Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Portlandia "One Moore Episode"
IFC's series Portlandia returns in January with an homage to Battlestar Galactica.
I think we can all relate to this:
The second season of “Portlandia” kicks off on January 6th at 10 p.m. ET on IFC.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Bryan Singer's BSG
Some new info is floating about the Bryan Singer Battlestar Galactica project, with the recent news that "Anonymous" writer John Orloff would be taking a crack at the screenplay.
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
BSG Online Press Release
Press Release:
Battlestar Galactica Online Jumps past Five Million Players; Humans and Cylons Steeped in Competition for Control of the Veil Sector
Bigpoint Celebrates Milestone and Recent European Game Award with Introduction of New Recon Ships
San Francisco – Sept., 7, 2011 – Bigpoint (www.bigpoint.com) – a worldwide leader in online games – today announced that Battlestar Galactica Online (http://battlestar-galactica.bigpoint.com/) has surpassed five million registered players worldwide since its February launch. Based on the internationally popular Syfy television series produced by Universal Cable Productions, Battlestar Galactica Online is a free-to-play, browser-based space combat MMO that combines high-quality graphics with intense gameplay. The Unity-based title recently won ‘Best Browser Game’ at the 2011 European Games Awards. Battlestar Galactica Online is licensed through Universal Partnerships & Licensing on behalf of NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group.
“As BSGO continues to evolve, we’re excited to offer new content to the fans and growing community,” said Sarah Levantine, Producer, Bigpoint. “We listen very closely to what the players ask for and are happy to announce that more features and items, including a number of new ships, are on the way.”
Since its launch, Bigpoint has added a number of new ships and game modes to the title. To bolster the available fleet, a new line of Fleet Recon ships will soon become available for both Colonial and Cylon players. Armed with the ability to “Jump-To-Target” in proximity of an erupting battle, these light freighters are built to aid in combat as Recon versions of the series’ classic Raptor and Heavy Raider. Bigpoint maintains a multi-tiered development schedule, which organizes the team’s activity into three key areas: ongoing optimization and bug repair, short-term updates, and long-term content additions.
Beginning mid-September, basic models of both vessels will be obtainable with Cubits, BSGO’s in-game premium currency that can be earned through gameplay or purchased with real money, along with advanced models that will enable greater mission flexibility. The recently unveiled Brimir Class Carrier is also scheduled to become available this fall, though its size, complexity, and impact on game balance must be optimized before its general release.
In the recent European Games Awards ceremony held in Cologne, Battlestar Galactica Online was presented the award for Best European Browser Game, Europe’s largest and most prestigious consumer-voted gaming award. Bigpoint’s vast international distribution network of over 1,000 media partners, localization in 25+ languages, and team of worldwide community managers has helped Battlestar Galactica Online attract over five million users to the game, with over 25,000 new pilots enlisting every day.
About Bigpoint
Bigpoint (http://www.bigpoint.com) is an online-game developer, publisher and content provider for more than 1000 global distribution partners. Bigpoint’s free-to-play games are played by over 200 million registered users in over 25 languages. The company‘s portfolio includes casual, core, and hardcore titles, including Battlestar Galactica Online, The Mummy Online, and Drakensang Online. Over 800 employees from more than 35 countries work together at Bigpoint offices in Hamburg, Berlin, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Malta. For more information please visit www.bigpoint.net.
About NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group
NBCUniversal is a leader in providing entertainment programming to the domestic and international marketplaces. NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group manages all global ancillary television business endeavors for the NBCUniversal Television Group, including third-party home entertainment distribution, consumer products, musical soundtracks, special markets projects and the NBCUniversal Online Store.
About Universal Cable Productions
Universal Cable Productions creates quality content across multiple media platforms, including USA, Syfy and other networks. A leader in innovative and critically acclaimed programming, UCP is the studio behind USA's "Covert Affairs," "Suits," “Royal Pains,” "Psych," "In Plain Sight," "Fairly Legal" and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” along with Syfy's "Warehouse 13," "Alphas" and “Eureka." The studio is also producing "Against the Wall" for Lifetime and "I Just Want My Pants Back" for MTV. UCP is a division of NBCUniversal.
