A13 • APRIL 25, 2006 &E APRIL MAY JUNE JULY Black and White 2: Battle Playboy Mansion: Private Bros.”? That’s OK, Nintendo is re- Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City drifting. NCAA Football 2007 24 of the Gods (PC) - In this 01 Party (PC) – An expansion releasing the game with upgraded 05 Stories (PS2, PSP) – Come Urban Chaos: Riot Response (PS2, 03 (PS2, XBOX, X360) sequel to the acclaimed “Black pack for the most expensive way to almost 3-D platform graphics. back to Liberty City from the first XBOX) – This is how you respond to – Looks like Madden better make and White,” become an evil or see naked Playboy Playmates. Try X-Men: The Official Game three “GTA” adventures and relive all those obnoxious neighbors with- some new voice overs – “NCAA” good god by controlling your be- the magazine, it’s only $6. 16 (GC, DS, GBA, PC, PS2, some of those mafia moments. out getting arrested. is moving in on his job. lievers at your will. But this time Jaws Unleashed (PC, PS2, XBOX) XBOX, X360) – Based on the “X- Cars (PS2, PC, PSP, XBOX, NFL Head Coach (PS2, XBOX, Teen Titans (PS2, XBOX, GC, you contend against another god – More than 30 years later they think Men: The Last Stand,” this game 06 GC, DS, GBA) – A racing game 20 PC) - EA’s NFL Head Coach GB) - Based on the cartoon televi- to win – kill him or be killed. of an interesting twist to the classic lets you take control of Wolverine, based off yet another Pixar movie… takes you off the field and puts you in sion show and DC Comic series. Rampage: Total Destruction suspense/thriller: be a shark and Nightcrawler or Iceman in a battle to hooray. control of the sidelines as you call the Teen Titans offers gamers the (GC, PS2) - Nostalgia at its best. protect your sea from drillers. Right, the end. AND 1 Streetball (PS2, XBOX, MO- plays as the head coach. ability to play multiplayer as their A great callback to the arcade as if sharks think. The Da Vinci Code (PC, PS2, BILE) - Ubisoft gives you the ability Tekken: Dark Resurrection favorite Titan. game where the only point was IHRA Drag Racing: Sports- 19 XBOX) – A game based on to control your favorite ESPN’s AND 26 (PSP) – A smaller version of Super Monkey Ball Ad- to destroy buildings and eat 02 man Edition (PS2, XBOX) a movie, based on a book by Dan 1 Mix Tape Tour’s ballers and even the classic fighting game with a few 11 venture (GC) - A spin-off people for hours on end. Add new – Tired of paying for speeding tickets Brown. Luckily, the author worked create your own with its very own add-ons. of the monkey-rolling franchise monsters with new combos in an after drag racing down Virginia closely with the creators as to not moves. Superman Returns: The Video Game that gives gamers a new arsenal almost 3-D platform world and Street? This cheaper option might pollute this action/puzzle game. Juiced: Eliminator (PSP) – There’s a (PS2, PC, PSP, XBOX, X360, GC, DS) of abilities. There are over 50 you’ve got a great stress reliever. pique your interest. Steamboat Chronicles (PS2) naked girl in their online advertise- – Based on the movie. What else is puzzles, got time on your hands? 2006 FIFA World Cup (PC, PS2, Over the Hedge (PC, PS2, GC, 23 – An interesting RPG hybrid: ment, so really it has to be a great new? Ghost Rider (PSP) – Video XBOX, X360, GC, DS, GBA, MO- 09 DS, GBA, XBOX) – Why would mech warriors in a Western setting. racing game, right? FlatOut 2 (PS2, XBOX) 15 game based on the movie, BILE, PSP) - For those who love they make a video game based on Table Tennis (XBOX) – In case Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend 27 - Bugbear’s sequel will once based on the Marvel Comic about soccer, this is the newest update a Pixar film? Oh yeah, they want shooting things makes you feel ill. of Jack Sparrow (PS2, PC, XBOX) again allow gamers to race around an angry motorcycle stunt devil. of the premier soccer game, money, never mind. Hitman: Blood Money (PC, – Based on the first movie. Probably fully destructible environments to Sounds like a 3-D version of “Ex- which focuses on the soccer’s Garfield and His Nine Lives 30 PS2, X360, XBOX, MOBILE) not much fun unless you enjoy play- their heart’s desire. Burnout anyone? citebike.” biggest event: The World Cup. 10 (GBA) – Based off “Garfield – Fourth in a series of stealthy first- ing as a slightly hot pirate. Barnyard (PS2, XBOX) Top Gun (DS) – Based on and Friends,” the old TV show. As person shooter games. Don’t worry, The Fast and the Furious (PS2, 25 - Based on Paramount’s 26 the 1986 movie with Tom long it doesn’t resemble “Garfield: the movie’s coming out soon. 13 PSP, MOBILE) - Will be based movie about farm animals acting Cruise and Val Kilmer, the dying The Movie” it might not be awful. off the third installment of the ‘Fast like humans. Sounds a little like flight-simulator breed may yet New Super Mario Bros. (DS) and the Furious’ franchise. There Charlotte’s Web and Animal Farm survive. 15 – Lost or broke your Nintendo won’t be racing like Need for Speed, without the mean pigs. Dr. Sudoku (GBA) – Can’t wait and miss the original “Super Mario but instead it will be replaced by for the next edition of the news- paper? This game carries thou- sands of Sudoku puzzles for your math enjoyment.

