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Adam Savage Left Speechless By Weta Workshop’s Labyrinth Replica. Oh, It’s Also A Playable Board Game
No one at Peter Jackson’s Weta Workshop does anything in halves. Ever. Even former Mythbuster Adam Savage was near-speechless after a recent visit to the studio to meet sculptor Johnny Fraser-Allen and the enormous project he’s undertaken: building a room-sized, fully sculpted replica of the Labyrinth board game we saw last year.
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How The Hobbit’s Special Effects Made Sir Ian McKellen Cry
It’s no secret that Peter Jackson, WETA and New Line Cinema are all trying to justify the special effects and frame rate of The Hobbit before its release in a few weeks. It’s now emerging that Sir Ian McKellen, the seemingly-unflappable Gandalf The Grey, was reduced to tears by the effects on the shoot of…
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Can Video Games Ever Be As Realistic As Movies?
How many times have you read on a game box or skimmed an interview and saw these words come out of a game studio’s mouth: “we’re going for absolute realism in our game”? You might wander into a store and pick up a copy, only to pop it into your console or PC and be…
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Microsoft Has Sold More Than A Million Xbox 360s In AU And NZ
And yet only one of them looks like this. To celebrate the fact that Microsoft has sold over a million Xbox 360 consoles in Australia and New Zealand since launch, they’ve paired up with a heap of celebrities to auction off individualised and signed custom 360s for the David Peachey foundation.