If you’ve followed me for the past few weeks you should know that I’ve come to own a Colossus. The Colossus is basically a HD-PVR (High Definition Personal Video Recorder) that you can use to record video footage from a source. My main objective then to get such a device was mainly to record game content and to try out doing video related content such as video reviews, gameplay showcases etc. I also wanted to do gaming commentaries so here it is, my first try on a gaming commentary video. The game I used and will be using for this particular series of commentaries will be Fifa 12 on the PS3. Read on for the video.

This series of Fifa 12 gaming commentary videos is called “The Quest for Style and Substance”, I did explain what the title mean but I’ll just do it here if you didn’t catch it. Basically the objectives of this series is to improve my skill in game, mainly in terms of style. I don’t particularly use any fancy footwork or fleshy skills in the game but I do want to learn that aspect of the game because it is always nicer and cooler to have those moves performed first before scoring. I am also leaning towards learning how to use the customized set pieces online as I’ve seen opponents use it against me to great effect. So yeah, the quest for style and substance.

The audio quality isn’t particularly great because I’m merely using my headset’s microphone to record my voice. Don’t have any professional or semi-professional type of microphone so the quality is pretty bad. I wouldn’t call it terrible though but yeah, there is much more to improve on. In terms of the video format, I’m not really sure if this will work out but I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what the viewers’ comments are (if any, hoping there are though) and then improvise and modify accordingly. Other than that the commentary content itself lacks quite a bit, still rather unfamiliar and inexperience in coming up with interesting stuff to say. Nevertheless I believe I will improve, and will do so at a greater rate should you guess provide any kind of feedback and constructive criticisms. I mean I do talk a whole load of bullshit in real life, its just that when it comes to speaking to the computer and a virtual audience I get a bit confused and shy.

So yeah, hopefully this gaming commentary series will take off and I’ll improve my game to greater heights (and maybe try out entering some competitions whenever possible).

Fans are often the case for value adding in the gaming and entertainment industry. We have communities that make mods that change your gaming experience entirely for the better, we have people who come out with fixes and workarounds to ease certain burdens, and we also have people who go the extra mile to show their love for a particular game by creating a fan movie film. Inspired by the well received Left 4 Dead, a survival horror zombie FPS game, Northern Five Entertainment together with Airsoft GI are producing a fan film. Read on for the teaser video.

Wow, simply wow. The music, the shooting, the lighting, the everything just seem so professional. Well I’m not an expert in cinematography but it sure looked and sounded great to me. I can’t wait for the full film to be released! Don’t we all just love some zombie action.

p.s for those wondering what the background song is in the teaser its The Space in Between by How to Destroy Angels

Hey I’m back again with another video game movie trailer. Been following the same person who created the other movie trailer spoofs and found that his videos are rather entertaining and funny. Anyways, this time its mario golf the movie. It talks about the story where Mario, the championship pro golfer, is involved with a sex scandal.

Theres like a recent surge of pro atheletes getting involved with such scandals its just sad but… but… MARIO, how could you? You are the childhood hero and character of so many children out there! (Probably adults by now) You’re the best and most famous plumber there ever existed! You’re the golfer many other newbie golfers want to grow up to become! Yeah, alright whatever. Lets just hope he can win that championship and rebuild his career. And yes I’m implying to both the movie Mario as well as the person he is spoofing. I mean he is one of the greats eh?

Its Fruit Ninja, the movie. Many video games are getting some hollywood attention. One of the more recent and perhaps exciting talks are on the Assassin Creed movie. Oh yeah that does sounds fantastically awesome. Put that aside, we have some fruit slicing and ninja action going on here. Know Fruit Ninja? That mobile game where you destroy precious fruits to get points and how you should evade the bombs at all times? We now have a movie for it, a movie trailer at least.If you’ve not already notice, the trailer is just for fun, kicks and laughter. If you actually believed the trailer was true and that a movie is really coming up, don’t blame yourself. Its just that the people behind it are way awesome. Oh and if you don’t know what “Fruit Ninja” is, it is basically mobile (Android, iOS, Windows 7) game where you are supposed to “Swipe your finger across the screen to deliciously slash and splatter fruit like a true ninja warrior. Be careful of bombs – they are explosive to touch and will put a swift end to your juicy adventure!”

Anyways I didn’t find this the most convincing nor funny video of theirs. I had come across their various other trailers before but hadn’t find the time to post it. There was the Luigi’s Mansion trailer which was pretty darn good and the other one that I enjoyed more was: Planking the movie.

Maybe planking has already died down now but the trailer sure still have loads of entertainment value to it. I have to quote one of the lines in the trailer which makes perfect sense; no offence but “[planking] its fucking stupid”. That is my personal opinion, you have yours I have mine. Anyways the trailer:

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We have all sorts and kinds of gamers: pro gamers, competitive gamer, casual gamer, role playing gamers and so on. Today, we have an elite role playing arcade champion gamer. I’ve once been to my local arcade and witness someone who completely owned one of the shooting game. If I remembered correctly it was the game called Rambo or something like that. At one point he was talking on the phone and shooting with one hand. And as you expect, right before the enemy would appear fully he would have already shot them down. Amazing? Well, yes indeed unless you see this amazing gamer at work.

