Ok I love him for other reasons, but the fact that he’s announced some great news for me and the geek community at large on social media and not made some trumped up press release means that his fans get news ahead of the curve…and that’s a great reason to love a celebrity. There’s that, and the fact he’s pretty hunky.
Mr. Diesel has announced that he’s getting the band back together for the third game in the Chronicals of Riddick series. A group of former Starbreeze Studios devolpers (the company that made the Xbox masterpiece Escape from Butcher Bay) alongside Tigon Studios, which is Diesel’s game development arm of his One Race Films company.
There haven’t been any firm release dates set yet nor has there been any definitive gameplay elements revealed, but just the news of a new Riddick game from Starbreeze made me excited enough to have to share.
I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for.
It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are.
I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own.
It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.