Probably horrible movie based on a video game/inspired by video game culture Review File #1: Gamer

 "Move aside The Running Man, there's a new game in town: it's called...uh, well it's called Gamer...and it's...uh...well, it's like all Running Man and shit...but it's...you know, like hardcore and extreme and current and stuff!!! Video Games are all big-time now, right?  I mean, that's what all the kids like these days. They still like violence and titties and swearing though, too, amirite?"
 

Review: Metroid Other M

Full disclosure: Samus Aran, star of the Metroid series, is, without a doubt, my favorite video game character. Some find this somewhat strange since, until recently, she was never really much of a character at all.  Throughout the series, bits and pieces have been revealed about her past and in “Metroid Fusion” for the GBA, she even had some sparse inner monologue (the first time the character had ever spoken in any manner), but for the most part, Samus is kind of a mystery and that’s what I think I find so alluring about her. All you really needed to know about Samus was that she was a badass Bounty Hunter with a slick space suit and an arm-cannon who hunts Metroids, case closed. All that being said, you can imagine my excitement (and trepidation) when I learned that “Other M” would be the first game (with the exception of Smash Bros.) to feature a voice actress portraying my favorite character in a fully fleshed out Hollywood-style, blockbuster Metroid game.  So, did Team Ninja somehow manage to not completely fuck up my favorite pixelated creation?