So after much soul searching, and reading over our single suggestion we recieved, the fate of Artificial Continuum has been decided.


What, you ask, will become of this site? Will it die? Will it change itself completely? Well..the answer is neither.

AC will be repurposed into a site that runs off features and commentaries rather than a focus on news. Some of the most popular features on our site have been the weekly web video topic, and our reviews. These will be expanded upon, and both will be seen in weekly features.

Our new catalogue of content will include:

Monday: Weekly Web Video Topic ( A feature that will be completely identical to our web video topic of last year)

Wednesday: Nick's Top Ten (This one came as a surprise. However, when I went back and reviewed our view stats on our posts. Some of the most popular posts I made on the sites were actually my top ten countdowns. So now every Wednesday will feature a top ten countdown ranging across all geekdom.)

Friday: News Round Up (We can't forget the news! We have to keep the masses informed! Every Friday will now contain a round up of some of the most interesting, bizarre, and important announcements across geekdom.)

Every other week will also feature a round up review of released movie trailers.

I will also continue movie reviews and possibly reviews of Clone Wars, but on a far less scheduled basis.


I hope you all are as excited for this change of pace as I am. Look forward to seeing you in the coming months.

Hello everyone,

Reboots are rather popular these days. X-men just had one a few weeks ago. DC's got one planned for next year, and we have major studios rebooting properties all the way down the line. In other words, the status quo has to change, because to quote Dr. Horrible "the satus is not quo".

Anyways, what is this rambling post about? It's about a certain something that's been noticed by many people. Well, many people being the one or two people that read this blog. Artificial Continuum has exeperienced a lot of down time. In fact, way too much downtime.

There are lots of reasons why AC has been dormant for many months. This mainly has to due that our multiple writers have lives that are ultimatley more important than this blog. However, alot of the problems simply came from the fact that our staff (and mostly myself) tried to tackle too large a subject matter for a single blog. Covering all media news with a handful of statt worked when time was a plenty and our lives were simple.

However, this does not mean that AC is dead. On the contrary, I have made this post to simply say that the staff of AC has decided to retool the focus of the blog. We have had multiple suggestions ranging from a stronger focus on reviews or commentaries, a focus soley on a certain form of media, or a certain genre.

So dear (3) readers, I have a request of you. Please tell us: what do you like from AC? What do you want to see more of? What do you want to see less of? What features should we expand? What should we throw down the imaginary internet dumpster? Any and all suggestions are welcome. So comment below.


Thanks,

Nick

Hello everyone. First off, I must apologize for the relative inactivity on the site as of late. Between Otakon and getting my wisdom teeth pulled I havent had much time to keep the site running up to speed. Although there wasn't really any big nerd news to break over these past few days, I have fallen behind in keeping up on the few announcements that WERE made. Regardless, here are this weeks batch of moderately funny web videos.

1. Cows and Cows and Cows
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There are few words to describe this weird music video that has been taking the web by storm. Basically its about two minutes of funky, and really disturbing cow dancing...Yet its oddly entrancing. Watch at your own risk.

2.Classic Viral: To Isengard
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Can you believe I just discovered this today? Well here we go, the classic and catchy Lord of the Rings electronic remix.

3. Leaked Harry Potter Scene
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This video makes me laugh for several reasons. Not only is it pretty clever, and well edited, it also parodies one of the lamest movie endings I can remember seeing in recent memory. Honestly, go back and watch the Chamber of Secrets and tell me why it ends the way it does. Its corny, unnecessary, and cheaply emotional.

Hello everyone,


After a long break the podcast has returned to Artificial Continuum. In this latest episode Nick, John, Vince, Luke, and new comers Matt and Zach discuss numerous new announcements in the world of manga, anime, video games, and movies. Oh, and they cause some chaos at the same time.

Be sure to check it out at jellycast.com and iTunes.

As many of you may be wondering, we did record a podcast wrapping up the information released at this year's E3. However, we did come upon numerous issues when recording the latest episode. Because of this we had to save the newest installment as a .WMV file instead of the usual .mp3. Due to this change in format, the podcast is not availible on iTunes for the moment, but is availible on our Jellycast site: http://www.artificialcontinuum.jellycast.com.

Hey Guys,

This is leader and creator of Artificial Continuum, Nick. Here to give you an update on what has been going on behind the scenes of AC. As many of you know, our podcast has recently run into some hosting issues. I am pleased to announce that we should have a new hosting site and have a BRAND NEW podcast up on iTunes. All the old podcasts will be availible including a previously unheard episode from April. Also, with this new hosting site I plan to include numerous other smaller podcasts in addition to the main AC cast. These may include podcasts run by other staffers and may be updated more regularly then the main cast. Anna and I have also begun talks with starting up a YouTube channel for our site. Overall, its an exciting time for the site, and I cant wait to show you what we have in store.

Hello twenty something AC readers and listeners. Today I am making the official announcement that in early January Artificial Continuum will be opening its own youtube channel, and hosting the first annual AC Awards for all things nerdy. These awards given to the most amazing achievments in nerddom of the year will be presented in video form through youtube. However, this year we will also be featuring AC Decade Awards for the best nerd achievements of the decade. Nominees will be announced later this month.

The Catergories include:

Movies:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Voice Talent in an Animated Film
Best Animated Feature
Best Original Story
Best Adapted Story
Best Art Design
Best Cinematography
Best Visual Effects
Best Sound Effects/Mixing
Best Score
Best Action Sequence
Best Overall Scene or Sequence

Television:
Best Drama Series
Best Comedy Series
Best Animated Series
Best New Series

Video Games:
Best XBOX 360 Game of the Year
Best PS3 Game of the Year
Best Handheld Game of the Year
Best Wii Game of the Year
Best PC Game of the Year
Indy Game of the Year
Best DLC
Best Story
Best Graphics
Best Voice Talent/Acting
Character of the Year
Game of the Year

Comics:
Best Ongoing Series
Best Event
Best Art
Best Webcomic

Anime/Manga
Best Anime of the Year
Best Manga of the Year

Overall Nerd Awards
Best Nerd Moment of the Year
Biggest WTF!?! of the Year



AC Decade Awards
Top 5 Movies of the Decade
Top 5 Games of the Decade
Top 5 Television Shows of the Decade
Top 3 Biggest Comics of the Decade

Bioware's sci-fi epic sequel has just recieved an official release date, January 26th 2010. So us sci-fi rpg fans can finally get our fix on what is shaping up to be yet another masterpiece.

Also on an unrelated note. As readers may know I was largely offline this week, due to personal issues. (Yes contrary to belief Luke and the rest of us have lives.) So today will mark a great day of massively huge amounts of posts. I should have Marvel and movie news as well as reviews up very soon. Stay tuned my readers. For tonight is going to be quiet awesome in the nerd degree.