Business, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360
Silly Miyamoto, Gibs Are For Kids!
Bearing the moniker “family-friendly” isn’t all bad. It’s a Godsend if you’re looking to appeal to a broad audience and to never piss anybody off… ever.
But if you harbor even the slightest desire to be taken seriously, then that cutesy, non-violent shtick has got to go. If there was ever a console that — if miraculously granted sentience — would understands the rigors of being pigeon-holed, it’s the Nintendo Wii.
Braaaains! With Halloween upon us, it’s time to take a look at one of our all-time favorite monsters, the zombie. The undead make for great cannon fodder in video games. Not all zombie-related video games need to be survival horror, designed to get us wetting ourselves with fright. Some are just good ol’ fashioned fun! Simple games where you can blow off some steam mowing down crowds of walking corpses guilt-free! It’s not like they’re people…Well, at least they used to be. 
In the history of movie adaptations, no source material has gained more scorn from the critical masses than those based on video games. Beginning with classic installments of the Mario Bros. franchise, no matter how many audience members stay home, the earnest marketing gurus in Hollywood have insisted that the same people who enjoy the games will come out in hordes to see it brought to the big screen. Among this “bottom of the barrel” category there are a few gems that stand the test of time as being equal in auteurship to the impending Gigli sequel.
If I were to interview Uwe Boll, notoriously bad director of films like BloodRayne and Alone in the Dark, I would ask him one simple question: why? Why continue to make film adaptations of video games that are received with nearly unanimous spite? Why perpetually bastardize so many games with avid followers that will meet even a single incongruence with feral teeth, let alone a whole cauldron-full of them? And perhaps most importantly, why are people still allowing you to make these films anymore in the first place? Why?!?