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New York, NY. — July 22, 2010
goodgameTV, LLC has signed with LastSat Productions to distribute the upcoming series, Pioneer One.
Pioneer One is a 2010 six-part dramatic series by independent filmmakers Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith with a planned total runtime of over three hours. With the pilot reaching widespread success of over 470,000 downloads within the first month of distribution, pre-production is already underway for the rest of the show. The show is expected to have episodes ready for distribution by late 2010 or early 2011.
goodgameTV’s role is to help commercialize and monetize this project so that the creative team and talent can sustain itself for continued production of future seasons. In addition to distribution, goodgameTV members have personally contributed to their fundraising campaign to help realize their project.
New York, NY. July 20, 2010
goodgameTV, LLC has inked a deal with Media Blasters Inc. to distribute their online video titles, including such cult hits as Death Trance, Smash Cut, and anime series Ah! My Goddess.
The Media Blasters package of titles includes over thirty full-length feature films and ten Japanese anime series in all, totaling over one-hundred fifty hours of genre content.
goodgameTV plans to launch fall 2010 and will sell all content as Video On Demand to a 18-40 niche demographic.
Stay tuned for more exciting goodgameTV announcements coming soon.
New York, NY. March 10, 2010
goodgameTV, LLC announced the appointment of Carl Macek as the new Director of Content Development effective as of March 1, 2010. Macek’s main responsibility for goodgameTV is to cultivate key relationships with premium content producers and acquire content licenses for exclusive distribution on goodgameTV.com.
“Carl is a respected figure in the entertainment industry. His work with Robotech as well as many other anime, films, and studio projects have left a lasting influence on pop culture over the last two decades,” says Brian Tang, co-founder of goodgameTV. “More importantly, his track record and experience as the co-founder and president of Streamline Pictures proves that he knows what we’re going for and how to get it done. If he can achieve success with goodgameTV as he did with Streamline, watch out.”
Macek attended California State University, Fullerton earning a degree in the theory and criticism of visual media and has over thirty years of experience in the entertainment industry. He is most known as the creator and guiding force behind Robotech - a popular and influential 85-episode animated television series. Macek later founded Streamline Pictures, one of the first American companies to successfully deal with the acquisition and distribution of Japanese animation to the domestic American market. Among the many titles released by Streamline are Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Fist of the North Star, Akira, Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro, and Lupin III: Mystery of Mamo. Streamline’s distribution business was ultimately assigned to Orion Pictures, freeing Macek up to pursue more creative pursuits.
Impact in Film
Macek is largely credited with exposing and proliferating Japanese animation to the US market. Many of the films he worked on or distributed are arguably the most influential and famous anime titles to-date and are universally recognized as genre classics. These works have later gone on to inspire many aesthetic styles and storytelling methods in the American cartoon industry.
Macek is a staple guest celebrity in the comic book and anime convention scene and is one of the more recognizable names in the American animation industry.
About goodgameTV
goodgameTV is an internet-based VoD network streaming original and exclusive premium content themed around videos “inspired by games.” Their goal is to create a profitable digital distribution alternative for commercial-grade videos themed around a niche genre. The company is based in New York, New York.
More information can be found online at http://www.goodgametv.com.
goodgameTV is pleased to announce Gamer Syndrome as a new affiliate partner. For great game reviews and podcast commentaries, please visit http://gamersyndrome.com/ to hear the latest!
goodgameTV is currently undergoing site tranformation to simplify site usage and place more emphasis on the content. We will also be removing the Subscription System in favor of a VoD system.
These upcoming changes will make a substantial impact on our home page aesthetics and navigation.
Site construction should be finished by late March/early April. These improvements will help us deliver more simply to our viewers, but also give us more flexibility to attract premium content makers.
Thanks for your patience.
goodgameTV is proud to announce Game Hub as an affiliate partner. For a great video game news blog with a UK slant, check out http://www.game-hub.co.uk.
Look for upcoming tourney site Bringit.com to be featured on future episodes of Road to Pro, our reality show about competitive gamers trying to make it in the burgeoning world of professional gaming.
