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April 2011 - Posts
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Blu-ray Movie Releases for the Week of Aug. 10, 2010
The King's Speech starring Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, and Geoffrey Rush drops this week on Blu-ray. In addition we have some additional treats in the form of Mortal Kombat, Ip Man 2, plus a few more gems!
This week's recommended Blu-ray movie title is The King's Speech...
After the death of his father King George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), Bertie (Colin Firth) who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of England. With his country on the brink of war and in desperate need of a leader, his wife, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), the future Queen Mother, arranges for her husband to see an eccentric speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). After a rough start, the two delve into an unorthodox course of treatment and eventually form an unbreakable bond. With the support of Logue, his family, his government and Winston Churchill (Timothy Spall), the King will overcome his stammer and deliver a radio-address that inspires his people and unites them in battle. Based on the true story of King George VI, THE KING'S SPEECH follows the Royal Monarch's quest to find his voice.
Here is the full list:
- The King's Speech [Blu-ray] Starring Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush, et al. (2011)
- Mortal Kombat [Blu-ray] Starring Christopher Lambert, Robin Shou, Linden Ashby, et al.
- Ip Man 2 [Blu-ray] Starring Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam and Darren Shahlavi
- The Way Back [Blu-ray] Starring Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan and Colin Farrell
- Mortal Kombat: Annihilation [Blu-ray]
- Rabbit Hole [Blu-ray] Starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart
- Glee: Encore [Blu-ray] Starring Lea Michele, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison and Cory Monteith
- Gulliver's Travels [Blu-ray 3D] Starring Jack Black and Amanda Peet
- Goemon [Blu-ray] Starring Yôsuke Eguchi, Takao Ôsawa and Ryoko Hirosue
- Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) Starring Ashley Tisdale, Cameron Goodman, Lauren Collins, et al.
- Kes (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Starring David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, et al.
- Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo/ Digital Copy + Limited Edition Clutch ) Starring Ashley Tisdale, Cameron Goodman, Lauren Collins, et al.
- Somewhere [Blu-ray] Starring Elle Fanning and Stephen Dorff
- Short Circuit 2 [Blu-ray] Starring Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean and Tim Blaney
- The Last Legion [Blu-ray] Starring Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley and Aishwarya Rai
- Born to Raise Hell [Blu-ray] Starring Steven Seagal, Dan Badarau, Darren Shahlavi, et al.
- Street Kings 2: Motor City [Blu-ray] Starring Ray Liotta and Shawn Hatosy
- Sweetie (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Starring Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos and Jon Darling
- Tokyo Gore Police [Blu-ray] Starring Eihi Shiina
- Earth From Above: Amazing Lands [Blu-ray] Starring Yann Arthus-Bertrand
All of these new Blu-Ray releases are currently available at 30% off over at Amazon.
Check it out: Amazon - Blu-ray Sale
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Welcome to the New Video Game Releases List for the Week (Meh Edition)!
The video game release highlights on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS and PC/Mac include Darkspore, Dream Trigger 3D, plus a few more gems...
Our recommended new release of the week will go to:
Darkspore is a Sci-fi Action-RPG game from Maxis that uses the development houses award-winning Creature Editing technology from Spore to bring a whole new franchise to life. With this unique customization functionality players are able to create genetically altered heroes which are in turn used against a mutant horde that has terrorized the galaxy for 1,000 years in an RPG like none before it. Additional features include hundreds of enemy types, multiplayer support including co-op, exceptional replay value
Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of April 18, 2011 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC! As always, release dates are subject to change, slip, slide, and be fairly unpredictable.
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Amazon is back again with another All Video Games Gold Box Event Today!
The Gold Box Events kicks off today, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 and features one deal of the day, in addition to lightning deals every few hours...
It looks like the selection will be very good based on the lightning deal clues below, but be quick with the mouse as the good ones can go quick (especially as the word spreads)!
Check it out: Amazon - All Video Games Gold Box Event
Deal of the Day:
Hourly Lightning Deals:
6:00 AM PST: Enter into the Premier Online Role Playing Experience
8:00 AM PST: Don't Forget Treats for your Mabari War Hound.
