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Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PS2, PSP) Come back to Liberty City from the rst three GTA adventures and relive some of those maa moments. Cars (PS2, PC, PSP, XBOX, GC, DS, GBA) A racing game based off yet another Pixar movie hooray. AND 1 Streetball (PS2, XBOX, MOBILE) - Ubisoft gives you the ability to control your favorite ESPNs AND 1 Mix Tape Tours ballers and even create your own with its very own moves. Juiced: Eliminator (PSP) Theres a naked girl in their online advertisement, so really it has to be a great racing game, right? Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow (PS2, PC, XBOX) Based on the rst movie. Probably not much fun unless you enjoy playing as a slightly hot pirate. The Fast and the Furious (PS2, PSP, MOBILE) - Will be based off the third installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise. There wont be racing like Need for Speed, but instead it will be replaced by
NCAA Football 2007 (PS2, XBOX, X360) Looks like Madden better make some new voice overs NCAA is moving in on his job. Teen Titans (PS2, XBOX, GC, GB) - Based on the cartoon television show and DC Comic series. Teen Titans offers gamers the ability to play multiplayer as their favorite Titan. Super Monkey Ball Adventure (GC) - A spin-off of the monkey-rolling franchise that gives gamers a new arsenal of abilities. There are over 50 puzzles, got time on your hands? Ghost Rider (PSP) Video game based on the movie, based on the Marvel Comic about an angry motorcycle stunt devil. Sounds like a 3-D version of Excitebike. Barnyard (PS2, XBOX) - Based on Paramounts movie about farm animals acting like humans. Sounds a little like Charlottes Web and Animal Farm without the mean pigs.
Black and White 2: Battle of the Gods (PC) - In this sequel to the acclaimed Black and White, become an evil or good god by controlling your believers at your will. But this time you contend against another god to win kill him or be killed. Rampage: Total Destruction (GC, PS2) - Nostalgia at its best. A great callback to the arcade game where the only point was to destroy buildings and eat people for hours on end. Add new monsters with new combos in an almost 3-D platform world and youve got a great stress reliever. 2006 FIFA World Cup (PC, PS2, XBOX, X360, GC, DS, GBA, MOBILE, PSP) - For those who love soccer, this is the newest update of the premier soccer game, which focuses on the soccers biggest event: The World Cup. Top Gun (DS) Based on the 1986 movie with Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, the dying ight-simulator breed may yet survive. Dr. Sudoku (GBA) Cant wait for the next edition of the newspaper? This game carries thousands of Sudoku puzzles for your math enjoyment.
Playboy Mansion: Private Party (PC) An expansion pack for the most expensive way to see naked Playboy Playmates. Try the magazine, its only $6. Jaws Unleashed (PC, PS2, XBOX) More than 30 years later they think of an interesting twist to the classic suspense/thriller: be a shark and protect your sea from drillers. Right, as if sharks think. IHRA Drag Racing: Sportsman Edition (PS2, XBOX) Tired of paying for speeding tickets after drag racing down Virginia Street? This cheaper option might pique your interest. Over the Hedge (PC, PS2, GC, DS, GBA, XBOX) Why would they make a video game based on a Pixar lm? Oh yeah, they want money, never mind. Gareld and His Nine Lives (GBA) Based off Gareld and Friends, the old TV show. As long it doesnt resemble Gareld: The Movie it might not be awful. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) Lost or broke your Nintendo and miss the original Super Mario

Bros.? Thats OK, Nintendo is rereleasing the game with upgraded almost 3-D platform graphics. X-Men: The Ofcial Game (GC, DS, GBA, PC, PS2, XBOX, X360) Based on the XMen: The Last Stand, this game lets you take control of Wolverine, Nightcrawler or Iceman in a battle to the end. The Da Vinci Code (PC, PS2, XBOX) A game based on a movie, based on a book by Dan Brown. Luckily, the author worked closely with the creators as to not pollute this action/puzzle game. Steamboat Chronicles (PS2) An interesting RPG hybrid: mech warriors in a Western setting. Table Tennis (XBOX) In case shooting things makes you feel ill. Hitman: Blood Money (PC, PS2, X360, XBOX, MOBILE) Fourth in a series of stealthy rstperson shooter games. Dont worry, the movies coming out soon.
drifting. Urban Chaos: Riot Response (PS2, XBOX) This is how you respond to all those obnoxious neighbors without getting arrested. NFL Head Coach (PS2, XBOX, PC) - EAs NFL Head Coach takes you off the eld and puts you in control of the sidelines as you call the plays as the head coach. Tekken: Dark Resurrection (PSP) A smaller version of the classic ghting game with a few add-ons. Superman Returns: The Video Game (PS2, PC, PSP, XBOX, X360, GC, DS) Based on the movie. What else is new? FlatOut 2 (PS2, XBOX) - Bugbears sequel will once again allow gamers to race around fully destructible environments to their hearts desire. Burnout anyone?
Nowadays, movies and video games are interchangeable. But why?