Role playing arcade gamer for the win? Too bad he ain’t fully dressed up (like the kid in the picture). His actions and timings are all so perfectly timed though, a pity he only have those gloves on. Man, I wonder how much time he has spent to memorize everything. But as what someone always tell me, if you want to do something, do it right and do it well. He sure took it to a whole new level.

p.s There’s no need to watch the entire video. As amusing and amazing as it is, all you need to watch is the beginning and the end. If you are really dying to see his awesome skills then watch a little of the middle section. No point spending 14 minutes on this when you can go think of the next game that you can practice to own like him.

[image by: jeroen020]

This is a short video that covers the brief history of CG characters in movies. It is a nice watch for fun and some light information. CG refers to computer-generated, and thus CG characters are computer generated characters. Read on for the video.

Of the different movies mentioned in the video, how many of them have you watched? Or rather how many of them have you ever heard of? I’m sure you should know about movies such as Avatar and even movies such as Toy Story, but do you know of the movie that started and inspired many other film makers to use such technology? I sure didn’t but the video do tell quite a bit. Technology sure brings fun and joy into our lives, amazing how people could think out of such things and implement them in such magnificent manner.

Ever heard of train surfing? Let me rip off a chunk of information from wikipedia’s article on train surfing: Train surfing is riding or climbing (“surfing”) on the outside of a moving train. This activity is illegal in many countries and is prohibited by administrative law. Now with the definition in mind, read on for the intense video of some intense train surfing action that took placed in India.

Brilliant? Well, just don’t try it with your local trains and never attempt such acts in subways (not referring to the food chain). Alright, now for some history lesson that is also ripped off from wikipedia:

Train surfing is a common phenomenon and a usual way to ride trains in India, Indonesia and South Africa, although it can occur in any area with trains. Individuals may train surf to avoid the cost of a ticket or as a recreational activity. This practice is a serious issue in these countries where people have been killed or injured in accidents.

With the creation of the internet, the practice of filming the act and posting online videos of it is on the increase worldwide. While there are no official numbers, the London Underground is now running an advertising campaign against “tube surfing”. The advertisements now at most underground stations show a female figure with one arm and the caption “she was lucky” next to it.

In Germany, the practice was made popular on TV in the 1990s. There it was called “S-Bahn Surfing”. Slowly, the former train surfing culture changed and integrated into the German graffiti culture. The phenomenon was forgotten until the millennium, but in 2005 it was rediscovered by a group from Frankfurt, Germany. The leader of the crew who calls himself “the trainrider” famously surfed the InterCityExpress, the fastest train in Germany. An internet video claimed that he died a year later from an incurable form of leukemia, but later “the trainrider” revealed in an interview of Sat1 Akte 08 that this video was made by a fan and the story of his death was a hoax. S-Bahn Surfing is a risky undertaking – there were 40 dead teenagers in Germany in 2008 alone.[1]

An English teenager was killed after hitting a bridge while train surfing in November 2002.[2] A similar fate hit the Danish train surfer Martin Harris on 12 May 2007. After the incident, a campaign against train surfing was launched by two individuals. The homepage (in Danish) can be found at www.trainsurfing.dk.

And heres a picture that is rather unrelated to the topic of this article:

I found it quite amusing so… yeah there you go, train surfing!

[image by: Poster Boy NYC via flickr]

Here are the top 10 moves of Kenryu Takadoki, a wrestler of the Action Zone Wrestling based out of Hawaii. Action Zone Wrestling is a pro wrestling company with a fanbase that “continues to grow”, so they claim. This is somewhat like WWE where we all know that its heavily dramatize fighting or rather acting so to say. However, at least WWE have professional actors in it and AZW? Well from the way they fight I really don’t know what to say. Yes do be prepared to waste some minutes of your life and go WTF at the end of the video. Read on for the video.

Here are the moves in case you have already gotten your mind blown:

#10 Lightning Leg
#9 Vega Wall Climb
#8 Spinning Lariat
#7 Gadouken From Above
#6 Jagaur Tooth
#5 Hundred Hand Slap
#4 Torpedo
#3 Shoryuken (Dragon Punch)
#2 Crane Kick
#1 Sennen Goroshi

Copyright infringement? Nah who gives a damn, they are all so hilariously funny that no one gives a damn. Thank god at least they used some physical skills not skills such as the hadouken or the chidori.

Oh and you got to admit the “Sennen Goroshi” (One thousand years of death from the Anime and Manga Series Naruto) is seriously awesome.

Last but not least, meet the awesome wrestler:

Just stumbled across a short little animation that is done as a student graduating film in the year 2010 at Gobelins. The animation is about a king and a beaver. The story goes something like this. There is this beaver that is neglected by his friends and laughed at because he cannot chew a piece of wood. There comes the king who offers the beaver a task to do, to build him a castle. What happens next is best if you watch it yourself!

The animation and drawing is simply delightful. Damn, that must be quite a lot of work, time and effort put into the animation but nevertheless the student sure must feel very accomplished after seeing the finished product. So thought that I would just share with you this nice little animation with you guys. Happy Sunday as well. Sucks that tomorrow is Monday… I don’t want this weekend to end.

What happens when you mix music and math together? You get an amazing harmony of numbers and music. Explore the amazing world of mathematics and music. Who says math cannot be fun? Now these musicians just show you how creative they are and how nice mathematics is, in particular Tau.And we have one for pi as well:

Brilliant stuff ain’t it?

Math and music, simply magnificent.

P.S With all that said, I still don’t like math.

[image by gamburtsev via flickr]