• 27Jul 08

  The Dark Knight

  'The Dark Knight' has been voted as the best movie of all-time on popular website Internet Movie Database's (IMDb) list of the top 250 movies of all time.
  
  Even though it has only been on release for one week in Australia and the US, the Batman sequel has taken the number one slot from 'The Godfather', which previously held the position since the late Nineties.
  
  Positioning on the chart is decided by average ratings from public votes. 'The Dark Knight' has a rating of 9.4 out of 10, with around 115,000 votes registered. It beats 'The Godfather's rating of 9.1.
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  The next highest-placed movie on the list from this century is 'The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King', which is at number 14 in the chart.
  • Posted Jul 27, 2008 9:33 pm PT
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• 29Jun 08

  Boom Blox dissapointing sales

  Here's some slightly old news from GameDaily that I just came across, but it's really disappointing to discover the Electronics Arts' awesome "Boom Blox," which I think is a candidate for best game of the year so far, sold only 60,000 units in the U.S. during its first few weeks on sale. Here's an example of a game tailor-made for the most popular console on the market that, in my opinion, is accessible to casual players and offers depth for experienced players, but apparently didn't appeal much to either. Did the cartoony aspects turn off the latter group and the newness turn off the former? Was it just not marketed well? Should creator Steven Spielberg have been out there pumping it more (he certainly didn't have a big presence publicity wise that I saw)?
  
  Whatever the reason, I hope EA can give it another push around the holidays. Because there certainly weren't problems here quality wise. "Boom Blox" is easily better than many of Nintendo's first party best sellers for the system. There's got to be a way to sell an innovative game like "Boom Blox" to the millions of people with a Wii.
  • Posted Jun 29, 2008 6:57 pm PT
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