Backlog Quest II: Day 10 – The Adventures of TinTin – TinTin is not the dog by the way

Dear 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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Backlog Quest: Day 26 – Rango – Don’t stop now, this is bat country!

Dear Journal, Today I was taken completely by surprise when I played a really good movie tie-in game. Rango takes places after the events of the movie with the same name, where the wandering chameleon turned town sheriff must investigate some very strange happenings.  Ultimately, Rango saves the town of Dirt and possibly the world from strange alien creatures in […]

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Backlog Quest: Day 23 – Dreamworks Superstar Kartz – Mario Kart it is not

Dear Journal, Today a donkey beat me in a go-kart race. Dreamworks Superstar Kartz is yet another imitator in a long line of Mario Kart imitations.  Like the countless other kart racers before it, Superstar Kartz fails to ever really capture the same charm and all around fun gameplay as the Italian plumber-starring original. Relying heavily on the cast of […]

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Backlog Quest: Day 14 – Tron: Evolution – Off the Grid, Yo!

Dear Journal, Today I was an acrobatic computer program fighting to preserve a digital world. Tron: Legacy was a bit of a disappointment theatrically.  It looked great but the story was lacking and most of the film’s principal actors appeared to be bored (or indifferent).  So imagine the surprise I felt when Tron: Evolution turned out to in some ways […]

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Backlog Quest: Day 11 – Where the Wild Things Are – Childhood and Junk

Dear Journal, Today I learned about myself and stuff. Taking a book that is literally only a few sentences long and turning it into an hour and a half movie is no easy task. Turning that same book into a five-six hour video game would have been next to impossible. A few liberties pretty much had to be taken.  Viewed […]

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iTuesday Review: Sucker Punch Mech Gunner for iPad

A week prior to the release of Warner Brother’s new action-fantasy film, Sucker Punch, Warner Bros Entertainment released a first person shooter game for iPad called Sucker Punch Mech Gunner, available in the App Store. The App’s description refers to it as being “inspired” by the movie, but hey, we know what it really is. It’s a promotional material for […]

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Review: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

It’s no secret that Prince of Persia’s latest platforming adventure, The Forgotten Sands, was largely forgotten by the consumers.  Even for a game that was, technically, a movie tie-in the sales were poor.  Combined with Ubisofts typical attitude towards the price of their software (that it should drop and drop quickly) the game hit clearance-shelf level prices fast.  While largely […]

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