There have been murmurs of a sequel, but what about an English language remake for the insanely awesome Korean horror flick, The Host (Gwoemul)? (Come on, you know it was inevitable.) Variety reports that Universal is teaming up with Gore Verbinski to bring Bong Joon-ho's horror insanity stateside. But don't worry about this turning into Pirates of the Caribbean. Commercial director Fredrik Bond is making the jump to the big screen to helm the remake, with Smart People scribe Mark Poirier penning the script.

It sounds like they're going for the same scenario -- toxins from a military base flow into a river and create "a giant mutant squidlike creature" (or tadpole!). The creature hits land, steals a little girl, and her "dysfunctional family" must team up to save her.

Do we need it? No. The original cast and crew did an amazing job and made one of the funniest horror movies that I've seen in years. But we're going to get it. So now we have to decide: Would we want it to be as similar to the original as possible, or should Poirier go wild with the script so that it doesn't look anything like Gwoemul? I'm leaning towards the latter -- there's no way he can top the original, and a lot of the strangeness and jokes just won't translate.

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pstronga href="http://assets1.pitchforkmedia.com/images/original/29805.x-news-guiltbyassociationcover.jpg" target="_blank"Cover your faces/a/strong while you cover your favorites: it's time for a sequel to stronga href="/article/record_review/45156-guilt-by-association" target="_blank"emGuilt by Association/em/a/strong, the 2007 comp from stronga href="http://www.engineroomrecordings.com/" target="_blank"Engine Room Recordings/a/strong that had folks like Will Oldham, Devendra Banhart, and Superchunk totally putting their cred on the line by stronga href="/article/news/42580-banhart-oldham-superchunk-cover-iguiltiy-pleasures" target="_blank"taking on an eyebrow-raising bunch of popular tunes/a/strong.br /br /For round two, the comp seems to have evolved from a collection of covers of guilty pleasures to an unabashed celebration of pop, probably since nobody should ever feel ashamed for liking something (unless that something is Ted Nugent in 2008).br /br /Participants this time around include the My Brightest Diamond, Frightened Rabbit, Kaki King, Rafter, Takka Takka, the Forms, and Matt Pond PA, while the material ranges from 1980s classics such as "In the Air Tonight", "Tainted Love", and "If You Leave" to cuts from Ace of Base, Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, and even Katy Perry.br /br /emGuilt by Association Vol. 2/em hits stores on CD come February 17, but anxious sorts can actually score the thing right now via iTunes. You can also stream the set stronga href="http://www.engineroomrecordings.com/gba2/" target="_blank"here/a/strong, and download an MP3 of My Brightest Diamond's "Tainted Love" cover below. No really, go ahead, we swear we won't tell a soul. ;-)br //ppa href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/147562" target="_blank"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/KoK1OjtKopOzfhJ95SW6X2WnYJA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/KoK1OjtKopOzfhJ95SW6X2WnYJA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/xF7a7nMja7U" height="1" width="1"/

A l'ère de MySpace et YouTube, n'importe qui peut créer un morceau de musique, le mettre en ligne et le partager (potentiellement) avec des millions d'utilisateurs. Encore faut-il avoir les outils pour le faire. Sans nécessairement investir dans des logiciels assez coûteux tels que Cubase, Sonar ou Logic Studio, on trouve déjà quelques solutions simples et abordables pour créer rapidement des morceaux à base de boucles sonores, mais aussi de ses propres mélodies et voix.

