Im sure this has a been a question all too prevalent in the minds of our fans since their first visit. We often get the question “what the fuck is a Wumpus?” or “what the hell is that goat thing?”. Well I have decided to clear up the issue and have written a very long in depth analysis of the Wumpus and it’s various forms.

(also, I am aware the a Wumpus is a creature from a very old command line game called “hunt the wumpus“) But as that is a VERY old creation that since has never been cared for like this, we decided it was entirely fair to completely re-imagine the creature and use it as our mascot. The Wumpus has no real solid appearance and has no lore behind it; so when we first became interested in it as a creature, I went at creating it some backstory and some function for it’s existence. It was once a magic card but that was just an easter egg. So here at Exploding Wumpus, I, Mr. Wumpus have decided to write down all the information I have made up about Wumpi and collect into a wikipedia-style article for all to enjoy and learn.

For those of you who don’t look very hard (and i don’t blame you, nobody reads the sidebar). Here is the exact location of this new, informative little article.

Entertaining 5 second summaries of popular movies.

via: youtube

Here is the link to a great disease simulator game you’re gauranteed to enjoy. The premise of the game is that you make a disease and try to exterminate 6.3 billion people. It’s got some seriously intense AI for a flash game and some very satisfying gameplay.
The link is for the Kongregate version, but only because that’s where I found it and Kongregate kicks ass.

Because this year’s E3 went by without more than a whisper. I’m sure that everyone was left wanting something more, something entertaining. SO in that spirit I offer you a hilarious compilation of Sony’s absolutely embarrassing failure of a press conference from E3 2006, It’s easily their worst one ever.

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Standard Def doesn’t work, you’ll have to to play it at HD. Sorry.

Oh wow what the hell is this? It looks just like your standard beat em’ up but you can never tell if a beat em’ up is fun by watching videos, you’d have to play it to see if it got the feel right. But it looks awesome and I think that Samuel L. Jackson is doing the voice over, at least that’s what it sounds like at the beginning.
One last thing though, it looks an awful lot like this came from a TV show or some anime or something. Is that what happened? Really? Is there an Afro Samurai TV show? Because that would be fantastic.

Via: Kotaku

Well. Well. Well. It has certainly been a long time since my Cloverfail review and I’m glad to be taking a crack at this again. For you see, writing reviews is a lot of work and can be very time consuming if you aren’t passionate enough about the subject of your review and/or you aren’t being paid to do it… But I loved Hell Boy 2, so here goes.

Hell Boy 2: The unnecessarily long title, was an excellent movie as far as I could tell; It was hilarious when it wanted to be, It was serious when it had to be and it was truly epic whenever the ‘smack down’ had to be laid. For truly and surely; Hell Boy is bad-ass-motherfucker, and whenever a mythological villain needed his dose of whoop-ass, Hell Boy would be standing ready with a can opener.

*Mild spoilers! Everybody Run!!!*

Really the only one beating the shit out of anyone WAS Hell Boy, Liz Sherman (adept pyrokinetic) did not, more than once, throughout the entire movie find an offensive use for her flame-flinging abilities. Abe Sapian (psychokinetic, mind reading man-fish) is actually useful as fuck when it comes to detective work but is as good at protecting the innocent as an ordinary damp dish towel, stumbling around avoiding things while sounding as helpless and British as C-3PO in a gun fight. But I must hand it to Abe, he’s a really great character, he has a lot of balls (do fish have testicles?) and sure can take a beating. Finally, other than sounding excellently German, Johann Krauss (ectoplasmic being inhabiting a mechanical diving suit) does little in the way of combat until he possesses something else mechanical that is capable of kicking ass and then he lets das beatings beginnen.

