Here are my picks; let me know if you can think of anything else that I may like and that I should add to the list based on what you see here

Alan Wake 360

Alone in the Dark PS3

Darksiders: Wrath of War PS3

Data-Fly PS3

Dead Island 360

Dead Space PS3

Fable 2 360

Final Fantasy XIII PS3

Fracture PS3

Fumito Ueda (Shadow of the Colossus, ICO) reveals plans for his next project to appear on Sony's next-gen console. PS3

Gears of War 2 360

God of War III PS3

Heavy Rain (working title) PS3

Infamous PS3

Infinite Undiscovery 360

KillZone 2 PS3

The Last Remnant 360

Left 4 Dead 360

Mass Effect 2 (working title) 360

Motorstorm 2 PS3

MGS4 PS3

Ni-Oh PS3

Prototype PS3

Resident Evil 5 PS3

Resistance Fall of Man 2 PS3

Seikan PS3

Shin Megami Tensei (working title) PS3

Silent Hill V PS3

Siren: New Translation PS3

Star Ocean: The Last Hope 360

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed PS3

Tales of Vesperia 360

Too Human 360

Wet PS3

White Knight Story PS3

Lots of JRPGs comming to 360

Overall great game one of the best in the series IMO. I'm having freezes mainly online and experiencing the "stuck on loading screen" occasionally. To fix the loading screen issue I can disconnect from PSN but then I can't get online. The few times I was online it was awesome. I like quick deathmatches especially. Online is where I'm having most of my problems as far as crashes (not the car kind) so for now I'm going to stay offline until a patch is hopfully available. Sorry Mars188, Kreftain, and everyone else but it disrupts the game and is lame to constantly have to shut down my system during a game. Its hit or miss whether I get stuck on the loading screen if I dont disconnect but most of the time I just don't bother disconnecting and once I'm in I don't have any more problems.

Anyway, GTA campaign is good fun. Great graphics and the first time I flew through the car windshield was glorious. In the past I was never that into GTA series; it was fun and all but It just never clicked. I think R* finally perfected the game with GTAIV. So, those are my thoughts. This has been a no frills report brought to you by Sprunk.

*EDIT May 7, 2008 1:21 pm PT:

Ask and ye shall receive looks like R* read my mind and released the patch lol

Rockstar patches PS3 GTAIV

BluRay has won the high definition format war and Sony's PS3 has gained some much needed momentum according to NPD's February North American hardware and software sales figures* The full charts are as follows:

Nintendo DS - 587.6K (from 251K)
Wii - 432K (from 274K)
PlayStation 2 - 351.8K ( PS2 out sells both 360 and PS3)
PlayStation 3 - 280.8K (from 269K)
Xbox 360 - 254.6K (from 230K)
PSP - 243.1K (from 230K)

* Source Gamasutra

It seems Sony's decision to integrate the BD drive, whilst risky, may finally be paying off for the company and with the variable price points from multiple SKUs; the PS3 is a lot more reasonably priced after all. It's really been a game of quality over quantity for Sony. Granted, Sony's not out of the woods yet with its PS3 and given that supply constraints for the 360 will ease I expect a close race for March and April. Nonetheless I don't foresee a clear winner between the PS3 and 360 for 2008. While there are a few awesome exclusives for the PS3 and an acceptable amount of multiplatform titles, Sony will need to net more exclusives to really make a significant impact in the US market against the 360.

With BluRay a clear winner in the high definition format war and seemingly acting as a catalyst for the February sales boost for the PS3. Sony is off to a good start this year. I've seen first hand the importance of having an integrated high capacity disc player on a console when I opened the package for Lost Odyssey, exclusive for the Xbox 360, and I see not one but four discs crammed within and disc # 1 was just swimming around the top waiting to fly out at me when I carelessly opened the case. It really hit home that I will not have to deal with this when MGS4 or Final Fantasy XIII are released on the PS3.

Personal preferences aside high capacity and HiDef formats will not go away. The fact that Microsoft didn't bother to integrate their HD-DVD player into the Xbox 360 and instead went with a peripheral that did nothing more than play movies says a lot of things to me. Aside from confusing the market it is instrumental in a strategy that, I believe, may facilitate Microsoft saving the consumer from themselves with digital downloading or streaming. I'm not opposed to this idea but I am curious as to how this will look. Will it be anything like what is going on XBL now? If so I'll pass, this might work for games with a big enough HDD but movies forget it. Limited selection, 720p is the highest resolution, and you have to pay every time you want to watch. For me to even consider this a viable option my game console better come equipped with at least a terabyte HDD so I can DL and save my games and movies. Also, would this actually kill BluRay? Are we even going to have the option to be a society that has discs meticulously stored on shelves to enjoy at our convenience packed with extras, booklets etc..?

At any rate, I'm a collector, I guess. I like my junk; hell, I still buy music on vinyl along with legal downloading CDs, DVDs, Games, books... well you get the picture. I like BluRay but I hope it lasts.

