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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Reacting to yesterday’s news that popular Facebook game Mafia Wars is adding animals as weapons, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals requests developer reconsider, using Zynga founder Mark Pincus’s own beloved pet as ammunition.
In a bit of marketing that could theoretically bite someone at Activision in the arse, the company is promoting X-Men Origins: Wolverine in the UK by backing giant weasel mating.
Bad reviews, so what? The Hollywood version of Max Payne staring Mark Walhberg came out on top at the box office in its first week, beating out Oliver Stone’s W. That film debuted at the fourth spot. Explained Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers: “The estimates for ‘W.’ were all over the place… You can’t really expect that a politically charged movie like that would take the weekend over a big video game adaptation with a movie star in the lead role.” W., of course, is director Oliver Stone’s take on the presidency of George W. Bush. Hey, W., so you’re President. What’s that like? Say “hi” to your mother for us, okay?
Afrika sure looks nice! Pity we haven’t heard a thing about the game for, oh, nearly nine months now. And even then have no idea what the game’s about, or what you’re supposed to do in it. So if you’re of the feeling the project’s either vapourware or has been canned, it’s OK, that’s totally understandable. Understandable, but wrong, because composer Wataru Hokoyama has just been tapped to lead a 104-piece orchestra in scoring the game. No, we haven’t heard of him either (seems he’s worked with 30 Seconds to Mars, Joss Whedon and on a bunch of short films), but since we’ve heard next to nothing of the game either that would make the two a perfect fit.
OK, so it’s not really Brain Age. But it’s close. And definitely the same basic principle. Here, we see a chimp hitting a bunch of numbers in sequence. It’s just the start of a test, getting them familiar with our crude, human numbers; as the test goes on, as soon as the chimp hits the first number the rest turn into white squares, meaning they have to remember the order the digits were originally displayed. While chimps were found to be no more accurate than humans, they were a lot faster than the human test subjects, which comprised of college students. This is where it starts, people. When we’re all hanging in bamboo cages wondering how the damn, dirty apes got the better of us, know that Dr. Kawashima gave them all the help they needed. [National Geographic, via Giz AU]
