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Assassin’s Creed II: November 17

June 3, 2009June 3, 2009 Doug Groves E3 2009, PC games, PS3, Xbox 36010 Comments

Mark your Julian calendar, because this November Assassin’s Creed II hits the shelves. Gameplay footage was shown off at the Sony presser today at E3. This time round you’re fast forwarding through time to play Rennaisance man Enzio (I’m only assuming he’s a relative of Altair’s). Playing Q to Enzio’s Bond is none other than Leonardo Da Vinci, tricking the surprisingly flashy assassin with flying wings and a gun… it’s at least somewhat era plausible though. That, and if the footage from today is any hint, Enzio will be able…

Sony’s E3 Conference: A little more of the same

June 2, 2009June 2, 2009 Danny X E3 2009, PS312 Comments

Sony’s Jack Tretton took the E3 stage today to tell us all about Sony’s new offerings for 2009. After bragging about the upcoming ~350 games (including 35 exclusives) for the PS3, PS2 and PSP, and the (fact?) that the PS3 is the only console powerful enough to make use of the stage’s 40×80 foot screen, and the usual “we’re doing awesome” rhetoric, he cut to the chase.

Canada Sucks When It Comes To High Speed Net Access

June 2, 2009June 2, 2009 Doug Groves 5 Comments

Michael Geist has a op/ed piece in [yesterday’s] Toronto Star that describes how craptastic Canada is when it comes to high speed Internet access. Here’s the bottom line: According to a new OECD report, Canada has one of the slowest and most expensive consumer broadband networks in the developed world. The OECD report, widely viewed as the leading benchmark on broadband networks in the world, compared Canada with 29 other countries on a range of metrics. These included broadband availability, pricing, speed, and bandwidth caps. As for specifics, how about…

Microsoft’s Bing Goes Live

June 2, 2009June 2, 2009 Doug Groves bing, google, Microsoft8 Comments

I’m not sure if the folks at Redmond have changed their water supply, but for the last 6 months to a year, Microsoft has been getting a lot more right than they have wrong. As evidence of this, their new search engine bing.com (formerly codenamed Kumo) has opened to the public in preview mode, much the same way Gmail has been in beta for over 5 years now. After a few random searches, I’m sold, or at least rented.

XBOX gets all 3008; Controllers are so 2000 & late

June 1, 2009June 2, 2009 Danny X E3 2009, Xbox 3602 Comments

E3 is in full swing* doesn’t even start until tomorrow, but the boys & girls at Microsoft are wasting no time in getting geeky gamers all worked up for the distant immediate future.

Episode 016 – Movie Madness

June 1, 2009June 2, 2009 Doug Groves star trek, tcaf 2009, terminator, Xbox Live, Zombies7 Comments

It’s a big show this time around as we review Terminator Salvation, Star Trek and Wolverine as well as talk about some of the other upcoming summer releases. In gaming, we look at Plants vs Zombies and 1 vs 100 on Xbox, and discuss the preview of Bioshock 2. There’s also a lot of comic news, including TCAF 2009 (the Toronto Comic Arts Festival), and a rundown of some great new web comics by Paul, via Warren Ellis’ call out for submissions to the White Chapel forums.

What went wrong with Terminator Salvation?

May 29, 2009June 1, 2009 drsquid terminator18 Comments

After seeing the movie with Doug and Dave, I couldn’t help thinking about what might have been. The movie, in my humble opinion, was not as bad as the reviews had suggested, but it certainly could have been better. In the months prior to the film’s release there were rumours leaked online about a controversial earlier draft of the script — existing prior to Christian Bale’s involvement with the film — which sounded far superior to the one that ended up on the big screen, and now chud.com has the…

Let Him Be film premiere

May 27, 2009 Doug Groves let him be0 comment

This Friday May 29th marks the North American premiere of the film Let Him Be, playing at the AMC theatre in downtown Toronto. I had a chance to see this move about a year ago at a friends & family screening (and it was under a different title back then). Let Him Be is a fascinating film about two undergrad film students Tim Bennett & Kathleen Joyce who discover a long thought to be dead rock icon living in a remote part of Canada. It all begins when Tim discovers…

Fan Expo 2009 guests announced, including Bruce Campbell

May 27, 2009July 25, 2009 drsquid Bruce Campbell, Fan Expo 20093 Comments

That time of year is almost upon us (August 28th-30th), the return of Fan Expo to Toronto, one of the biggest conventions in North America. Fan Expo covers Comics, Sci-Fi, Horror, Anime and Gaming – last year rgbFilter brought you some exclusive interviews and show coverage, that you can see by clicking on our Fan Expo 2008 banner to the right, and this year we hope to do it again…Groovy. The 2009 guest lists are already up at the Fan Expo website, and as the picture above hints, the one…

Green Lantern Trailer – fan style

May 25, 2009June 2, 2009 Doug Groves green lantern, nathan fillion, trailer1 Comment

Fans have been making wish fulfillment trailers for their favourite comics or sequels for some time now, but this is one of the better ones I’ve come across in a long while, so I thought I’d post it. I can’t help but wonder though… if a studio WERE entertaining the idea of using Nathan Fillion in a Green Lantern movie (as is recently rumoured), wouldn’t such fan made content discourage them from doing it? Just a thought.

FrankenGame inFAMOUS looks like it might be fun

May 21, 2009June 2, 2009 Danny X PS36 Comments

Far be it from the lads at rgbFilter to pander to the whims of the game development community, but since we freely admit that we have yet to accept dime one from ANY game developer (or to be honest, anyone at all, much to Alex’s chagrin), I can honestly say that this preview I’m about to write comes from a place of total discretion and honesty. And that preview is simply this: inFAMOUS looks fucking awesome. InFAMOUS Channels the essences of some of my fave time-wasters of the past few…

Download Decade a must read/watch/listen

May 20, 2009May 20, 2009 Doug Groves DRM, torrent1 Comment

Earlier this month, Canadian newspaper The Globe And Mail recently launched The Download Decade series, which is a multimedia cornucopia looking at how the media landscape has changed since Napster launched 10 years ago (as of June 1st). Besides a wealth of articles on all aspects of digital media, the site, which was months in the making, has a number of video and audio features, which can be viewed not only through YouTube and iTunes, but also downloaded via the oft-maligned bit torrent. I can say that this is one…