The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Ghostbusters on C64, Aladdin, Goldeneye, Riddick: the list of great movie tie-ins is barely longer than Russell Crowe’s temper. What chances, then, of even seeing a few good ones during 2009? Can the year that sees Barack Obama’s inauguration, a Michael Jackson comeback, and a Star Trek movie that doesn’t suck, prove that anything is possible?

Ghostbusters: The Video ...

Wesley’s days of playing a timid office drone are over. He’s embracing his new role as a gun-slinging assassin in Wanted: Weapons of Fate. The game takes place after the events in the 2008 movie, and apparently, Wesley’s trying to find out what happened to his mother. ...

On some level, roughly 95 percent of games have always been about assassination: go to point A and kill prominent entity B, fighting your way through goons C through Z to get there. Most games tend to come up with a morally justifiable pretext for all the violence, but more and more, we're seeing games that drop the act and let you be what you've secretly known yourself to be all along: a remorseless killing machine bent on destroying your targets. ...

The whole point of E3 is for publishers and developers to show off their new games under controlled conditions. You know, to let them show them in the way they want them to be seen without journos choosing to show the flaws.

AND YET. We still get sent screenshots that look like someone deliberately picked them to make the game look bad. Look at these amazing examples of fail from this year's show ...

Quote of the Week: [On IGN’s review breakdowns] How do you even score a game’s sound anymore? What if my soundtrack is all Beethoven and Led Zeppelin? Insta-10! ...

If you’re any sort of pop culture fan and haven’t heard of Watchmen - the celebrated graphic novel from Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons - then we wonder what it’s like to be a depressing individual. Released as 12 comics between 1986 and ’87, Watchmen is at its core a noir detective story. ...

Watchmen fever has struck. The unfilmable graphic novel hits theatres this week and as per usual, there’s a videogame tie-in. Instead of being based directly on the comic, Watchmen: The End is Nigh focuses on the events beforehand, namely the time when Nite Owl and Rorschach were crime fighting partners trying to take down the Underboss, a villain briefly mentioned in the comic. ...

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Ghostbusters on C64, Aladdin, Goldeneye, Riddick: the list of great movie tie-ins is barely longer than Russell Crowe’s temper. What chances, then, of even seeing a few good ones during 2009? Can the year that sees Barack Obama’s inauguration, a Michael Jackson comeback, and a Star Trek movie that doesn’t suck, prove that anything is possible?

Ghostbusters: The Video ...

They actually got paid for that crap, you know ...