Every year the best, most innovative, and oddest inventions in consumer electronics, the type of technological gadgetry that inhabit and enliven our daily lives, come together for an orgy of originality. The International Consumer Electronics Show, or CES if you are cool enough, wrapped up last week, showcasing everything from Ultra HD television sets (or 4K sets since they have […]
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Dear Journal, Today I pretended I was Iron Man and also got a little bit of a work out. The Avengers: Battle for Earth is one of the newer games to make it into my backlog, and as anyone with a backlog will tell you, not all games spend as much time there. Still sort of hopped up on The […]
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Dear Journal, Today Clearance Bin Review turned two! It was two years ago today that I launched CBR and published our first review, The Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. By pure chance the opportunity to play the DS version of the game, which I knew to be notably different, came about last week and it seemed like a really […]
Read moreDear Journal, Today I played a generic FPS that actually had a fairly cool component tacked on. It seems that movie-tie-in games make up a fairly large portion of my backlog. Battleship joins the ranks. Based on the 2012 action flick, which is based on a board game, which is based on actual war, Battleship has you fighting an invading […]
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Dear Journal, Today I learned to be careful for what I wish for. I made sort of a weird statement when I was reviewing Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2012. I lamented the lack of a crazy mountain man father figure that made Dangerous Hunts 2011 so interesting. Well Cabela’s brought back the crazy in Shadows of Katmai, as well as […]
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Dear Journal, Today I learned that gingers are people too, just tiny, pixilated people. So we have a movie-tie-in game for a children’s movie on the DS here. Now, you’re saying to yourself that you shouldn’t expect much from it, after all, that is like the be-all end-all list of bad signs for a game going in. You’d be mostly […]
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Dear Journal, Today I play a budget game that actually had some real potential. MIB: Alien Crisis kind of screams money grab. Hell, the biggest selling point for this pseudo movie tie-in game was that you could go see Men in Black III for free if you bought the game. The game is also, very clearly, a budget […]
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Dear Journal, Today I found out that combining a bunch of things you like into one big thing doesn’t always make that big thing a thing you like. Let’s face it, there have been a number of Super Smash Brothers imitations over the years, all with various ways they try to attract gamers into buying in. Cartoon Network: Punch Time […]
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Film noir is one of the oldest genres in cinema, and one that sort of epitomizes the films of the 1930s and 1940s. Indeed, even modern film noirs are often period pieces, since the genre is so closely linked to those two decades, in which many of the genre’s classics first emerged. As such, the genre often feels quaint, embodying […]
Read moreDear Journal, Today I went on an adventure as a reporter who never really seemed to report anything… Odds are if you pay attention to the clearance section of just about any store that sells video games you’ve seen copies of The Adventures of TinTin pop up in its various platforms. Ultimately the game is a platformer with a few […]
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