Awesome: Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

22 Rules

This is seriously awesome. Former Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats ([here’s her twitter])(https://twitter.com/lawnrocket)) tweeted 22 things she’d learned from her senior colleagues about how to tell good stories. It’s a pretty amazing list on it’s own, and now Imgur user DinoIgnacio has set them against still from Pixar movies. Hit the jump to see them and be inspired.

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Superhot: The Free Time-Bending FPS That You Must Play

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Have you played *Braid*? It’s a beautifully designed platform game that uses a simple time mechanic to gently shift time forward and back in order to cross chasms and solve obstacles. Its gameplay requirements fit the genre perfectly; slow, steady and intellectual, it asks the player to take their time and think about the repercussions of every single movement.

Well, incredible as it may seem, there is now a First-Person Shooter that does the same.

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Grudge Match Trailer: Old Rocky vs. Old Jake LaMotta in Grumpy Old Men III

Grudge Match

Speaking of Sylvester Stallone, remember watching the Grumpy Old Men movies and wishing that they would just start punching one another instead of playing pranks? No, me either, but someone did and here comes Grumpy Old Men III: Grudge Match, in which Stallone and Robert De Niro play aging boxers who come out of retirement to have one last fight. Let’s watch!

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Homefront Trailer: Jason Statham vs. James Franco As Written By Sylvester Stallone.

Homefront

Jason Statham makes a certain type of movie usually. The one where he’s a hero and fights against a total douchebag bad guy and wins the day. That’s what Homefront appears to be, and in this case the douchebag meth dealing bad guy is James Franco and the movie was written by Sylvester Stallone. This one is gonna be special.

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New Call Of Duty: Ghosts Trailer Looks Unashamedly Awesome

Call of Duty Ghosts

There’s much bad will towards *Call Of Duty*. Activision’s behemoth franchise has become the poster child for attracting the kind of stereotypical gamers that you’d rather leave under a rock, and while it may be true that navigating the dark corridors of its multiplayer mode could leave you hating gaming youth forever, the single player section is usually something to be savoured. It’s often criticised for being too short, shallow, bombastic and overly American – however, approach it like you would an 80’s Jean-Claude Van Damme movie, or chilli dog, and you’ll find yourself on a six hour thrill ride through multiple locations and ridiculous accents.

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