We're less than three weeks away from getting our sweaty reptilian hands on the Turtles in Time remake for Xbox Live Arcade and there still hasn't been a ton of high fidelity footage shown.

Does this video offer glimpse of how the pizza dudes will fare in glorious high definition?



I still cant decide on whether this remake does the original justice.

Decide for yourself. Here is the same level from the original game.



I'll shell out my final verdict on Turtles in Time Re-Shelled in my review in just a couple of weeks.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is the epitome of celluloid crap. A movie that is so safe, so creatively impotent and inherently lame that it is certain to be a product of stockholder movie-making.

We pick up where we were last left off with this dreadful cast of prehistoric bores. The same focus-tested and downright unpleasant characters from the last two films are back, and are as irritating and depressing as ever.

Ray Romano manages to be even more of a downer than his sitcom counterpart as the “hero” in this animated family feature. Queen Latifah resumes her role as mastodon Raymond’s lover, the only female character with a speaking role. Unfortunately she never has anything interesting to say but an occasional sassy quip, rendering the character more of a 21st Century mammy than leading lady. Dennis Leary is back as the crestfallen sabertooth who is the movie’s security force. Anytime the other pathetic characters are threatened by temperamental toons, Leary’s cat sweeps in to save the day. This is the full extent of the character. Sulk. Rescue. Sulk. Rescue. Wash, rinse, repeat.

The list of useless, disposable characters goes on. How could I forget the creepy pedo-sloth voiced by career movie pest John Leguizamo. Don’t forget the two weasel brothers, whose lines are always bookended by exclamations of “Dude!”, “Awesome!”, and “Totally!” You know, stuff that cartoon characters said 17 years ago. Ninja Turtles don’t even talk like this anymore.

And as if this series didn’t have enough characters, they added another furry tuft of dread to the stuffed animal heap. I can see the CEO of Fox sitting in on the story meetings: “Could we work in Johnny Depp’s character from the pirate pictures?” They couldn’t afford Jack Sparrow so they settled on Shaun of the Dead. Simon Pegg lends his voice to the casts third weasel character: a mad frontiersman who leads the other characters through the movies mundane “save our friend that we really don’t even like that much” plot. This character reaches new heights of being annoyingly in your face: anytime Pegg’s character says anything that’s supposed to be funny or important, the camera crash zooms in on his ugly one-eyed mug.

I don’t mention the names of the characters in this movie because I don’t remember them. Characters from Pixar movies (and occasionally Dreamworks) stick with you. You remember their charm, quirks and names. The only memorable character in the Ice Age universe is Scrat, a saber-toothed squirrel whose life ambition revolves around catching a stray acorn.


As in the past two movies, his dialogue free screen time is limited to vignettes here and there that proceed when the writers hit a brick wall. Scrat is relatable and actually, ahem…funny. A character that channels the sadness of Chaplin and the slapstick grace of Buster Keaton.

Scrat’s misadventures clearly display that the talents behind Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs are capable of crafting an endearing and thoroughly enjoyable movie experience, if only the stockholders allowed them.

Oppo, an American based manufacturer of dvd players, has made the availability of their latest product nation wide. It's the Oppo BDP-83. That's right it's a Bluray disc player! This should come as excellent news to anyone who's familiar with their top of the line players. Their DVD players were considered among the best. I wonder how this one will stack up. Apparently it's supposed be compatible with all blurays. Nice. It's a little pricey though. Punching your wallet in the heart, it's priced at 500$.

What could it be? Word is we'll have to wait until after EVO. But, I'm guessing it's a joystick of some sort. TvC maybe? Dunno. For now nobody's spilling the beans with the exception of a few photos. Hmmm...All this after I bought two new SFIV sticks this summer. Better get a second job, I hear this surprise is going to be extremely limited.

Via capcom blog

On the eve of the world's farewell to the king of pop I thought I'd take a look at MJ's arcade. Anyone can, there's a virtual tour of his enormous arcade.

DDR of course. Is that an MK I machine I spot?
Street Fighter II. Nice.
OMG Sega RX360!!! And for those of you who don't know what that is...
Again, nice. Marvel Versus Capcom.
Han Solo Frozen in carbonite. Mike has a super Star Wars collection. That Artoo looks awesome.
I remember that T2 cab.

This is pretty much my dream basement. Of course it's not exactly the same setup that I would want but the sheer amount of fun included here, makes me lust after it. Here's to you Mike! You sure knew how to have fun!

I recently downloaded and used the Hulu Desktop Beta. And right off the bat I want to mention how sleek the interface is. Cable companies take notice. It's easy to cycle through movies and television shows, but the bast part is the full screen capabilities and its functionality with the mac remote. I watched a bit of Field of Dreams, which didn't hold up that well, and a bit of a newer HD episode of the Simpsons which was very comparable to DVD quality. Say what you will about Hulu's selection, but it is nice to be able to catch recent episodes from the couch. Internet TV's on its way in.

Battle Fantasia, the delightful little fighting game from Arc Systems (of Guilty Gear and Blaze Blue fame) is set for release on the Playstation 3 via PSN this fall.

The game was made available for XBOX 360 exclusively last year in retail form, leaving PS3 2D fighting enthusiasts out of the loop, until now. Details regarding the price of this digital download release have not been mentioned, but I'm guessing that it will come in around the $20, which would be a total steal considering how good this game is.

I own both the imported PS3 disc of Battle Fantasia and the U.S. XBOX 360 version. I cant recommend this game enough to people who are interested in a light, easy to pick up and play fighting game, with a simple (and very forgiving) controls. Battle Fantasia is also gorgeous to look at. The art style is reminiscent of Hayou Miyasaki's European-fused anime works, and the cell-shaded 3D characters look more cartoon-like than Street Fighter 4's roster.

Keep you eyes peeled for Battle Fantasia on the Playstation Network this fall. It'll be the perfect game to play between white-knuckle matches of Street Fighter 4, King of Fighters XII and Blaze Blue.

The documentary I Got Next details life within the Street Fighter tournament community. Which, niche as it may be, is an ever-growing community, especially with the release of street fighter 4. It was screened live on UFRAG last week and has since been released to watch. It's not the full version but is still pretty lengthy. It's neat to see these personalities interacting on such a small scale since they've been enlarged to such mythic proportion.