Archive for the 'Entertainment' Category

14 May

Death Note in Theaters May 20th

I’ve never been too big on anime, I’ve seen a few of course but it’s not something I normally go out of my way for. However, a live action movie based on the anime series DeathNote is coming to select theaters on May 20th and 21st, two days only! The basic story is [...]

13 May

Rambo: First Blood

Rambo is back and more violent than ever with part 4 being released on DVD at the end of this month. To celebrate his return they will be showing the original Rambo First Blood movie at a number of theaters on May 15, 2008 for one night only. Now is your chance to [...]

24 Apr

Zero Punctuation Game Reviews

Every Tuesday or when I remember, I head over to The Escapist Magazine to check out the new review by Yahtzee (Zero Punctuation). Once a week he reviews a video game and typically rips it apart, but in a good way. They are very entertaining and in some cases have even gotten the [...]

15 Apr

Attack of the Cheerleaders

Yup, it sounds like the title of a cheesy horror flick, but in fact it’s a new way to terrorize your friends. We’ve all seen the lovely e-cards that cheapskates friends like to send around during the holidays and special occasions. Company 81 has taken the greeting to the next level by allowing [...]

14 Apr

Competition Closing?

I heard rumor today that one of the other little video stores in town is closing up. The source isn’t the most reliable when it comes to rumors however, so I’ll just have to go do some snooping of my own to see if there’s any truth to it. If it does close [...]

31 Mar

‘Legal Pad Ponders’ on YouTube

Most of us get hours of enjoyment, or at least mindless entertainment, out of YouTube. User johnnyBwilson brings up an interesting point though, the fact that Google makes a shitload of profit off the backs of it’s users while providing them nothing in return. Except for free hosting of their videos of course, [...]

22 Feb

I Want a new TV

DVI is so outdated, it’s really only used for computer to LCD monitor connections these days but even that is going to fade out. A new GeForce 8600GT that I sold this week has DVI/HDMI/Component connections on it and I expect that as time goes on, HDMI will become a standard feature. I’ve [...]

22 Jan

Still Rockin’ With no Band

After playing through 28 songs on medium and thinking to myself, this is too easy, I played one on hard, and it was also quite easy. So I jumped up to expert and managed to clear the first 20 or so songs without much trouble. Some of them I barely scraped by though, [...]

04 Jan

Gaming Servers

Any night that we have a full group going someone has to fire up Ventrilo just to make things easier. Talking instead of typing certainly speeds things up, but the problem we tend to run into is that once you get around 8 to 10 people on a cable connection, the voice quality starts [...]

02 Jan

What’s Your Vice?

Singer/song writer Alisa Apps recently admitted that she sucks her thumb but is trying to stop. The video she posted looks more like a ploy for attention rather than an actual confession of some ‘dark secret’. I can’t say as I have any secret vices of my own really, just typical stuff like [...]

02 Jan

Shoot ‘em Up

I just finished watching this action movie called Shoot ‘em Up, and it definitely lives up to it’s name. Guns galore, crazy stunts and bullets flying almost non-stop in this hard to swallow plot revolving around a baby that must be protected by a carrot obsessed gunman. But this is a movie, not [...]

01 Jan

Bomberman: Act Zero

Bomberman Act Zero has got to be the worst game I’ve played yet on the XBox 360. I think even sports games would be more fun (and I hate sports games). Hell, getting your colon cleansed would probably be more fun than this game.
I have fond memories of the old Bomberman on the [...]

01 Jan

FlatOut Fun

Now that I’ve gotten a little more practice in, and gotten some cars fully upgraded, I’m having a lot more fun with FlatOut Ultimate Carnage. I still don’t like the Carnage mode very much, but in FlatOut mode I’m ripping through the content pretty quickly. I’ve finished 100% of the Derby category and [...]

01 Jan

Bioshock

About a month ago I borrowed Bioshock from a friend of mine for the XBox 360. Last week I finally got around to trying it out and it definitely lives up to the reviews I had read. The story is interesting and compelling right from the start when your plane crashes into the [...]