Publisher also apparently working on Boom Blox sequel

pimg src="http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/news2001/21173/animal_shot2.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"/This week's edition of Critical Reception examines online reaction to Nintendo's life simulation franchise sequel Animal Crossing: City Folk, which reviews describe as "the same old routine with extra goodies that do little to change things in any meaningful way." Animal Crossing's GameCube debut won praise for its unique take on the simulation genre, offering laid-back gameplay that focused on building relationships with the animal residents of a virtual village. Its sequel, 2005's Animal Crossing: .../p pmap name="google_ad_map_WGAYYhPF9RDz3aMmc4p8kZ-9vkU_"area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/WGAYYhPF9RDz3aMmc4p8kZ-9vkU_?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//mapimg usemap="#google_ad_map_WGAYYhPF9RDz3aMmc4p8kZ-9vkU_" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgclient=ca-pub-3896033488060561channel=feedburner-rssoutput=pngcuid=WGAYYhPF9RDz3aMmc4p8kZ-9vkU_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamasutra.com%2Fphp-bin%2Fnews_index.php%3Fstory%3D21173"//pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=edxfN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=edxfN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=hWZMN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=hWZMN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=ZRxLN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=ZRxLN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GamasutraNews/~4/458439972" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://www.edge-online.com/files/imagecache/article_homepage_large_144x108/motorstormpr_1.jpg" alt="Review: MotorStorm Pacific Rift" title="Review: MotorStorm Pacific Rift" class="imagecache imagecache-article_homepage_large_144x108" /br /pstrongThe first flushes of a console launch hide a multitude of sins. While MotorStorm isnrsquo;t the prime candidate from PS3rsquo;s natal period for retrospective denouncement by overexuberant critics ndash; that dubious honour is perhaps reserved for Resistance: Fall of Man ndash; Evolution would still have to live up to its name to make its sequel pass muster now that Sonyrsquo;s platform has bedded in./strong/p pa href="http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/review-motorstorm-pacific-rift"read more/a/p

Pare che stiano lavorando al sequel di un film di fantascienza piuttosto sottovalutato. Sperem…

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A personal checklist and shopping guide:

Wall-E
As with all great movies, I quickly forgot about everything except the characters and the story. Wall-E sparked some surprising political and sociological debates, but no one can deny the sense of wonder that the boxy robot and his adventures engender. Erik's already run down the special features; the toughest decision is which editon to get. Buy it.

Tropic Thunder
I skipped this one theatrically because I'm worn out on Hollywood self-mockery -- has any other industry ever found itself so simultaneously fascinating yet repulsive? Still, reviews were generally strong, and this is the best bet this week for a broad, R-rated comedy, as long as you haven't overdosed on Ben Stiller and Jack Black. Does Robert Downey, Jr. make it all worthwhile? Rent it.

Encounters at the End of the World
Speaking of something simultaneously fascinating yet repulsive, Werner Herzog traveled to the Antarctic to make a personal essay assailing the ugliness of the man-made town from which all journeys Seriously Down Under begin, and questions the sanity of some of the people who work there. Then the beauty of the place overwhelms everything, before Werner starts asking about the sex life of penguins to liven up an interview. Oh, Werner! Rent it.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Girl power got a kick in the, er, pants, with this sequel, which takes place in a fantasy land of upper class privilege masquerading as lower middle class struggles. No doubt some will take me to task for missing the moral message which is rolled up somewhere inside the pretty scenery and prettier tears; I admit I dozed off a couple of times. In a weird way, this could be a good contrasting double-bill with Twilight. Under 18? Rent it.

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I don't know about you, but I've been sitting here, hating the state of cinema -- those dark knights, iron men -- and wishing that we could get more nutty professors. Behold my happiness: The Hollywood Reporter posts that Universal and Imagine Entertainment are tossing around the idea of another sequel to The Nutty Professor.

Apparently, they're in the early stages of development, and have an open call out to writers asking for their take on character. Whether Eddie Murphy would be attached -- that remains to be seen. THR says that his involvement depends on a number of elements including the writer and director. But really -- would he actually refuse it? It's not like we're talking about stellar cinema here.

Perhaps the bigger question is who actually wants to see this? First, there's more Fockers, now more Klumpy nuttiness. The first made $270 million worldwide, a nice chunk of change, and the second took in $162 million. I'd be incredibly surprised if the next possible sequel doesn't have at least the same $108 million drop. But if they kept expenses low, I guess this could still be monetarily worth it.

But can we movie fans bear more goofy Murphy? Could a sequel survive without him? Maybe even thrive?

