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Prognostication Record: 8-7
Well, I've missed three in a row now. Yes, mighty Buffalo fell before the arm of Peyton Manning last Monday. Let's see if I can get at least one more win and squeak into the Wild Card playoffs.
Tonight we have St. Louis versus Tampa Bay. The Rams take on the Buccaneers in Tampa. The Bucs have the top rated defense and a decent offense and the Rams have the top rated offense coupled with the most god-awful defense I've ever seen. For kicks I took the Buccaneers out for this test drive and here's how it all came out:
It was rainy, muddy and windy. That meant a running game for both teams, which neutralized Warner's cannon, but the Bucs have Alstott and Dunn and the Rams have Faulk, so things still got explosive. For the first three quarters it went scoreless until a penalty put Warner in the Bucs' Red Zone and the Rams manage to barely get a Field Goal. Tampa answered immediately with a 19-yard bomb complete to Johnson. Alstott and Dunn pushed the chains all the way to the 25 allowing King to nail a 22-yarder to Moore. Moore ran it in. The Bucs scored again inside the two-minute warning but the place-kicker failed to grab the extra point (doh!). Warner finally took to the air at the end and nailed Bruce for an open field 45-yard run. The rest was the Bucs running out the clock for the win. Bucs 13, Rams 10.
Gathering of Developers and Terminal Reality are in collusion with Collision Entertainment (the folks helping Dimension Films with the Alice movie, incidentally) to bring the characters and situations of the Nocturne PC game to your homes on a weekly basis. The show will take place in the 1930's, like the game, and will follow the adventures of the Spookhouse group of investigators as they encounter all kinds of monsters and weirdness (like poor performance on Nvidia screens).
Look for the Stranger, Doc Holliday (who moonlighted in a Blair Witch game recently), Svetlana and a new character “The FBI Agent” to join the cast on their adventures.
Seems President Roosevelt wants to shut down the X-Files… er… the Spookhouse and the agents have to solve an important case to keep the agency afloat.
The show will be a period piece set in the 1930's that follows the adventures of government agents sent on missions to investigate spine-tingling supernatural occurrences. The show is being overseen by Brent Friedman, who co-created the X-Files rip-off Dark Skies, and ER's Steve De Jarnett will direct. Filming is set to begin in February of next year and the show could debut in the Fall. A network deal hasn't been secured yet.
If they really want to capture the feel of the game they need to make sure the cameramen are good and drunk. We wouldn't want viewers to be able to see what's going on, do we? We want it to be as much like the game as possible. Now, if only Gathering of Developers can turn those Nocturne powered Blair Witch games into a movie or something….