To promote the premiere of the fourth season of Dexter, Showtime put together a small stop-motion animation video named “Dexter’s Private Life”. The animation was created using the Dexter action figures by Bif Bang Pow!. This video is pretty creepy and hilarious at the same time. At least Bif Bang Pow! got the wicked Dexter smile down on thier action figure.
Season 4 of Dexter premieres September 27th, 2009 on Showtime.
10 years ago today on 9/9/99, Sega released (in North America) their newest console gaming system called the Sega Dreamcast. Considered by many seasoned gamers as one of the greatest gaming systems ever, the Dreamcast is celebrating its 10th anniversary today (9/9/09). The Dreamcast was the pioneer in online gaming as being the first system to feature a built-in modem and internet support. Unfortunately, even with the huge amount of support for the gaming population, Sega pulled the plug on the Dreamcast in March of 2001 when Sega faced stiff competition from a little system called Playstation.
Even though the Dreamcast was only with us for less than 2 years, it will be forever remembered. Sega Saturn unfortunately, won’t be.
8 September 2009E.Victor Kwun | Posted in: Geek Culture
“My Artoo Cookies Brings All the the Jedis to My Yard…”
Who said you can’t eat astrometric droids? Esty community member, sugarandflour puts my wife’s cookies to shame (don’t tell her that I said that), by baking her husband scrumptiously geeky Star Wars R2-D2 sugar cookies. Great thing for us is that we do not have to commit to marriage and put up with the in-laws to eat these droid treats. sugarandflour has them on sale for 18 bucks for a 6 pack! Heres a little pitch from sugarandflour about her cookies.
My husband loves Star Wars. I suppose it was only a matter of time before I was asked to make the characters into cookies! Oh – and I made the cutter for this cookie myself, so it’s totally original. These little robot cookies are made with my absolutely perfect sugar cookie dough flavored with vanilla and almond, and frosted with vanilla/almond royal icing. R2D2 stands 5″ tall and is 3″ wide. You will receive 6 R2D2 cookies, nestled safely inside a brown kraft box tied with a satin ribbon. These would also make super party favors.
A baker of delicious geek treats and a fabricator of cookie molds?! Please marry me. Hit the jump for more pics and info about where to get them.
“Family Feud!” The Incredibles versus the Fantastic Four!
With the news of Walt Disney Company’s acquisition of Marvel Entertainment, we can only imagine what can happen with our beloved comic book characters such as Spider-man and X-Men once Disney gets their over-sized mouse hands on it. Of course, it may take a couple years before we actually see the affects of this merger, but Caldwell Tanner ofCollegeHumor gives us a glimpse of what may be in store in the future for Marvel comics. Hit the jump to see the rest.
Award winning 3D designer/modeling/illustrator, Tai Chiem of Victoria, Australia shows us a glimpse of the future (his future at least) of what the next generation PlayStation and XBox may look like. These conceptual designs named “PS4″ and “XBox 720″ integrates touchscreen technology in a sleek compact design. Tai Chiem explains his conceptual PlayStation 4,
As the designer expects, the Playstation 4 will sport a high end touch screen rather than glossy body that the current generation gaming console sports. The CD ROM has a sexy placement and a gloss cover that can be customized would definitely be an added advantage, what say? Even the PS4 controllers are designed to perfectly match with the console and will sport a few touch screen options. From the images given, it seems that the gen next Play station will also have an embedded OLED screen, which makes this Playstation 4 game console here twice as cool as expected, right?
I’m not a professional designer so I can only make comments based on what I like and dislike. The ideas are great, but the XBox 720 looks like a what an android crab’s shell would look like, and the PS4 looks like “HAL 9000″ (2001: A Space Odyssey) if he was designed by Ikea.
One thing I do notice is that whether it is a gamer/designer like Tai Chiem, or Sony and Microsoft, the controllers are hideous as hell.
Hit the jump to see close ups of Tai Chiem’s designs.