Pixel-town Nowadays, movies and video games are interchangeable. But why?

JESSICA PACHECO “Film critics complained that (Niobe) is Assistant A&E Editor a relatively obscure character,” Jenkins wrote. “But in fact, if you played the magination, or at least a significant game, you would have spent more than amount of it may be a thing of the 100 hours controlling her character, past. Back in the day – circa ’85 to seeing the world through her point of ‘94 – a movie came out with an array view.” of action figures and coloring books. The way people immersed themselves But today, why create a world in your mind into movies may be changed forever. The Iwhen you can have a pixilated one at your reason isn’t entirely due to the new face fingertips? of the media, but the money it brings the Action figures no longer help enhance the companies. The idea that a company can PHOTOS COURTESY OF GAMESPRESS.COM movie experience. Creating your own world further process a storyline to connect “Hitman: Blood Money” will hit consoles May 30 while on the livingroom floor with Spiderman in players may bring a world of possibilities “Hitman” the movie with Vin Diesel comes out in 2007. your hand is rare. Instead, imagination can be for advancement. found in the electronics section of Wal-Mart “In such a world, trans-media storytell- – pre-packaged in shiny boxes behind glass ing becomes the norm,” Jenkins wrote. windows. “Trans-media storytelling can be done According to Henry Jenkins, the director of badly – so that there is only a superficial the Comparative Media Studies Graduate Pro- relationship between the original and the gram at MIT, video games enhance a players’ spin-off product. (But) when it is done well, experience of the movie. each new media manifestation adds some- The Wachowski Brothers, who created “The thing vital and interesting to the franchise as Matrix” trilogy, used new media platforms a whole.” and the character Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) Making a movie into a video game some- to enrich our experience of the fictional world times only works in one direction, though. in the “Enter the Matrix” video game, Jenkins New Super “Superman Returns: The Video Game” is based off the movie wrote in an e-mail. See VIDEO GAMES Page A15 Mario Bros. about Superman’s return to Earth after visiting Krypton. ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT www.nevadasagebrush.com APRIL 25, 2006 • A15

mesmerizing beats of “Fuel the stage. CAMPUS CONCERT Video Games Green Room Injected” blared from the The show was insane as CONTINUED FROM PAGE A13 CONTINUED FROM PAGE A16 speakers. random audience members “Perfected but not invented, hopped on stage, danced and “Turning a movie into The crowd exploded with rhymes from the ego driven jumped back into the crowd. It a video game isn’t a good an enormous uproar as Swol- self centered entered the fast was a great wave of hysterical idea,” Mikki Fraser, an len Members launched their lane and never gut dented, fans pushing and shoving and 18-year-old English major, performance. Mad Child life in a flash hypes blunts and flying all over the place. said. “I think it hurts the clenched his fists in the air as hash.” It’s a shame bands like this video games more. They’re he carried himself with great Prevail climbed across a sup- may not be as well-known as usually rushed and have bad stature. Prevail wildly swung port beam from the ceiling of the mainstream artists repeat- graphics.” his long gorgeous dreads in the Green Room above ecstatic edly shown on MTV because Games open a film to cer- a hypnotic sway and Rob the fans tearing for a piece of him. they see past the money and tain audiences who might Viking mastered the turntable Instead of being engulfed by the fame and are about the have missed it otherwise, casually. the crowd when he fell, they music – the true meaning of Jenkins wrote. This is cer- The crowd went crazy as the carried him back to the front of hip-hop. tainly true of contemporary games, such as “The War- riors,” “The Godfather” and “Seven Samurai 20XX,” which are based on movies Staff telling the president what to can decide whether they want from earlier periods. Dreamz say through an earpiece. to laugh at themselves or cry at Turning a video game into CONTINUED FROM PAGE A14 Unfortunately, the satire the world. Anything they do after a feature film is somewhat doesn’t amount to any big dis- that is up to them. harder, Jenkins wrote. superstar, a self-loathing British cernable point and only touches Either way, the movie is defi- “Cinema may also shift TV judge that everyone loves for lightly on some American habits. nitely funny and as long as you public perceptions of game no reason, non-descript idiots This is refreshing as it points out make the connections between content,” Jenkins wrote. “In and the terrorist who brings we care more about a TV show the characters and real life, it’ll reality, there have been very them all together. and ourselves than any grand be a worthwhile venture to the few good or even decent Every scene includes some scheme of life. theater. movies based on games. satire whether it’s the “Mike” Though the movie doesn’t of- But if you have some notion that So far, it has proven much nametag on a disguised Arab, the fer any solutions to American’s America is a big, fuzzy, flawless COURTESY OF CHRIS GOODWIN easier to move in the other terrorists watching a TiVo in their social ineptitudes, it presents country, you’ll completely miss Red Hot Radio bassist CJ Hillstead plays at Wolfstock Wednesday. direction.” Middle-Eastern tent or Chief of them in such a way that viewers the joke and hate this movie.