http://www.redorbit.com Sci-Fi & Gaming http://www.redorbit.com/modules/news/images/tools/rss_logo.gif http://www.redorbit.com Among the list of highly anticipated game releases this year is Hideo Kojima’s “Metal Gear Solid 4.”Set to hit stores next month, the game has already created hype among followers of the Metal Gear series. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1409694/metal_gear_set_to_release_amidst_high_expectations/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Fri, 30 May 2008 11:45:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming HANCOCK -- ** -- Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman; rated PG-13 (violence, profanity, vulgarity, brief gore, slurs, brief drugs, brief partial nudity); Carmike 12 and Ritz; Century Sandy and South Salt Lake; Cinemark Jordan Landing; Megaplex District, Gateway and Jordan Commons; Red Carpet Gateway; Redwood Drive-in; Westates Holladay Center It's hard to make heads or tails of "Hancock." At times the movie seems like an overcooked cinematic concoction. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1459982/hancock_a_confusing_film_with_a_confused_cast/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming No, no, no, says "WALL-E," creator Andrew Stanton -- Pixar's new movie is not sending an environmental message. Yes, the movie's set in the future, and the world's been pretty much ruined by us. Yes, the planet is a big, uninhabitable pile of garbage, and it's our garbage. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1452874/director_walle_is_just_an_oldfashioned_scifi_flick/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming It doesn't matter if the characters in his films are toys, insects, monsters, fish or robots. Andrew Stanton wants all of them to be as "human" as possible. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1451351/walle_director_wants_characters_to_be_human/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming Some things about the summer movie season are as predictable as ... well, the summer movie season. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1449440/angelina_jolie_has_a_killer_role_in_wanted/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming The late, great Stanley Kubrick ("2001:A Space Odyssey") used to say that if you can turn off the sound and still follow the story, you've made a film, but if you black out the picture and can still follow the story with only the sound, you haven't. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1446512/walle_touches_teaches_and_tickles/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:25:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming Even for Pixar, a company that thrives on new frontiers, WALL-E is a gutsy next move. It's the first dystopian parable that's actually ecstatic fun. It's also the closest Pixar has come to making a full-length silent movie. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1444853/silents_are_golden_to_creator_of_walle_critical_eye/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming In next weekend's potential blockbuster "Wanted," Morgan Freeman hands a gun to the film's reluctant antihero and orders him to shoot the wings -- and just the wings -- off a bunch of houseflies. Several slow-motion gunshots later, the bugs fall to the floor, wingless. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1444340/comics_leaping_from_page_to_screen/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming Tapping on fake instruments and screeching into microphones connected to video game consoles has become lucrative for both the music and gaming industries. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1439439/playalong_video_games_pump_up_music_industry/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming By Claudia Puig He can hurl a Hummer with ease, roar like a lion and deflect bullets as if they were gnats. The latest Incredible Hulk (**1/2 out of four) is so steeped in action and spectacular special effects that his 2003 predecessor might be turning a more vivid green with envy. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1428788/hulk_goes_heavy_on_action_light_on_humor/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming Sony on Monday unveiled a new combination of TV-like content and video-game features that may give its PlayStation 3 console a stronger foothold among the many devices competing to provide digital entertainment for TV screens. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1416890/playstation_network_to_offer_tvlike_content_plus_game_features/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming "What you are about to see is based on true events," warns a stern, ominous voice at the start of The Strangers -- a voice that sounds eerily like the one heard during the opening credits of TV's Law and Order. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1409154/review_the_strangers_is_frightfully_disappointing/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Fri, 30 May 2008 06:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming By Jessica Severs Video games long have been considered the antithesis of health. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1408825/review_wii_fit_gives_gamers_a_true_physical_challenge/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming By Bill Keveney On Lost, time is always of the essence -- for the show's characters, its writers and its viewers. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1407278/lost_wraps_around_spacetime_continuum/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Thu, 29 May 2008 06:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming By Jeb Haught 'THE BOURNE CONSPIRACY' Sierra. Xbox 360. $60. ESRB rating: T Review rating: HH1/2 _______ Most movie-based games endure such things as poor visuals and mediocre game play so they can be released in a timely manner. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1457433/bourne_beats_most_movie_games_but_controls_lacking/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:10:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming An 800-word Harry Potter prequel penned by the series' author J.K. Rowling reportedly has been sold for $50,000 at an auction held at Waterstone's in London. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1427056/potter_prequel_sells_for_50k_at_auction/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming WE read the news today - actually a couple of days ago - that representatives of the Beatles are in talks to develop a Beatles- themed video game. The commercial logic is impeccable. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1450901/beatles_as_video_game_let_it_be/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming Tim Roth may be best known as the gut-shot Mr. Orange in "Reservoir Dogs," but in "The Incredible Hulk," the London-born actor takes a step up into the front ranks of screen villainy. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1429124/making_the_new_hulk_was_an_abomination_for_tim_roth/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming By FROM WIRE SERVICE REPORTS Bryce Dallas Howard has replaced Charlotte Gainsbourg in "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins."Gainsbourg was originally set to play Kate Connor, the wife of human resistance hero John Connor, played by Christian Bale. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1416949/terminator_gets_a_new_leading_lady/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming MONTREAL, CANADA--(Marketwire - June 19, 2008) - Work, family, and social activities can sometimes make life a little difficult to balance. It's a challenge: not enough time to eat right, not enough time to exercise, and wanting to make lasting lifestyle changes... http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1440540/ubisoft_a_game_that_takes_your_health_to_heart/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming Joseph Pevney, a film and television director who directed some of the most popular episodes of the original "Star Trek" TV series in the late 1960s, has died. He was 96. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1408848/director_brought_levity_to_star_trek_series/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming It's easy to say there is something Dickensian about "The Court of the Air" (Tor; $25.95) by Stephen Hunt. But this British steampunk novel does have its evocative elements. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1438748/fantasy_and_science_fiction/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming GLENDALE, Calif., June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1416938/dreamworks_animation_releases_cast_lineup_into_the_wild_of_madagascar/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming TV producer Robert H. Justman, who worked on two key Star Trek TV series, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 81, his son says. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1411387/star_trek_producer_justman_dead_at_81/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming British author J.K. Rowling has written an 800-word prequel to her wildly popular Harry Potter series of books to be auctioned for charity. The BBC said the brief prequel, which will not be published, will go up for auction at Waterstone's Piccadilly store in London next month. http://www.redorbit.com/news/scifi-gaming/1409800/rowling_pens_potter_prequel_for_charity/index.html?source=r_scifi_gaming Fri, 30 May 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Sci-Fi & Gaming