Andy Wood

It may have been 19 years between adventures, but moviegoers obviously still remember Indiana Jones. Though not breaking any records so far, the fourth film in the series, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, grossed an estimated $31 million dollars at the North American box office Friday, according to the box office tracking website boxofficeguru.com.

Added to the film’s Thursday opening day take of $25m, Crystal Skull has earned $56 so far with three full holiday weekend days still to go, putting the film on pace to perhaps gross an approximate $135-$145m by the end of Monday.

The Friday gross didn’t meet or beat the last two big Memorial Day Friday debuts. Last year Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End opened to $43M in its first Friday and in 2006 X-Men: The Last Stand took $45M on the same day. However, both of those earlier films opened on Friday, while Crystal Skull no doubt cut into its Friday total by opening fully on Thursday.

The news following last week’s disappointing opening of Disney’s Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian didn’t improve in the film’s second week. With an estimated $6.5M Friday total – good for second place – the film dropped a dramatic 66% from its opening Friday gross.

Finally, Iron Man continued to show iron legs by dropping only 40% to an estimated $5M on Friday, which means the film Paramount/Marvel production could add another $22-24M over the long weekend, its fourth weekend in release

It was around Mid-night last night when I stopped playing Age of Conan last night and my Rouge around the early teens.  So far, from what I can see, the only issue I have with the game is group stuff.  The UI isn’t very forth coming in regards to what the heck is going on with your ‘mates.

With my current gaming rig, I am able to play with the default setting and still get 60fps.    I have not played other high end graphic games (aka Crysis or BioShock) , so my point here is that things are still good for me as a PC gamer.

Oh!  I got my very first decapitation last night!

With the holiday weekend upon us, I think that I will be able to see a little more of the above action.

Funcom’s newest massively multiplayer online role-playing game has made a pretty good first impression on me.  The character creation scene is cool and dramatic.  I will not try to give anything way, but your character starts in a slave ship.

It’s an appropriate introduction to the start of this game, and it sets the stage for the initial questing, which starts you on a beach after what happens to your slave ship once you create your character.

I again have to say that I am impressed (last MMO what I was this impressed with was City of Heroes) by what I have played of Age of Conan, but there is a ton more to see and I am sure that I will run into parts of the game that I am going to hate and other parts that I will just love.