Chris Rick of Gamer's Daily News takes an in-depth look at our various shows:
Many thanks to Michael Tenzer of BreakYourController for another inspiring write-up!:
http://breakyourcontroller.blogspot.com/2009/12/marrying-internet-tv-and-video-games.html
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What ever happened to friends coming over to crash the night to play the latest game? Life was much simpler then. As we grow up, things keep changing all around us, it's just not that easy anymore.
"No Reset" is a comedy about five friends struggling with different issues of post-grad life in NYC. From life to love to career, it just seems impossible figuring it all out.
At least their trials are made bearable by their love of video games, sarcasm, beer, and each other.
The "No Reset" pilot stars Harry Ford, Amanda Lippert, Caitlin Gold, Tim Shelton, and Jade Rothman. The writers, Jenny Spragg and Matthew Klane, are known respectively for their local NYC plays and writing for National Lampoons. Forever, they've been thinking about doing a show featuring gaming, their favorite past-time.
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After a full year of hard work and lots of twists and turns, we've finally arrived. To get here was no small task.
Our coming together was made possible back in 2006 at a store named NYCLAN, a gamer's Mecca in Manhattan. That game center was where we all met, LAN'd, played tournaments, made our first shows, and became friends. It's also where we immersed ourselves into the gaming world beyond any casual or competitive gamer or industry insider. Because we lived, ate, and breathed this world 24/7 beyond what any one gamer, developer, or marketer is ever exposed to - everyday was a conversation with hundreds of gamers about their respective lifestyles and regarding deep philosophical debates about the games themselves. We received so much insight, feedback, and most importantly, inspiration to do something and put it all together.
In early 2008, we started assembling our team. What was just a hobby, a fleeting topic that we discussed but never actually pursued, was now our mission set in motion. Friends of NYCLAN: video production crews, web programmers, techies, business and financial veterans - all hardcore gamers, were all on the same path to realize our one goal. What we didn't yet anticipate was how hard this goal would be.
At first the thought was to get a "rapid prototype" and then to pitch to investors. Both were achieved with pitches generating moderate, not explosive interest. How could this be when we were jumping for joy at the thought of this concept? Investors seemed very tempered about everything, always a poker face with nobody ever anteing up. We were all frustrated.
Hindsight is 20-20 and now we know the reason. In any other year with any other conditions, I'm sure we would have been a hit. The economic downturn and financial crisis in NYC, the country, and the world had left investor coiffeurs barren. Nobody was getting funding, everybody was frustrated. Furthermore, the double-whammy of the media-industry meltdown and the disappearance of advertisement dollars kept all would-be investors at bay.
So we went back to the drawing board. How do we prove that media isn't dying and that there is a way to actually create a real business out of this? How do we offset the seemingly uncontrollable costs of bandwidth and content? Is it even possible to do it just by ourselves without money from others, especially because there was no money? It was after so many conversations with techies, business people, and producers that we finally found the answer. We had to revamp our entire approach and mentality and scrapped our old prototype. We were going to self-fund the entire project with our own savings and paychecks and start it super old-school, grass-roots style. Motivating ourselves to start over fresh was tough, but we believed enough to do it.
So here we are one year later. The production teams on board are by far the strongest, most stable, and most committed to the goal. They are our teammates and we live and die by them. The technology is completely redesigned: better, sleeker, and newer. The business is fresh and exciting and designed to be a real, long-lasting enterprise.
We thank our cast members, production crews, programmers, technologists, business minds, friends, and family. If we were to miss just one of these ingredients, the whole thing would have collapsed. But everyone believed in us and stuck with us, and here we are. It's been a long and bumpy ride, but we finally made it. And now our story is just beginning.
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While researching, we stumbled upon a random review site, thatguywiththeglasses.com, that had randomly reviewed goodgameTV. This marks our first official critic review. He describes goodgameTV as "a 'TV' station where it attempts to be G4 if G4 really cares about videogames" and sums up with: "bottom line? I say this site has some real potential and something to keep an eye on." We're very pleased with this feedback and are very excited for the future.
goodgameTV Partner, Sarcastic Gamer, celebrates its first birthday this week (June 11th) with its latest parody song of Nintendo's latest peripheral and game experience, Wii Fit. The music video, featuring SG's "Dave" Cothran as the fat guy, is now available on Youtube and on the Sarcastic Gamer site.
goodgameTV celebrated its first official Content Update, hence launch, on Friday, June 6th. Months of preparation culminated in our first successful update. A sincere thank you is in order to all the staff and production teams involved for helping us make this possible.
