http://thebigcritique.com We review anything and everything; anytime, anywhere ... well OK, not ANYWHERE, just here. Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:21:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en MindJack Square-Enix doesn't want you to forget about their upcoming third-person mind-jacking game about jacking minds called MindJack. Unfortunately, the screenshots they sent out also serve to remind you that the graphics will make you wish it was a PSP game. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="590" caption="Creepy, creepy dead eyes. In ... http://thebigcritique.com/2011/01/news-about-stuff/ This year, for my birthday, my incredible contra-gendered counterpart got me a Dingoo a320 from ThinkGeek. It can actually be purchased from several places that feature imported toys, but we got it from ThinkGeek because those guys rock. I mean, where else can you find all the coolest geek/nerd ... http://thebigcritique.com/2010/12/dingoo-a320/ I’ve been playing through 4 Heroes of Light for a couple months now. It gets a solid “meh” from me. The best way I can describe it is as “Mystic Quest’s retarded cousin”. Square-Enix took what could’ve been a decent RPG with a terribly mediocre story and ruined it by ... http://thebigcritique.com/2010/11/4-heroes-of-light/ When a band has a horde of ravenous followers, it can be a pretty easy thing to sit back and continue to create music that sounds pretty much like every other track you’ve made. It’s a safe move that many bands tend to make, although after the first groundbreaking ... http://thebigcritique.com/2010/10/linkin-park-a-thousand-suns/ Having read Victor Gischler’s Vampire a Go-Go, I thought I new what to expect from his Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse.  I was mistaken.  Or rather Go-Go Girls exceeded my every expectation.  It was fun, witty, ballsy, crude, intense and entertaining. Set nine years after the end of the world as ... http://thebigcritique.com/2010/08/go-go-girls-of-the-apocalypse/ In the highly competitive world of online reviewing, filled with intrigue and sexiness (don't question it, just trust me on this), it is important to remain fresh, exciting, and relevant. Since I am neither fresh, exciting, nor relevant, but more on the funky, staid, and obscure side of things, I ... http://thebigcritique.com/2010/06/shiver/ This new launch trailer is, in my opinion, the best Rockstar has released thus far. I suppose it makes sense to save the best for last, as they say. And I imagine this will be the last video released, save for the half hour long (!) trailer that's ... http://thebigcritique.com/2010/05/rdr-launch-trailer/ I must admit that I was hesitant to read this.  I mean, I love Pride and Prejudice, I’ve long had a soft spot in my literary heart for Austen and the Regency romance, and Pride and Prejudice has to be my favorite Austen novel.  And man do I ever love ... http://thebigcritique.com/2010/05/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/ Fleet of Worlds co-authored by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner is one of those novels which I sat down fully expecting to enjoy.  I found it to be, in a lot of ways, quite disappointing.  While the story was interesting and the characters were for the most part well ... http://thebigcritique.com/2010/04/fleet-of-worlds/ Fun and light, I found Victor Gischler’s Vampire a Go-Go to be entertaining. It was very reminiscent of Christopher Moore to me, in the sort of lightly vulgar and irreverent style of supernatural comedic horror, with a bit of sex thrown in. And the title is pretty awesome. ... http://thebigcritique.com/2010/04/vampire-a-go-go/