Hey guys, it’s been a pretty good week so far. Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, and I bought LEGO Batman 2.

Concerning the Xbox One, I’m personally looking forward to it. While it may not be the games console that the PS4 will most certainly be, I’m sure it will be a great home entertainment console, that can play solid games well. I’m not sure why people are complaining about the new focus on more media than just gaming, since it will still do that; it’s Xbox for Christ’s sake! It will be of other uses when not be gamed on.

The used game fee is a failsafe for game devs who wouldn’t make a cent off a used copy being sold, which they deserve, but it’s not like they aren’t making any money; people can’t always afford to pay the $60, especially on experimental, risky games that probably would...

Arnold Schwarzenegger became a household name and an action movie icon in the 80s. Some of his movies are the best in their respective genres (Terminator, T2, Total Recall) and others, while entertaining, fell a bit short (Commando, Red Heat, Raw Deal). Now he’s back, in his first starring role (he was a supporting player in the Expendables movies) since he left acting for a stint as Governor of California. The Last Stand, from Korean director Jee-woon Kim (The Good, The Bad, The Weird), is a terrifically entertaining, straight forward action movie with some very nice comedic touches. There are plenty of interesting stunts (a scene involving a roof-top crane aiding in a criminal’s getaway stands out) and plenty of shoot-outs, all playing out in thrilling manner...

From the now-defunct Team Bondi comes L.A. Noire. Utilizing the very-most advanced facial technology, they were able to bring Cole Phillips rise to glory to life, with very-well done facial acting, as well as phenomenal voice-acting, and an absolutely perfect rendition of Los Angeles, right down to the last spilled can of Cola King (most of the development time went into the amazing detail). Any inconsistency you find here (such as the set of Intolerance being around in 1947, even though the set was destroyed in 1919) was intentional, for rule of cool, so the developers could put you in the coolest historical set-pieces they could imagine.

“Strong Arm” Phelps

Cole Phillips is a married man, to both his wife and the force. He is an officer of the law, there to protect the inhabitants of L...

J.J. Abrams jump-started the flagging Star Trek franchise with his 2009 reboot, with a new cast and an alternate universe storyline that gave the series a fresh direction. Now, four years later, Abrams returns to the franchise with the cast settling into their roles nicely and a couple of new characters, including a terrific villain, that make worthy additions. A fun thrill ride from start to finish, Star Trek: Into Darkness starts fast and rarely lets up until the credits start to roll. It gives us a spectacle worthy of the big screen, with some incredible visuals and exciting action sequences. And it does so without sacrificing the characters that we have come to know and love, giving even the supporting players a chance to shine over it’s 2 hour and 12 minute running time.

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Rockstar had already worked their magic on the PSP before, to good effect. It was much like a mission pack of sorts to GTA III. Vice City Stories, on the other hand, has a lot of great new features that keeps it from feeling like a mission pack, such as the ability to swim, which is the second time in the series where that was possible.

Meet Victor Vance

You play as Victor Vance, who’s fate is already sealed at the beginning of Vice City; by which I mean he dies. This is the first GTA protagonist you play as who has already died in another game. Don’t worry, he’s no zombie (though that would be cool), as this game is set 2 years before Vice City...

Cloud Atlas is a very unique movie going experience with some amazing visuals. Based on the 2004 novel of the same name by David Mitchell, it is a film the defies easy categorization. It is at once a sci-fi action flick, an adventure movie, a love story, a noir thriller, and a comedic romp. It is a film composed of six separate stories, and yet there is a connection between them across space and time. Adding to this theme of connection is the way the filmmakers used their cast. By casting the actors in multiple roles, the theme of connectivity is heightened, as well as showing interactions between stories from one character’s actions to the next. In one story a character writes a journal, in the next that same journal is being read by another character...

The PS3 is one well rounded console that has seen the introduction of various exclusives, some brilliantly executed productions that put many an action film to shame, a cel-shaded strategy game that is as gorgeous as it is fun to play, to a broken mess of a game that failed to live up to its enormous hype (Lair is that game). Now we get that not everyone will agree with our choices, which has some omissions that may surprise you, and trust us, deciding upon the finalized list was an arduous task in itself. With that out of the way, here is the list:

10. Resistance: Fall of Man (tjsmoke63)

When the PS3 launched in 2006, it didn’t exactly have a host of stand-out titles...

Malfunction robots are practically bad to human that it needed a shot through its head to terminate them but where is the fun in that when you can shoot them even after the robots losses their legs, hands or head for that matter. Them robots crave a total destruction instinct from you and maybe sometimes, you feel bad about destroying them. I decided to bought this game after seeing how the game shows its gimmick and of course, after played the demo. This is Binary Domain.

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From the team behind Yakuza series, they develop a good Third Person Shooter. While they could have been better, they are on term with Platinum Game’s Third Person Shooter, Vanquish. If not for the Sega label on the case, I’m already mistaken this game is developed by PG...

Tom Cruise has played a variety of heroes throughout his acting career. He’s been secret agent Ethan Hunt from the Mission: Impossible movies. He’s been a pilot, “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun. And he’s been a cop, John Anderton, in the sci-fi flick Minority Report. Now he adds Jack Reacher, an ex-Army cop from the series of novels by thriller writer Lee Child. And while Cruise doesn’t match the physical description of the character from the books (Reacher is described as being 6’5″ and between 210 and 250 pounds, while Cruise is substantially shorter at 5’7″), he does get the character right. The demeanor, the tenacity, and the skill of Child’s character are all captured well in Cruise’s performance.

Jack Reacher is based on the novel “One Shot” by Lee Child (who co-wrote the screenplay w...

Sad news for fans of old science fiction and fantasy movies- special effects master Ray Harryhausen has passed away in London at the age of 92. For many, especially those of the younger generations, his name may not have exactly been well known, but for fans of the genre and special effects artists he was revered as a legend. Born in Los Angeles on June 29, 1920, Harryhausen was first inspired by watching the stop motion effects pioneered by Willis O’Brien in 1933′s King Kong. He soon began building models of his own, and made his first homemade movies featuring animated models in 1935. He was brought on board by O’Brien to work on the 1949 film, Mighty Joe Young, which centered around a giant gorilla...