WilcosWorld

By Adam Wilcox

Adam Wilcox; tea drinking Brit with fondness for the media and tech.
10 Jun 08

Indiana Jones & The George Lucas Problem

To kick off, I’m not a huge fan of the original Indiana Jones trilogy. It’s not that I don’t like the films, I just would far rather sit down and watch The Mummy. The is probably my childhood fascination with Egypt showing through, but I obviously appreciate the legacy of Indiana on the adventure movies that have followed in the 20 years after the last instalment. That said, along with my Indy loving girlfriend we trooped off to the cinema, for about two hours of fedora and whip, tomb raiding fun.

Spoilers after the jump.

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06 Jun 08

Discworld Comes To ScummVM

ScummVM have been promising to support the 'Tinsel' engine, as used by Discworld 1 and 2. Since October 2005 they have reportedly got the rights to go ahead with it and are currently awaiting receipt of the engine source code, however three years down the line and no joy... so I look elsewhere.

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02 Jun 08

Rabbit Rambo Movie Released

The Blender Institute has just released the follow-up to the 2006 'open source' movie Elephants Dream, entitled Big Buck Bunny.

The short 3D animated movie is a comedy about a well-tempered rabbit "Big Buck", whos woodland paradise is spoiled by three forrest dwelling bullies. Big Buck becomes a kinda Rabbit Rambo and prepares for comical revenge!...

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