So Electronics Boutique called up Jen today to let her know that Gears shipped early and arrived today instead of Thursday.  So she took half an hour off her lunchbreak at work so she could finish early and take a bus to the shopping mall before it closed to get the game for me. Then she served up a delicious ...

When all the women of the world are simultaneously unable to conceive, the human race finds itself facing extinction.

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: ...