I just had to make a new blog in part to sort of move on from the GS / Gertsman debacle. Drama, drama, drama. Complete overkill at this point time to move on. I'm glad those who choose to stay are staying its obvious we don't have to agree with this site to continue posting and being an active part of the community oh and thank you to all who commented you guys rock.

Time to go back to what The Horror (blog name)is all about. I was bummed this year to miss Horror Fest 07. Their promtions guy should be fired. The theatres in my area were added and I s*** you not, until the day of the festival. Then the site advertised it as running two weekends. Well the theatre had no knowlege of this. What a joke. So I'll be waiting for the DVD releases in mid 08.

Horrorfest07

Hatchet comes out 12/18/07 on DVD dubbed as old school American horror. I saw it in the theatre and my impressions were that it was a good effort from director Adam Green. If your a horror fanatic like me you may have been aware of all the buzz from the underground surrounding this film. All I will tell you is that I recommend giving it a go and formulate your own opinion. I will say that if you are into gore you will be pretty happy. Characters are impaled, disemboweled and beheaded by a psycho, as well as repeatedly terrorized by half-naked women. Falls into deformed killer in the woods sub genre or DKITW

In other news I am going to stop purchasing discs in Masters of Horror series independently and instead will wait untill the box set or Bluray compilations are out.

Too many to keep up with for the amount of money they cost me and some of them are not so good.

Other than that it's business as usual I just picked up Rob Zombies Halloween DVDand has some killer extras which kind of made me appreciate it more since I saw it in the theatre and consists of how the film was made and the meet the cast featurete is done well also.

I also picked up:

I have been meaning to pick up Squirm forever. Jeff Lieberman is one of my favorite writer / directors so it was a good haul. Have a great week everyone I made this kind of long so I could push the other blog to the bottom of the page and its not staring me in the face.

Thought I'd share the latest additions to my movie collection.

Killer Killer: A slasher film that takes a detour from the usual formula in that the director Pat Higgins glorifies or "gorifies" the death scenes in a way that the viewer is actually justified in rooting for the killer.

Set in a high security prison for extremely dangerous criminals. One day for no apparent reason all the guards vanish and the cell doors open. However, the prisoner's freedom is short lived due to a mysterious mist outside that instantly freezes anyone who leaves the building (it could happen). So with nowhere to go the prisoners are free to roam about the building discussing the important differences between serial killer, spree killer, or copycat killer; their pointless bickering is one of the humorous aspects of the film for me.

Eventually, inmates start being killed one by one and for some mysterious reason the killer(s) look traditionally like victims from your typical slasher films and take on the appearances of cheerleaders, campers and babysitters.

This movie is pretty cool; I love the odd story line in this film. It's like Higgins says to himself,

"Ok I'm going to make a movie about prisoners that escape from their cells but can't leave the prison; why can't they leave the prison? Mysterious mist that instantaneously freezes you, that's why."

It's so random it just freaking works. I think Mysterious mist should be an all inclusive excuse from now on. Late for work or school- mysterious mist, forgot your mom's birthday- mysterious mist. It just works for everything. Anyway this movie rocks, with tons of gore and cool death scenes you will assuredly be entertained.

I haven't sat down with the other DVDs yet. I'm pretty busy with school and work and I'm still plugging away at Bioshock.

Frankly, I'd rather see zombies then say Nazi-vampires; there is not a more obvious plot device than using Nazis as the subject of the audience's hatred and vampires are just so melodramatic; currently the world doesn't need anything else contributing to the lack of creativity in horror and fantasy themed fiction in books, movies or video games.

Zombies on the other hand, seem to always reflect contemporary prejudices and George Romero said it best,

"When there is no more room in hell, the dead shall walk the earth"

To put it simply, now that the 21st century is in full swing; I can't help but realize the implications brought on by zombies according to popular culture. In the past, zombies were often a straightforward reflection of our culture's current prejudices and disputed religious, philosophical, and political matters. While this much still holds true the climate has changed dramatically.

Today technology has propelled the human race well beyond those days of cold war fears or mere materialism popularized in Zombie films in the 70's and 80's from directors like Romero, Fulci, and O'bannon. The world has become more and more populated things are heating up; war, crime, and reality TV inundate our media. Our culture exists by means of networking, communication, and entertainment; the immediacy of technology is the new shopping mall.

To me zombies have always represented the ugly side of humanity; the mindless masses living out their days in utter chaos. I realized something the other day while playing, of all things, Dead Rising that while playing for 4 hours I mistakenly thought only 1 hour had gone by; granted that's happened before but I guess it got me thinking.

Was I exhibiting the very same characteristics of the undead for those hours lost?

If I am transforming into a zombie; am I a new breed of zombie, a technology zombie perhaps?

At any rate, now I sit here eating this apple and tapping away at my keyboard in between bites. I realize it is unknown what the future holds for the zombie in our society. Zombies will always be my favorite archetype in film, books and games, at least for now anyway.

Zombies rule ftw.