In February this year (2008), Knight Rider was reimagined, rebooted, and remade. This reboot, however, is better described as a continuation of the saga. Unlike Battlestar Galactica's "continuation" wherein they take all the original characters, change them completely, and deposit them back into the same setting forty years hence. Knight Rider (KR) just advanced time and had a new revision of KITT made, and had the Knight Foundation look out for a new driver. In the pilot/prequel that aired in February, it was made apparent that this new driver was Michael Knight's son.

Something that may be of interest to some gamers/roleplayers out there: There is a goblin who inhabits Neverwinter Nights by the name of Grovel played by a guy right here in Wellington, NZ. The Grovely Tales are his renditions of classic childrens stories. Of course, they're all told by Grovel hisself, so ifs you can't speek gobliny, den dis bes ard to read.

"Twenty years have passed since the cataclysmic events of Diablo® II. Mephisto, Diablo, and Baal have been defeated, but the Worldstone, which once shielded the world of Sanctuary from the forces of both the High Heavens and the Burning Hells, has been destroyed, and evil once again stirs in Tristram...." In case you've been off-world, or buried deep under our world, you will need to know that Diablo III has been unveiled by Blizzard®. No date has been announced -- in typical Blizzard fashion, it'll be ready when it's done. But they have given us a cinematic trailer and a 20 minute gameplay video, available on their media page. Oh and 60 screenshots. This is some seriously cool footage that left my mouth on the floor. It's not an MMO, just classic Diablo in lush 3D. Here's hoping that they're making enough money from their 10 million+ WoW subscribers to keep this free on Battle.Net like its predecessors.

Commodore, the company that brought us the C64 and the Amiga in the 80's had sold their name to a company who were intent on reviving the name in an effort to cash in on a previously good name. Well, you don't need to be a psychic to guess where that company is now...

While I'm at a music festival, the Internet is going crazy over some who tried to sell a stolen Xbox back to its owner. The skinny: Jesse McPherson's house was robbed a week ago. Among the items stolen were a Mac laptop with the wrong power supply taken, an Xbox 360, and a TV ripped out of the wall. He reported the crime to the cops, who promptly did nothing. So he went to a local pawn shop and got images of the thief trying to sell Jesse's laptop. Jesse tried telling the cops, but they ignored him. Some of his workmates buy him a new Xbox 360 and he manages to get back online to find that his Xbox Live account had a message from a retard trying to sell him back his Xbox. Thanks to Digg and a couple of thousand geeks harassing this loser via XBL, YouTube and more, this guy shit his pants and returned the Xbox to the owner. Turns out this fucktard bought it off the actual thief. Needless to say, actual thief also identified.

This long weekend, Wellington hosted the biggest rock festival we've ever had, featuring some of the biggest names in rock and metal. Alice Cooper, KISS, Poison, Whitesnake, and Ozzy Osbourne all played over the two day concert on the 22-23 March 2008.

Computer & Video Games links to some Starcraft II screenshots showing off the third Zerg faction. I must say, I almost mistook these screens as Warhammer 40,000. Some of the Zerg look remarkably close to some of the current Tyranids. A few of the screens just look like renders of Marines vs Tyranids, but either way, if this makes it past their legal department, I'm looking forward to smashing some shiny Xeno, oops, Zerg butt.

Black Industries, a Games Workshop subsidiary that produce Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 RPGs and the boardgame Talisman, have recently announced that they are stopping release of all their products as at September 2008.

Jeff Smith, of Bone fame, introduces a series of guest blogs by self-published cartoonists. They are set to indulge us with war stories, opinions, and discussions of their experiences in self-publishing their comic books. From the words of Smith, "we start a series of guest blogs about the Self-Publishing Movement. A series of essays, memories, and opinions about a movement that in my mind was less about actual self-publishing than about the freedom to experiment with genre, structure and form during a crucial period for comics in the 1990s." The first of these guest blogs is part one of Colleen Doran's story. She is famous for A Distant Soil, which is currently being published by Image. More will follow so check back regularly.

The Linux Rant has a nice commentary of why there will never be a "year of the Linux desktop."

From the article: "Newsflash people. There is no “Year of the Linux Desktop”. There will never be one...But one thing bothers me and drives me nuts every January. “Year of the Linux Desktop” articles. Now and then, one bright mind can’t sleep at night, so he decides to forget about New Year’s booze that hasn’t left his system yet and type a string of characters proclaiming THIS is the year of the Linux desktop. Not the next one, THIS one."

He points out the crux of the problem and reasons that Linux/Open Source advocates are their own worst enemies. It's well worth a read.