You don’t need a review to tell you that Dragonball Evolution is a bad movie. You know it at an instinctive level, like you know that fire is hot or that spiders are terrifying.

I went to go see it because I wanted to answer a crucial question: Is it so bad it’s good, or is it just so bad it’s bad?

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I’ve been trying out a game I saw mentioned in yesterday’s article about achievements. It’s called Nethernet: The Passively Online Multiplayer Game.

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Hot on the heels of the news that Xbox 360 players have unlocked 2.5 billion achievements, Gamasutra has an interesting article up on these meta-rewards that have taken the gaming world by storm over the last few years.

They cover a broad range of topics, like how to design for a good mix of achievement difficulty and the differences in achievements between hardcore and casual games. Read more

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The big video game news yesterday actually came from the Hollywood circuit. Apparently there’s a Shadow of the Colossus movie underway. The gaming blogs are all a-twitter because the writer attached to the project is Justin Marks, who wrote “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li.”

The nicest thing you can say about any given video game movie produced so far is that it’s “watchable.” The second-nicest thing you can say about any given video game movie is that it’s “so bad it’s good.” The Legend of Chun-Li was neither of these.

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Maybe you should be.

A couple of weeks ago, Adult Swim started airing Series Three of The Mighty Boosh, one of the strangest television shows to come out of Britain, which is no small order. Like other AS shows, it’s also going up for free on their website.

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