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Spider-Man games have been hit and miss for years and even the ones that were mod­er­ately good are con­sid­ered week in terms of pre­sen­ta­tion and game­play. This newest Spider-Man game puts you in the span­dex and web shoot­ers of four dif­fer­ent Spider-Men from par­al­lel dimen­sions  includ­ing the Spidey we all know and love. Their objec­tive is to put together the Tablet of Order & Chaos which  I am sure will destroy the world in the wrong hands. With a story writ­ten by Mar­vel Comics Dan Slott it may be a lot bet­ter than it sounds. I wish that the com­pany that did Arkham Asy­lum tried their hand at a Spidey game.Here’s the trailer to tide you over

What do you guys think?

Good or Bad?

The most mem­o­rable action stars of the past and present have united to bring what some are say­ing will be the great­est action movie of 2010. Stal­lone my have out­done him­self this time. The Expend­ables will be blow­ing stuff up on August 13, 2010. Get Ready!!

The great month of MMA con­tin­ues with  Ulti­mate Fight Night 21 as well as the pre­miere of The Ulti­mate Fighter 11: Lid­dell v Ortiz. Takanori Gomi aka The Fire­ball Kid was the last Light­weight Cham­pion for Pride and makes his Octo­gon debut against the always excit­ing Kenny Flo­rian. I have always been a Gomi fan from his Pride days, sim­ply because he’s had excit­ing fights. Here are my picks for the main card:

Main Card

• Light­weight bout: Kenny Flo­rian vs Takanori Gomi — I never take Flo­rian lightly, and even though I like Gomi his weight cut looked tough and I don’t know how he will adjust to the cage. Ken Flo wins
• Heavy­weight bout: Roy Nel­son vs Ste­fan Struve — Struve wants to stand with Nel­son and I am sure Roy will gladly do so. I see Roy tak­ing it to the ground and smoth­er­ing him. Big Coun­try is tak­ing this one.
• Mid­dleweight bout: Nate Quarry vs. Jorge Rivera — I like both fight­ers and Quarry seems ready to go to war. I am gonna go with Rivera though because I am see­ing an upset. Rivera Wins.
• Light­weight bout: Ross Pear­son vs. Den­nis Siver– Ross Pear­son made a fan with his last UFC per­for­mance and I think he’s going to con­tinue run­ning through light­weights. Pear­son Wins.

As a gamer, I have come across some weird shit in my day. From Custer’s Revenge to the newest being Rapelay, sex­ual games have always existed and as the tech­nol­ogy improves, so does the real­ism and debauch­ery that is being offered. More often than not these games are usu­ally laughed at due to the sheer sil­ly­ness they depict. Ear­lier today, I received an email from my friend and fel­low MTR staff mem­ber Josh regard­ing a news story from CNN about adult games. In the piece that I am attach­ing to this arti­cle, the reporter is inves­ti­gat­ing the hen­tai gam­ing sub-culture and the main game that was dis­cussed was Rapelay. The con­cept of Rapelay is revenge via rape. Your char­ac­ter is fired by a female boss and you mis­sion is to fol­low your for­mer boss as well as her sis­ter and mother on trains and rape them. Sure sounds like fun right? Of course the CNN piece made it a point to state that these games are mak­ing their way to our shores and are becom­ing eas­ily acces­si­ble. While I agree a game sim­u­lat­ing rape is awful, do these reporters think that the Japan­ese gov­ern­ment gives a shit? I ask this because CNN demands they become involved and pre­vent games like this from being sold. It always amuses me that peo­ple expect oth­ers to pro­tect and edu­cate their chil­dren and how sen­si­tive we have become. We all like our share of risqué things from Maxim to Play­boy to Hus­tler to big boobs in games - we are always being exposed to some­thing sex­ual. Again, I do not con­done the sub­ject mat­ter of the game but feel that as adults we have the free­dom to enjoy things no mat­ter how weird they are.  Have a look at the arti­cle and the video and feel free to share your thoughts. I am going to head out and see if Wal-Mart is sell­ing hen­tai games in the kids section.

