An old friend of mine, Ryan Jennings, passed a note along to me that he just wrapped up his first game titled Go! for the iPhone. I’ve known Ryan for quite a while and he’s always done really great work. I can’t actually play Go! as I’m the only person on the planet without an iPod, but any of you guys out there who happen to own a fancy shmancy iPhone or iPod Touch can head over and download Go! for a cool $2.99. The game seems to be a puzzler of sorts and features nice clean graphics. Knowing Ryan, I’m sure it plays really well and features a slick presentation.

Like I mentioned, the game comes at a great pice that’s like what, the cost of a bag of chips and a Snapple Ice Tea?

Do the man a favor and show him a little love.

In this day and age, just about anyone can self publish a book. Many artists have taken up the title of authorship and have released their own books featuring sketchbooks, instructional guides, and an array of comic books. One of my favorite character designers, Ben Balistreri, recently finished up work on his comic book, “Seaweed”. According to Ben, it took him nearly six years to accomplish the task as he single handedly produced all the artwork found in this over-sized book. It measures a good 12×15 and all 64 pages are in glorious color.

The story is about a pirate, Seaweed, and his first mate, Poisson, who have a chance meeting with a bat named Mildew who is looking for The Devil’s Cookbook which can grant anyone who has it practically enternal life. As you can see, everyone here is an animal or fish of some sort. It reminds me a lot of the early Disney shorts where everyone is an animal, or like how in the Goofy shorts there’s an entire hockey rink of Goofies. There’s not a human in sight in Seaweed’s world and I think its all for the better.

Street Kings – Keanu Reeves is a veteran cop whose partner is murdered by two gang members. So he is forced to take it upon himself to go on a reckless quest through the streets of LA to get revenge while his captain tries to control him. Also starring Forest Whitaker, Chris Evans and Hugh Laurie.

Prom Night – a remake of the 1980 horror flick of the same name. A group of high school students cause the accidental death of a young girl but the truth is never discovered so they go free. Years later, the man who witnessed them kill the girl is back for vengeance.

You still haven’t given Bionic Commando Rearmed a shot and you own a 360 and PS3? Then get out of here you nerd. Okay, enough in-jokes from Bionic Commando, but I’ll help try to nudge you in the right direction if you haven’t jumped in yet.

If you’ve played and loved the NES version of Bionic Commando to death back in the day, then this game was pretty much made with you in mind. It is pretty obvious that the team at Grin responsible for this game adores the source material and they have a field day here. They understand that the NES version was translated poorly and they have a ball poking fun of it here. The game has a great sense of humor, but I imagine only the purist will be laughing along with it. I’ll tell you one thing, I was laughing my ass off after having defeated the last boss as it was exactly what I wanted to see. Fans of the original game will also totally dig the updated music in the game. It’s all an awesome throw back to the original title, with remixed themes that still keep their chip tune heritage intact. These guys just get it, plain and simple.

This wasn’t my first choice (or ever my second or third for that matter) to see in the theater, but a buddy of mine I haven’t seen in a while wanted to go see this. Without a doubt, The Clone Wars would be very cool if we saw it on TV, however its not feature quality in both the writing or the production values.

The story has very clear spots where you can tell there’s supposed to be a commercial break or an new episode ends. They even introduced two more characters close to the end that really came out of nowhere. Again, that wouldn’t have been a problem if those two characters, one a familiar face and the other is Jabba the Hutt’s gay uncle (I shit you not), if this was an episode on TV, but as it’s presented here its very awkward.

Actors in a jungle… for real.
An animated sci-fi prequel.
Attack of the reflections.
A Love Triangle.
What do we have here? Well it looks like a slew of new movies for this glorious Friday.

Tropic Thunder – Ben Stiller is a washed up action star. Jack Black is a raunchy comedy actor. Robert Downey Jr. is a serious method actor. All of them are working on a big budget war movie from a first time director that is having problems controlling them. So they are forced into the real jungle during a real war to get some more realistic scenes. Also directed by Ben Stiller.

I work in New York City, but live in New Jersey which means I have to commute. I take the bus in everyday to work, and as most people will tell you it’s not exactly chocolate and feathers. In most cases you’re jammed in there with someone’s armpit in your nose or you have to stand until a seat opens up. You meet many a whacky person on the bus. Today may have been the day when Phil saw the Wicked Witch of the West on Broadway, but tonight was the night I saw her on the bus heading to Patterson.

I’m actually not sure if this is a Whore Daddy or a Clutch because I was laughing my ass off during the whole ordeal, but it was also one of the most insane displays of humanity I’ve seen lately.

Smart People – a professor (Dennis Quaid) has an accident and is treated by a doctor (Sarah Jessica Parker). The professor falls for the doctor and must bring her home to meet his smarty pants daughter (Ellen Page) and good for nothing brother (Thomas Haden Church).

CJ7 – a foreign film about a poor Chinese laborer (Stephen Chow of Kung Fu Hustle fame) who learns important lessons after his son receives a strange new toy. Also Co-written and Directed by Stephen Chow.

It has been said that the only way to become a real man in this world is to grow a mustache. The mustache is probably one of the greatest weapons known to man. Lets face it, would you pick a fight with a dude who has a mustache? I didn’t think so. Because the ’stache is the most manly creation in the entire universe, it is no surprise that some of gaming’s most iconic characters have rocked a mustache like it’s nobodies business. Some use their mustache for evil, others for good, but all of them are awesome. Join me as we take a look at the 10 best mustaches in gaming.

10. Peppy Hare

Peppy Hare has grown old in the Star Fox series. He doesn’t pilot an arwing, but he sure does pilot one hell of a mustache. I imagine it must be hard as balls to grow a mustache when your body is already completely covered in fur, so you at least have to raise one up for Peppy regardless of how poorly it turned out in the end.

I finally caved and bought a Dual Shock 3 controller for the Playstation 3 yesterday so I could get in on some Soul Calibur action with my wife, and whoever else happens to come over in the future and would like to play a round or three. After nearly slicing my hand trying to pry the controller out of that awful and flat out dangerous plastic that companies continue to wrap their products in, I saw that the Dual Shock 3 didn’t come with a USB cable for charging the controller. I guess Sony assumes you already own a cable for the device (or maybe a few others for all your other computer products) that they could skimp out on including one. Guess what? I just paid the price of a brand new and since I can go right over to Amazon and buy one for a penny, I know price isn’t a factor.

Second, I went to turn on the controller so we could actually play the game and it wasn’t even charged! Not only does it not come with a cable, but the controller isn’t even charged once you finally get the damn thing out of the package. So I had to find the 2 inch USB cable Sony included with their console and wait a half hour until I could play a little 2 player action in Soul Calibur 4. I don’t care if this sounds like petty bitching, and seriously, can you ever have too many USB cables?