A Geek's eye view on Gaming, Movies and More. http://www.media-geeks.com/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:08:35 -0800 TMon, 08 Mar 2010 01:08:35 -0800 The year was 1951 when Walt Disney Pictures released one of their most fanciful, color-drenched animated features of all time featuring characters from the (allegedly) drug-addled writings of Lewis Carroll. Not that I'm knocking Alice's Adventures in... http://www.media-geeks.com/articles/1429/Tim_Burton's_Alice_in_Wonderland_Review/ 2010-03-07T01:01:25-08:00 I'm sitting here trying to write a review of Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland. Earlier I mentioned to the group I was with that somehow Burton had turned Alice into Dorothy and Wonderland into Oz. As I typed that line down, it sparked a memory of a M... http://www.media-geeks.com/articles/1428/The_Rainbow_Connection/ 2010-03-06T03:13:18-08:00 Bungie has been working on this a while and while there were mixed reviews with the recent Halo 3: ODST, the extra time in hiding looks to be worth it. The trailer gives us a sneak peak at what is to come in this latest installment of the Halo fran... http://www.media-geeks.com/articles/1427/Halo:_REACH_Mulitplayer_Trailer_Posted/ 2010-03-04T12:21:46-08:00 For all you crazy old-school NES sports geeks, (that includes our resident Studio Geek as well), Tecmo has officially announced Tecmo Bowl Throwback, a slick 3-D update to the NES Blockbuster! In addition to improved graphics and gameplay,  th... http://www.media-geeks.com/articles/1426/Tecmo_Officially_Announces_Tecmo_Bowl_Throwback/ 2010-03-04T10:53:57-08:00 CAPCOM's recently released new DLC for their 2009 hit RESIDENT EVIL 5, but is it worth it? RE5's first DLC came just weeks after the game's initial release back in March of 2009. The released "Versus Mode" was mediocre mostly due to the built-in... http://www.media-geeks.com/articles/1425/Resident_Evil_5's_LOST_IN_NIGHTMARES_DLC/ 2010-02-20T01:21:21-08:00 Recently, a fine line has been drawn between video games and films. As more games incorporate film-style cut scenes and epic story lines, the line grows ever slimmer. Never was this more apparent than in "Mass Effect 2.""Mass Effect 2," the aptly n... http://www.media-geeks.com/articles/1424/Mass_Effect_2/ 2010-02-17T19:35:35-08:00 I don't understand why people like this sort of game. And I don't mean that as a judgmental thing or a joke,  I mean it as a simple true statement. Star Wolves 3: Civil War is a game I have trouble categorizing. Sci-Fi-RPG-RTS is probably the ... http://www.media-geeks.com/articles/1423/Star_Wolves_3:_Civil_War/ 2010-02-16T20:38:18-08:00 Book adaptations from a popular source are always tricky to pull off. The film needs to keep the readers' favorite parts of a book, while maintaining a story in a much smaller time frame. Often this is done well enough – like in the Harry Potter movi... http://www.media-geeks.com/articles/1422/Percy_Jackson_and_the_Olympians:_The_Lightning_Thief/ 2010-02-15T23:52:36-08:00 Augmented Reality is a term that's been floating around a lot lately. It boils down to being a gimmick that stems from virtual reality, only instead of putting a user into a virtual environment it brings a virtual item into the real world, via a vi... http://www.media-geeks.com/articles/1421/Foto_Face:_The_Face_Stealer_Strikes_Review/ 2010-02-07T01:11:30-08:00 We've finally hit that mark in cinematic history where reboots are getting reboots. An announcement from Sony Pictures not more than an hour ago surprisingly revealed that work on Spider-Man 4 will be dumped entirely. Franchise director Sam Raimi a... http://www.media-geeks.com/articles/1420/Spider-Man_4_Out,_Spider-Man_1_Back_in_2012/ 2010-01-11T16:44:41-08:00