dash, Zeke, and Jeshua have made it to Orlando for Orlando Anime Day! So therefore it is now Orlando aniRAGE Day.
Keep an eye out for Zeke, he’ll have the camera, and later in the day they might even shoot some videos!
-zeke
Author: Zeke
He’s Getting the aniRAGE Bump #4
Our good friend Johnny C has been doing the internet show “Dose of Johnny C” for a couple years now. And he’s finally ready to go live with his website: Dose of Johnny C!
This dude is funny, and he knows no boundaries! Make sure to check his stuff out! Tell him aniRAGE sent you and receive 25% off!
-Zeke
(note: 25% off may not apply, due to being purely fictitious).
New aniRAGE Fan Page!
aniRAGE is making a facebook upgrade! Now you can find them at THE NEW ANIRAGE FAN PAGE to find out the latest and greatest up to the minute info on anirage!
-Zeke
aniRAGE Invades Orlando Anime Day!
Orlando Anime Day is Saturday, January 22nd, in (for those who are oblivious) Orlando, Fl. Zeke, Dashi, and Miroku of aniRAGE will be there (with some friends) to hang out, interact, take pictures, and maybe even have a surprise or two for everyone. No Whose Line panel this time, but that doesn’t mean that we won’t be bringing the fun!
We hope to see people there!
-Zeke
Site Commenting System Update
Hey Guys, your friendly neighorhood webmaster Zeke here.
Due to some unfortunate increases in spam-like activity in the comment section, registration is now required to post comments. But hey, it’s fast, it’s easy, and it’s free!
We look forward to talking with you guys soon!
-Zeke
Warning: Read This Before Playing Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
There are a few things I need to warn you guys about before you settle in to play this awesome game.
1) Prepare to learn a foreign language (or two).
Assassin’s Creed has a wonderful feature called Subtitles. Normally these are distracting letters that appear on the bottom of the screen during cut scenes. However in this game, they turn into a wonderful educational tool! Now you can learn how the correct phrases to say when stabbing people, as well as some key phrases to use when you converse with those whom you don’t agree with. While the majority of these are Italian, so far some French phrases have arrived as well! Who knew killing people could be so educational!
2) Italian is a universal language that everyone years to speak.
While it teaches you some great phrases, the biggest thing is that you’ll discover that deep down, you really ARE Italian. At first you’ll just be reciting lines that you hear from the game, but soon you’ll realize that even in your everyday speech patterns you’ll start emulating your buddy and mine, Ezio. Everything sounds better in a horribly mimicked Italian accent.
3) Your name just got six words longer.
Ezio Auditore da Firenze. It just rolls off the tongue. And jealousy will sit in. Why doesn’t MY name take three paragraphs to state? Soon you will be Joe Wilson de Wisconson con la Madison. It’s only natural.
4) Death follows you.
You’ll never quite figure out why, but people will just drop like flies around you. You’ll look at someone, wave your wrist, and a hail of arrows will appear and strike down your foes…even those you didn’t even know you had a problem with! And people on rooftops? Hell, they’ll start falling left and right. They shouldn’t be up there, looking at you and going “Hey get down from there!”. Serves them right.
5) Daggers. Daggers daggers daggers.
One day you’ll wake up and have them strapped to your wrists, ankles, knees, elbows, tongue, eyelids, ears, hell even places where you normally would want all forms of sharp objects to avoid.
6) Templars.
They are everywhere. Yes, even there. RUN.
-Zeke
aniRAGE Year In Review: Zeke on Music
aniRAGE Year In Review: Zeke on Music
This year was, in all truth, a great year for music. But for me personally, I found it to be more about discovering older music rather than embracing some of the newer works released. That being said, I do have a choice for both Album of the Year and Song of the Year. I also have an honorable mention, which would have won album of the year, but I’ll get to that in a bit.
Song of the Year: Ceelo Green – F**k You.
