Skynet lives

Ok, am I the only one that is creeped out by this latest development in robots? Check out the video below and see for yourself. Yeah, you might argue that this is new marvel of technology, but it does have a creepy side to it. I have never seen a robot move in a way that it really looked like an animal. A scary animal I might add. It could be an invention by Skynet, the nefarious computer network that tries to kill all humans in the Terminator movies. Actually it think also looks like some weird monsters from the […]

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2: Semper Fi

Back on my feet again after that nasty A/H1N1 hit me. But enough of that. Thursday night I downloaded Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Now, I am a great fan of the previous installment of the game (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare), but I skipped Call of Duty 5 (“World at War”) as it was set again in the Second World War. COD4 to this day remains the game I play the most (multi-player). Before that I played SOF2 (Soldier of Fortune 2) almost religiously and I even was in a “clan” for a while. Anyway: the single player storyline of […]

Escape from City-17

I’ve been a huge fan of the Half-Life video games series, ever since the original came out in 1998. It set some new standards in storyline and also graphics (altough it basically uses a modified Quake engine). I remeber how I hugely enjoyed the opening scene for Half-Life with its cinematic effect and how it pulled you right into the game (something I only enjoyed again when playing Call of Duty 4).  Half-Life 2 expanded in this and it even had a better storyline and looked great. I always thought that it might be worth making a movie out of […]