Just one short week ago Starbucks and Apple expanded their long-standing iTunes Pick of the Week promotion to include Apps. iTunes Pick of the Week has been around since 2008 offering Starbucks customers a chance to download a free song from the iTunes Music Store. When I heard the first App to be featured in this promotion was Shazaam […]
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Director Alfonso Cuarón’s dystopian fable Children of Men (2006) is a veritable master class in the art of modern filmmaking, and nearly any moment in the film would be worthy of inclusion in this column. However, the sequence that towers above them all, and serves as the focus of this installment, comes late in the film, and depicts a rare […]
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The gaming community is still taking in the news of just what exactly happened in GameStop store’s all across the country this week, and the bad press seems to only be building. It appears that Deus Ex: Human Revolution developer Square Enix and digital distributor OnLive made a last minute agreement to include a digital (OnLive) copy of the Deus […]
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SotA is a unique puzzle game for iOS devices. The game is played by matching four characters in a row by swapping tiles. There are light gray and dark gray tiles featuring images of ancient mystical spirits. Any tiles can be swapped as long as they are the same color. SoTA features a few different ways to play the game. […]
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One of the finest arts one can learn and do well is acting. To be believable in a role, one must put oneself into a role totally and completely. It has to be something the audience will buy, right? There is a right way to cry, to laugh, to fall, and to get punched in the face. If a punch […]
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I have to admit that the first Toy Soldiers game never really caught my attention. I tried it, and I didn’t hate it, in fact I liked the concept, but the style just didn’t win me over. Something about the visuals didn’t do it for me. So when it was announced that Toy Soldiers: Cold War, a 80’s action figure […]
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Zombie Minesweeper is a unique blend of zombie shoot-em-up and the Window’s classic, Minesweeper. In the game you control a girl trying to meet up with her boyfriend during the zombie apocalypse (which for some reason only seems to be effecting the animals). Throughout the game you’ll encounter different items to help you along the way, including a shotgun and […]
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Do you like gritty mobster flicks? Is a B-movie more like an A-movie to you? Wet is a game designed for you then. Ruby, the protagonist of Wet, is one of the most skilled guns for hire in the world and she has just been double-crossed. You will fight through various groups of petty thugs in an attempt to uncover […]
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Singularity is a FPS with a twist; that twist is time travel and manipulation. The hero of the game is a Special Forces soldier sent to an abandoned soviet era research facility located on an isolated island. What he finds is an anomaly caused by the research materials used there that sends him back in time. Unknowingly he saves a […]
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From the earliest days of cinema, filmmakers have long been fascinated by the often contentious relationship that exists between Mankind and nature. Indeed, one simply has to look at director Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922) for an early example of this, as it perfectly illustrates the give and take relationship we share with the natural world. Since […]
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