Trials HD, for Xbox 360

Trials HD, for Xbox 360 developed by RedLynx for Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade ESRB rating: T. by Wade Manns Trials HD doesn’t really have a story, but at its soul is competition. You compete with your friends that you’ve added through Xbox Live, as well as the thousands-strong whole of the Xbox Live community. Your…

Inglourious Basterds

by Wade Manns Inglourious Basterds Directed by Quentin Tarantino Rating: R, for strong graphic violence, language, and brief sexuality. Length: 153 minutes. Tarantino has returned for his latest cinematic masterpiece, and it is quintessentially Tarantino. He’s taken the formula that he used so well in Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill and applied it to the…

Shadow Complex

By Wade Manns Shadow Complex by Epic Games, Chair Entertainment Genre: 2D action/exploration on a semi-3D field. Rating: T for Violence and Language. Incremental exploration has always been one of my favorite activities in video games. If you have played Super Metroid or any Castlevania game since Symphony of the Night, you know of what…

Remember Atari?

by Wade Manns My first game console was the Atari 2600. It was around 1983 or 1984, when I was around four or five years old. My brother (who is about three years older than me) and I would gather around that storied box of wonders that connected to our television set and play several…

“Hard Candy” Movie Review

Cynthia Munoz Published: October 25, 2006 A LionsGate film released on DVD this month is creeping out teens and adults alike.  It is about a teenage girl who finally meets up with a hunky 30-year-old photographer at a coffee shop after months of online chatting. She convinces him to take her to his place to…