Games

Nintendo’s family-friendly Wii, which transcended video game norms to become the greatest bowling simulator your grandma every played, had a surprising number of niche titles that appealed to a more adult set. Games like SEGA’s gore-soaked Madworld and House of the Dead: Overkill rubbed shoulders with the likes of Super Mario Galaxy and Imagine Party Babyz to deliver a surprising amount of quality thrills for horror fans.

Resident Evil: Retribution is opening in theaters today, marking the fifth(!) entry in a film franchise that’s taken many liberties with its source material.

The iTunes App Store is a fascinating microcosm that replicates the gaming world on a smaller, faster scale. Any original game that captures the public’s attention (and wallets) will quickly be followed by a series of mutated clones that promise all of the appeal of the progenitor title but with an added twist.

There were few things that annoyed me more as a little monster than non-candy treats on Halloween.  Apples?  Meh.  Prunes?  Bleah!  Chick tracts?  Ooooh boy.  K

Halloween is like horror Christmas, as all of the developers release their more morbid wares all around October to cash in on that Samhain spirit (y’know, we like this stuff year round, guy