Yearly Archives: 2013
The World’s End Trailer, My Day is Complete
The first trailer for Edgar Wright’s The World’s End launched today! Enjoy!
Considering both Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz were listed as No. 3 on my list of favorite movies of all time it should come as no surprise that I am very excited for The World’s End! It’s the final part in the unofficial Cornetto Trilogy, and I can’t imagine this movie being anything less than amazing. The trio of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost is phenomenal! Though after watching that trailer, I think Pegg insisted on not being the blonde goodie two-shoes again. He looks kinda skeevy.
Any other Wright, Pegg and Frost fans in the house?
The 6 Best Pop Culture Characters in World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is a game for geeks made by geeks. And there are few things we geeks love more than pop culture references. Heck, it’s one of the reasons Family Guy is still on the air. Whether it’s a Simpsons quote, a cleverly used song lyric, or taking something up to 11, pop culture references are the back bone of, well, pop culture. So it should come as no surprise that World of Warcraft is filled to the brim with pop culture references. Seriously, they made a list.
Make love, not Warcraft
The best references, in my opinion, are the characters who are designed and named after other pop culture characters. There are tens of thousands of characters in World of Warcraft, from dragon warlords to murloc fishermen to orc janitors. The game is bursting with digital life. And if you know where to look, and check every nook and cranny, you might just find some of the clever pop culture characters, little in-jokes from those geeks to us geeks. Here are my six favorite!
Honest Trailers does Star Trek
With Star Trek Into Darkness coming up, the fine people at Honest Trailers have nailed the 2009 Star Trek. It’s quite funny.
Honest Trailers is good people. I liked the part where they point out that the main cast all rose to their lofty positions almost by accident.
Just a Little Grand Theft Auto Humor
And some horrible, horrible sadness.
They say that comedy is just tragedy plus time. So this would be…tragedy plus Grand Theft Auto plus…love? Still funny. The fine folks at Ned Game seem to know what they’re doing when it comes to video game humor.
It’s Way Past Time We Had a Warcraft 3 Reunion in World of Warcraft
My favorite thing about playing World of Warcraft is how intricately the developers have tied their MMO into the Warcraft games that came before. When they were building their virtual world, Blizzard didn’t just start from scratch; they dug into all of the games, novels and comic books that had come before and pulled out all sorts of people, places, weapons and dungeons to populate the World of Warcaft. Remember when you invaded Medivh’s dungeon way back in the very first game? Well now you can go quest there again and walk around its haunted halls. Or what about Khelgar, the sorcerer who helped you close the Dark Portal in Warcraft 2? Now you can go visit him for a chat and see how he’s doing.
Believe me, I could go on and on about all of the characters and places from the early games that are now sprinkled throughout the World of Warcraft. But instead, I want to draw your attention to three very specific characters who I think need to reunite and do something incredibly awesome.
I’m speaking, of course, about Rexxar, Rokhan and Chen Stormstout, champions of the Horde!
Or the Three Hordeketeers!
After the latest expansion, Mists of Pandaria, launched in September, all three characters are finally in World of Warcraft; but they have nothing to do with one another, and couldn’t be farther apart! One of them is, literally, on a different planet! But the important thing is that Rexxar, Rokhan and Chen are all finally in the game. So clearly it’s only a matter of time before they get the band back together, right? Surely I can’t be the only one who wants to see this badass team of heroes reunite?
Join me after the jump to find out who the hell I’m talking about and why this is one of the coolest Warcraft events nearly 10 years in the making!
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