About Syfy
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in more than 99 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)
Friday, August 19, 2011
The Future, According to Rob Kutner
Rob Kutner is sort of like Ray Kurtzweil on crack. Kutner is a writer for TBS’ Conan and the author of the satirical end-of-times bestseller Apocalypse How: Turn the End Times into the Best of Times! He has also written for The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, won four Emmies writing for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, and contributed to its bestseller, America (The Book). Other writing includes HBO’s “Dennis Miller Live,” as well as humor and feature pieces for the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, and Maxim.
His new book, The Future According to Me, a collection of 35 short comic scenarios of what our future might look like -- touching on everything from nanotechnology to existentially self-aware Smart Toilets to the upcoming Chocolate Famine.
The breezy book is full of great humor and wry comic observations that any sci-fi geek would greatly enjoy geeking out on.
In Rob Kutner’s future, peace will be achieved in the middle east thanks to quantum physics. You can live forever, as long as you can deal with baby boomers who keep hanging on. You will prepare for the invasion of the Xoxians. Learn how to eat artificial lab grown meat, before the meat gets uppity. Watch out as nanotechnology grey goo takes over, in unexpected ways. All in all the future is so bright, you have to read this book.
Get it at Amazon.com for the amazing low price of 99 cents. (You don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books, just download the Kindle app for your Mac, iPad, iPhone, PC, or other device.)
Read a few excerpts from the book here and here and here.
And check out this review from the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
And in our Sitrep archives, be sure to read my colleague ProgGrrl's Battlestar Galactica discussion with Rob Kutner and John Hodgman from 2009.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Hiatus
The Galactica Sitrep is signing off for a now as we take a brief hiatus. The site will relaunch in the very near future. In the meantime click these links to keep up with Battlestar Galactica and Blood and Chrome news. And you can follow me on Twitter as well.
And be sure to visit the Battlestar Wiki.
Thanks for your continued support.
Logan
Monday, June 20, 2011
See Zoot Suit and Edward James Olmos
On Wednesday, June 22 at the Million Dollar Theatre at 307 S. Broadway, in Los Angeles, California, the Los Angeles Conservancy's program of Last Remaining Seats presents, Zoot Suit (1981):
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this vivid musical is the filmed version of the play that made Edward James Olmos a star. Olmos reprises his role as the narrator, the mythical “Pachuco,” in this blend of fact and fantasy based on the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and Zoot Suit Riots of 1940s Los Angeles.
Daniel Valdez (also reprising his stage role) stars as Henry Reyna, the leader of a group of young Mexican Americans wrongfully imprisoned for murder. Both the play and film were written and directed by Luis Valdez and feature the music of Daniel Valdez and Lalo Guerrero, the “father of Chicano music.” Print and film still courtesy of Universal Pictures.
Special Program: The evening’s host and panel moderator will be Betto Arcos, independent radio producer and host of KPFK's "Global Village" world music show. Panel discussion with film director Luis Valdez, film stars Edward James Olmos and Rose Portillo, and Dr. Eric Avila, Associate Professor, Chicano Studies, History, and Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Falling Skies TNT Tonight
Mark Verheiden, former BSG co-exec producer, talks about his new project, Falling Skies on TNT tonight at 9 p.m. on his blog:
Join us Sunday on TNT, at 9:00PM for the two hour premiere on 6/19, then at 10PM after that.
You got your aliens. You got your resistance fighters. You've got the talents of series creators/executive producers Steven Spielberg and Robert Rodat.
Plus! You've got the amazing Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Will Patton, Drew Roy, Sarah Carter, Colin Cunningham, Jessy Schram, Seychelle Gabriel, Maxim Knight, Dylan Authors, Connor Jessup, Mpho Koaho, Peter Shinkoda and Dale Dye... plus guest stars Steven Weber, Henry Czerny, Blair Brown and a whole bunch more!
And! There's writing by series creator Robert Rodat, along with Graham Yost, Fred Golin, Melinda Hsu Taylor, Joe Weisberg, and Joel Thompson. And, well, me. Exceptional supervising/producing by Greg Beeman, exceptional line producing by John Ryan, superlative direction by Carl Franklin, Greg Beeman, Fred Toye, Sergio-Mimeca Garcia, Anthony Hemingway and Holly Dale!
Plus Noah Sorota's music! The incredible post crew! Our amazing FX guys! I could go on and on and probably will as time rolls ahead...
This amazing site is a list of links to a plethora of reviews, most good.
I'll be posting as the mood strikes after the show's debut. And keep watching this space for updates re: my other projects (*cof Dark Tower *cof) as the Summer continues...
