Boxee Beta Unveiling Presenter #3 – Tom Kurz from The Escapist
As our Beta simmers over an open flame in Tel Aviv, getting ready for it’s debut next Monday in Brooklyn (we’re sold out!), we’re giving you another reason to get excited.
The home of Zero Punctuation, Unskippable, Rebecca Mayes Muse, Apocalypse Lane, Doomsday Arcade and more is coming to Boxee.
If you’re not familiar with The Escapist, let me break it down for you. If you like video games and you like funny, then Escapist is for you. It has hilarious video game reviews from Zero Punctuation (think a British version of the micro-machines guy with a chip on his shoulder and a sharp wit) along with movie reviews that educate you, make you laugh, and make you realize you probably want Movie Bob on your pub trivia team. There’s a video game twist on MST3K in Unskippable, video game ballads in Rebecca Mayes Muses that left me wanting to download the music, and Apocalypse Lane, a cartoon highlighting the warped characters left behind after WWIII.
If you’re a gamer, the Escapist is your artist colony – a place where people put all their creative talents together to explore and expand the games we play (anyone else addicted to COD:MW2?) with entertainment. Honored with both a Webby Award and People’s Voice Award in 2008, The Escapist is responsible for the web’s most viewed video game review series, Zero Punctuation, in addition to introducing the first-of-its-kind Internet Film Festival for Gamers and the March Mayhem game developer competition.
We’re excited to have The Escapist’s co-founder Tom Kurz on hand at the Boxee Beta Unveiling to show off their brand new Boxee app. Here’s a sample of what you can look forward to.
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“Here’s a sample of what you can look forward to.
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I’m more looking forward to your boxee hardware than the new services. I just want a box with a solid UI that organizes and downloads rss video torrents and podcasts. Most streaming video does not work outside the US anyways, is buffering very slowly and is wrapped in even slower, flickering UIs.
“Here’s a sample of what you can look forward to.
(Black box with text ‘Video not loading?’ in it, but nothing to click on)”
I’m more looking forward to your boxee hardware than the new services. I just want a box with a solid UI that organizes and downloads rss video torrents and podcasts. Most streaming video does not work outside the US anyways, is buffering very slowly and is wrapped in even slower, flickering UIs.