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Sequelitis strikes again! The orig­i­nal Para­nor­mal Activ­ity was made with a bud­get of $15,000 and went on to gross over $150 mil­lion world­wide all while pro­vid­ing some gen­uine thrills and a whole lot of shaky cam footage. Sim­i­lar­i­ties can be made between Para­nor­mal Activ­ity and another “real­ity based” hor­ror film. A for­got­ten gem called The Blair Witch Project did every­thing Para­nor­mal Activ­ity did, but fell into the trap of chang­ing the for­mula and peo­ple hat­ing the follow-up.Will light­ning strike twice for Para­nor­mal Activity ?

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With­out ques­tion one of the great­est hack and slash games in recent mem­ory is the God Of War fran­chise. While oth­ers have dupli­cated it with mixed results there have been some stand­outs like Dark­siders that have added their own spin on a suc­cess­ful genre. The 1C Com­pany looks to make their mark on this genre with a new char­ac­ter called Cap­tain Blood. Check out this trailer and decide if this is another hack and slash ripoff or a new player that’s ready to give Kratos and War a run for their money.

The suc­cess of the Microsoft Kinect and the Sony Move rests squarely on soft­ware. You can argue until you’re blue in the face about which one is bet­ter based on hard­ware specs but it is all going to come down to soft­ware. The best exam­ple of this is Gui­tar Hero (or Rock Band). I know Rich touched on this in his last show but I wanted to break it down a bit more.

With Gui­tar Hero, the pub­lic had to buy addi­tional hard­ware to play var­i­ous ver­sions of the game. The game itself was very well done, addic­tive and became a huge hit. Peo­ple were will­ing to pay for the addi­tional hard­ware because the game was so great, and they enjoyed the nov­elty of using phys­i­cal instru­ments as the game controller.

When you boil it all down, the Kinect and Move are exactly the same as Gui­tar Hero, but with­out the allur­ing tie in of the music game. Right now peo­ple are say­ing the Kinect is rev­o­lu­tion­ary and the Move is the Wii on steroids but if nei­ther has the soft­ware to cap­ti­vate gamers in the same way as Gui­tar Hero did, or the Wii, then both will only gar­ner mar­ginal success.

Which device will get the killer title first? What do you think?

So now that Robert De Niro has become a shadow of his for­mer self it really was inevitable that we would have to endure another stu­pid Fock­ers movie.Obviously by the title you can see that Greg & Pam Focker are now par­ents and of course De Niro and his wife come to visit and hilar­ity ensues.

I sin­cerely hope this is the last we see of this fran­chise. What the f **k hap­pened to Stiller and De Niro for that mat­ter! Stiller used to be at least mod­er­ately amus­ing and De Niro is a leg­end yet in this fran­chise they strive to shit on their lega­cies. Enjoy the trailer at your own risk.

Most of us loved the old Bat­man Beyond car­toon that aired around a decade ago.

It was the amaz­ing child of the excel­lent Bat­man ani­mated series that aired before it, and was a lot darker in tone than most car­toons air­ing at the time, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing it’s tar­get audi­ence and time slot, it was a Sat­ur­day morn­ing car­toon, yet the sub­ject mat­ter and vio­lent nature of this show was def­i­nitely aimed towards older viewers.

Any­one who loved Bat­man: The ani­mated series quickly became fans of Bat­man Beyond, even cre­at­ing new fans with its mature sub­ject matter.

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Another adap­ta­tion of another graphic novel. Looks promis­ing given the cast involved. Check it out and share your thoughts

A lit­tle blood and guts to sell this reimag­in­ing cour­tesy of Robert Rodriguez. Seems promis­ing and I am even will­ing to look past the pho­tos I’ve seen of the new preda­tors. I hope this doesn’t suck

My first mem­ory of the Green Hor­net was when I used to watch the old 1966 Bat­man show on chan­nel 9 on Sun­days. What made the char­ac­ter cool wasn’t so much the Green Hor­net char­ac­ter but Kato who at the time was played by the leg­endary Bruce Lee.I never con­sid­ered Green Hor­net or Kato as stand alone heroes sim­ply because they played sec­ond fid­dle to Bat­man. As I grew up I learned a bit more about the char­ac­ters and real­ized the Green Hor­net had an ori­gin sim­i­lar to Bat­man and wasn’t a com­plete cornball.

In an age of remakes I usu­ally expect the utter worst. After watch­ing this trailer I get the vibe of Pineap­ple Express with cos­tumes. Seth Rogen lost a ton of weight and looks cred­i­ble as the lead but it seems that his char­ac­ter is an after thought and Kato is the one tak­ing cen­ter stage. I found what I saw amus­ing but I am not sure this char­ac­ter will trans­late well to the big screen treatment.

What do you guys think

Team-Ninja has done a great job cap­tur­ing the essence of past Metroid titles. The ques­tion is will hard­core fans embrace this new game? Check out the new trailer and decide for yourselves.

Of course it’s in 3-D. Well, Wesker seems to be an inter­est­ing addition.