Here is the CNN arti­cle as well.

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Metroid has always had a cult fol­low­ing due to its deep sto­ry­line and engag­ing game­play. When Metroid ven­tured into FPS ter­ri­tory it was received with mixed results and as such splin­tered the fan base. When the announce­ment was made that Team Ninja was doing the next Metroid install­ment fans were not sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing. The only thing fan knew was that Samus would be more volup­tuous and have bet­ter boob physics . Other M takes the Ninja Gaiden style game­play and mixes in FPS fea­tures to bring you a unique entry in the sto­ried Metroid fran­chise. Check out the trailer and decide if Team Ninja will do this fran­chise justice.

Trailer Credit: Joys­tiq

Sadly, it’s that time of year again. The time of year where TV net­works are decid­ing what shows they are going to axe, and what shows they are keep­ing around for another season. Unfortunately folks, pre­pare to wait for most of the out­comes as the Net­work Upfronts are in mid-May.

Sev­eral of our faves have already got­ten the green light, and the happy news of no pink slips for their cast and crews. Oth­ers, not so lucky — hav­ing got­ten the hatchet already. I am going to break down what we know so far for you, so put down the Zoloft and shot­guns please.

Pick­ups already announced:

Super­nat­ural, The Vam­pire Diaries, Smal­l­ville, Fringe, Com­mu­nity, The Office, 30 Rock, Parks and Recre­ation, Mod­ern Fam­ily, The Mid­dle, The Amaz­ing Race, Sur­vivor, The Big Bang The­ory, How I Met Your Mother, Fam­ily Guy, Amer­i­can Dad, The Cleve­land Show, Bones, Glee, The Simp­sons, Fri­day Night Lights (this will be the last sea­son), NCIS:Los Ange­les, Law & Order, Nurse Jackie and United States of Tara, Castle.

Shows  already can­celled:

24 , LOST (we already knew this was the last sea­son), ‘Till Death, Past Life, Dollhouse, Hank and Three Rivers. (I must say, I have no idea what some of these even are, so oh well.)

Every year, E! Online’s Kristin Dos San­tos holds a “Save One Show” Cam­paign which allows read­ers to vote on the one TV show they want to see live to fight another day. (Usu­ally, the win­ner does end up get­ting picked up.) I highly rec­om­mend that you go and vote, like I did already (for Chuck!!) This shows on life sup­port this time around are as follows:

Acci­den­tally on Pur­pose (CBS),  Bet­ter Off Ted (ABC),  Cas­tle (ABC),  Chuck (NBC),  Flash­For­ward (ABC), The For­got­ten (ABC),  Ghost Whis­perer (CBS),  Heroes (NBC) , Human Tar­get (Fox), Life Unex­pected (The CW), Medium (CBS),  Mel­rose Place (The CW),  Mercy (NBC), Numb3rs (CBS), One Tree Hill (The CW), Par­ent­hood (NBC), Scrubs (ABC), Sons of Tus­con (Fox), Trauma (NBC) and V (ABC) .

Head to the poll to read more: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b173297_save_one_show_on_get_in_here_vote_people.html#ixzz0jfjBz9mG

On March 28, 2010,  the world got to see the “last match” in the leg­endary career of Shawn Michaels. As a wrestling fan, I truly feel old watch­ing it all unfold. I’ve been watch­ing wrestling since I was a kid and I remem­ber The Rock­ers vs. The Hart Foun­da­tion, Michaels turn­ing on Jan­netty, his first WWF title win, Mon­treal and many other mem­o­ries. To watch it all end, while unfor­tu­nate, is the right thing since it now allows a “new face’” to move up the rung.

