Compiti per il weekend – 09/06/2018
In questa rubrica vi segnaliamo articoli e video che abbiamo trovato interessanti, sfiziosi, gustosi o, insomma, degni di essere menzionati, e che sono più o meno legati ai temi che ci piace trattare su Outcast. Gli articoli e i video non sono necessariamente in italiano, anzi, è tristemente probabile che non lo siano. La periodicità dell’appuntamento potrebbe essere settimanale, ma vai a sapere.
Remembering Racing Lagoon, Square's Weird Street Racing 'Car-PG' (leggi l'articolo su Kotaku)
Released in Japan in the summer of 1999, Racing Lagoon is a curious fusion of racing and role-playing set in Yokohama, the country’s second largest city. In the 80s and 90s illegal street racing was a way of life for certain law-flaunting Japanese petrolheads, particularly members of the notorious Mid Night Club. Formed in 1987, these guys hosted high-speed races along the Shuto Expressway between Tokyo and Yokohama, until a fatal crash in 1999 forced them to disband. And it’s this subculture that inspired Racing Lagoon, which sees rival clubs racing for glory on the city’s streets.
From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns actors into stars (leggi l'articolo su The Guardian)
There was a moment, somewhere in the nexus between Game of Thrones and The Crown, where it felt as if Gold’s name was gliding through the credits of every high-end show on TV. Her 167 credits include many grand British success stories – The King’s Speech, The Theory of Everything, the Paddington movies and every Mike Leigh film since Topsy-Turvy.
DF Retro: Revisiting Sega's Nomad - the original Switch? (leggi l'articolo su Eurogamer)
While much of the design seems a little half-baked - even by the standards of the time - the parallels between Nomad and Switch are undeniable. Both are fully self-contained units, capable of running on battery power for mobile gaming, along with the ability to seamlessly transition over to a living room TV.
How casual MCU fans experienced Avengers: Infinity War (leggi l'articolo su The Verge)
Fans like Baldini have their own ways of surviving Marvel’s complex in-jokes. Through some combination of phoning a friend, Googling, or reading the Marvel wiki, fans with varying degrees of superhero trivia knowledge have all prepped themselves to enjoy the film without fully knowing the backstory.
The Incendiary Verve of "The Good Fight" (Leggi l'articolo su The New Yorker)
“The Good Fight,” like “The Good Wife,” its predecessor, is a cockeyed love letter to just this kind of strategic life, as lived by a set of educated, hypercompetent professionals: a liberal élite, if you will.
The Theater is Still the Best Way to See a Movie (Leggi l'articolo su Screen Crush)
Those who argue that the theatrical experience needs to evolve or grow with the times to accommodate changing tastes misunderstand the movie theater’s key appeal: Its ability to take us out of our times and put us into another.
The Rebirth of “the Oner”: How Single-Take Shots Invaded Franchise Movies (leggi l'articolo su The Ringer)
Watching this Black Panther scene in the theater this year, I felt a prickle of disbelief. As the scene went on — T’Challa takes a flying leap to the second floor, scaling the bannister to chase a retreating Klaue, the camera sprouting wings and following along — the disbelief mounted.
