Today in Swag: Disney Bath Night

Posted: 29th July 2010 by Jason MacIsaac in Today in Swag
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Here’s Part 2 of the Disney Family Fun Night Swagstravaganza.

Disney Toy Story Shampoo and Cars Loofahs

As if the Bag o’ Swag wasn’t already packed, it also came with shampoo and a loofah pad. While I am not sure how much I really want to scrub myself with Lightning McQueen and ‘Mater, the shampoo has a nice blueberry scent.

REVIEW: Singularity

Posted: 28th July 2010 by Jason MacIsaac in Game, PC, PlayStation 3, Review, Xbox 360
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For the first two hours of Singularity, you can be forgiven for thinking you’re playing Just Another Shooter. The ruined 1950s Soviet base you’re exploring gives it some flavour, but not enough.


Then you find the Time Manipulation Device, and Singularity starts to get interesting.

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Today, Batman: Under the Red Hood is being released on Blu-ray/DVD today. And it so happens that Warner Bros. sent me a nice little bag o’ swag:

Batman: Under the Red Hood, Red Hood Mask

It contains the first issue of a new DC series dedicated to telling the extended story of  the Red Hood, a collectible litho cell featuring a shot of The Joker in Batman: Under the Red Hood and … a Red Hood.

From the Red Hood's Facebook page.

Now I am more equipped to do some cosplaying at the next convention… or rob banks.

-Jason MacIsaac

July 23, 2010: Today I’m attending a screening of Batman: Under the Red Hood, the new DC animated Blu-ray/DVD, which goes on sale July 27. Warner Bros. has a great guest to introduce the movie: Ty Templeton. Templeton is Canadian-born comic book industry veteran who has written and drawn for some big, big names, including The Batman Adventures, the DC book based on Batman: The Animated Series. After the screening, he took time to talk to me about comic books, comedy and drawing the Dark Knight.

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Reviewing the Reviews is a week long experiment in which Jason, a professional game reviewer, relies on other journalist’s reviews.

To see part 1, click here.

My experiment is over. What have I learned?

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Both DC and Marvel have really hit on something with these direct-to-DVD/Blu-ray releases. It used to be that they were acceptable snacks in between big box office meals like The Dark Knight and Iron Man II, but now they’re perfectly enjoyable as movies in their own right. Take Batman: Under the Red Hood, for example.

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This review is a going to read a little differently, since it’s part of an ongoing experiment to determine how useful game reviews are to me when making a purchasing decision. For Part 1 of the experiment, click here.

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Reviewing the Reviews is a week long experiment in which Jason, a professional game reviewer, relies on other journalist’s reviews. He’s now playing the game.

To see part 1, click here.

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Reviewing the Reviews is a week long experiment in which Jason, a professional game reviewer, relies on other journalist’s reviews. Today, Jason looks at the second batch of reviews on the DS game Infinite Space to see if it’s a game he’d like.

To see part 1, click here.

Let's take a really close look.

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