Ray Carsillo hits up his old friend John Drake from Harmonix to talk to him about Rock Band 3 and Kinect launch title Dance Central! He talks to John about things such as the new keyboard, the new Spade system in Rock Band, Dance Central’s DLC, Dance Battle mode, and all of Dance Central’s dance moves. Dance dance dance.
Today, Ubisoft®announced Fighters Uncaged, a new fighting game that will be available worldwide in November 2010 exclusively for KinectTM on Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Developed by AMA Studios, Fighters Uncaged will deliver players the excitement of real fighting competitions, in addition to teaching players mixed martial arts techniques.
So, summer’s coming to an end. At least you still have Trailer Tracker, where we at Player Affinity prepare for hunting season and stalk the latest trailers hitting the web. Coming off his Oscar-nominated indie smash The Wrestler, Darren Aronofsky is back with the mind-bending ballet thriller Black Swan. We then move on to The Next Three Days starring Russell Crowe as a father on a mission, and shiver with Wes Craven’s latest slasher flick My Soul to Take. We wrap things up with the possible documentary, possible spoof, I’m Still Here, which is about actor Joaquin Phoenix’s transition from actor to rapper and finally visit the trailer for Love and Other Drugs with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway. Let’s lock and load.
A new Halo: Reach Vidoc was released today detailing Noble Team, and dipping deeper into the storyline. Let the discussion begin. What did you see, what do you think, and what do you want to know more about? Utilize the comment section below!
Though I may be from the south, I don’t enjoy racing. I never found it appealing to watch. But if you do, I hear F1 is good. And if you like F1, maybe you’ll like this F1 2010 gameplay video! If not, sorry!
“Showcasing the race day experience of a GRAND PRIXTM, the new gameplay video features the full 24 car grid battling it out at Suzuka, Melbourne and taking on the famous Eau Rouge at Spa. The video also provides an insight into the broader driver’s experience at a GRAND PRIX, showing press interviews in the paddock, race engineers managing their drivers out on the circuit and motion-captured pit-lane crew returning their car into the action. On the track action shows daring passing manoeuvres and wheel-to-wheel racing as stars including Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel compete to become FIA FORMULA ONE DRIVERS’ WORLD CHAMPION.”
Comics are big right now, probably the biggest they’ve ever been with the help of Movies and TV. The problem with comics is that people feel that there not very accessible, and to be honest see an issue number 700 on a cover isn’t exactly welcoming. So where do you begin if you want to read comics?
The easiest choice is the indie market. These are smaller press books that are usually limited to miniseries or are easily collected in trade paper backs making them easy to digest. Scott Pilgrim is a great example of an indie book, with a self-contained plot that really only requires you to read six issues to get the entire story. Vertigo’s books are usually the next thing that people pick up. They’re easy to find and very accessible. Things like Fables, 100 Bullets, Y the Last Man and Ex-Machina are great starter issues and usually anyone that is already reading comics, will recommend one or all of these titles to read. They’re safe, fun and different from what people typically think of when it comes to comics.
Exactly thirty days from yesterday is when Halo: Reach launches. We’re so close we can almost taste it, and yet for a lot of us time as slowed to a crawl. Now nothing but constant Halo news can distract a person from their monotonous Reach-less days. Lucky for you, week 3 of The Monitor has arrived!
This week, while listening to many a pod cast, and surfing through endless amounts of forum discussions, something hit me like a speeding eighteen-wheeler. The idea that the J-RPG is a genre on it’s last breath is overwhelmingly strong. Years ago, while a freshman undergrad at an unnamed university in New Jersey, I honestly and naively thought I was the only person to have such thoughts. Regardless of my harbored personality flaws of yesteryear, the sentiment that J-RPG’s are in serious need of a revival is echoed by critics and consumers alike.
This week on Xbox Economist we explore the world…and then we take it! Not only that, but we’ll do it for you for cheap! So ready your army, because we have deals for you to fight over! Hello, and welcome to another session of the Xbox Economist! The feature where we show you the best way to spend your buck, and give you the best fun to price ration possible. As always be mindful that there might be small spoilers, and that this is not a review (it’s a friendly recommendation). Also there may be naughty language.
“Scott Pilgrim,” based on the comics by Bryan Lee O’Malley, marks the third major feature for director and co-writer Edgar Wright, whose Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz practically turned the definition of the word “genre” on its head. “Scott Pilgrim” is five times as ambitious, a psychedelic montage of hyper-pop culture, fusing together romance, three decades of video games, fantasy and alternative rock. Are Wright and Universal crazy or dead-on?
