Alice Monaghan, Hellboy's new love interest.
While Mike Mignola works on his new series Hellboy in Hell, Geek & Sundry and Dark Horse Comics have just released an adaptation of Hellboy’s most recent outing, entitled The Fury.
It’s the culmination of all the events in Hellboy history starting from 2007′s Darkness Calls, so if you haven’t read it yet, get on it. You can always find it used, or buy it online. You won’t regret it.
You can watch the video via Geek & Sundry’s YouTube.
Google Drive, the online cloud service provided by everyone’s favorite nosy neighbor went live today. To be honest, I’m actually impressed. While similar to Dropbox, Drive seems to be an upgrade to Google Docs, giving users a free 5GB of storage and deep integration with various Google services.
According to their blog post, Google Drive was “built to work seamlessly with your overall Google experience.” You can attach photos from your Drive account and post them directly to your Google+ page, and that soon “you’ll be able to attach stuff from Drive directly to emails in Gmail.”
Free accounts get 5GB’s to start with - your storage on Docs and Picasa are untouched, so if you figure a way to juggle that (if you need more), it shouldn’t be too hard. You can choose upgrading to 25GB for $2.49 every month, 100GB for $4.99 every month or, if it’s that necessary, 1TB for $49.99 a month. Your Gmail storage is bumped up to 25GB on you upgrade to paid account.
All in all, Google’s online service seems like a viable competitor to Dropbox, Microsoft’s SkyDrive and the iCloud from Apple. So with that being said, it’s time to start picking this thing apart.
People don’t read Privacy Policies. Thanks to smart people and smart business, Google has essentially monopolized information. Google Drive, while innovate, is just the company’s descent into “Lex Luthor” territory. The mantra “Don’t Be Evil” must be becoming increasingly harder to maintain when you’re an ever-expanding data giant. Just take a look at this gem from their ToS:
When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.
I love the fact that people willingly give away their information at the drop of a hat. Even Google has created an ad campaign letting people know what they do with the information received, and how to protect one’s identity. It should mean something when companies who are researching how to listen to your television to place the apropos adverts stop and tell you “Hey, dude, I think you should know what that means.”
Google Drive is can be downloaded here. Once you do so, remember that your Google Docs will cease to function and be fully integrated into Drive.
via @google.
Isn’t this awesome?
I just realized that I never added these photos to Flickr. The Command Module and Service Module were a commission. The goal was to build it with a stand (not shown) that would allow it to connect to Lego’s official Lunar Lander set. I don’t have the official Lunar Lander set, so for photography purposes, I built my own.
via Legohaulic (Flickr).
After a sudden and untimely death, Rambo is allowed to enter into Valhalla, the majestic hall of fallen warriors on one condition – he must make amends to all the people he’s slain in his life. How do you show someone that you’re sorry? Kindness and humility.
Rambo: Last Blood allows you to do just that, all while shirtless and sweaty. Rambo literally rents his tank top in two, and extending his arms to his former adversaries, smothering them and granting their souls peace. According to the developer Peter Javidpour, the game was a submission to this year’s Molyjam, inspired by Molyduex’s particular tweet:
I wanted that Rambo license. My idea was that Rambo is dead, you control his ghost and must locate and hug every one of his victim’s ghosts.
The game is surprisingly entertaining. The prospect of tracking down his enemies, solely to force your love upon them is awesome. Also, I feel like I’ve alienated myself with that last sentence. Damn it.
Peter Javidpour’s blog, Javidpower.
Last Blood‘s trailer on Vimeo.
via Rock Paper Shotgun.
At least I think it would be, next to being a dinosaur trainer. Game development company Valve is most famous for creating the digital gaming platform Steam, and publishing titles such as Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, and my personal favorite Portal. Valve’s a creative powerhouse, and we’ve gotten the chance to see what really goes on behind this creative powerhouse’s doors thanks to their Handbook for New Employees.
Described as “A fearless adventure in knowing what to do when no one’s there telling you what to do”, the 56 page manual covers the basics of life working for the company. Most chapters include several infographics and illustrations; most of which are hilarious I might add. There’s an extended timeline of the company’s releases, and how Valve Corporation does business.
According to this email, Valve’s Greg Coomer said that the handbook, now in it’s first edition was made to ”make it as easy as we could for new people to join the company.” I can’t blame them, Valve has notoriety of being one of the more unconventional companies around. Authenticity aside, it’s definitely worth looking over, especially on a rainy day (which is has been an all day affair here in New York).
Read the discussion on Flamehaus.
Download the handbook in its entirety here.
via GameInformer.
Have you ever wondered if Scarlett Johansonn would still be hot if she were a semi-aquatic marine mammal? If you answered “yes”, then this post if for you! As well as this post.
Artist Cindy Cherng has done the unthinkable and made Marvel’s super-team even more adorable, by turning them into grossly overweight, mustachioed crime fighters (or, essentially, Joss Whedon).
Hit the jump for more cuteness.
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