When he was just the vocal talents of Gnarls Barkley, I thought he was an amazing talent. And his newest Solo Album “The Lady Killer” only proves that. I might be tempted to go ahead and give him album of the year…but honestly I haven’t heard the album yet. However, his song F**k You is so damn catchy and so damn true! It starts off with something that just about everyone can understand: heartbreak. He goes on and on about everything that he tried to do to please the girl of his dreams, but to no avail. However, what makes this song really great is that instead of being a sappy song about unrequited love, he goes on to say “Ya know what, Fuck You”, and moves on. Very inspirational in a very catchy, very awesome package. If you haven’t heard this song, check it out. And it’s Radio-Friendly version “Forget You” isn’t too bad either.
Album of the Year: Scott Pilgrim vs The World Soundtrack and Original Score.
Ok, so maybe I’m starting to get a bit biased, with Scott Pilgrim winning awards in Video Game, Movie, and now Music. But regardless, this is a very catchy album. There are a lot of great songs on these albums, and all of the “original” songs that Beck wrote are performed both by Beck himself, AND by Sex Bob-Omb. And truth be told, I like the Sex Bob-Omb versions better. The only strike against this album is that it doesn’t include Brie Larson’s cover of Metric’s “Black Sheep”, which was amazing. Again, another cover from the movie that I enjoy better than the original (though that being said, the originals are all good). While it may seem like cheating to give the award to both the Sound Track and Musical Score, in my mind they go hand in hand, and I even went in and edited it on my MP3 player so that they are the same album. Even the small little techno remixes that make up generic background music are catchy, and I find myself zoning out while listening to them. Next thing I know, my work is done, or my drive is over, and I feel pumped. Definitely a great set of albums to pick up.
Honorable Mention/Album I Discovered in 2010: Chevelle – Sci Fi Crimes.
This album, which isn’t eligible for Album of the Year since it came out in 2009, did something that is a rarity. There is not a single track on this album that I don’t like. From begining to end, I love it. Usually I deem an album “great” if I like at least half of the songs on it. Previously, the album that was doing the best as far as song I disliked was Rise Against’s album “Appeal to Reason” where I only disliked one song. With zero songs ever getting the skip, this album has taken the top spot in my book. I knew of this album upon it’s release, but I didn’t really listen to it in it’s entirety until 2010, so I gets my Honorable Mention award, coupled with “Best Album I Discovered in 2010” award. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to Chevelle, or this album, do yourself a favor and pick it up.
And there we go! The aniRAGE Year In Review is complete! Or at least, my portion is! It’s been a great year, with lots of awesome happenings. I hope you enjoyed my Top Games, Best Movie, and Favorite Songs of 2010! 2011 has a lot to live up to, but I bet that it’s going to be great!
As always, stay tuned to aniRAGE.com for more awesome articles, videos, reviews, and more! We hope to see you back!
-Zeke
Merry Christmas fro aniRAGE!
Hey everyone! On behalf of all of aniRAGE I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a Happy Holidays to everyone!
Remember that today is about family, friends, love….
And most importantly,
PRESENTS!
So I hope you all get a good haul! And we’ll see you again soon!
-Zeke
aniRAGE Year In Review: Zeke’s Top Movie of 2010
Zeke’s Top Movie of 2010
There were a lot of excellent movies that came out this year, and even some that are still slated for release. However by far there is one that stood out among all the others in my eyes. It may not have the best of any one thing, and may not be up for a million awards when all is said and done…but this is the only movie I have willingly paid money to see multiple times.
That movie is Scott Pilgrim vs The World.
By no means is it the perfect movie. Say what you want about certain casting choices, it’s editing, it’s sound track…really anything you want. But at the end of the day, this movie gave me the most entertainment a movie has given me in a very long time.
This is also the first movie I have ever watched and gone to immediately find not only the soundtrack, but also the musical score. That was a big a part of the movie as anything else.
