Unaccustomed
October 18th, 2010

Posted by Matt

You’ve been randomly selected for viewing of this week’s LoadingReadyRun video. Please click over here.

This week’s video is a Graham written script, coming to you from a similar bizarro-world to that of Crime & Punishment. You may even recognize the costumes. Much like that particular video, this one was shot at UVic, adapting the buildings the best we could to look like what we needed. In this case, the Hallway and the “screening room” were actually in different buildings on opposite sides of the campus (and the screening room is in a building exactly opposite the direction James instructs Paul to go).

Unskippable this week features the return of the bad company in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Check it out here.

Cheers!

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Politically Minded
October 11th, 2010

Posted by Matt

This week’s video has pounded the pavement, and come to you to remind you to vote Andrew Shepherd this election! For more information, click here!

This week’s video sees the return of Andrew Shepherd, or rather his ever determined staff, to the campaign trail. Written by fan and evidently long time viewer (considering Mr. Shepherd and crew made their debut in Rapid-fire II) Evan Williams, this weeks video provides some insight into the trials of these two unfortunate workers.

There’s lots of visual gags in this particular video, so i advise you to maintain a keen eye as you watch.

Unskippable this week was Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War, and it can be found here.

Additionally, Graham and Paul’s Unskippable: Let’s Play of Legia 2 has been broken into bits, and made available for viewing. Part 1 of 17 can be found here. Additional parts will be made available over the coming weeks. That said, if you’re a member of the Publisher’s Club, The Escapist is offering early access to the full set as a membership bonus, and the whole collection can be found in the premium gallery here!

Cheers!

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Mercenary Solutions 3
October 5th, 2010

Posted by Matt

They’re back! Everyone’s favorite mercenaries Kane & Crowthorne ride again this week’s video.

I hope you don’t mind if I skip the blurb about the video this week, but we have something really cool and important to tell you about: The Daily Drop.

Starting on Thursday of this week, and continuing every single day thereafter, we’ll be posting short videos of something being dropped from ten feet filmed on a professional-grade high-speed camera. That means tons and tons of items meeting their ends in super slow-motion and glorious HD. All of the crew (and Graham especially) are huge fans of the spectacular visuals that result from the violent destruction of day to day items played back ultra-slowly, so when the chance to give this series a whirl came up we jumped at it. Most of the crew has spent the last week pulling 14 hour days to get all the content we need for this shot (we’re renting the camera, those things cost as much as a new car to buy) so we really hope you enjoy the videos as much as we do. They’re simple fun, but man are they fun.

Check out the trailer here, and remember to check the escapist on Thursday when the first item hits the floor.

Unskippable this week was “Warhammer Battle March”, a game I’d actually never heard of before today. You can watch that update here.

Cheers!

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Bed Buggery
September 27th, 2010

Posted by Matt

PREPARE FOR THIS WEEK’S VIDEO.

From day one, the plan had been for Paul to play the part of the bed owner in this video. Naturally, that didn’t happen. I was wicked sick with a cold on the day we shot this, and I came by Graham and Kathleen’s place for… I don’t remember. And Paul was there to play the part, but couldn’t do it because… I don’t remember. That should be reasonable evidence of how sick I was when we shot this. I felt like balls, and don’t remember most of the evening. I do, however, remember suggesting the stinger. I think that turned out well.

Spoilers- go watch the video before reading more:
The shot of Graham and I outside the burning house looks brilliant but is constructed in a way that is hilariously low-tech. We had to do that shot on a subsequent night, and we were short on people to crew. The embers are a post effect, obviously. Paul’s manning the camera, if I recall, and Kathleen is holding the boom in one hand, and swinging an incandescent light fixture back and forth randomly, in such a way that the light bounces to our faces in a random slow flicker. It looks awesome, but I’m sure to any passers by it probably would have looked like the most ridiculously unprofessional lighting system in the history of film.

Unskippable this week was Fracture. the video can be found here.

Cheers!

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The Basement
September 21st, 2010

Posted by Matt

Do you know why I’ve brought you here? To watch this week’s video!

Based off the Crapshot of the same name this video is the first example of our use of the crapshots as a “proving ground” for concepts that may or may not fly as a full video. This one totally does though, so I highly advise you to go watch it. And then check out the rest of our Crapshots if you havent already. You may even find a few that were filmed in the same location, at the same time have popped up over the last few days.

For the future, we may or may not adapt further Crapshots. It’s certainly somthing we’d like to do. So keep watching, and see if you can guess which ones might actually turn into a full video rown the road!

Unskippable this week was Transformers: War for Cybertron. Roll out to The Escapist and watch it!

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