Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Nov 20, 2009, 8:29 pm
Ha ha tricked you there the Iron Man 2 trailer hasn't been released yet, but that hasn't stopped fans from asking director Jon Favreau when we'll see it. Last night on Twitter a fan Tweete...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Nov 20, 2009, 7:58 pm
This is not my interview but one from Latino Review. It's with Joel Silver whose latest producing effort, Ninja Assassin, is just about to come out. It seems that Mr. Silver is going to be a very ...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Nov 19, 2009, 4:06 am
Kane & Lynch Dead Men was a successful outing for Eidos in 2007. While the game had it's faults there was enough about that enabled it to become a favourite with fans and executives. The game now ...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Nov 18, 2009, 6:06 pm
The Call of Duty universe is already an exhaustive one with a heap of games set in both World War 2 and now the Modern era plus the popular, new character Ghost also has his own comic book miniseries....
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Nov 17, 2009, 7:55 pm
... a movie about the legendary 47 Ronin, both highly successful entities in Japan. Reeves involvement in the Bebop adaptation was revealed way back in January and the Lebanese ... . Right now I'...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Nov 9, 2009, 7:12 pm
That's what Viggo Mortensen told ComingSoon.net, "My character is around at times--in the middle, but it would only be if they made a second movie or connecting movie that connected 'The Hobb...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Nov 8, 2009, 10:02 pm
Aliens are trying to take over our seas!!!! Well at least they are in the Battleship universe Peter Berg is creating for the Hasbro board games big screen adaptation. According to Latino Review, no co...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Nov 8, 2009, 12:43 am
It's been a long time between drinks for the popular Jurassic Park franchise. The third film, which was not based on one of Michael Crichton's books, came out in 2001 and while it was not as s...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Nov 5, 2009, 8:37 pm
It's finally happened, someone out there amongst the video gaming community of Australia has finally said enough is enough. David Doe, who grew up in Adelaide but now lives in Melbourne, has estab...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Nov 5, 2009, 5:47 am
The debate over whether games are art has raged even more fiercley since the next generation of consoles hit the market. They have offered developers greater freedom in story telling and art design, a...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Nov 1, 2009, 10:30 pm
You know the drill by now. Bigger Is Better- First it was rumoured, then denied, then confirmed that Nintendo would release a bigger, badder Nintendo DSi. Dubbed the DSi LL in Japan and DSi XL in Eu...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 31, 2009, 1:30 am
Over the past few days the geek community has been teased with some very interesting bits of information released or rumored by many different organisations. Halo: Reach- Probably the biggest geek t...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 29, 2009, 4:46 am
That's right the new Nintendo DSi that was speculated earlier in the week on the 8th, among other places, has been confirmed by Nintendo. The DSi, dubbed the DSi LL, will hit Japan next month. Ob...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 28, 2009, 11:12 pm
After the trailers for Invictus and Green Zone were released yesterday, it was starting to look like it was Matt Damon day. Luckily, for all you movie fans who are sick of Damon and want something dif...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 28, 2009, 11:02 pm
To those of you who missed it, District 9 was a refreshing, action packed, sci-fi treat that launched director Neill Blomkamp onto the Hollywood scene. To those who missed the God of War series, it wa...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 27, 2009, 1:26 am
There are always huge rumours flying around the internet especially around the video game industry. Whether or not they should be believed or not is another issue but until they are confirmed or denie...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 26, 2009, 5:25 pm
Well it seems the Internet, that haven of truthful information has been taken for a ride this weekend. In the news roundup I posted yesterday I found a little fabrication story about a possible 7th Ro...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 25, 2009, 9:34 pm
Holy Amazing Shit Batman It's a Lime: And his name is Harry and he was one of the greatest characters ever created on film in the movie The Third Man. Unfortunately for Harry just being a great ch...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 25, 2009, 12:55 am
As no TV show, movie, book, video game or comic is safe from the clutches of Hollywood executives looking to turn a buck from a big screen adaptation or reboot (Star Trek) there has been a huge amount...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 23, 2009, 7:42 pm
Over the past few days some big movie news has dropped on the internet, here's a rundown of what's been said. Bond 23: Not many details here but when Bond star Daniel Craig was quizzed after ...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 22, 2009, 7:35 pm
This week has so far been a bumper week for new movie and video game trailers. Here's the rundown of what's been released so far. Sherlock Holmes  The traditional Arthur Collan Doyle sto...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 18, 2009, 11:14 pm
So this is something new I'm going to try out, it's a bit of a review segment of some of the big stories that came out in the past week that I missed or thought deserved a second round of cove...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 16, 2009, 10:46 pm
What it's All About... Ellen Page plays Bliss, another girl with a terrible name, who lives in the crappy little town of Bodeen, Texas. The only highlight of her dull life involves heading down to...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 15, 2009, 10:07 pm
