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  • Film: Monster X Strikes Back/ Attack of the G8 Summit!

    Monster X Strikes Back/ Attack of the G8 Summit! is the latest in the creations of director Minoru Kawasaki (Everyone But Japan Sinks ,Crab Goalkeeper) and revisits the old film genre of Japanese Monster Movies. As a spirtual sequal to a film from 40 years ago, Kawasaki relights the candle by retaining the same elements…

  • Now Playing…

    Now approaching December and the releases of new games just keeps growing. I’ve just finished Fable II on Xbox 360 and it is a good game with good production values that still needs abit more refining. The overall core gameplay is entertaining but i had issues with the lag time of trying to use magic.…

  • Wii: Call of Duty: World at War

    Treyarch’s latest installment brings what most hardcore gamers need to get them through the title drought on Wii and delivers one of the most brutal and satisfying experience from a first person shooter ever to hit the Wii this year. The Call of Duty franchise is a mixed bag with two developers taking turns for…

  • XBOX360: Fable II

    “Who will You become?”, the big question in the latest Action RPG game from LionHead. Putting players in an open world environment and give the player freedom of how their hero progresses that extends beyond the good or evil originally coined by the series. Sequel to the original Fable, also developed by LionHead Studios, the…

  • Anime: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

    This time I decided to do a review on something completely different from what i usually do. The Girl who leapt Through Time is spiritual sequal to a Novel written by Yasutaka Tsutsui in 1965. Directed by Mamoru Hosoda and produced by Madhouse in 2006, the film brings together a lively tale of a young…

  • Wii: Happy Dance Collection

    (NB: As the title is completely in japanese not everything listed in this review is completely accurate) Happy Dance Collection is a title from Namco Bandai which strikingly looks familiar to longtime running IdolM@ster. Though looking very similar, the title does have one big difference….it’s on the Wii. The title itself feels and players like…

  • Wii: Samba de Amigo

    Sega’s hit franchise hit’s the Wii and revives the maraca shaking game play of the original Dreamcast game but does the game end up producing a rhythm or does it end up as an annoying instrument? Back in the glory days of the Dreamcast, Sega produced a hit sleeper title called Samba de Amigo, a…

  • DS: Call of Duty Word at War

    First Person Shooters haven’t always been the best on the DS given the hardware limitations but we’re seen a few arising from the pool of new games. In comes, Call of Duty World at War, the latest incarnation from developer N-Space known for the previous Call of Duty DS title and the newest iteration brings…

  • Now Playing…

    This week is terrible…an exam coming up. In the meantime i’ve been catching more time on Fable II on Xbox 360. It’s a simple game that has a couple of bugs. Some of them are game crashing but a majority are just exploitable. The money generation in the game is a joke. As soon as…

  • Wii:Disaster Day of Crisis

    i:When the Wii was first unvailed and showcased at E3 2006, A little title caught people’s attention and since then Disaster Day of Crisis has taken 3 years to finally release in Europe. The tittle by Monolith Soft (No relation to Monolith Studios) has crafted a tale that is both intriging and strangely addictive. The…

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