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It will be a likely be a great discussion in a few years as to what the Wii produced that wasn’t made by Nintendo that was truly worth your time. Because while the cliche with the last few Nintendo consoles has been “grab the Nintendo titles, don’t wade through the dreck around it”, there’s always [...]

The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks

While this was released with relatively little fanfare late last year, Recorded Attacks is a pretty nifty addendum to Max Brooks’ zombie mythology established in The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. I’m rather surprised this didn’t end up being a bigger deal, since his books have been the toast of the nerd world [...]

Grandia III

I wanted to like this game so much. The first two games in the series are two of my favorite RPGs, and I was glad just to see a third game in the series when this was released in 2006. However, after several months of playing this game off and on and trying to look [...]

Avatar

As I continue to try to catch up on stuff I wanted to review over the holidays, I come to the biggest movie of the winter, Avatar. There isn’t a lot I can say about it now that hasn’t already been said, but at the same time, this is a great movie that I wanted [...]

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within: Second Thoughts

In 2001, Square released a major motion picture, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. The results were nothing short of disastrous for the company. The movie cost north of 130 million to make and barely made 30 million in the United States. It essentially killed Square’s movie division, Square Pictures, who only went on to create [...]

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

Looking at the cover of The Heroin Diaries provides a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde retrospective into Nikki Sixx’s past. The background is covered with a strange, rust colored amoeba that engulfs a younger looking Nikki who’s face is ridden with cuts and scars. This amoeba reminds me of blood under a microscope. [...]

Pearl Jam – Backspacer

It’s easy to dismiss Pearl Jam as radio friendly 40-somethings that mom, dad, and kid can enjoy, but if you look beyond the massive cloud of their debut Ten, they’ve released some pretty great albums in the time since, and even as recently as a few years ago. But I have no idea what happened [...]

River City Ransom

River City Ransom was one of the staple games of my youth. I used to rent it continually until I found it new for $15 in 1991. After that, it barely left my NES. My friend Drew and I would spend most of our gaming time playing this game (and Skate or [...]

God of War: Chains of Olympus

The PSP version of God of War (which you may remember from a certain Game Hunt earlier in November) is, without a doubt, a faithful rendition of the series. For those of you who played either of the original 2 games for PS2 (or the recent collection for PS3) and enjoyed it, picking this up [...]

Pro Wrestling

Pro Wrestling is a game that I was introduced to at Loyal Heights Community Center, which is the place I went to spend the day during the summer when my parents were working. I was nine when I started going there, so I was still a little too young to be trusted by myself [...]