The movie has quite a following behind it, and often times I wonder if I’m merely falling for the hype, and loving it for things that don’t even exist. However, whenever this happens, I merely pop the bluray into my PS3 and take it for another spin, and I remind myself all over again why I love it.
If you haven’t seen the movie, I implore you to go see it. Will it be the best movie you have ever seen? Will it change your life? Will it cure cancer and solve world hunger and bring world peace? Nope, but it will entertain the hell out of you.
-Zeke
aniRAGE Year In Review – Zeke’s Games of the Year
Zeke’s Games of the Year:
As part of the aniRAGE Year In Review, this will list my picks for Games of the Year. I have seperated them into 5 categories:
- Major Releases, or games that came out this year that were sold at full retail price, and were full fledged games.
- Downloadable Games, games that you downloaded off of X Box Live or Playstation Network, typically at a low price. In this category I also disqualified re-release games, and concentrated on purely original games.
- Free Games, usually in the form of flash-games in a web browser.
- Mobile Games, games found (typically) exclusively on phones and other mobile devices.
- Downloadable Content, add-ons purchased to the game to expand it’s playability and unlock new features.
Major Releases: Red Dead Redemption.
This game came out with a LOT of fanfare, and a ton of hype. It was by a well-known and respected studio. It promised a lot, and in my opinion delivered on it to a T. Some people aren’t huge fans of open-world games like this, but even those that I talked to that played it found it very fun and entertaining. It’s musical score, it’s dialogue and characters, it’s story, and it’s game play were all superb. There were very few games that were released this year that met, and exceeded, the hype to their release. In that category, Red Dead Redemption shines.
Downloadable Games: Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game.
I don’t think I have had that much fun with a 10 dollar game in a long, long time. Usually I’ll grab one of these off the PSN, play through it once, and then forget about it. But I played through this game so many times, and dragged so many people in on it with me. It has a high replay value, and it’s multiplayer is great. The only gripe about the game is it’s lack of online multiplayer, but in the end, it’s much more fun to play in-person anyway.
Free Games: Robot Unicorn Attack.
How do you take Unicorns, Rainbows, Fairies, and the British band “Erause” and make it cool? Throw in robots, of course. This game is so simple, and so utterly outlandish that it’s addicting. It’s one of the few games that I’ll actually keep the sound on for, because strangely the song fits the game so well. In fact, when I play muted I find that my scores go down drastically. If you haven’t played this game yet, you’ve done yourself a massive disservice. Go do it. Now. It’s free.
Mobile Games: Angry Birds.
This one is almost a no-brainer. You have birds, who are angered, and pigs, who steal their eggs. And thus the birds fling themselves at high speeds towards the pigs. HOLY CRAP is it addicting. The fact that you have different stars that you can achieve, which ups it’s replay value, and the creators are constantly pushing out new levels and content, it’s just amazing. The game is available on just about any mobile device you pick up (if it runs Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android platform). If you haven’t had a chance to play this game, well hold on tight, because PC and Console versions are in the works.
Downloadable Content: Borderlands – The Secret Armory of General Knoxx.
There have been many games that are rooted in comedy, but rarely in these the storylines are hackneyed and secondary. Few games series come to mind that make it’s humor a central aspect of the story, while still keeping it fresh and compelling. Sam and Max comes to mind. This game took the core of the Borderlands games, which is to run around and blow the crap out of ANYTHING that isn’t you, and kicked it up a notch. New guns (I guess eleventy billion wasn’t enough), new missions, new characters, and a big boost on the level cap made this add on a must-have for all players of the game. I haven’t had a chance to full take in the newest DLC, but honestly Borderlands has had the best DLC content of any game I have played. And this one just took it to a new level of awesome. If you have Borderlands, make sure to get this game. And if you don’t have Borderlands, go out and get it. And then get this DLC. You won’t regret it.
And there you have it! The best games of the year…at least in my humble opinion. I’m sure you have conflicting decisions, so post them in the comments section! And stay tuned, because the aniRAGE Year In Review is still going on!
-Zeke