I know, I know, Turok was a dinosaur hunter. But he wasn’t reeeally, anymore than Gordon Freeman is a combine-assassin or Mario is a gooma-exterminator. No – I want a game where the focus is on the actual dinosaur hunting, rather than solving some bigger problem and happening to kill every dinosaur that gets in your way.
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We’re Back! Yep, welcome to your all-new, all still bloody stupid, all awesome Electric Spectre! And just in time too….
Generally any booze that arrives in the ES office lasts about 4 minutes, so we sympathise with Scotch peddlers Whyte & Mackey, who recently decided to relaunch McKinley and Co. , a Scotch that’s been defunct for most of the last century. W & M obviously want to check their new version tastes the same, so are looking for a sample..in the Antarctic.
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As regular readers may have noticed, there’s been something of a gap in service here at the Spectre recently, while our code is, to be fair, falling apart at the seams. DO NOT PANIC!
In order to fix these glitches, Electric Spectre will be taking a (very) brief hiatus from reporting doom, awesome, robots, tanks and Godzilla, and all the other things that are fit to rant about, as our top design goblins work on giving us a lovely, spanking new site overhaul which will bring us more in line with our other epicwinmedia.com sites.
Speaking of which, in the meantime, you’ll still be able to catch our nonsensical ramblings over on slashingtheseats.net, downtuned.net and watchwithmothers.net, where a plethora of other writers have joined us, with the result that some of the posts have correct grammar and spelling!
So come on over and meet us on the boards, normal ELECTRIC SPECTRE service will return soon, so bear with us.
Electric Spectre prides itself on its knowledge of action flicks, sci fi, Paul Verhoeven films and anybody with large muscles. Now, we know that we are all lamenting the recent rape of childhood memories in the shape of The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Terminator Salvation et al and also worrying ourselves sleepless over the announcements concerning remakes of Total Recall, the A Team and Robocop (although Robocop will be directed by the guy who did Requiem for a Dream, so fingers crossed). But somebody, somewhere in Hollywood has decided that, instead of simply remaking 80s classics, why not just make a brand new one?
Enter the most manly film we at Electric Spectre are ever likely to see. It is called The Expendables and the plot is irrelevant. Look at this cast list. No seriously, look at it.
Sylvester Stallone
Jason Statham
Mickey Rourke
Jet Li
Dolph “If He Dies” Lundgren
Steve Austin (yes, that one)
Randy Couture.
Right now, if you’re embarressed to stand up, hear this. It’s about a troop of mercenaries sent by the CIA into the jungle to bring down a drug baron. Oh my.
It’s in production, due out 2010.
Oh, before I forget, Arnie is to have a cameo too.
LINK (ImDB)
We’ve alreadsy noted the various nutjobbery going on at the world’s largest Space Agency this week, but for those of you with an interest in Lunar exploration, not to mention watching Ragnarok unfold via YouTube, be sure to check out NASA’s homepage as the latest moon mission unfolds this summer.
The LCROSS sattelite is the first US mission into Lunar orbit in a decade, and, if the planned crash landing/hi-ex incident goes awry, it could well be it’s last, and they will kindly be livestreaming the entire event here.
Duck and cover people. Duck and cover.
