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Vote for Dania Ramirez, Hayden Panettiere, and Kristen Bell at AskMen.com’s Top99
Vote for Dania Ramirez, Hayden Panettiere, and Kristen Bell at AskMen.com’s Top99
AlwaysVPN Takes U.S.-Only Sites International
I know many of you are non-US residents, and therefore, you have had problems with many of the Heroes: Evolutions content in the past. The best way to fix this in the past was for HeroesARG to rehost stuff for you [which we are glad to do], but i’ve found an alternative…
Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): AlwaysVPN, a free virtual private networking service, is promoted as a safer way for anyone to browse the web or trading files over a public net connection. It works for that purpose, sure, but it also lets anyone on the disappointing side of a U.S.-only service like Hulu, Pandora, or Fancast get around that often arbitrary restriction. We’ve previously featured a similar service, Hotspot Shield, but AlwaysVPN has the edge in not installing any toolbars (although it does put ads across the top of your browser), working on all three major platforms, and, well, being a go-to VPN proxy if Hotspot is only trickling in. Installation and startup are a simple right-click affair in Windows, while OS X users will have to configure a third-party VPN client, and Linux users compile from source. AlwaysVPN is a free download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems.
AlwaysVPN [via LifeHacker]
If you try it out, let us know how it works.
Exclusive “Twilight” clip tonight
Twilight fans may be interested to know that an exclusive clip will be featured during Monday’s episode of Heroes (9/8c on NBC). The clip will be introduced by Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward in the film.
The film stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Jacob Black, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed and evolves around seventeen-year-old Isabella “Bella” Swan who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington, and finds her life in danger when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen.
Twilight will be released on November 21st in the US, and December 19th in the UK.
Please understand that i’m not posting this as a Twilight fan [Seriously]. I’m posting it for you creepy, emo teenagers out there. Both of you.
“Heroes” Console Game Canceled
GameDaily.com is reporting that video game maker, Ubisoft, have decided to cancel the oft forgotten Heroes console/PC game.
Although many of you have probably forgotten that this title was even in the works – it was announced back in July 2007 – fans of the popular NBC television series Heroes no doubt would have been curious to see what a game based on their favorite powered-up characters would be like. Well, it’s not happening… at least not from Ubisoft.
The French publisher confirmed with MTV Multiplayer today that it’s abandoned its plans for the title. “The rights to the Heroes video game have reverted back to NBC Universal. Ubisoft will no longer produce a video game based on the TV series,” a spokesperson for Ubisoft stated.
The game had originally been slated to launch late in 2008, but perhaps it’s for the best. Ubisoft hasn’t exactly proven itself to be capable when it comes to creating good video games based on TV shows. Both ABC’s Lost and CBS’ CSI were given the game treatment by Ubisoft and the results were not good.
That’s too bad. It’s also a shame they didn’t rush this when the show was in it’s first season. I think it could have been great!
Thanks to Link for the…link.
Jason Badower , Tim Kring, and Trent Reznor
Jason Badower, one of our favorite Heroes graphic novel artists, met Tim Kring at a NIN concert, and reveals that Tim met with Trent Reznor, lead singer for Nine Inch Nails, when he started Heroes Evolutions.
James tells me that Tim (Kring) has been chatting to Trent Reznor and that Trent organised a VIP pass for him. WTF?!! What the hell do Trent and Tim have in common? The answer is more sensible and obvious than you might otherwise think.
When Tim was initiating the HEROES ARG he went looking for other ARGs and found that the best of them was Trent Reznor’s NIN ARG for YEAR ZERO (it’s worth reading the wiki link). So Tim started communication with Trent about the HEROES ARG. See? Makes more sense than you’d think!
Check out the whole post here.
TV Guide Covers
The November 12-18th issue of TV Guide will have a series of 4 covers by 4 top artists.
To purchase all four covers for US$14.99, click here.
#1 - Will Hiro Get His Revenge? - Jim Lee
Adam Monroe, Hiro Nakamura, Ando Masahashi
#2 - What’s Niki Hiding? - Phil Jimenez
Matt Parkman, Nathan Petrelli, Niki Sanders, Mohinder Suresh
Two more covers and a video from TV Guide: Video interview with Tim Sale, the artist of Isaac Mendez’ paintings and the fourth TV Guide cover after the jump.
