Harry Potter OOTP/Serenity & Firefly

This week, the Digital Cowboys are all about magic and space cowboys.

First there's a review of the most recent Harry Potter movie, The Order of the Phoenix. Then Alex fesses up to rediscovering (and loving) Firefly and the movie Serenity.

Then we talk about a few things that have changed in the gaming world since last weeks E3 and Tony reviews Halo 2 on the PC.

As requested, our Gamertags on Xbox Live are...

GHOST WORLD (Tony)
Stans Labyrinth (Alex)
PlexShaw (Paul)
III Jambo III (Jamie)

E3 2007 Special

E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (now known as the E3 Media and Business Summit) is the biggest trade show for video games every year.

Until recently, anybody who knew a guy at a video game store could seemingly get in. The result was a whooping cacophony of fanboys, booth babes (not that we were complaining) and heady Vegas-style razzmatazz. This year, however, they decided to make it much smaller and more exclusive to keep out the riff raff. This was intended to get the show focussed once more on games themselves, with only gaming insiders, publishers, retailers and journalists admitted.

The Digital Cowboys have checked out the results and this week they discuss the ramifications to the gaming industry of the conferences from the big three: Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.

Also: Rock Band, and why it's going to rock you like a hurricane!

00.00 - Microsoft
18.00 - Sony
43.00 - Nintendo
01.05 - Rock Band

Star Wars: Best and Worst/The Darkness/Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence/Captivity/Vacancy/Colverfield Trailer/Die Hard 4.0

It's a packed episode this week. Alex starts with a lengthy reeling off of the 20 worst and 20 best moments in the Star Wars saga, as this year all wannabe Jedi's will celebrate its third decade of world domination.

Tony reviews action-packed comic book adaptation video game The Darkness from Starbreeze Studios (The Chronicles of Riddick - Escape From Butcher Bay).

Alex plugs Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (NOT the regular version, Snake Eater), a game that has consumed his life for weeks now, and needs a special mention.

Paul discusses the three grimy movies he watched this week that are either torture porn (Hostel 2, Captivity) or snuff related (Vacancy) and tries to sift out the best of the bunch.

J.J. Abrams new project, 01-18-08 (AKA Cloverfield) gets thrown into the ring. Not much to debate: just download and watch it right now from: http://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/

And we round off with a group summery of Die Hard 4.0, possibly the least rubbish of the Summer sequels so far. Roll on Jason Bourne to snatch that tarnished crown away from Willis' bald head.

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Room 101

WARNING: this episode contains VERY strong language.

Since we've been so nice in recent weeks, the Cowboys felt like venting for a change. We've got together and fixed upon the eight most rancid, horrible things about video games and movies which are bothering us at the moment and took turns submitting them for dismissal, destruction and obscurity in the bowels of Orwell's Room 101. This is the premise of an amusing BBC show which has run on and off since 1994, originally presented by Nick Hancock and then Paul Merton.

The sorry task for the three hosts not pitching is to defend the wretched things in order to keep them from their grisly fate. Who shall be saved?

There is more bile, venom and cursing in this episode than ever before, so the faint-hearted should steer clear. However, those with an axe to grind about having their time wasted by cinemas and their digital possessions highly priced and badly managed should find much here be tickled with.

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