What Is Techno Again?

Want more Resident Evil 5 content? Unless you plan on diving into co-op mode, I couldn’t possibly understand why, but hey, more power to you. Just don’t let the year that flew past us distract you from the game’s original flaws, because they stick to the two DLCs recently released.

Find out what “Lost in Nightmares” and “Desperate Escape” have to offer in this RadNerd review.

Hey, remember the days when Chris Redfield and his sassy BSAA partner, Sheva Alomar, crunched those mean ol’ Majinis side by side? I can still smell the blood rusting on the chainsaws, feel the Reapers using my guts as Play-Doh, and hear Sheva’s incessant nonsense about needing more ammo. Not to mention all the cheesy love and hugs (and, erm, Wesker drama) that hitched a ride with frustrating QTAs hogging the steering wheel. My brain can replay all that action as if it were yesterday … maybe because it practically was yesterday. Okay, a year does not equate to the concept known as “yesterday,” but Resident Evil 5 is managing against any non-masochistic odds to surf its fairly sized, “racist” wave of cheap tricks. I mean, did we all just forget how much the AI’s moronic antics bothered us or how much misery the final boss sequence caused us? Oohh, yes. Now the pain smacks you in the face.

I enjoy manga/anime more than I like to admit, that’s for sure, and Biomega currently tops my Japan-themed list. Okay, I’m also a sucker for science fiction … and horror … and pretty pictures, although there are some gritty ones in this  volume.

Tsutomu Nihei concocts a mind-bending new sci-fi horror that envisions humanity’s desperate future. In the hands of new wave idealists, a bleak outer space virus slashes through Earth’s landscape and corrupts healthy human beings, mutating them into zombie-like “drones” that meander hungrily and follow an unspoken code. Biomega propels readers into a dark age full of government conspiracy and media-driven health crises, and the further we explore, the more terrifyingly real and all too possible the world becomes.

Read the whole review at OneMetal.

Another issue of Witchblade hit stands recently, but is it worth the cover price? Find out at OneMetal.

New York City police detective Sara Pezzini trades quips and counters blows with the green-haired Cyberdata fightin’ bot named Aphrodite IV. Top Cow’s latest Witchblade issue crashes the corporation’s party wide open, unveiling a familial welcoming crew. Unfortunately, the creators forgot to tidy up before the readers arrived.

The Twelve: Spearhead, X-Men: Pixie Strikes Back #2, and Hulk: Let the Battle Begin comprise this month’s Marvel Meltdown docket at Impulse Creations. Check out previews for three of this Wednesday’s comics!

“Spearhead defies the aging, yellow color now often associated with WWII nonfiction and freshly portrays the tumultuous historical era through the eyes of a costumed reporter who walks unsteadily beside super-powered avengers.” - The Twelve: Spearhead

“Pixie Strikes Back #2 packs a delightful charm that glides past any age restrictions … despite whose invited to the “dazzling,” popular party.” - X-Men: Pixie Strikes Back #2

“‘Let the Battle Begin’ … succeeds as a superficial but highly entertaining short narrative.” - Hulk: Let the Battle Begin

Okay, this apparently went live Tuesday on the front page of Kombo.com, but I was too distracted by my recently defunct computer to notice. Anyway, I hope you take a moment to hop over to Kombo and check out my first guest article for them!

Over the years, my obsession for the Silent Hill games has nestled into my life like an infection. Akira Yamaoka’s music, which balances so beautifully against Mary Elizabeth McGlynn’s and Joe Romersa’s haunting vocals, effortlessly spreads its tendrils under my flesh. The gritty visuals poison my veins, the nightmarish town rots my bones, the psychological illusions deceive my brain, and the lingering terror grips my soul in my sleeping hours. Despite its deathly visage, I can’t help but experience a sort of inexplicable, Gothic fascination for the series whose stories have always rattled me. But when the recent Shattered Memories caused my dry throat to constrict and my eyes to wet, I knew the usual horrors weren’t culpable.

Want to plunk down the cash for a good movie this weekend? The Crazies won’t steer you wrong. Just, uh … don’t drink the water. Check out the review at OneMetal.com.

Breck Eisner’s name occupies only a handful of film credits and claims even fewer directorial spots. The Crazies, a remake of the George Romero 1973 original, accelerates the rookie filmmaker into a potentially household name.

Welcome to Ogden March, where the Iowan fields reap plenty and infected water turns the kindly townsfolk into violent psychopaths who like to hum a creepy tune. Sheriff David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) and his pregnant wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell), escape government quarantine and regroup with Deputy Russell Clank (Joe Anderson) and the teenage Becca Darling (Danielle Panabaker). They fend off “crazies” and elude gas mask-donning soldiers while piecing together the rampant disease’s origins and nailing down an escape route. But not everyone ducks the infection … or the accompanying paranoia.

Eager about the upcoming Castlevania game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360? I am, and you can pronounce your love by checking out these new screens and a quickie debate about Lords of Shadow’s direction over at OneMetal.

Are you prepared to whip and magically cast Dracula across vast stretches of, well, 3D expanse? The new screenshots and artwork batch uploaded today suggests a bigger, denser world for gamers to explore. But can the developers and the assisting Kojima Productions rework the aging series into a hot-blooded successor?

Those anticipating the trigger-happy RPG, Resonance of Fate, can download two free tracks to bide the time until its March 16 release (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360). Whether or not you actually listen to video game soundtracks, the songs will give you a nice taste of what Resonance of Fate has to offer.

The zip file, however, does not include the cool metal-esque song featured in this trailer. Of course not.

Will you pick up the SEGA game in a few weeks?