10:00 AM PST: Pick up this PS3 exclusive collector's edition
12:00 PM PST: Hey man, nice Skillshot
2:00 PM PST: After 13 Days of fates intertwined, the battle begins
4:00 PM PST: Embark on epic quests and build your kingdom
6:00 PM PST: Unravel the mystery surrounding the origins of the KINGDOM HEARTS
8:00 PM PST: Get ready to take the field
Check it out: Amazon All Video Game Gold Box Event
About Starcraft II:
Continue the epic saga of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg. These three distinct and powerful races will clash once again in the fast-paced real-time strategy sequel to the original, StarCraft. Legions of veteran, upgraded, and new unit types will do battle across the galaxy, as each faction struggles for survival.
Featuring a single-player campaign that picks up where StarCraft: Brood War left off, StarCraft II presents a cast of new heroes and familiar faces in a sci-fi story filled with adventure and intrigue. In addition, Blizzard offers online play through Battle.net with several enhancements and features to make StarCraft II even better. 
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Welcome to the New Video Game Releases List for the Week!
The video game release highlights on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS and PC/Mac include Portal 2, Mortal Kombat, SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy Seals, plus a few more gems...
Current Amazon Pre-order Deals:
Our recommended new release of the week will go to:
Portal 2 is a unique first-person Action-Puzzle-Platforming game that tests player's ability to think and act creatively as they use the game's ingenious wormhole creating portal gun to produce their own paths through otherwise sealed surfaces and across the open spaces of the game. Sequel to the original Portal game -- the surprise add-on hit included in Valve Corporation's 2007 release The Orange Box -- Portal 2 continues the storyline from the first game, featuring both new and returning characters, and poses a range of new challenges making for a much deeper game. Additional features include a new two player co-op mode and an original soundtrack.
Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of April 18, 2011 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC! As always, release dates are subject to change, slip, slide, and be fairly unpredictable.
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Amazon is back again with another All Video Game Gold Box Event!
The Gold Box Events kicks off Tuesday, April 19, 2011 and features one deal of the day, in addition to lightning deals every few hours...
We were greated with the following email from message:
As someone who has shopped video games at Amazon.com, you might like to know that on Tuesday, April 19th, 2011, the Amazon.com Gold Box will feature video game products for gamers all day long.
The video game deals will start flowing promptly at Midnight and features one deal of the day, in addition to lightning deals every few hours...
Hopefully the selection will be very good based on previous Amazon video game deal events, but be quick with the mouse as the good ones can go quick (especially as the word spreads)! Perhaps some deals on this week's releases of Portal 2 or Mortal Kombat will be in the cards...
Check it out: Amazon All Day Video Game Gold Box Event
About Portal 2:
Like the original game, Portal 2 is a first-person Platform-Puzzle game. In the single player campaign players assume the role of Chell, a former test subject trying to gain her freedom from the Aperture Science facility and GLaDOS, the AI controller of the facility. Set in the test chambers of the facility your goal is to make your way through the game levels using your portal gun (the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device). The portal gun creates temporary passages through solid surfaces, allowing for creative platforming and multiple possible means of clearing a level. The game also requires the player to solve puzzles at times to clear sections of levels. In addition to point-to-point movement through portals, players can also utilize other means of movement of themselves and various objects. These include: using the momentum of portal movement to make jumps to open positions like ledges; tractor beams; and special propulsion/repulsion gels that can be carried or stored.
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If you haven't ran over to artofvideogames.org to vote on which games The Smithsonian is going to include in their "Art of Video Games" exhibit, the clock is ticking. Voting ends April 17th. The exhibit will be on display from March 16th to September 30th in 2012 (so schedule your vacation appropriately) and will explore 40-years of digital goodness in all its forms. So rush over to their site and vote for your favorite games! It's a democratic process THAT WORKS!
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 So the 3DS is out, it's in stores, and the early adopters have them in their hot little hands. And, in typical early adopter fashion, they're already tired of them and looking forward to the next thing. That would be the PSP2, assuming no one pulls a disastrous Saturn-style ploy at E3 this year. Details on the PSP2 are still a bit vague, only because Sony refuses to confirm most of the things we already know from what people who have touched it have told us, but one thing that hit the wires a while back was that Sony was planning to use a new proprietary media system.
For those of you who have been paying attention the past few decades of home and personal electronics, you may have noticed that Sony likes proprietary media systems. Likes them a lot. But why?
