Red Dead Redemption: How the West was won...and my heart as well. By: Eric Colon

Let me just start this off by saying: I don't just "play" video games. I emmerse myself into them. The story, the landscape and the characters; everything. I was emotionally invested in ridding Sera from the Locust Horde. I wanted to see Nathan Drake stick it to that warlord just as badly as he did. I get into the character. So if I refer to certain characters in this game with such distain, it's because they might as well have wronged me personally. Red Dead Redmption was a story about a man named John Marsten. A former outlaw turned family man, he is forced by these douchebag US Marshals, to set out on a mission to bring his old gangmates to justice in order to save his kidnapped wife and son. This is an epic game (in length and awesomeness). It took me about 15 hrs to beat. Some parts...

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How Mass Effect 2 Taught Me To Love Again

Where do I start? What do I say that hasn't already been said? games(TM) "Despite all of the ways Mass Effect 2 is more engaging to play and explore, after 35 remarkable hours it was the characters that stayed with us… Game of the year in January? Oh, go on then." [Feb 2010, p.112] Okay I'm excited. GameDaily "Mass Effect 2 far exceeded our expectations and is without question one of the best games we've played. Use whatever positive description you'd like. System seller, potential game of the year, landmark achievement; just make sure you buy it immediately." Absolutely spot on. GamePro "An improvement on just about...

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How Cinema Has Become Our Avatar's That Show Us to Give a HootAbout a Modern Day District 9. By: Emily DelGiorno

We forget we live in a culture where it just makes sense to us. Where what we’re currently experiencing is more or less a “duh, that’s just how it goes” than anything else. The same can be said for every era of music, piece of literature, art, or in this case: film. Science fiction was born out of an era of fear of the “Red Scare” and pending nuclear holocaust. It wasn’t really aliens being depicted in all those Twilight Zone episodes, just allegories and allusions to the present undercurrent of panic and terror for tomorrow. People may not have known it entirely then, but we’re also a culture that loves to look back and analyze everything. As they say, hindsight is 20/20. If we look hard enough at almost any film, we can see shifts in perception, content, and surprising undertones. I’m hoping...

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Monday Night Snore.

This Monday was to be the start of the "New" Monday Night War between WWE and TNA Wrestling. I had REAL high hopes for this night. As a long time fan of WWE I have been feeling as most fans do, it's boring and predictable. You can use the "opposite momentum theory" and 99.9% of the time it works. If they lost the night before the PPV then that means that they were sure to win at the PPV. The technique of the wrestlers has gotten mundane, the main event matches have been the same 4 or 5 competitors every single show. I grew up before the Attitude Era, when the drama was acted out in the ring. Larger than life characters like the Ultimate Warrior and The Macho Man Randy Savage having titanic battles in the squared circle and saying: the heck with talk, lets just beat the crap outta each other....

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