voice wavers and he prays. He's alone in the church. He asks God for his help. "It's Brock, sir. Edward B-brock Jr. (stutters) I'm here... humbled and humiliated... to ask you for one thing... I want you to kill Peter Parker." Then a bunch of stuff happened that I'll get to in a second. The trailer ended with Topher and Venom.

There was a montage of quick clips of Tobey Maguire at the top of the bell tower ripping the black suit off him. "I have to stop it." The SPIDER-MAN 3 logo comes up and you think that's it... but then we saw some unfinished effects of the symbiote dripping down, falling towards Topher Grace who is looking up. One drop falls and hits his right hand, immediately wrapping around his hand. The bulk of the symbiote hits him and wraps around him, pulling him to the ground, totally engulfing him. A cut and the camera is low to the ground a good distance away. It Raimi-cams EVIL DEAD style towards the black bulking mass. As it gets near the mass, Venom's head whips up looking straight into camera, which doesn't slow down and ends up rushing into his mouth where it goes to black.

Venom's face. Exactly what you want to see. Big, big toothy mouth, bright white eyes. Looks just like the later McFarlane Venom face."

Sony lose the plot!!

Sony has patented technology that would prevent its PlayStation consoles from playing used, rented or borrowed video games — raising questions about whether the electronics and entertainment giant may attempt to redefine what it means to own something in the digital age.Sony has said little about the technology, patented in Japan in 2000, or how it might be deployed. But speculation over Sony's plans has sparked a furor online as game fans and consumer advocates fret that the company may incorporate it into the upcoming PlayStation 3 console, due to hit stores this Christmas.

They worry that it would wipe out the $1-billion-a-year market for used games and could even prevent someone from playing their games at a friend's house.It is not unusual for technology companies to patent innovations and then never incorporate them into products.Documents filed in April 2000 with the U.S. Patent Office describe a method of copy protection by which the game system would verify a disc as legitimate, register the disc to that particular game console, then wipe out verification data so the disc would be rendered unreadable in other PlayStations."Since only titles for which legitimate software has actually been purchased and which have been initially registered in the machine table can be used, resale (so-called used software purchase) after purchase by an end user becomes practically impossible," according to the patent documents.

Microsoft also prepares to administer another cockpunch to Sony as it will cut 360 prices before Christmas!

Ho ho ho

Hotter Than Hell!

No this isn't a blog about me. Instead, I'd like to share with you the fact that over the last couple of days, the UK has been HOTTER than Brazil. This is ludicrous, the British do not understand what heat is in this country, that's why we flock in our thousands to the continent and terrorise their bars and clubs every summer. If things carry on like this, we'll all be staying here for our summer holidays. If this happens, violent crime would plummet in countries such as Spain, Germany and Czech Republic. Police and... yes.... maybe even armed forces.. would be out of work, being forced to scrounge a living as coach drivers and time-share agents, leaping on the few unsuspecting tourists that dribble in from other countries.

Please. Think of the foreign police and their families. It's our God-given right as members of the British Empire, our tradition.... to piss off abroad in a drunken rage.