 Money, is the simple answer. To one degree another, anyone who wants to use or manufacture a media format engineered by another company has to pay a licensing royalty. If you've ever heard any of the tales of Nintendo's NES days, you probably know they made a killing on manufacturing and basically selling the NES cartridge to third-party licensees like Capcom and Konami. Sony's a smart company, and has learned that making electronics that run on proprietary systems not only keeps you from paying licensing royalties to other companies, but if your media format takes off in a way that others want to use it, they have to pay for the privilege. Only in the direst of circumstances would Sony switch to a competitor's media (as they recently bit the bullet and adopted SD memory card format for their digital cameras).
So, for interested parties, what follows is a brief history of Sony's love affair with proprietary media. Some are wins, others are total failures. I tried to hit just the speaking points rather than nitpick incessantly on technical specs. Enjoy.
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ZenStudios announced today that their next board, MARS, will be available April 20th, for all of you flipper jockies out there. And I’m going to use that announcement to address an issue that’s a long time in coming.
I was wrong about Pinball FX2, when I blasted it at PAX last year.
In case you missed it, I shot down Pinball FX2 when I demoed it at PAX last year, and almost immediately suffered backlash for it--it was the reason I went back and addended our PAX Preview items to explain that they are not complete reviews; to drive home the point that these were limited access demos I was working with.
Again, I was wrong.
Pinball FX2 is actually extremely well put together. The biggest difference for me between getting it home and demoing it at PAX was actually being able to hear the game. The sound design is apparently a huge difference maker, and adds the visceral feel to the game that was missing on PAX’s noisy demo floor. Also, having access to the bevy of boards that make up the Pinball FX2 universe adds a huge bonus (except Rocky & Bullwinkle--screw you, Rock & Bullwinkle), especially access to all the Pinball FX boards and new content like the Marvel Comics boards (still waiting on that Captain America one, though). And the ability to fine tune every aspect of the board like you could a real machine is simply mind-blowing.
The occasional tournaments are a nifty way to keep the audience coming back in a means other than simply offering DLC or new achievements (which they also do, for those of you who dig that sort of thing). And speaking of Achievements, hey! Achievements that require skill instead of just being awarded for passing checkpoints! You know, like Achievements were touted to be before the 360’s launch! How about that!
I don’t want to go into a full review here, because honestly I’m embarrassed about A) being proven so very wrong, and B) not correcting my error for so long. But they still deserve a grade from HAWTwires, so I’m giving ZenStudios and Pinball FX2 a
GRADE: A-
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Welcome to the New Video Game Releases List for the Week!
The video game release highlights on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS and PC/Mac include Michael Jackson the Experience, Lego Battles Ninjago, Divinity II, Rio, plus a few more gems...
Current Amazon Pre-order Deals:
Our recommended new release of the week will go to:
Michael Jackson The Experience is a dance and party game for Xbox 360, which with the help of Kinect for Xbox 360, allows players of all abilities to get into the groove and perhaps even attain the level of the King of Pop himself. Designed as a complete Michael Jackson gameplay experience, the game features a wealth of unforgettable hits, which the motion capture capabilities of the Kinect system and microphone functionality allow you to dance and sing to, just like Michael did. Additional features include: player projection technology that puts you in the game, authentic Michael Jackson choreography, costumes and imagery and a practice mode.
Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of April 11, 2011 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC! As always, release dates are subject to change, slip, slide, and be fairly unpredictable.
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Welcome to the New Video Game Releases List for the Week!
The video game release highlights on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS and PC/Mac include Carnival Games: Monkey See Monkey Do, Karaoke Revolution Glee: Volume 2, Rabbids Travel in Time, Splinter Cell 3D, plus a few more gems...
Current Amazon Pre-order Deals:
Our recommended new release of the week will go to:
Tom Clancy Splinter Cell 3D is a handheld Stealth-Action game coming exclusively to the Nintendo 3DS.* One of the most highly anticipated handheld games of 2011 and timed to release with the new Nintendo 3DS handheld platform, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3D reveals a whole new dimension to the iconic series protagonist, Sam Fisher, as well as the multimillion-selling Splinter Cell series through the advanced stereoscopic 3D functionality of the 3DS. Features include: sharp 3DS graphics in all areas of the game, new button mapping utilizing the Slide and Touch pad, enhanced weapons and improved puzzle-solving abilities.
Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of April 4, 2011 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC! As always, release dates are subject to change, slip, slide, and be fairly unpredictable.
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