Hot Heart

This Gun For Hire. Yep, another one of the film noirs. Really liked this one. Didn't think too much of Alan Ladd in the other film (The Glass Key) but as a fairly cold-hearted killer, he was really good. Nice little hunter-and-hunted plot with the cool little situations that brings.

That trailer certainly tried to make it look more like stop-motion than the other animated ones I've seen. Not sure I prefer it that way though, plus it looks and sounds terrible.

And he's not military?!

Yeah, I said I wasn't buying it.

Maybe for some, but the Rock Band DLC was always delayed and sometimes priced incorrectly; now it no longer gets Rock Band Network releases. I even redeemed a code for free tracks that came with Rock Band 2 and it instead downloaded another DLC bundle I never even wanted. Not to mention the general missing releases that other regions had. Plus, at least MS made sure XBLA games always had a trial version. There's much more parity when it comes to XBL, and it all adds up to a better service.

Interesting, but I really can't see them acting more like Steam... http://pastebin.com/uCmdh9jB Also, this

Let's just hope it does really improve the service. It might be OK in the US, but I still have issues with the European side.

Sorry to hear it, Ethan. We've had old cats go that way and it's never easy. Though it's for the best if they've had a good, long life but now they're in a lot of pain.

I really couldn't recommend a film based on the action alone (unless it were something like Shoot 'Em Up, which is a rare exception), particularly not something this bloated and intent on being more than that. It may look and sound cool and everything (which it does for the most part), but there needs to be purpose and substance behind it. I feel that the way it happens in the film undermines a lot of the character. And even if there's 40 minutes of action, there's over 100 minutes of other (boring) stuff. Also, you may be being facetious, but I don't think this film is meant to be connected to Nolan's. The only nod to Batman at all, I believe, is the Wayne Enterprises satellite easter egg that makes a short appearance near the end.

That'd be my recommendation, yeah. Though some of the action scenes' impact may be lost unless you have a decent setup. Gotta have a BIG BOOM.

The best bit was when he swooped in after they'd grabbed his mother and he was pounding the crap out of Zod while yelling at him. The action was good, but I wasn't too fond of everything else.

Oh, forgot to mention this. Little programme on cat behaviour. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b02xcvhw/Horizon_20122013_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Cat/

Finished episode 2 of The Walking Dead. Kinda want to play more...but also kinda don't. It has not-nice things

Yeah, if you watch the video, the guy says that they're showing off a new enemy type 'the martial artist'. You can see how the counters don't attack but simply deflect, plus they can counter your attacks as well. Other combat works the same as before.

I can't believe they made the character a man! Never saw that one coming.

And also this: http://boingboing.net/2013/06/15/xbox-one-will-divide-eu-into-d.html

Combat with the martial artists looked better in this little snippet, plus a titan-type enemy wearing armour.

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Xbox-One-Games-E3-Were-Running-Windows-7-With-Nvidia-GTX-Cards-56737.html

Decided to write a lot of words about this one to try and explain... Man of Steel. Decided to be a bit little less forgiving after Star Trek Into Darkness, so this goes here. If you're a fan of Superman, you may find this enjoyable. I've never really been interested in the character or the mythology, though I feel the film did a fair job of translating that to the screen. Superman, in many ways, has been given the Batman Begins/Nolan treatment, albeit with less smarts. Unlike a lot of recent blockbuster trash, you can see that at least some attention has been paid to the script. The characters really are the focus and there's a clear plan behind it all, so much that I was OK ignoring some of the little missteps with plot logic/convenience. Essentially, my main problem is that there are a few stretches where I just got bored and the actual themes of the film were about as subtle as Superman's fist. Nolan's films were never cryptic with it, but they were usually done quite cleverly via callbacks and such. Here, characters are just repeating the same things (even plot points) and Jor-El the Friendly Ghost is doing too much of the work. Doesn't help that Russell Crowe just seems to be on auto-pilot...or his character is just boring. My friend actually really liked the opening and not the rest of the film, whereas I thought it dragged on too long and wasn't very interesting overall. It does a lot of setup for later though, so it's not as if it's completely redundant. It's just that you see a bunch of stuff...and then since Superman is in the dark, a lot of that then has to be repeated. At one point, Zod actually says, "You want to know how I found you?" and goes on to explain that and his master plan. I can't help feeling there was a better way to achieve a lot of things the film was trying to do. And I guess that's my biggest complaint. At many points, I was wondering why they went a certain route and felt that a lot of potential was wasted. I'll put these in spoilers, just in case. It's not so much that the plot holds many surprises, but that you may wish to know less going in. As for the good stuff, the action was really well-done. The flying looks cool and there's a real primal satisfaction from seeing Superman thump the hell out of Zod and other Kryptonians, or seeing these superbeings crashing through buildings and causing untold destruction. Everything has a real heft to it. Some of the action sequences may seem a little messy at times, and perhaps drag on too long (there is one particular instance where it's intercut with some other characters about whom I didn't actually care outside of earlier incarnations) and there are some neat visual touches. Overall, though, I'd have a hard time recommending it to the average viewer who has no interest in Superman.

Michael Cera does creepy well.

He's also supposed to be rather ugly. Which means we wouldn't have the same actor, who has the best voice. So, I'd have to ask...are you some kind of monster?!

Breakdown of the gameplay. http://www.screencuisine.net/screencuisine/video-games/the-division-trailer-breakdown/