Friday in Action — R.I.P.D, Ender’s Game and New Trailers

posted 04-29-11 by Max Tedaldi

R.I.P.D Dark Horse’s series R.I.P.D is apparently pretty awesome. It’s one of those comics that has been on my “to read” list for a while now, but whenever I go to read it something else, like Axe Cop or Sweet Tooth, ends up distracting me. It looks like I’m going to need to motivate myself [...]

The Lightning Round — Gaming News for Thursday, April 28th 2011

posted 04-29-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Madden Accidentally Outs Bills New Uniform EA recently released a youtube video teasing the new Madden NFL 12. Now, I’m not a big sports fan, but I was able to tell that something was a little off about the Buffalo Bills’ jerseys. Turns out that the Bills had a new uniform design change coming up [...]

Four New DLC Packs Unveiled Today

posted 04-29-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

A surprising amount of news today was centered around games getting new DLC packs either now or sometime in the near future. We aren’t sure who made today DLC day, but we aren’t complaining. Here are some of the new things you can download within the next few months. Portal 2 DLC Coming in a [...]

The Big PSN Outage Weekly Update

posted 04-28-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Well the Playstation Network is still down, and it has been one hell of a roller coaster ride since last Thursday, when the outages first began. We went from minor annoyance to the biggest identity theft case in the history of the internet, in a mere few days. The personal information for all PSN users [...]

The UneXplained — The Reincarnation of a 1930′s Hollywood Actor

posted 04-28-11 by Max Tedaldi

I’m not one to take too much stock in religion and spirituality, let alone the metaphysical and the afterlife. So it was with guarded trepidation that I screened the pilot for Doug Liman and Russ Stratton’s latest television show The UneXplained. It was a welcome departure from the overplayed “what was that?!” dialogue that seems [...]

The Conduit 2 Review — Fixing Something That Isn’t Broken

posted 04-28-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

The Conduit was largely regarded as one of the first and only good shooters on the Wii. However, it still missed the mark in certain aspects. The characters weren’t really believable, the story was less than thrilling, the enemy encounters felt like something out of an N64 era shooter, and overall the game lacked polish. [...]

L.A. Noire Redefines Failure

posted 04-28-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

One of the big goals of Rockstar’s new L.A. Noire was to get film buffs that aren’t necessarily video game fans to play the game. Of course, this means that the difficulty had to be moderated at points. Since the game wouldn’t have the constant threat of death to keep players on their toes, the [...]

It’s All Geek To Me — SUPER HAPPY FUN-TIME AWESOME 2011 SUMMER MOVIE RUNDOWN!

posted 04-28-11 by Dan Kaufman

It’s said that here in New York, the home base for 30Ninjas, we only get about a week of temperate spring weather before the wet, hot, oppressive summer rolls in to sap spirits and double our electric bills. The upside of this is that for the whole U.S., the same can be said of the [...]

The Lightning Round — Gaming News for Wednesday, April 27th 2011

posted 04-27-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Namco Bandai Unveils New Countdown Clock OK, so we generally dislike countdown clocks because they are mostly artificial hype. However, Namco Bandai’s new clock on their official site is actually not that bad. It’s a gently turning book, with a candle nearby, and it’s a kind of relaxing, honestly. Above the book is a short [...]

Sony Network Outage Now a Global Incident

posted 04-27-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

What many fans thought was just an attack by anonymous has become the world’s biggest case of identity theft. The personal information of over 77 million Playstation Network subscribers was leaked shortly prior to the global network outage. Sony comments on the events on their blog. Although we are still investigating the details of this [...]

Wednesday in Action — Terminator, Call of the Dead, and The Batman Complex

posted 04-27-11 by Max Tedaldi

Arnold is Back I’m sure you’ll get plenty of “He said he’d be back lines” so I am going to spare you any sort of disastrous pun on the famous Terminator line. The shift for Arnold Schwarzenegger back into film following his political career has been swift and, thus far, smooth. His upcoming comic book [...]

How To Build the Perfect Anti-Zombie Fortress

posted 04-26-11 by Max Tedaldi

The rules of Z-Day so proudly championed in Zombieland provide an excellent foundation to begin your zombiepocalypse quest for survival. I emphasize the word foundation because at its heart Zombieland is a road movie. It’s a film that follows a young man’s journey to Pacific Playland as well as his transition into zombie-dismembering adulthood. Apart [...]

The Lightning Round — Gaming News for Tuesday, April 26th 2011

posted 04-26-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

SOCOM 4’s Lead Designer Quits Lead Designer for SOCOM 4, Travis Steiner, has left Zipper Interactive. The shooter mastermind plans to start his own company, which will most likely also develop shooters and other action games. Rumors say that Steiner was planning this for some time, but was delaying his departure until after SOCOM 4 [...]

Valve is Done with Single-Player

posted 04-26-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Wasn’t Portal 2 an awesome single-player game? I mean the co-op was pretty cool too, but it paled in comparison to the awesome single-player campaign. Its brilliant writing and thoughtful puzzles kept you playing right up until the end without any interaction from anyone other than the psychotic machines that were trying to kill you. [...]

American McGee’s Alice: Madness Returns will Include Original Alice

posted 04-26-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

So who here remembers American McGee’s Alice? My guess? Not a whole lot of you. The game was a Gothic retelling of Alice in Wonderland, and its screwed up environments were enough to give anyone nightmares. Controlling an older, more stab happy Alice who has gone quite insane, you go to Wonderland to find that [...]