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Film critics complained that (Niobe) is a relatively obscure character, Jenkins wrote. But in fact, if you played the game, you would have spent more than 100 hours controlling her character, seeing the world through her point of view. The way people immersed themselves into movies may be changed forever. The reason isnt entirely due to the new face of the media, but the money it brings the companies. The idea that a company can further process a storyline to connect players may bring a world of possibilities for advancement. In such a world, trans-media storytelling becomes the norm, Jenkins wrote. Trans-media storytelling can be done badly so that there is only a supercial relationship between the original and the spin-off product. (But) when it is done well, each new media manifestation adds something vital and interesting to the franchise as a whole. Making a movie into a video game sometimes only works in one direction, though.

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magination, or at least a signicant amount of it may be a thing of the past. Back in the day circa 85 to 94 a movie came out with an array of action gures and coloring books. But today, why create a world in your mind when you can have a pixilated one at your ngertips? Action gures no longer help enhance the movie experience. Creating your own world on the livingroom oor with Spiderman in your hand is rare. Instead, imagination can be found in the electronics section of Wal-Mart pre-packaged in shiny boxes behind glass windows. According to Henry Jenkins, the director of the Comparative Media Studies Graduate Program at MIT, video games enhance a players experience of the movie. The Wachowski Brothers, who created The Matrix trilogy, used new media platforms and the character Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) to enrich our experience of the ctional world in the Enter the Matrix video game, Jenkins wrote in an e-mail.
Hitman: Blood Money will hit consoles May 30 while Hitman the movie with Vin Diesel comes out in 2007.
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mesmerizing beats of Fuel Injected blared from the speakers. Perfected but not invented, rhymes from the ego driven self centered entered the fast lane and never gut dented, life in a flash hypes blunts and hash. Prevail climbed across a support beam from the ceiling of the Green Room above ecstatic fans tearing for a piece of him. Instead of being engulfed by the crowd when he fell, they carried him back to the front of

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Red Hot Radio bassist CJ Hillstead plays at Wolfstock Wednesday.
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Turning a movie into a video game isnt a good idea, Mikki Fraser, an 18-year-old English major, said. I think it hurts the video games more. Theyre usually rushed and have bad graphics. Games open a film to certain audiences who might have missed it otherwise, Jenkins wrote. This is certainly true of contemporary games, such as The Warriors, The Godfather and Seven Samurai 20XX, which are based on movies from earlier periods. Turning a video game into a feature lm is somewhat harder, Jenkins wrote. Cinema may also shift public perceptions of game content, Jenkins wrote. In reality, there have been very few good or even decent movies based on games. So far, it has proven much easier to move in the other direction.

The crowd exploded with an enormous uproar as Swollen Members launched their performance. Mad Child clenched his fists in the air as he carried himself with great stature. Prevail wildly swung his long gorgeous dreads in a hypnotic sway and Rob the Viking mastered the turntable casually. The crowd went crazy as the
the stage. The show was insane as random audience members hopped on stage, danced and jumped back into the crowd. It was a great wave of hysterical fans pushing and shoving and flying all over the place. Its a shame bands like this may not be as well-known as the mainstream artists repeatedly shown on MTV because they see past the money and the fame and are about the music the true meaning of hip-hop.

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superstar, a self-loathing British TV judge that everyone loves for no reason, non-descript idiots and the terrorist who brings them all together. Every scene includes some satire whether its the Mike nametag on a disguised Arab, the terrorists watching a TiVo in their Middle-Eastern tent or Chief of
Staff telling the president what to say through an earpiece. Unfortunately, the satire doesnt amount to any big discernable point and only touches lightly on some American habits. This is refreshing as it points out we care more about a TV show and ourselves than any grand scheme of life. Though the movie doesnt offer any solutions to Americans social ineptitudes, it presents them in such a way that viewers
can decide whether they want to laugh at themselves or cry at the world. Anything they do after that is up to them. Either way, the movie is denitely funny and as long as you make the connections between the characters and real life, itll be a worthwhile venture to the theater. But if you have some notion that America is a big, fuzzy, awless country, youll completely miss the joke and hate this movie.