An American, Amir Hekmati has been sentenced to death in Iran for espionage. The Iranian government has accused Hekmati of being a spy working for the CIA through developer Kuma Games. The Iranians suggest that Kuma Games was funded by the CIA to make propaganda games that would spread pro-western political messages and “accuse Iran of involvement in terrorism.”
Razer showed off their new prototype gaming tablet today. Project Fiona is a small touchscreen computer like many others, but Fiona has a pair of game controllers built in on either side letting players take on more complex games than Smurf Village and Angry Birds.
This week’s Recommendation of the Week is Moneyball. The story about the 2002 Oakland A’s will be a contender during the upcoming awards season and you can see what the fuss is about with the DVD and Blu-ray release, which contains documentaries and behind-the-scenes footage.
Catwoman has hit another rough patch with an almost absent storyline and a heroine stuck alternating between two modes: survive and grieve. Even Batman fails to show up and save this comic from being a bit bland and somewhat forgettable, but not completely un-enjoyable… just far from the cat-tastic performance I would have expected from Catwoman #4.
After showing up at a very bad time with a body, burnt evidence and a hysterical Selina, the police try to show Catwoman a good time before she makes her escape and continues to suffer the after-effects of her friend Lola’s death… as well as the electrifying grip of a new enemy.
If you haven’t gotten out to 2011’s big awards contenders, you’ll probably spend your time doing that this January, but if the only Oscar you care about is Oscar the Grouch, then we’ve got you covered with 2012’s first litter of movie babies.
The Artist is a silent film, but more so an homage to those films. After all, what better way to make a movie about silent movies than to make a silent movie? And in an era when a lot of movies don’t know when to shut up, how nice to have some silence.
The Player Affinity Movie Staff presents our combined best films of the year, worst films of the year, most disappointing films of the year and best offerings from 2011’s most successful genres.
It’s time to put the lid on the film canister for 2011, so to kick things off with our Year in Review we have the Player Affinity Movie Awards, a few handfuls of honors celebrating the many bests of 2011.
Coinciding with the Winter Solstice, Atlus and Cyanide Studios have released a trailer for the latest video game adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s A Song Of Fire And Ice book series, A Game Of Thrones the RPG. This should not be confused with Cyanide’s other adaptation that came out earlier this year, AGame Of Thrones: Genesis, the strategy game.
Ahh, wrath, rising darkness and giant killers, not exactly trailers conforming to the holiday spirit, are they? Thankfully, there is this little trailer for a rather no-name film called The Hobbit if you’re interested …
