I hate cats - plain & simple, I just don’t like them.

They sleep, they eat & they shit - they’re me with slightly more fur & I think that this world ain’t big enough for the two billion odd of us.

Having said that, I need keyboard cat in my life - nay, I can’t live without the little fella. Put it down to ranga solidarity, whatever, if he can provide me with comedic moments like this, then I’m down.

And hey, he even comes with a t-shirt.

Now, onto the clip, I know its childish, but my girl & I bought a puppy for XMAS & what you’re about to say is just another day in the life right now…well, not this extreme, but let’s just say that if his toy zebra was real, then we’d have some pretty interesting looking zeb-dogs running around these days. …read more

Sorry, I went a little Mortal Kombat there it seems - I’m just a little excited.

Now we’re back on track, here’s the latest from Marvel as they announce the commencement of principal photography on Thor.

For myself, I’m really excited to see what comes of this film. I’ve been a long term fan of Kenneth Branagh (director of Thor), for no particular reason & will be really interested to see what he makes of a character who has always appealed to the fantasy geek in me. But here is my most sincere warning Kenneth - do NOT follow the path of remaking Asgard in Oklahoma or else you’ll be dealing with these flying fists of rage as I come at you like a spider monkey! …read more

The January 28th release date for Skins season 4 is fast approaching so to celebrate this weeks WWW features the cast of the sometimes funny, sometimes criminal & almost always partying college brats that we know & love.

It was only last week that I got through season 3 (& I did so in the space of 24hrs I might add …read more

Last year I spoke about an animated series called Frisky Dingo, the underground cult classic which provided us with such great one-liners as, “Boosh!”, “Go time!” and “Kakow!” Well now Frisky Dingo co-creator, Adam Reed, has returned with a new series, Archer.

Synopsis: Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), a spy agency where espionage and global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other. The series features the voices of 
H. Jon Benjamin as suave master spy “Sterling Archer,” whose less-than-masculine code name is “Duchess”; Jessica Walter as his domineering mother and boss, “Malory”; Aisha Tyler as his ex-girlfriend, “Agent Lana Kane”; George Coe as his aging-but-loyal butler, “Woodhouse”; Chris Parnell as ISIS comptroller and Lana’s new love interest, “Cyril Figgis”; and Judy Greer as Malory’s lovesick secretary, “Cheryl.” Source …read more

A brief discussion paper which summarizes the arguments for and against R18+ classification for Computer Games has been released. You can find it here.

The Commonwealth Government is also asking the public to voice its opinion as to whether Australia should have an R18+ rating for Computer Games. …read more

Last week, Medianator went down to the Xbox Insider Event at Billboards in Melbourne. The event was put together to showcase the Xbox 360 Dashboard update that launches today and to also preview some of the upcoming games that will be available over the next few months.

The day started off with a press conference with none other that MC Hammer. Yep, the guy that is responsible for this. MC Hammer was brought out to demonstrate the Twitter element of the new Xbox update. Hammer currently has over 1.6 million people following him on Twitter and he is listed as one of the top 20 most influential people on the social media service. …read more

The much talked about software update for the Xbox 360. Which will give the system access to social networks like Twitter, Facebook and LastFM and provide full HD movies on demand, will be released on the 17th of November.

I had a chance to have a look at a few of the features of the new update this week and while I do use the services, I was previously uninterested in the Social Media additions. But after seeing how they have been implemented and how easily they can be used, I will definitely be using the Twitter and Facebook features of the Xbox 360 once the update goes live. …read more

Last night we were lucky enough to get an invite to the Melbourne leg of the Xbox Insider Tour at Billboards. Even though a full write-up of the event will be live on the site in the next few days, let’s just say that we got a quick look at games like Avatar, Assassins Creed 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction.

A while back, we posted the first instalment of the Developer Diaries for Splinter Cell: Conviction. In a new video called, Splinter Cell: behind the scenes - Create a Hero. The video goes into detail about how the designers crafter the new improved Sam Fisher that the player will control.Have a look at the video below and tell us how hard the wait until Feb ’10 is going to be. …read more

Late last week Excelsior! the makers of three of the major comic apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch announced that they would be bringing Marvel Comics to their apps for the very first time, only problem is, is that the service is currently only available for US customers.

The first Marvel Comics to be made initially available via the apps will be Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men, Robert Kirkman’s Marvel Zombies miniseries, the first 30 issues of Ed Brubaker’s Captain America and X-23 and X-Men: Age of Apocalypse. …read more