Video games: Hump day news roundup

- Here’s an interesting thing: There’s a game coming out for the Playstation 3 Network called The Last Guy. (Details are scarce, but the rumor is you’ll be playing the last guy.) Wired has a description and video, and it looks like you’ll be leading citizens through real cities to escape giant monsters, kind of like a cross between Pac-man, Snake and Google Maps.

- There’s an interview with a guy from Stalker: Clear Sky at Rock, Paper, Shotgun. It isn’t much, but there’s a 25-minute trailer of the game if you hadn’t seen it before. Clear Sky is the followup to the best game about running around in a freaky irradiated sci-fi Chernobyl. Admittedly that’s a limited field, but you can’t go wrong with the premise. The developers of Stalker promised an awful lot that they didn’t quite deliver on, but they distinguished themselves by providing something that was pretty darn good despite what was cut.

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Batman Busted–Picks Fight With Mom, Sister

Walking the celebrity beat as I do sometimes–it works out well for me because most celebrities are in movies and movies are what I write about anyway–exposes you to a whole new level of madness and lunacy you never thought possible.  And there are fewer more bizarre occurrences than what I just heard about: namely, Tuesday’s arrest of the Dark Knight himself–Christian Bale–on assault charges for going American Psycho on his sixty-one-year-old mother and his forty-year-old sister.

Apparently, mom and sis came out to see Bale just ahead of the United Kingdom premiere of The Dark Knight at his hotel, the Dorchester, when he performed the alleged apparent “lashing out”.  Some bloggers described Bale’s recent earlier appearances in Britain as “grouchy”, which is possible.

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Ebert & Roeper Leave “Ebert & Roeper”…Wait, I’m Confused

Did you know that the show “At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper” is owned by Disney? Well, I didn’t. But apparently, Disney has decided that they want to “take the show in a new direction.”

One that doesn’t involve Ebert. Or Roeper.

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Mamma Mia - Does It Show Again? My My.

Just how much I’ve missed you!

Mamma Mia! is a sing-along movie. So much so that I expected to see lyrics at the bottom of the screen, with a bouncing beach ball keeping tempo. Even if all you know is the title song and “Dancing Queen,” like me, you will find yourself tapping your foot and smiling through many of the musical numbers.

As a whole, Mamma Mia! doesn’t really work. It’s a ridiculous melo-dramedy that befits the stage, perhaps, but you can’t expect too much of it. It’s better to look at it in bits and pieces, so I’ll do it that service.

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The Tarn Adams interview, part 2

(Part 1 of this interview appears here.)

Matt: Getting back to the subject, Dwarf Fortress really is a game that’s unlike any other, in that you have all these little individual guys running around with their own wants and needs instead of, say, construction drone #27. And now you’re kind of expanding that to cover a whole world instead of one fortress.

Tarn: Yeah, we’ve always been into that sort of detail. Even if it is to chuckle at their personalized misfortunes.

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Wrath of the Lich King talents announced

Yeah, they’re up, though technically they were mined out of the beta client already.

If you play World of Warcraft, you already saw that announcement. If you don’t play, you probably don’t give a damn. The only audience for this post is people like me who aren’t playing right now, but are probably going to get back into it for the expansion.

So, if you’ve got a level 70 character out there gathering dust, what can you expect if you reactivate your subscription?

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Selma Blair Would Rather You Not Have a Career, Thanks.

I’ve heard a lot of preposterous nonsense spewed forth from the mouths of celebrities.  This might explain why, despite my sheer genius and conversational skill, I am not yet one myself.  Only a celebrity can be so relentlessly irrational as to hawk the need for reducing one’s carbon footprint from the depths of a private jet during an era of crippling job losses and mortgage default.

And only a celebrity like Hellboy’s Selma Blair can be so irrational as to say this:

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Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” - Who’s Alice?

Last year, the rumors first started buzzing about Tim Burton’s 3-D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, which he would make for Disney. It’s part of a three-picture deal that will also include an adaptation of his 1984 short film, Frankenweenie.

In picking Tim Burton, the famously prudish Disney must be fully aware of the direction he will take the story. Alice in Wonderland is a story that, in our jaded times, has been found to be laden with innuendo. The video game American McGee’s Alice explores the darker side of Wonderland - and was also rumored for a film adaptation, although that seems to have been put on hold. In Lost Girls, writer Alan Moore explored the sexual undertones in three famous girl heroines: Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, Wendy from Peter Pan, and, of course, Alice.

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Superbad–The Superbaddest?

What would you say if I told you that there was a project lurking in the depths of Hollywood, not so very long ago, that would have taken Michael Cera comedy vehicle Superbad and released it as a no-holds-barred action title with lots of gunplay and violence and beatings and explosions and everything that action film fans have come to expect from them?

What would you say if I told you that THIS was the trailer for that film?

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Tarn Adams interview, part 1 of 3

Dwarf Fortress is a game of unparalleled scope, where tiny dramas happen daily between ASCII characters. The game’s programmer, Tarn Adams, was kind enough to talk with us about gaming and living life on donations, and whether Dwarf Fortress will ever be a little more user-friendly.

Matt: Could you introduce yourself briefly for our readers?

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