Platform:  Playstation 2 Developer:  Sega Publisher:  Sega There is plenty that has been written about Sega’s Yakuza game.  A spiritual successor to the ambitious Shemue series, Yakuza made waves in Japan as one of the first videogames to explore the topic of Yakuza gangs and it is also one of the most expensive videogames ever made. Unfortunately, in my mind, ...

Director:  Rian Johnson Writer:  Rian Johnson Cast:  Joseph Gordon Levitt, Emilie de Ravin There will be a portion of viewers who watch Brick that will find it difficult to get past the gimmick.  It is a high school mystery told in the style of film noir.  This is a film that is stacked with hoodlums, a damsels in distress, a ...

The third chapter of the X-Men films is a bitter disappointment.

Platform:  Nintendo DS Developer:  Nintendo EAD Team 4 Publisher:  Nintendo Some boardroom in Kyoto a year ago: “Let’s make a Mario game” “Sure, why not.  What’s he going to do this time?  Fishing?  Cooking?  Basketball? Mario Party 9?” “No…like, a 2-D Mario platform game” “Wait…with no gimmicks?” “Yeah, just a regular 2-D Mario game.” “…that’s genius” Who knows how it ...

Scales the highest highs

The reason to buy an Xbox 360

A lousy and forgettable launch title

– Tuesday, November 30, 2004 I thought last week that LOST and South Park wasn’t on because it was Thanksgiving. It turns out I was only half right. LOST actually got put back a week so they could make room for the two hour season premiere of The Bachelor. What a load of crap. Here’s Wednesday’s South Park… Episode 812: ...

Some website went to the trouble of screen-capping all the bizarre typos and interpretations of dialogue from an Asian bootleg copy of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition. link. Enjoy.  

Yesterday at work when they announced that Christopher Reeves died at 52, someone commented that he must have eaten too many fetuses. And everyone burst in to solid laughter for a good couple of minutes. *sheds a tear away* Damn, that was a good episode of Southpark. I think I’ll watch the Superman DVD sometime soon as a tribute sort ...