GAMES
After the recent unveiling of the name and trailer for the next Alan Wake game, titled Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, I decided that now was a pretty good time to post a review about the first game. Alan Wake was originally announced at E3 back in 2005. Back then it...
Army of Two: the 40th Day PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Army of Two the 40th Day is a third person shooter from EA Games. The first game in the series, Army of Two came out back in 2008. Army of Two the 40th Day is about two mercenaries who get caught up in a war while doing a contract in…
Asura's Wrath PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Asura’s
Wrath comes to us from the collaboration between CyberConnect2, creators of the .hack and Naruto games, and Capcom. This game is quite distinct both in its
artistic style as well as the way its combat is performed. Stepping outside the box and taking chances like
CyberConnect2 did can lead...Asura's Wrath PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Beyond: Two Souls PlayStation 3
Beyond Two Souls is a very unique game. Usually when looking at and reviewing a game there is a great deal out there to compare and contrast it with. You have other points of reference to help in your examination of the game and your feelings towards it. You can...
Bulletstorm PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
From Epic Games (Gears of War & the Unreal series) and there subsidiary People Can Fly (Painkiller) comes an over the top FPS by the name of Bulletstorm. The game is a throwback to the cheesy action games of yore like Serious Sam & Duke Nukem(don’t worry it’s not like...
DMC Devil May Cry PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
My first experience with the Devil May Cry franchise was back on the PS2 when I purchased Devil May Cry 2. I really liked that game despite its issues (like a static camera that made navigation and combat somewhat annoying at times) and I thought that Dante, the protagonist, was...
Heavy Rain PlayStation 3
Quantic Dream’s highly anticipated new game Heavy Rain promises to immerse players in an innovative and engaging new way. However new doesn't necessarily mean good, so is Heavy Rain really worth diving into? Well first of all Heavy Rain is an incredibly refreshing and unique game. Its story is told…
inFamous 2 PlayStation 3
This follow up to Sly Cooper creator Sucker Punch’s new IP from 2009 came out in the summer of last year. Infamous 2 places you back in the shoes of the first game’s protagonist, Cole McGrath, a man who has developed electrical superpowers after being at the center of a...
Killzone 3 PlayStation 3
Killzone 3 is the latest entry in the blockbuster Sony exclusive franchise developed by Guerrilla Games. The Killzone series was originally intended to be the PlayStation’s direct answer to Halo much like what Xbox ended up doing with Forza Motorsport as a counter to Grand Turismo. While Killzone may or...
L.A. Noire PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
This follow up to Sly Cooper creator Sucker Punch’s new IP from 2009 came out in the summer of last year. Infamous 2 places you back in the shoes of the first game’s protagonist, Cole McGrath, a man who has developed electrical superpowers after being at the center of a...
Killzone 3 PlayStation 3
Killzone 3 is the latest entry in the blockbuster Sony exclusive franchise developed by Guerrilla Games. The Killzone series was originally intended to be the PlayStation’s direct answer to Halo much like what Xbox ended up doing with Forza Motorsport as a counter to Grand Turismo. While Killzone may or...
L.A. Noire PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
L.A. Noire is the very first game from Australian game developer Team Bondi and was produced by Rockstar who we all know from GTA and Red Dead Redemption. So was Team Bondi able to hit a homerun there first time at bat or was it a swing and a miss…
Mass Effect 2 the sequel to Bioware’s epic sci-fi classic Mass Effect from 2007 is one of the biggest games of the year, but is it one of the best? Luckily Bioware made this game and didn’t hand it off like they did with the sequel to KOTOR. If you’re unfamiliar…
I’m not a big fan of racing games. It is rather rare
that I actually decide to play one, but on the occasions that I do I always go
for arcade racers over simulation ones. I enjoy going insanely fast and being
on the verge of losing control while also...
Resident Evil 6 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Resident Evil 6 is the latest entry in Capcom’s long standing and storied survival horror franchise. As a huge fan of both Resident Evil 4 and 5 I had a pretty high level of expectation for Resident Evil 6 ever since it was first announced. As time went on and...
Resident Evil 6 is the latest entry in Capcom’s long standing and storied survival horror franchise. As a huge fan of both Resident Evil 4 and 5 I had a pretty high level of expectation for Resident Evil 6 ever since it was first announced. As time went on and...
Ubisoft’s latest entry into the critically acclaimed series sets out to take the Splinter Cell games in an exciting and more action oriented new direction but does it pay off? Splinter Cell: Conviction is very different from previous Splinter Cells. Ubisoft succeeded in making the game more accessible by giving it…
The Last of Us PlayStation 3
The Last of Us comes to us by way of Naughty Dog and is easily one of the biggest games of the year. Like so many games now-a-days The Last of Us features zombies (or zombie like creatures if you want to get picky) and plants us in a post-apocalyptic...