There is no point in providing you all with a story outline as you can look it up very easily and I’m trying to keep the spoilers to a minimum. Instead I offer you some reasoning for my claims of excellence. The costume work in this movie was beyond fantastic, it was incredible! The only time you could even tell that the movie was using CG on a character was during scenes of distant, rapid movement or acrobatics, and even then the CG was beautifully done and impressively seemless. Attention to detail when it comes to the costumes, environments and effects in this movie is just astounding. The special effects were as good as you expect them to be and nothing ever seemed less than perfect, the movie was built into a world that really let you believe.

Every actor absolutely nailed their parts and I was never left cringing at a poorly delivered line or cheesy love-scene. Expect to thoroughly enjoy a scene where Hell Boy and Abe get drunk; an instant classic. Liz is possibly one of the most competently acted female protagonists out there, never giving into to classic short comings of female characters such as fainting, doing shit all, standing around while the men act the movie and almost killing the cast of heroes by fucking up some how or triggering an obvious trap. You’ll never get frustrated at a character for not doing something or for doing something very obviously wrong just to trigger conflict, these characters are not two-dimensional, they seem real and they act with common sense.

All of Hell Boys guns are deafeningly loud and wonderfully over-powered and deadly, not that his massive stone fist isn’t equally as deadly. If you like action, then you will enjoy this movie; all the fight scenes are well choreographed and the weapons with which they are fought are all absolutely fucking sweet. Unlike cliché villains you will not get frustrated with Prince Nuada (captain bad-elf) for giving up too easily in a fight or for not ruthlessly murdering every human in his sight.

If you like fantasy, then you will enjoy this movie; it is set into a really interesting universe and back story with plenty of wonderful tie-togethers and interactions between a wide variety of mythological and fairytale creatures. But if you are just looking for a funny, exciting, well put together movie, you can look no further than Hell Boy 2: The Golden Army for your summer movie fix. It is an exciting, entertaining movie with so much bloody work and detail put into its visual presentation that you cannot leave the theater without feeling satisfied. Hell Boy 2 is proof that if you just try and create a movie that makes sense and does not take itself too seriously, you get a quality movie.This movie understands itself, it knows what it is and what it is supposed to do and does not try to be anything more than what it should be, entertainment. This is a great movie. Don’t believe me? Here is a more reputable source.

I give this movie a 9/10. It’s damn awesome.

P.S: I haven’t seen the first Hell Boy, so no enraged hollerings of “fanboy” from you folks.

P.S.S: There was only one scene in the whole movie that didn’t quite work, I won’t spoil it but basically while rescuing a baby, the ensuing movement and acrobatics ensure that Hell Boy has never heard of Shaken Baby Syndrome.

There is no reason for this following picture other than I couldn’t stop thinking about a parody like this once I left the theatre. Besides, Hell Boy is bad ass and a complete tank, he really deserves this title.

Konami is still on with the law suit game. This time Konami is suing Viacom, the company that owns Harmonix for Rock Band. No word on how this law suit will turn out and how this could effect Rock Band 2.

July 10 (Bloomberg) — Konami Corp., the Japanese creator of the “Dance Dance Revolution” music video game, sued Viacom Inc.’s Harmonix studio, claiming its “Rock Band” game violates patents.

The Konami patents, issued in 2002 and 2003, relate to simulated musical instruments, a music-game system and a “musical-rhythm matching game.” Konami also makes the “Karaoke Revolution” music game with microphones, as well as the “Metal Gear Solid” espionage game.

“Rock Band,” the game in which players emulate rock and rollers with toy instruments, drove a 16 percent increase in first-quarter revenue at New York-based Viacom’s media networks business. Konami’s Digital Entertainment unit said in May it plans to begin selling its own rock band game, called “Rock Revolution,” later this year.

Konami is demanding cash compensation, plus an order that would block Viacom and Harmonix from using the inventions, according to the complaint, filed yesterday in federal court in Marshall, Texas. The suit names Harmonix Music Systems, Viacom, and Viacom’s MTV Networks Co., which owns Harmonix…..

Via: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aHQODoKwFYrA

Via: Neatorama