Shawn Michael’s last match was against The Under­taker, whom he faced for the sec­ond time after los­ing to him at Wrestle­ma­nia 25. Their pre­vi­ous match was awe­some from start to fin­ish and quite frankly, is the mea­sur­ing stick of in-ring sto­ry­telling. Their sec­ond match was more of the same, but this match had “the career” of HBK and “the streak” of the ‘Taker on the line. Both guys deliv­ered what will be remem­bered as one of the best matches in recent memory.

Here is a video pack­age cap­tur­ing some of HBK’s best moments, as well as high­lights from this past weekend’s Wrestle­ma­nia 26.

Who do you think has the right com­bi­na­tion of tal­ent and ath­leti­cism to carry on the HBK legacy?

Nintendo’s new DSi XL

Yes­ter­day, Nin­tendo pulled out the good ol’ beat you in the head stick and released another win­ner in the Nin­tendo DSi XL. The fourth incar­na­tion of Nintendo’s dual-screened hand­held is for the most part just a giant sized DSi, but it is a lit­tle bit more. For $20 more than the DSi, it had bet­ter be. Let me start with the bad and get that out of the way. Being a long time gamer and long time Nin­tendo fan, it was dis­ap­point­ing when the orig­i­nal DS came out and we learned that it would not sup­port Game Boy games. When the portable dropped it’s orig­i­nal “tank” con­fig­u­ra­tion and became the DS Lite, peo­ple were happy that it fit in their pock­ets and that it still had the GBA slot. Last year, the portable “evolved” into the DSi and it gained two cam­eras, inter­net access and an SD card slot along with a new UI which was rem­i­nis­cent of the Wii menu. This evo­lu­tion involved the com­plete loss of any Game Boy com­pat­i­bil­ity. The DSi XL, while larger than the DSi or Lite, still does not show the Game Boy or Game Boy Advance any love and this really sucks for some­one who may have a large col­lec­tion of those older games. One would find this excep­tion­ally strange from a finan­cial stand­point because of the con­tin­ued suc­cess of the title Poké­mon. Not one, not two, but five Nin­tendo DS titles with the Poké­mon name have a sig­nif­i­cant attach­ment to the Game Boy Advance. The Dia­mond, Pearl, Plat­inum, Heart­Gold and Soul­Sil­ver ver­sions of the game all fea­ture an area in their game world called the Pal Park, which allows the player to plug in the GBA titles Poké­mon Ruby, Sap­phire, Emer­ald, Fir­eRed and Leaf­Green in order to send pocket mon­sters from those games to the DS games. To me, the move makes no sense, but it is what it is.

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Ghost Recon comes back on the bat­tle­field with Ghost Recon:Future Sol­dier. With per­sonal cloak­ing tech,remote drones and anti tank weaponry it looks like Ubisoft is play­ing for keeps with their newest entry.I liked the all the pre­vi­ous Ghost Recon games and always thought the killed it off. I am look­ing for­ward to try­ing it out. Have a look at the trailer cour­tesy of Joys­tiq. Share your thoughts below.

One per­son who isn’t jump­ing on that band­wagon though is Michael Bay. Dead­line Hol­ly­wood says Bay remains skep­ti­cal of the tech­nol­ogy, specif­i­cally the ‘up con­ver­sion’ process used to trans­form 2D films into 3D (ala “Alice in Won­der­land,” “Clash of the Titans”).

“I shoot com­pli­cated stuff, I put real ele­ments into action scenes and hon­estly, I am not sold right now on the con­ver­sion process… Right now, it looks like fake 3D, with lay­ers that are very appar­ent… Peo­ple can say what­ever they want about my movies, but they are tech­ni­cally pre­cise, and if this isn’t going to be excel­lent, I don’t want to do it and it is my choice” says Bay.

Credit goes to DarkHorizons.com
Bay did appar­ently do some early tests on the via­bil­ity of shoot­ing “Trans­form­ers 3″ with 3D cam­eras but found them “too heavy and cum­ber­some” for the way he shoots.