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This is where Chris Cooper, James Murray, Alan Green, Nick Sizer and Simon Hampton chuck their opinions (and their weight) about; with a lot of help from their friends.
We are currently in no way affiliated with http://www.monstaproductions.co.uk (though Carpet loves it, the tramp!); http://www.myspace.com/monstapro; or http://www.monsterproductions.co.uk. Please copy these links to your browser to be sent there.
Word! Carpet sends his most heartfelt post-Christmas gas- meaning apologies as he's been distracted by things like graduating...
However: Monsta-denizens should be pleased to hear there is good news on the way: Red Dwarf is coming back for a special episode only available on Channel Dave (somewhat pun-like there) and the behind-the-scenes news starts on their website tomorrow! Check out dave.uktv.co.uk/video/red-dwarf/ for all the skinny...
Belated Happy New Year, all you denizens of Monsta Fan-land!
More updates are in the pipeline (yes we have kept ourselves busy despite massive amounts of booze and turkey), but today there is a highly heartening piece of news: punk/reggae songsters The King Blues' latest single has been previewed on London station XFM's website AND they are on today's playlist of XFM's DJ Dave Berry.
Since 2005 MonstaPro have been intrigued by and pleased over their progress, from gig's-only to their second CD! Their new album is out in shops, the band's site recommends Play and HMV for online through-the-post type sales. Bloody well done lads!
An interruption in annual festivites: oft-favourite Timesplitters: Future Perfect may not have a sequel after developer Free Radical studios closed its doors for the last time on the morning of last Thursday (18th). The reasons cited are simple yet no less unfortunate, as stated by Gamespot and GameIndustry.biz.
Further chin-scratchings come from an announcement that Microsoft knew about their Xbox360 console's ability to scratch its games to unusability.ArsTechnica and again Gamespot have more of the skinny. This news is more interesting when viewed on the back of the new build of the same console dubbed the "Jasper" model, see : 1Up & EuroGamer.
Mr. Ghee's A Visitor at the Window has finally been coded for inclusion with it's wantonly jovial peers!
For the first time in a while there's also some Music-type news: two of the Kings of Leon are Djing for the last time this month (and ever!) next Tuesday night on XFM... For a limited time only the rest of the shows are available too.
In Gaming news this month: a joint venture between LucasArts and Activision has sent Day:1:Studios to make Fracture, a new spin on the Halo/Gears of War variant of First-person shooter! Not only able to blow the smithereens out of the enemy, you now can Really beat it out of the scenery too. Plus it's quite pretty.
More Games: something Carpet had only vaguely been aware of but Coop will probably know most of the background on: Electronic Arts' Dead Space. Somewhere between the seminal System Shock duo of games and making good use of the re-release of previous Monsta-News topper Bioshock; D.S. pits the player aboard a rescue ship bound for the ISS Ishimura, amidst an alien attack. Unfortunately the ship and its crew are already much worse for wear. Dark rooms, gadget-fixing and extreme violence beckon... IGN are already raving about it.
Last on the list today is another episodic adventurer-type, also in the form of a comic-book franchise. This time those Penny Arcade chaps have got in on the action for a monster-slayin' puzzle-solver set in the 1920's. Episode 2 is out soon-ish and Eurogamer say the first one is a bit pants. We leave the judgin to you...
Only a small one today (coz Carpet still hasn't finished The Big One): with the nearing opening-day of the UK's National Video Game archive at the National Media Museum in Yorkshire. One for not just the history nuts. This is also out just as IGN have released a top 20 list of Wii games: check it out.
Now that the popular stuff is out the way, Carpet has found more recent games-type goodness for you people to have a crack at. Telltale Games announced earlier this year they were finishing work on the Sam n Max franchise (for now) and taking up the same of the swishy animated silliness that is Homestar Runner. A controversial move, you might say. That would be the case if the HR site hadn't been online for at least eight years (it's on Wikipedia, go look if you not feelin this love) and it was rubbish (which it's not - Carpet reckons this is good evidence) AND if Telltale weren't planning a dual-format release of this episodic (5 part) software; now on WiiWare as well as through the TG site. All information is available at the very pretty TG home of HR at www.telltalegames.com/strongbad/games.
Although it was first announced a year ago, it is official that Eidos Montreal is working on Deus Ex 3. Unfortunately the only information publically available is the promo video at both of the above links.