Titanfall PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Ever since I first saw footage of Titanfall I had been excitedly standing by for a chance to play it. When a friend of mine got access to the beta on his Xbox One I went over to his place and tried it out. It did not take long for...
The Last of Us PlayStation 3
The Last of Us comes to us by way of Naughty Dog and is easily one of the biggest games of the year. Like so many games now-a-days The Last of Us features zombies (or zombie like creatures if you want to get picky) and plants us in a post-apocalyptic...
Titanfall PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Ever since I first saw footage of Titanfall I had been excitedly standing by for a chance to play it. When a friend of mine got access to the beta on his Xbox One I went over to his place and tried it out. It did not take long for...
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Licence games are generally avoided by gamers due to their bad rap for the majority of them being poorly made and rushed to market in order to cash in on the licence’s current popularity. In the past couple years though; there have been a few studios that have been taking...
Licence games are generally avoided by gamers due to their bad rap for the majority of them being poorly made and rushed to market in order to cash in on the licence’s current popularity. In the past couple years though; there have been a few studios that have been taking...
Transformers: War for Cybertron PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Transformers: War for Cybertron is not another game based off the Michael Bay films in fact it’s as far away from those films as possible. Transformers: War for Cybertron is based off of the original first generation Transformers and has a completely original storyline. The game’s story is based around…
MOVIES
Batman: Under the Red Hood is an animated movie based on the comic storyline of the same title. Now I know you might be thinking that because it’s a carton it’s for kids and isn’t your cup of tea. Well you’re dead wrong this is a very mature and dark…
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights is the latest DCU animated movie to be released on DVD. The DCU animated movies have been quite good for the most part, so will Emerald Knights be able to live up to the high expectations I have for it. Well we are about to find...
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
The latest entry in the popular Mission Impossible franchise has recently arrived in theatres. Now I’ll admit that the reason I rushed out and saw the film on opening night was to see the opening for The Dark Knight Rises. The more important topic however, is whether or not the...
Sucker Punch
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights is the latest DCU animated movie to be released on DVD. The DCU animated movies have been quite good for the most part, so will Emerald Knights be able to live up to the high expectations I have for it. Well we are about to find...
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
The latest entry in the popular Mission Impossible franchise has recently arrived in theatres. Now I’ll admit that the reason I rushed out and saw the film on opening night was to see the opening for The Dark Knight Rises. The more important topic however, is whether or not the...
Sucker Punch
Zack Snyder the visionary who brought us 300 and Watchmen brings us another spectacular visual feast called Sucker Punch. Sucker Punch is about a young woman whose mother dies and following this her step-dad tries to rape both her and her younger sister. She grabs a gun and shoots at…
The Expendables is a big budget action movie written and directed by Sylvester Stallone. The appeal of this movie is the fact that Stallone basically got every action movie star you can think of and put them all in one movie so that you recognize everyone and not in the…
The Lincoln Lawyer
The Lincoln Lawyer is a Legal Thriller starring Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Phillippe based on the book of the same name by Michael Connelly. The story revolves around an L.A. defence lawyer named Mickey Haller (Matthew McConaughey) who takes a lucrative case where Louis Roulet (Ryan Phillippe) the son of...
Tron: Legacy
Tron: Legacy is the long awaited sequel to Disney’srevolutionary film Tron and by long awaited I mean it has been twenty eight years since Tron came out in 1982. The originalTron was the first feature film to use extensive amounts of computer-generated images in it. Tron has amassed a massive…
TV SHOWS
Bones is a procedural crime drama that is loosely based on the life of Kathy Reichs. It is about a woman named Temperance Brennan who is a forensic anthropologist and crime novelist who works at the Jeffersonian Institute identifying human remains and is requested to work with the FBI and…
Lie to Me is a procedural crime drama that is quite different from the types that you may be used to. It stars Tim Roth as Dr. Cal Lightman who owns a company called The Lightman Group. Cal and his group accept jobs from people and law enforcement to help…
Supernatural Season 1
Supernatural is a supernatural drama and horror series created by Eric Kripke. It stars Jared Padalecki & Jensen Ackles as Sam & Dean Winchester. When Sam & Dean were very young their mother Marry was murdered in an incredibly bizarre way inside their home. After seeing what happened to his...
Supernatural Season 1
Supernatural is a supernatural drama and horror series created by Eric Kripke. It stars Jared Padalecki & Jensen Ackles as Sam & Dean Winchester. When Sam & Dean were very young their mother Marry was murdered in an incredibly bizarre way inside their home. After seeing what happened to his...