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/wii/" rel="tag"Nintendo Wii/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/metareviews/" rel="tag"Metareviews/a/pdiv align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/animalcityfolkmeta.jpg" /br //div Paradoxically, it's the cause of the absolute a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyCk2ygkqEU"saddest thing on the internet/a, but emAnimal Crossing/em has also been a source of joy for millions. Judging from the tepid reviews, emAnimal Crossing: City Folk/em's biggest problem appears to be not that it's more of the same joy-inducing escapism, but rather that it emis/em the same joy-inducing escapism. br / ul lia href="http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3171329amp;p=44"1UP/a (strongC/strong): "Somehow, despite two previous time-sucking outings into the open world of Animal Crossing -- each fully preparing me for what to expect in a sequel -- City Folk still rouses some excitement at the prospect of collecting more rare furniture, fossils, and that one elusive bug or fish. But all of this quickly subsides upon your introduction to Tom Nook, everyone's favorite predatory lender. That's when the realization quickly sets in: This is all just the same old routine with extra goodies that do little to change things in any meaningful way."/li lia href="http://www.gamedaily.com/games/animal-crossing-city-folk/wii/game-reviews/review/14/2195/"GameDaily/a (strong70/100/strong): "Sadly, local co-op isn't an option, the graphics look last generation and we had little fun using the WiiSpeak microphone. If you're a fan of the series, you'll want to move into this City right away. Otherwise, pay a casual visit before you settle down."/li lia href="http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=201847"Games Master UK/a (strong80/100/strong): "It's still a great game but fans of the DS version are going to feel short-changed by the lack of imagination in this Wii retread. For everyone who missed out last time, or if you're keen to start such an epic afresh on the TV, this may well be the family game that sends Wii Sports into permanent retirement."/li /ulp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/18/metareview-animal-crossing-city-folk-wii/"Metareview -- Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii)/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:45:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/18/metareview-animal-crossing-city-folk-wii/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1375888/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/18/metareview-animal-crossing-city-folk-wii/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/pYaOML4bV2HRphbUToqaFQeiPmE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/pYaOML4bV2HRphbUToqaFQeiPmE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=UvZ1uICF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=UvZ1uICF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=nnr6b6Qr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=nnr6b6Qr" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/SKPTSUBKbyY" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/business/" rel="tag"Business/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/midway-chicago-cuts-overstated-next-mortal-kombat-in-discussion-says-boon/?biz=1"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/ed_boon_mk_top.jpg" alt="" //abr //div emMortal Kombat/em creator (kreator?) Ed Boon has come forward, labeling a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/13/midway-cuts-chicago-staff/"recent reports/a of Midway's Chicago branch handing out pink slips to many of the individuals who worked on a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/mortal-kombat-vs-dc-universe/"emMortal Kombat vs. DC/em/a as "completely false." Last week, numerous outlets reported that the a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/10/midway-report-76m-in-losses-for-q308-pins-q4-hope-on-mk-vs-dc/"troubled publisher and developer/a let go of around 20 to 30 employees following the completion of both the recent cross-universe brawler and a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/Blitz-The-League-II/"emBlitz: The League II/em/a.br /br /However, speaking in a href="http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/features/interview-ed-boon-on-the-ups-and-downs-of-the-mortal-kombat-franchise/?biz=1amp;page=1"an interview/a with GameDaily, Boon asserts that the emMortal Kombat/em team specifically is still together, and is already brainstorming on what to work on next. He adds that the crew is sizing up emMortal Kombat vs. DC/em's performance, as "it will have a good amount to do with what features we put in the next game." Of course, this says nothing of those in The Windy City who worked specifically on Midway's sequel to emBlitz/em, or if the company decided to have them emgo long/em all the way to the unemployment line.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/18/boon-talks-midway-layoffs-next-mortal-kombat/"Boon talks Midway layoffs, next Mortal Kombat/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:15:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/midway-chicago-cuts-overstated-next-mortal-kombat-in-discussion-says-boon/?biz=1Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/18/boon-talks-midway-layoffs-next-mortal-kombat/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1375779/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/18/boon-talks-midway-layoffs-next-mortal-kombat/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/tCJiN9cAS71Kjs-46d7-6jiA2yA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/tCJiN9cAS71Kjs-46d7-6jiA2yA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=Ul3tzaEF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=Ul3tzaEF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=cDbYpe6D"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=cDbYpe6D" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/gwbGII8iCZs" height="1" width="1"/

h4Arguably the most long overdue sequel emever/em/h4 pemTron/em - quite possibly the best example of a movie that could benefit from a legitimate sequel - is finally getting one. And who knew? A few dedicated - and better informed - film buffs maybe, but for the rest of us sci-fi supporters, it remained a secret..../p