The DX3 forum sez PCZone (UK) #200 will feature DX3 and is due out on Oct.9th. This month there's an article on Game-science and Real-life technology. That's a bit rubbish compared to another for PS3 players: 25 ways to beat the credit crunch which mentions StreamMyGame technology (see #23).
I think that Project HDTP (far from being a Beavis joke) should be mentioned, specially since Carpet plan's on tryin it out soon...
Mr. Green has also been busy recently with work [fixed] of Tom Holt's.
This is in addition to UK magazine Custom PC's article on techologies to be.
Also according to C.P.C. Google has taken "its world domination plan a step further" by building its own web browser, simply titled Chrome. Read all about it - including the specially commissioned comic book - at Google.com/chrome.
In gaming news there appears some consternation regarding EA Games' choice to include DRM in their latest publication Spore (made by the same guy who invented the Sims). Watch one blogger's reaction.
Laterz.
After another wee hiatus to do Other Things, Carpet has finally come back to us.
Firstly, with the news that Dirk Gently (as reviewed [1¦2] by Alan) is soon to be broadcasted as a serial on BBC Radio4! Check it.
Mr. Hobson's The Wolf, The Witch and The Dining Room Table is now at MonstaPro! We thank his patience...
Mr. Ghee's ponderous Sometimes you do get what you ask for is now available...
In further publishing-type news, headway is finally being started with the arrival of Mr. Ghee's No Fear; Mr. Hobson's Ixatemit.com; Theresa Newbill's Residual Effect, The Cleansing & White Orchids; Kristian Cole's Western Blot & Rich Carroll's Destiny's Price...
Apologies for everyone having to wait so long! Carpet is soon retiring to the doghouse...
Good news! As promised the first on the list that has been finished is Phillip Ghee's seminal Big Fishing (remember: whooping cough is a desease, not an adjective) as well as his Strange Party.
Just a quick note to say Carpet's on the case with the backlog of stories that have been sent in, the vast majority of which are marvellous! It's very pleasing to see the guidelines have been followed to the letter! Any ambiguities or errors we find in the documents we will contact you authors directly about, to clarify the problem, otherwise it should be appearing here on the site soon!
Just a couple of news-items today: Total PC Gaming has a good old dig at the Games Industry by listing what they'd least like to see appearing in games of the future (TM); whilst also making sure that all you lot have heard of Online Gaming Distributor GameTap (as also used by the developers of MonstaPro favourites Sam 'n' Max) by listing some of the stuff you can get for free, that's gratis, from their site. Go check em out.
...and lastly, may we present, for drinkers everywhere, the Beer-launching fridge!
In sad-ish news today, MonstaPro has learnt that Dave Green was at the Supplement Gallery with a piece on Ventriloquism up until earlier this week. Hope it went well dude!
A story has also gone up today, care of Carpet's dextrous fingers. John Miller's Blue Scales of Tomorrow now graces MonstaPro's selection!
Yes, it has been over a month since our last shout-out, & Carpet is sorry, specially to the people who are still waiting to get stories published, but he's been busy! Unfortunately real-life (TM) had reared it's shiny lustrous head. Hey ho. Anyway:
News: in a saddening announcement, let it be known Arthur C. Clarke has died at his home, aged 90. The prolific writer and scientist was avid in his 1940's forecast that man would reach the moon; and a principal in production of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey with Stanley Kubrik. See articles at Wired(1|2) and MSN; I'm sure there're many more.
To add to the melancholia, Carpet found this a little while ago, though then it was a few months old: Terry Pratchett has Alzheimers. On the upside, there is to be a TV adaptation of his book the Colour of Magic!
In a much more upbeat but no less ambivalent fashion, The Guardian looks at the possibility of targeted advertising doing away with pay-per-view services (amoungst other things) & a resurgence of the virtual reality goggles (now for watching telly)!
Entertainment: our very own host VirginMedia take a look at games releases coming up this Summer.
The Times have a Festival special & look at Nick Broomfield's new film.
Technology: Warner Bros. officially stick HD-DVD in the face.
Wired published an article about the Anonymity network Tor a while back, a technology that still raises issues regarding online security.
The man who effectively wrote the landmark game Doom John Carmack voices his fears about multi-core desktop environments.
For all you Astronomers out there, VirginMedia displays recent pictures from the Hubble Telescope.
