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F1 Gameplay Video Released, Cars Go Vroom

Though I may be from the south, I don’t enjoy racing. I never found it appealing to watch. But if you do, I hear F1 is good. And if you like F1, maybe you’ll like this F1 2010 gameplay video! If not, sorry!

“Showcasing the race day experience of a GRAND PRIX^TM, the new gameplay video features the full 24 car grid battling it out at Suzuka, Melbourne and taking on the famous Eau Rouge at Spa. The video also provides an insight into the broader driver’s experience at a GRAND PRIX, showing press interviews in the paddock, race engineers managing their drivers out on the circuit and motion-captured pit-lane crew returning their car into the action. On the track action shows daring passing manoeuvres and wheel-to-wheel racing as stars including Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel compete to become FIA FORMULA ONE DRIVERS’ WORLD CHAMPION.”

So You Want to Read Comics?

Comics are big right now, probably the biggest they’ve ever been with the help of Movies and TV. The problem with comics is that people feel that there not very accessible, and to be honest see an issue number 700 on a cover isn’t exactly welcoming. So where do you begin if you want to read comics?

The easiest choice is the indie market. These are smaller press books that are usually limited to miniseries or are easily collected in trade paper backs making them easy to digest. Scott Pilgrim is a great example of an indie book, with a self-contained plot that really only requires you to read six issues to get the entire story. Vertigo’s books are usually the next thing that people pick up. They’re easy to find and very accessible. Things like Fables, 100 Bullets, Y the Last Man and Ex-Machina are great starter issues and usually anyone that is already reading comics, will recommend one or all of these titles to read. They’re safe, fun and different from what people typically think of when it comes to comics.

The Monitor: Week 3 (Win a Reach Xbox 360!)

Exactly thirty days from yesterday is when Halo: Reach launches. We’re so close we can almost taste it, and yet for a lot of us time as slowed to a crawl. Now nothing but constant Halo news can distract a person from their monotonous Reach-less days. Lucky for you, week 3 of The Monitor has arrived!

A Wii J-RPG Swan Song

This week, while listening to many a pod cast, and surfing through endless amounts of forum discussions, something hit me like a speeding eighteen-wheeler. The idea that the J-RPG is a genre on it’s last breath is overwhelmingly strong. Years ago, while a freshman undergrad at an unnamed university in New Jersey, I honestly and naively thought I was the only person to have such thoughts. Regardless of  my harbored personality flaws of yesteryear, the sentiment that J-RPG’s are in serious need of a revival is echoed by critics and consumers alike.

Xbox Economist (08-14-10)

This week on Xbox Economist we explore the world…and then we take it! Not only that, but we’ll do it for you for cheap! So ready your army, because we have deals for you to fight over! Hello, and welcome to another session of the Xbox Economist! The feature where we show you the best way to spend your buck, and give you the best fun to price ration possible. As always be mindful that there might be small spoilers, and that this is not a review (it’s a friendly recommendation). Also there may be naughty language.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Review

“Scott Pilgrim,” based on the comics by Bryan Lee O’Malley, marks the third major feature for director and co-writer Edgar Wright, whose Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz practically turned the definition of the word “genre” on its head. “Scott Pilgrim” is five times as ambitious, a psychedelic montage of hyper-pop culture, fusing together romance, three decades of video games, fantasy and alternative rock. Are Wright and Universal crazy or dead-on?

Top 3 Underrated Xbox 360 Games

Great games are released monthly and occasionally, our picky little eyes miss it and someone else’s will spot it. In this week’s top list, Xbox Team members Nate Butch, Tristan Wong, and myself discuss our top 3 most underrated games on the Xbox 360.

Deadly Premonition is the butt of all jokes and for good reason; it has many bad things about it. But a lot of those “bad things” are incredibly charming in their own way. The combat is straight up abysmal, but apart from that, I can’t think of anything that made me furious, it all had a unique charm unmatched by any game I’ve played. The story is very “Twin Peaks” but along the way, it takes quite a bit of twists and turns. I will proudly say I enjoyed the story of Deadly Premonition. It’s a silly, silly story though at times it’ll blend just enough seriousness into it to make you actually care about what happens to the characters. And at the end of the game, I couldn’t help but think I had just witnessed one of the strongest endings of a game, story-wise, this year.

Ensemble Acting: Gimmick or Tour de Force?

Men, are your testosterone levels dipping to dangerously low levels? If so you have likely had the release of the new star-studded actioner The Expendables marked crudely on your beer-splattered Playboy calendar for some time now. Directed by and starring action icon Sylvester Stallone, this summer release promises to be a throwback to the campy, over-the-top rumbles of the past few decades.

Trailer Tracker: Unstoppable, Jackass 3-D and more

I’m gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse: watching Trailer Tracker, the feature where we at Player Affinity hunt down the latest trailers like gangsters hunt down a snitch in the witness protection program. You can’t stop our first trailer about a runaway train starring Denzel Washington and directed by Tony Scott. Things then become more low-brow with Jonny Knoxville and gang in Jackass 3-D, sleazier with the musical Burlesque staring Christina Aguilera, creepier with the alien invasion film Skyline and finally more wholesome with the sports comedy The Winning Season. Take the clips, leave the cannoli.

Step Up 3-D Review

Dance movies are a curious little subgenre. The category doesn’t exactly spin out huge hits, but Hollywood finds a reason to make them for the niche of people who enjoy them. They’re light on storyline, rough on acting, and solid on dance. That’s the dance flick formula and Step Up 3-D doesn’t deviate one iota. The actors are terrible and the plot is as worn out as the Macarena but the dance sequences are awesome in 3-D and that’s all the core fans ever wanted.