Oh glorious day, the demo for the hotly anticipated football management game Football Manager 10 has been released. Fans of the Sports Interactive series can head on over to Steam to pick up the demo ...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 14, 2009, 8:18 pm
The future of video game development is here and it's Crytek's CryENGINE 3. The engine, which has obviously been developed by Germany studio Crytek and hence the name, is able to be used for t...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 13, 2009, 7:39 pm
Yes I know it's an odd coupling for a post but they are the two most interesting trailers to be the released in the past few days. The Expendables trailer, well it has lots of explosions, cheesy ...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 13, 2009, 6:41 am
It seems that the spread of video game culture is rampant. A craze that is sweeping American grocery stores sees employees using soft drink/soda boxes to create displays of 8-bit Super Nintendo charac...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 11, 2009, 8:21 am
Is over at the 8th Circuit. It's a little bit of a different style to how I usually write but it is still a pretty good review if I do say so myself. Also while you are there check out some of the...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 9, 2009, 11:39 pm
Well it seems that someone out there was interested in my interview with reviewer Captain D. After publishing the second part of the interview, Igor Hardy a reviewer and game developer contacted me ou...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 9, 2009, 9:18 am
Max Manus Man of War: The true story of Norwegian resistance fighter and cult hero Max Manus. He served in Finland at the start of World War II before returning home to Norway to find it had been occu...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 8, 2009, 8:18 pm
It's official, Left 4 Dead 2 will be released in Australia. Valve and Electronic Arts have submitted an edited version of the game to the classification board which has received an MA 15 + rating....
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 6, 2009, 11:19 pm
With work on the upcoming Predator reboot really starting to kick into gear it was only a matter of time before some serious casting news was revealed. It started with the news that Danny Trejo, from ...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 6, 2009, 7:55 pm
I know I'm not exactly Johnny on the spot with this review as both Predator 1 and 2 have been out for quite sometime and the third issue is out soon but I only just picked them up the other day. A...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 6, 2009, 7:48 am
That's right my friends, there is going to be a Warhammer 40,000 movie. Now don't get your hopes up too much because the movie, titled Warhammer 40,000 Ultramarines, is only going to be a 70-m...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 6, 2009, 1:43 am
But should they be taken with a pinch of salt? These details have come from an interview on IGN with Frank Beddor a film producer and author. Beddor was, at one time, contacted by Hasbro to come up wi...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 5, 2009, 5:01 am
In a move that I personally thought would have happened a long time ago Stellan Skarsgard, who plays Bootstrap Bill in the Pirates of the Carribean series, has joined the cast of Thor. Skarsgard cert...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 4, 2009, 8:00 am
With my download period almost finished for another month I decided to invest my remaining gigabytes into some demos. The one I had been wanting to play the most was the Cities XL demo. Cities XL is p...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 4, 2009, 4:32 am
So says Ubisoft's CEO Yannis Mallat in an interview with the newspaper The Guardian. Mallat has made the prediction, that movies and video games will converge, due to his own companies involvement...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 3, 2009, 6:09 am
Iron Man 2 and Clash of the Titans are shaping up to be some of the biggest movies of 2010. Iron Man 2 is the follow up to the amazing Iron Man while Clash of the Titans is a remake of the 1981 film o...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 1, 2009, 7:20 pm
Depending on how you feel about Quentin Tarantino and the blood fueled antics of The Bride this news could be the most awesome thing ever or your worse nightmare come to fruition. For me this is defin...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 1, 2009, 8:11 am

Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Oct 1, 2009, 12:16 am
Now that the cast has been pretty much filled work surrounding the Green Hornet has really picked up. The film, which stars Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet, has begun shooting in LA and Splash News has...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Sep 30, 2009, 10:10 pm

Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Sep 30, 2009, 8:40 pm
Well some may call it crazy, some may call it stupid and well someone might say good job but I will now be splitting my time between The Attempted Review and The 8th Circuit. I recently got in touch w...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Sep 30, 2009, 12:00 am
For those of you who saw Terminator Salvation it was an interesting experience. It had a new cast, new director, kind of new setting, no time traveling and once again a new set of owners to the series...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Sep 29, 2009, 10:17 am
What It's All About After Christopher Nolan had dazzled audiences with the brilliant Memento he followed up that film with Insomnia. Starring Al Pacino as a veteran LA cop, Hillary Swank as a youn...
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Troy Mayes posted an article on The Attempted Review - Sep 29, 2009, 8:32 am
Right now do you know what makes me ridiculously happy? Electronic Arts response to Left F Dead 2 being banned in Australia. In their statement, released a few days ago, EA makes clear their frustrati...
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