Don't forget to vote for your favorite in the poll after the jump -- and remember, have a Summah!
Frogger (xkcd)
What is Love? (Virtual Shackles)
Everyone's Nicknamed Stubs (Of Noobs and Men)
Kirby's Pet (Brawl in the Family)
Inertia (Digital Unrest)
Untitled (Another Videogame Webcomic)
Ignorance (Awkward Zombie)
Continue reading Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is finally havin' a Summah
Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is finally havin' a Summah originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Directed by Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine), very little has been revealed about the intriguingly titled Drive Angry 3D aside from the fact that it’s about a father (Cage) hellbent on revenge for the murder of his daughter. It’s said to draw influence from ‘70s Clint Eastwood flicks and gritty, action-packed, car-roaring midnight movies.
Stars Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard, who play Milton and Amber respectively, were on hand to speak to press at San Diego Comic-Con 2010 and help elaborate on what exactly Drive Angry 3D is all about.
“This is a movie that hales from ‘70s classic films like High Plains Drifter, movies that were really a factor in my decision to become a filmmaker,” Cage explains to press. “In terms of the character itself, I don’t want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection with it, your secret understanding of the character, so I hesitate to talk about anything too specific with him.”
Although Milton is the angry character of the title, Cage says he sees more to Milton than that single emotion. “I can’t encapsulate everything about Milton in the word anger,” says Cage. There are other things motivating his drive. Hopefully when you see the movie there are other dimensions to the character. The anger is an anger that is almost like a residual anger of something that happened in another life. Everybody gets angry. Everybody feels like they’re being tested or they’ve been through trials in life, especially when loved ones are involved. The fierce, protective nature comes alive. This is happening to Milton. He’s on a tear to save his little child.”
Cage is no stranger to campy, oddball cinema, either. From Vampire’s Kiss to David Lynch’s darkly trippy Wild at Heart, Cage can ham it up with the best of them. We asked about his draw to this kind of material. “I definitely feel that Drive Angry fits into that audience,” says Cage. “I think my love for those kinds of films is the intensity and adrenaline of them. They don’t compromise. They’re honest and they give everything they have. I used to enjoy punk rock music. I feel like it’s that kind of relentless that I respond to. The little I saw today, I felt that achieved it. I was very excited by the footage I saw today. This movie is very in your face and it’s cool and I’m excited about that.”
Co-star Amber Heard was excited by the prospect of playing more than just another pretty face. The actress got to get down and dirty with her Texas roots as the no bullshit Piper. “It’s surprisingly not too far from home,” says Heard. “I’m from Texas and guns and fistfights and stuff are all part of the gig. Everything from the hot rods to the cowboy boots was close to home for me so I was happy. It’s one of the only movies where I get to kick some ass.”
Piper’s relationship with Milton is a complicated one of friendship and shared sensibilities rather than romantic involvement. “Piper provides the heart in the movie,” Cage tells press. “There is another element that might surprise you, where the film actually has a pretty deep, strong heart that’s not romantic. It’s like a partnership. It would be great if we could do another one because I loved that relationship.
“I’m in heaven,” says Heard of playing Piper. “I’m excited that more writers and directors are willing to see a woman or take that risk and make a film that doesn’t have a victim as a woman, that makes a woman her own character that doesn’t need to be saved. This is really cool for me, flipping cars and shooting guns and running my mouth and getting in fistfights. Piper is this bad-ass, potty mouth, Daisy Duke-wearing Charger driving, gun-toting motherfucker and she doesn’t take any shit. Where else am I going to find that?”
