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Grand Theft Auto IV has officially made it into the Guinness World Records as the biggest entertainment release of all time. Yes, the biggest entertainment release of all time, not just the largest video game release.
Grand Theft Auto IV has crushed the competition by selling 3.6 million units and earning $310 million in its first day of release, earning Guinness World Records for the Highest Grossing Video Game in 24 Hours and the Highest Revenue Generated by an Entertainment Product in 24 Hours. These records establish GTA IV as the most profitable entertainment release of all-time, far surpassing other video game, film and book releases.
To compare, here is how GTA IV stacks up against the competition.
Fastest-selling video game in 24 hours: Halo 3 at $170 million. Fastest-selling theatrical movie in 24 hours: Spider-Man 3 at $60 Million. Fastest-selling book in 24 hours: Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows at $220 million.
I don’t think that’s too shabby at all.
Alien v Predator : Requiem came out on DVD!
Although because of a friend who went to America for a holiday I got it a bit in April.
But anyway.
The movie is very different to the first one, it’s a lot more teenage in my opinion… I don’t think it was nearly as good as the first Aliens vs. Predator but I think it was still pretty good.
As with its predecessor, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem was not screened for critics, although once able to view the film, the response was largely negative. Based on 61 reviews, the film scored a 15% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes, and 29 out of 100 at Metacritic, the worst for a film in the franchises.
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem was nominated for two Golden Raspberry awards in the fields of Worst Excuse for a Horror Movie and Worst Prequel or Sequel. The awards however, went to I Know Who Killed Me and Daddy Day Camp.
Trailer:
Spoilers below:
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem picks up where the first AvP left off, with an alien bursting through the chest of a fallen Predator. (Which creates the Predalien)
The spaceship carrying the predators crashes to Earth and lands in a remote Midwestern town, where the aliens and the Predator go to battle. Over what? Who cares! This movie is full of fight scenes. The town is populated by the would-be heroes and wimps one would expect from an alien movie: a recently discharged military mom, a frustratingly naive, doe-eyed sheriff, an ex-convict just released from prison, his lovelorn younger brother, the cute blond girl he wants and her jerk of a boyfriend.
I did get a pretty good laugh with the following line:
“The government doesn’t lie to people.”
Those who saw Transformers might remember this line… Funny how the writers copy the line from a movie released less than 6 months ago…
It is a pretty good movie, definitely worth getting the DVD, but I would get it with the first AvP as well.
It’s worth watching!!!
So, what is this you ask? It’s a video 6 months in the making released just 4 days ago run off a special SNES super mario world level editor program in which you use special blocks to make mario walk, run, and jump and pretty much play through the level all on his own. In this video, concrete blocks cause mario to bolt into full sprint, green yoshi blocks cause him to silently jump, and pink yoshi blocks cause him to jump while making the sound of a yoshi coin. Music blocks and conveyer belts are what he uses to make mario walk.
THE SONG: Took me a bit to find it, looking for patterns in video titles and then google’ing them, but it’s the Nico Nico Douga Medley (Or as one other site seems to say: Kumikyoku - Grand Finale and I think it’s Japanese name is ニコニコ動画). It consists of 33 anime and video game themes put together into one simply massive song (Which is apparently a VERY popular song to make silly AMVs with and custom lyrics to as well)
Well I haven’t found the instrumental version hi quality mp3 yet, but I have found it on youtube
http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showthread.php?p=9881146#post9881146
Well ever since my format I’ve had a problem, I forgot to backup the installation files for my DVD to iPod converter…
So I thought, what the hell, I’ll get the latest version, cause I had a version that was over 2 years old, but worked fine…
BAD IDEA!
The newest version was complete crap…
So I went and bought the Xilisoft stuff, and it seemed to work, so I recorded 4 DVDs worth of TV and what do you know? Audio was out of sync, by a long shot…
So I went digging, and found this:
First off, you need to decrease your audio bitrate to 160kbps or 128kbps (128kbps would be better as it guarantees iPod compatibility) as 5G/5.5G iPod can handle a maximum audio bitrate of 160kbps in videos.
Secondly, you might want to change the audio sample rate to 48KHz (or 48000). Part of the problem is that, with 44.1Khz (or 44100), you are re-sampling the audio. DVD audio is set to 48KHz so re-sampling down to 44.1KHz can actually decrease the audio quality (even though 99% of people can’t hear anything above 22KHz) and that might be causing the error.
If you want the link: http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=156627
What the f**k! Why would the iPod format profile set the settings to stuff that doesn’t work with the iPod?
And worst of all it’s hanging at 99%…
