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Deathstroke #5 – Review

This issue of Deathstroke, overall, leaves much to be desired but has enough action combined with depth to keep readers coming back for more despite the flaws. There is little progress with character development and the artwork is full of disproportioned bodies and environments that are almost hard to look at.

We step back in time to see a much younger Slade (much younger being 60) and his son Grant training with Peabody. After an ‘acceptable’ session, we return to the present to see Slade’s degrading condition and his fight with the new Legacy… who proves to be more of a challenge than any of the previous wearers of the Legacy suit.

Insomniac Done with Resistance

Insomniac Games are officially parting ways with the Resistance franchise.

Pac-Man and Mega Man join Street Fighter X Tekken

The exclusive characters being announced for Capcom’s upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken on PlayStation 3 just keep coming.

Trailer Tracker: Resident Evil: Retribution and Jeff, Who Lives at Home

We have a decidedly unique slate of movie clips for you this week on Player Affinity. First off is the odd teaser trailer for the fifth installment in the popular video-game franchise with Resident Evil: Retribution, once again starring Milla Jovovich as the baddie-slaying mutant.

Alcatraz – Kit Nelson

After the rather disappointing extended premiere (from a reviewer point of view), Fox’s Alcatraz did nothing with “Kit Nelson” to reassure those who have mixed feelings on the latest J.J. Abrams venture into genre shows.

The episode kept the same pattern used the previous week, building the story around an Alcatraz inmate who has reappeared and can’t help but resume activities that got him incarcerated in the first place. The title character, Kit Nelson, was sent to prison for killing 11-year-olds, and that is of course the first thing he sets out to do when he reappears in our time. This follows “Ernest Cobb,” the second episode last week, featuring a snipper whose favorite pastime consisted of shooting people at (sort of) random. The two episodes, unlike the pilot, brought nothing new to the overarching storyline, but attempted clumsily to do some character development.

Scary Girl – Xbox Review

As the XBLA season begins we have our first game that can be considered well executed. Scarygirl is a 2D side scrolling platformer, although many of the levels are structured to have branching paths that give off more of a 3D winding view and feel. Based on Nathan Jurevicius’s graphic novel the game finds Scarygirl making her way from level to level fighting enemies that range from axe-chucking lunatics in a brightly colored forest, to giant neon orange rats in the sewer of the Bad City. All of these levels bring you to a finally face-to-eye patched face with the notorious Dr. Maybee. The premise of Scarygirl is nothing impressive but all of the elements that bring you to that final showdown are executed in at least a fairly well done fashion.

A Green Arrow Tv Show Coming To the CW

The CW, which was formerly called the WB, for years has been giving DC Comics based live action television shows for fans to enjoy. Their favorite characters can jump out of the pages of comic books to their television screen. In the past years they have had televisions shows like Aquaman, Birds of Prey, and probably the most successful Smallville. Now the CW is ordering a brand new DC comics television show based on the comic book character Green Arrow. The show they say will probably be called “Arrow”.  

The Green Arrow is a not a new comer to live action television or the CW. Justin Hartley had played the Green Arrow AKA Oliver Queen since 2006 on the television show called Smallville. If you are a Smallville fan like I am you might be thinking like I was. This could be a spin off, but no such luck. When the show was announced by the CW that the show is ready for the green light on the pilot they made sure to mention that Justin Hartley right now is not involved in the project. When I heard this news I was a little disappointed and excited at the same time because this means that the CW can show that they can make a successful DC Comics television show without it being affiliated with Smallville.   

Trailer Tracker: Friends with Kids, Moonrise Kingdom and More

Who’s one to let kids come between friends? This week on Trailer Tracker we get a new spin on the rom-com with Friends with Kids starring Kristen Wiig, John Hamm, Adam Scott and Maya Rudolph. Next, cult director Wes Anderson returns with his project Moonrise Kingdom, which assembles the eclectic cast of Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray and Frances McDormand.

DVD/Blu-ray DISCussion (New for 1.17.11)

This week’s Recommendation of the Week is the Blu-ray re-release of the Steven Soderbergh movie about of the War on Drugs Traffic. Featuring an assemble cast and winning a number of awards Traffic tells the story of the War on Drugs from the perspective of law enforcement, drug barons and the family of a user. The re-release comes courtesy of the Criterion Collection and despite not being about to report on their features their re-releases are often high quality affairs. The major First Release of the week is The Ides of March, the highly praise political drama by George Clooney that features a cast of acting heavyweights. The rest of this week’s First Release is sadly a unremarkable affair, though tweens may get a kick out of Taylor Lautner’s Abduction. If you are looking for a re-release the Criterion Collection offer us the French movie Belle de Jour and you also could have a double bill of two Robin Williams movies.

Content Update For Star Wars: The Old Republic

Have you already done everything there is to do in Star Wars: The Old Republic?  Well, if you feel that the amount of content Bioware’s MMO had at launch is somehow insufficient, then you’ll be glad to hear that there’s already more stuff coming out for it less than a month after launch.