As the title indicates, 3D is an important element of Drive Angry. It was shot in 3D and the multidimensional elements were carefully conceived on set. “3D movies in the ‘50s didn’t work for me,” says Cage. “They just turned me off because they looked so goofy. Today is the time for 3D. Avatar really showed that in terms of perspective and depth almost like a painting. Some of the shots in Drive Angry I saw those depths of field by the pool when the pool was lit. Amber and I would be running and you see the dimension. It’s a very beautiful format for filmmaking.”
“Part of it was feeling like you were a part of the audience,” adds Hurd. “Acting and participating in how it’s going to be viewed later puts me in the audience. That was an interesting way to go about filming something. Because this was shot in 3D and not converted, we had the opportunity to manipulate some of our actions and blocking around how it would be viewed later. I threw some punches directly into the lens and backed the car up almost over the camera a couple of times to create effects specific to the 3D.”
“I wanted to to know how I can become friends with this new mechanism,” says Cage. “I asked Patrick if I could move like this or that. I even went so far as to stick my tongue out all the way so I could get into the fourth row of the audience.”
Drive Angry 3D opens in the theaters nationwide February 11th, 2010.
For 150 points, Club Nintendo is offering the choice of one of these three 25cm x 25cm "towel handkerchiefs." They're part towel and part handkerchief, but at the same time neither, because none of us would dare dry or clean anything with one of these. Since they're currently only available in Japan, of course, we don't even have the opportunity to decline to mop up a spilled soda with one of these cute collectibles.
Japan's latest Club Nintendo prize is absorbent originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
If that weren't enough, there's a whole mess of new Bungie-created Forge maps on display. The update says they won't necessarily make it into multiplayer matchmaking, but if they pass "the same rigors our expertly crafted multiplayer spaces demandm" we could be sticky-grenading people's faces on those maps when the game ships this September. Ha-cha!
[Thanks, Measlesopolis]
Continue reading Halo: Reach achievements revealed, Forge showcased
Halo: Reach achievements revealed, Forge showcased originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Gallery: Halo 3: ODST Campaign
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Swag Saturday: Halo 3: ODST originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Gallery: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (vertical gameplay)
Continue reading IO Interactive's second look behind the scenes of Kane & Lynch 2
IO Interactive's second look behind the scenes of Kane & Lynch 2 originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Casey Affleck is currently circling the lead role in "The F-Word" for Fox Searchlight says The Hollywood Reporter.
Based on T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi's play "Cigars and Toothpaste", Affleck would play a young man who falls for a young woman but hides his attraction for her until she reciprocates.
Alex Holdridge ("In Search Of A Midnight Kiss") directs from a script by Elan Mastai ("Alone In The Dark"). Russell Smith, Marc Stephenson, Mark Costa, Ford Oelman and Liane Halfon will produce.
Matt Reeves ("Let Me In," "Cloverfield") and Tony Scott ("Deja Vu," "Top Gun") have emerged as the two major contenders to helm the upcoming "Wolverine" sequel reports The Playlist.
The pair have emerged over other talent who were approached such as Kathryn Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker"), Timur Bekmambetov ("Wanted") and Daniel Espinosa ("Snabba Cash")
"Wolverine 2" will be based on a story by Frank Miller and Chris Claremont and is set primarily in Japan. Shooting was to begin in January but will probably be delayed.
The past few days have seen several projects release their first official photos and here's a sampling, click on the shots below for larger versions and in some cases further photos.
From top left to bottom right - Darren Aronofsky's supernatural ballet drama "Black Swan", Jon Favreau's "Cowboys vs. Aliens", Nicolas Cage-led revenge thriller "Drive Angry 3D", Johnny Knoxville doing a stunt for "Jackass 3D", a trap in "Saw 3D" and a new shot from "Tron Legacy".
At 15 inches tall, you'd better have a real special place in your heart (and in your house, preferably a cage) to shell out that kind of cash. If you'd like to save yourself a bit of money, there's a less-exclusive version (limited to a run of 750) for $300, but unfortunately it comes with no mini pump-action shotgun. And frankly, we both know that's completely unacceptable. How else will you fight off the little monster when he goes after your throat? Hmmm? Interested parties will be glad to know that orders appear to be open as of right now, though the statue won't be set free until "Q1 2011."
Left 4 Dead's 'Tank' figure unveiled, busting through bank accounts originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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