It is the 2nd week of March and for Guitar Hero/Band Hero players that only means one thing, that OK Go is now available for download on Xbox Live, PSN, and the Wii Shop Channel. The OK Go Track Pack features three of their hit songs "Do What You Want", Here It Goes Again", and "Get Over It" (which is an awesome song). As always you can download them as singles if you don't like the full track pack but since this week it is a pretty good band, just download the whole pack. It's worth it. OK.. Go and download them! See I used the band name in another way.

As reported yesterday at Sony's GDC press conference, Sony's new motion controller will be called the Playstation Move. Well, Sony has released a new trailer today detailing some of the features of the new Playstation Move. It however does not show any game footage.

An awesome tipster lead me to a recent blog post on the Battlefield site informing gamers that DICE also plans to release a new map pack on the same day as Infinity Ward, the biggest difference though being theirs will be free.   A new VIP map pack will be released adding Laguna Presa Rush mode and Africa Harbor Conquest mode.

Green Day will invade your livings rooms in virtual form on June 8^th as that is the release date for their new Green Day Rock band.  Much like the Beatles game this one too will follow the band from their humble beginnings to their current spot as one of the most popular punk bands in the world.  The game will feature 47 tracks and each one of them can be exported over to current Rock Band titles.

For those of you who are like me and find your waking moments delightfully consumed by Final Fantasy XIII this week, you’ll be stoked to see some new artwork for a new game done by Final Fantasy veteran Hironobu Sakaguchi. Unfortunately, it’s merely concept art (NOT screenshots) we’re seeing of The Last Story, but just by looking at the environments shown in the artwork I think it’s looking pretty great.

The images depict a civilization on a seaside cliff called Luli Island, the main setting of The Last Story, a roleplaying game currently in the works for the Nintendo Wii console. If this game is anything like some of the games he’s worked on in the past, such as Lost Odyssey for the 360 and nearly every Final Fantasy title, we’re in for something good. 

The Last Story is being developed by Mistwalker and is expected to launch in Japan sometime this year. A U.S. release hasn’t been mentioned just yet.

Microsoft announced at GDC this week that not only will gamers be able to play games on the new Windows Phone 7, but they will also be able to do it while signed into Xbox live and rack a few achievements along the way.  That’s right the games on the new phone will feature up to 200 gamerscore points per game and apparently when an achievement is unlocked we get that same familiar sound that we all have grown to love so much.   The new phone could be a serious contender in taking the top spot from the coveted iphone!

In case you are one of the few who kept your regular edition of RE5 instead of putting it towards the new Gold Edition you can now pick up all of the exciting new DLC for the game at a discounted price. You can pick up both new missions as well as all of the new outfits in the Untold Stories Bundles.  This awesome little bundle of joy can be yours for the low low price of 960 Microsoft points or 12.50 on the PSN.

The Greengrass Zone…Bourne Again?

No, but in a good way.

‘Green Zone’ is a smart, taut, and believable political thriller that is far more realistic about its subject than the average Hollywood motion picture. This is a movie for people familiar with the subject matter, if you’re looking for escapism and mindless entertainment (not that there is anything wrong with that…) this is the wrong film… You will also leave this movie with the strange desire to play Modern Warfare 2… Or maybe it was just me…

Many people have been comparing ‘Green Zone’ to the Bourne trilogy, simply because director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon are both involved in this film. By the same standard, Greg Kinnear is also in the film along with Matt Damon, and nobody’s comparing this movie to ‘Stuck on You’… (Not that I even think anybody remembers that movie…thank goodness)

Matt Damon’s character in ‘Green Zone’ is nothing like Jason Bourne’s super spy, instead, Damon’s character of Roy Miller is a dogged and determined everyman (granted he’s a Chief Warrant Officer and an expert on Weapons of Mass Destruction as a leader of a Mobile Exploitation Team, but he’s an everyman in the sense that he only knows what his job skills are and unlike other super-spy movies, Miller doesn’t break into Krav Maga and take out a Special Ops team), offering a story that is more grounded in reality and less escapist and fantastical than your average war-centric political thriller of espionage and intrigue. Damon’s character of Miller doesn’t whip out any martial arts moves, or takes down legions of evil minions single handedly, far from it, he is simply resilient to find the truth…He takes a lickin’ but keeps on tickin’.

Along with Damon’s Character of Miller, Brendan Gleeson (speaking with what I assume is supposed to be an American accent?) portrays Martin Brown, a pragmatic (to the point of choosing the lesser of two evils) CIA ally of Miller. Amy Ryan plays Lawrie Dayne, a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street, whom, like many reporters, didn’t verify information government officials handed her, and begins to suspect she may be partially culpable for the war. Greg Kinnear portrays Clark Poundstone, head of Pentagon Special Intelligence, a Machiavellian and arrogant bureaucrat, similar to L. Paul Bremer, the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority…Poundstone screws up everything and serves as the primary antagonist of the film. Khalid Abdalla portrays Freddy, a patriotic Iraqi citizen and wounded veteran, he is Miller’s translator and through insightful and poignant statements acts as a sort of voice of the soul of Iraq. ‘Green Zone’ was inspired by the 2006 non-fiction novel ‘Imperial Life in the Emerald City’ by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, about life in the Green Zone in Baghdad.

Buy, Rent or Fail: Buy

If you liked this you might also like:

The Hurt Locker (2008), Shooter (2007), The Kingdom (2007),

Syriana (2005), Body of Lies (2008), The Good Shepherd (2006),

Lions for Lambs (2007), Three Days of the Condor (1975),

The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004),

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), United 93 (2006), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956),

Foreign Correspondent (1940), Full Metal Jacket (1987),

Jarhead (2005), Apocalypse Now (1979)

At Sony's Playstation GDC Press Conference today, Sony announced the final name for their motion controller and it will be called the Playstation Move. As shown at last years E3 event, the Playstation Move works in conjunction with the Playstation Eye camera to track the controller.

The Playstation Move will be avaialbe in three configurations. It will come either as a pack in bundle with a new Playstation 3, standalone, or as a Starter Kit that will include the Playstation Move, Eye camera, and a game. The starter kit is said to be under $100.

Its not very often that I get jealous but after seeing the Game Informer vault I can honestly say not only am I jealous but I am also currently exploring ways to infiltrate the vault through the use of ropes and the help of Ving Rhames.  Check out the video tour of their vault with over 11,000 games on their site here.