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FIVE GREAT GAMES — 2013 has gotten off to a stellar start
Features Comments Mar 30, 2013 6:00amGuess who’s annoyed. Yeah, that’s right, it’s me.
I was planning to review the new “BioShock: Infinite” today, but it looks as if 2K Games decided to let IGN.com review the game the week...
Movie Review — GI Joe: Retaliation
Features Comments Mar 29, 2013 6:00amAs franchises go, “G.I. Joe” was less a fixer-upper than the sort of thing you burn to the ground for the insurance money.
“G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” with its biomechanical super suits...
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD — The new ‘Gears’ is short on adventure, long on multiplayer
Features Comments Mar 23, 2013 6:00amI can’t believe how short the new “Gears of War: Judgment” is. Ifinished this humans-versus-aliens war in five hours — including coffee breaks.
But “Gears of War” games aren’t about their...
Movie Review — Olympus Has Fallen
Features Comments Mar 22, 2013 6:00amOf all of this year’s movies in which a lone hero is tasked with saving the president when a violent paramilitary group seizes the White House, “Olympus Has Fallen” is certainly one of them.
...Game Dork — I get it, ‘God of War,’ you’re harrrd and I’m stuuupid!
Features Comments Mar 16, 2013 7:00am“God of War: Ascension” is a pretentious title for a video game, so I’m going to call it “God of War: Movin’ On Up!”
“God of War: Movin’ On Up!” is a confusing epic of seemingly impossible...
“Wonderstone” can’t overcome all its problems, but has fun trying
Features Comments Mar 15, 2013 1:36pmIf Las Vegas can take a wide-eyed innocent whose only crime was rocking a mullet well past its expiration date and turn him into a raging narcissistic jerk, what hope is there for the rest of us...
Game Dork — Honey Ball — ‘MLB 13: The Show’ is as sweet as baseball gets
Features Comments Mar 09, 2013 7:01amIf I was the marketing person for “MLB 13: The Show,” this is how I would advertise it: “You can text-message your friends while you bat, because this game moves so slow, you will have all the...
Movie Review — Oz The Great and Powerful
Features Comments Mar 08, 2013 7:00amThe vibrant colors. The terrifyingly aggressive plant life. The talking winged monkey dressed like a tiny bellhop.
This must be what it’s like to get high with James Franco.
From the...
Movie Review — ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ lacks spark
Features Comments Mar 07, 2013 4:31pmIt looks like a blockbuster. It feels like a blockbuster. On the set, it probably even smelled like a blockbuster.
But for long stretches, “Jack the Giant Slayer” is an awful lot of fee, fi...
Game Dork — The new ‘Tomb Raider’ is what a masterpiece looks like
Features Comments Mar 07, 2013 4:31pmHey, listen, I didn’t want to play a new “Tomb Raider” game. I know you got sick of the series years ago. I did too. But this new “Tomb Raider” reboot is a breathless masterpiece.
It is one...