Le logiciel de composition musicale grand public de l'éditeur de Cubase

Prince of Persia producer says potential add-on content, "maybe a prequel, maybe a sequel," could arrive for upcoming action-adventure next year.

Prince of Persia producer says potential add-on content, "maybe a prequel, maybe a sequel," could arrive for upcoming action-adventure next year.

Faire de la musique facilement avec un ordinateur et une carte son, c'est possible : des logiciels comme Magix Music Maker ou Sequel de Steinberg le prouvent. Nous avons comparé ces deux solutions destinées [...]

This video is not for the faint hearted. COOL! my first ever proper movie. Stay tuned for a sequel!!! :D

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Gamasutra reports on comments from Stardock CEO Brad Wardell in which he described his efforts to revive two old but popular franchises: Star Control and Master of Orion. Quoting: "'I actually pitched Atari on a whole idea for a true successor to Star Control,' [he said], noting that the game would follow original series developer Toys for Bob's Star Control II rather than the Legend Entertainment-developed Star Control 3 ('We just pretend that never happened,' the CEO says of that release). ... Novato, California-based Toys for Bob has actually floated the idea of making its own Star Control II sequel, with co-creator Paul Reiche III indicating he has tossed potential design ideas around, but with the company now owned by publisher Activision the proposal seems to be stuck in limbo."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/0339249amp;from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/18/0339249"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/0339249amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/3EZBIAaw3OrOtXumRpQSigB_AC4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/3EZBIAaw3OrOtXumRpQSigB_AC4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/Sunv1NkQUWo" height="1" width="1"/

The Game: I don’t really know what possessed me to pick up Quantum of Solace, the latest James Bond videogame, based on the hit sequel to Casino Royale. Everyone knows that 99 out of 100 movie-based. Tags: Read the rest of this great post here ...

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/strategy/" rel="tag"Strategy/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/business/" rel="tag"Business/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20998"img width="490" vspace="4" hspace="0" height="305" border="1" align="top" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/moo2.jpg" alt="" //abr //div a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/stardock/"Stardock/a keeps 4X strategy gamers' hearts aflutter with word that it's trying to get the rights to emStar Control/em or emMaster of Orion/em. Of course, if the publisher can't get them, like what happened with its recent attempt for the emMaster of Magic/em rights, Stardock can always just circumvent and make its own franchise -- thus, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/04/stardock-announces-elemental-war-of-magic/"emElemental: War of Magic/em/a was born.br /br /Stardock CEO Brad Wardell tells a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20998"Gamasutra/a that the company would base its emSC/em or emMoO/em sequel off the second games in the respective franchises and not the poorly received third iterations. Wardell also confirms that Stardock is currently building a second full internal development team. Given the company's a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/10/stardock-sticking-with-q1-release-strategy-for-next-half-decade/"release strategy/a, whatever game it decides to do, we won't see it until 2011 or beyond.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/17/stardock-looking-at-master-of-orion-star-control-rights/"Stardock looking at Master of Orion, Star Control rights/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:30:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20998Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/17/stardock-looking-at-master-of-orion-star-control-rights/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1374662/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/17/stardock-looking-at-master-of-orion-star-control-rights/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/gzVtYFCRy9L539C78ofmIatgSD4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/gzVtYFCRy9L539C78ofmIatgSD4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=VRePU4Ol"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=VRePU4Ol" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=T1jPURqI"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=T1jPURqI" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/1Rtstg97BEU" height="1" width="1"/