Format: Wii™ Launch Date: 08/31/10 ESRB: T (Teen): Animated Blood, Violence Game Type: Action Adventure Players: 1 Developer: Nintendo and Team Ninja For decades, Samus Aran has been known as one of the first female protagonists in video games, and one of the most enigmatic. Having traded her haunted past for the solitary life of…
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How Inception is high Gibsonian lore
First, let’s wipe Johnny Mnemonic from our collective hard disk-augmented recollection. ‘Yes, we’re sure we want to delete this.’ Now. With a Neuromancer film finally–supposedly–in the works, Hollywood has a shot at redemption. But have amends already been made? Maybe.Christopher Nolan’s latest, Inception, asks many of the same ‘what if?’ questions that substantiated Gibson’s Sprawl…
Xbox360 Review: Panzer General: Allied Assault
The Panzer General series of games has been out since 1994 when SSI published the first one. Seven sequels were produced with Allied Assault being the most recent. SSI is no longer its own company and this particular incarnation of the title was created by Petroglyph Games for the Xbox360 Live Arcade.Unlike the previous titles…
Xbox360 Review: Star Wars Republic Heroes
When I picked this game up I had two options. I could have picked up a used copy for the Wii for only $30 or a new copy for the Xbox 360 for $50. The fact that a used copy of a new game was available should have clued me in to the quality of…
Feature Presentation: Zombieland
This review should be slightly more relevant than the last, as Zombieland was only just released a couple of weeks ago in the U.S. Perhaps future postings will be even more so, provided I resolve to more diligently refrain from frittering precious time away on certain anonymous image boards. Regardless, this article’s relevance is indirectly…
The True Metal Perspective On Brutal Legend (a.k.a. The Footnote to Steve’s Article)
If you didn’t make the Sign of the Hammer the moment you read “True Metal”, chances are you’re one of the many people who will see Brutal Legend for what the rest of the world sees it as: a really cool metal game. But for those of you metalheads, punks and freaks out there who…
DS Review: Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
On August 24, 2009 the second installment in the Professor Layton series hit American shores. Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box is a sequel to the original Professor Layton and the Curious Village game from early 2008. Developed by Level 5 this single player puzzle game features over 130 puzzles in the single player story…
Terminiator: Salvation – Review
Format: PlayStation 3™ Launch Date: 05/19/09 ESRB: T Game Type: Third Person Shooter Players: 1 player, 2 player Co-Op Developer: GRIN Terminator: Salvation is the game release to tie-in to the release of the new movie by the same name. In the game, you are John Connor, and you are on a mission to rescue…
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
My daughter and I went to see the new Harry Potter movie yesterday and it was excellent! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth movie in the Harry Potter series and focuses on the main characters growing into teenagers as well as the rising power of Lord Voldemort. The movie begins with scenes…
Movie Review: Inkheart
Today the family and I took a trip to the cinema to see the new movie Inkheart. Clocking in at 1 hour and 45 minutes this movie from New Line Cinema is a treat for the whole family. The movie stars Brendan Fraser as Mo Folchart, a man with a very special power. Mo is…