Ever since the Wii 2 (or Project Café as some people have been calling it) was announced, publications everywhere have been speculating about what the system can do. It’s the controller that has most people excited. The integration of a touch screen into the center of a dual analog stick setup is an innovative move [...]

Last night, when I tried to log on to the Playstation Network via my PS3, I was met with the error message 80710A06. After searching for a good half hour for ways to fix this problem, I stumbled upon a forum post that said another user was experiencing the same problem. Then I stumbled onto [...]

Attack the Block Can’t wait for this one! If nothing else, Attack the Block looks like it might give Don’ you go Rounin’ Roun to Re Ro a run for its money for the most British film of the year. Official Synopsis: From the producers of Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim VS The [...]

Now this is interesting. Or maybe not. But that’s what makes it interesting. The news this week out of the Warner Bros. publicity machine is the confirmation that both Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are indeed cast in The Dark Knight Rises, but as seemingly peripheral characters who don’t ring with any recognition from the [...]

Until scientists use their vast collective knowledge to unravel the mysteries of the universe, we mortals are relegated to theorizing and postulating about the possibility of time travel. The prospect offers a multitude of questions and paradoxes that will jumble your brain into a smorgasbord of confusion, anger, and longing. How will we ever learn [...]

God of War 4 Coming Next Year Yeah, yeah. We all know Kratos died … again … at the end of God of War 3, and he also killed everyone and everything in the Greek pantheon. So how can there possibly be a God of War 4? We don’t know, but it’s happening! PSM3 quoted [...]

Everyone is looking for the perfect Xbox 360 controller. The official controllers are heavy, slightly unwieldy, and have a d-pad that is made of pure fail. Sure it works fine for first person shooters, but it starts to fall behind in just about every other genre. That is why third party peripheral developers are working [...]

Yakuza: of the End was originally planned for a March 17th release date. Then, Japan got hit by a series of earthquakes and a tsunami that did unimaginable damage. Over 10,000 people were killed and many more went missing. At the end of it all, northeast Japan was in ruins. So when Sega looked at [...]

Luck After Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones threw me into the “HBO can do no wrong” camp I decided that I needed to calm my enthusiasm for the Home Box Office. But after checking out the behind the scenes trailer of their new show Luck, I may have to just own up to being [...]

Looking for the perfect accent to that Bushidō themed gaming den you call a bedroom? Need some films to round out your Takeshi Kaneshiro DVD collection? Maybe you just want some swag just to have some more swag? Whatever the reason, 30ninjas has you covered. Prolific filmmaker Takeshi Miike’s (Audition, Ichi the Killer) latest film [...]

HD TV’s are brilliant pieces of technology. Back when we were using CRT TV’s we had a hard time imagining picture resolutions that were any clearer than what we had already seen. Then we sat down in front of an LCD or Plasma TV for the first time, and saw just how horribly fuzzy and [...]

The endless debate on whether it is better to play fighting games on a pad or on an arcade stick rages onward even today. Personally I think that a stick is the way to go. I say this, not because a stick gives you quicker inputs, or that arcade buttons or more accurate, or that [...]

Stephen Colbert has taught us that you should never, ever, leave an important decision up to the masses of the internet. When given a choice, the internet will always troll you, 100% of the time. EA Sports’ Madden 12 team, is learning this firsthand. This year, they set up a 32 player vote off tournament [...]

Thor Reviews Thor may nor be arriving to theaters until next month (May 6th) but the studio started screenings this past weekend (usually a good sign that they are confident with the film that they produced). The reviews thus far are mixed, leaning towards positive, but I think the general feeling is that the film [...]

Portal 2 Sort of Releasing Early The other day, a countdown clock for the release of Portal 2 was unveiled at aperturescience.com. Alongside the clock there were “computation bars” corresponding to users that were playing the indie games offered in the Steam “Potato Sack”. The idea was, if we all bought and played these indie [...]