If, like everyone else, you’re looking to get value for money, then you can’t go wrong with Dragon Age: Origins. This epic RPG from the makers of Mass Effect will easily see you through the new term, if you let it.
The set up isn’t anything particularly new; the land of Ferelden, a fairytale place with the usual assortment of elves and dwarves, is under threat from a swarm of “Darkspawn”, a big mean army of ugly creatures. You choose to play as either a human, elf, or dwarf, then pick …

In a future not so far away, an online game has become a way of life for millions of people around the globe. “Society” gives you the power to control other people. You can live a life through them by giving computer commands. They say and do whatever you want them to. You just need enough money to “buy” such people. Sounds crazy? Then check the newest game – “Slayers”. Just imagine Counter Strike but with real people. Based on the same principle as “Society” you play in front …

To be beautiful, successful and to have the perfect man – isn’t that every contemporary woman’s dream?
Well Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) has it all (almost). She’s the Carrie Bradshaw in the TV industry producing her own breakfast show in Sacramento. Just a man is missing in her perfect looking life. But workaholics and control freaks can hardly attract men and Abby is both. After a couple of disaster dates she has almost lost faith. When her show starts losing it’s audience, Abby’s world crashes. She needs to find a way …

An uninspired journalist with many personal and professional problems is looking for a new sensational story that is going to put his career back on track. As often happens in life, the next story is right around the corner. You just have to look around and find it!
The Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) thinks he’s hit the jackpot when he meets Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx) – a homeless, mentally ill person who claims he is a former student of The Juilliard School of Arts. There …

Game: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Platform: PS3/360/PC
Publisher: Activision
Developer: Infinity Ward
Players: 1-4
Release: Out Now
Let’s be honest, you were always going to buy Modern Warfare 2, regardless of what other people say. The original blew pretty much everyone on the planet away with an intense single player, and of course, an incredibly addictive online mode that no one can stop playing. Does 2 have any hope whatsoever of living up to the mammoth expectations laid upon it?
The single player picks up 5 years after the original as a shocking turn of …

Batman: Arkham Asylum
Platform: PS3/360/PC
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Developer: Rocksteady Studios
Players: 1
Release: Out Now
It can be hard to make a great comic book game, history proves that. The Spider-man games managed to capture the feel of web-slinging around New York, but other elements weren’t as polished, and Superman’s history with the medium has been pretty rocky. Forget all that though, because here comes everybody’s favourite caped crusader with his latest title. Last year Batman rocked the cinema with The Dark Knight, can he do the same to the video game world?
You get a …

Game: Dead Space: Extraction
Platform: Wii
Publisher: EA
Developer: Vicarious Visions
Players: 2
Release: Out Now
This frantic, fast-paced prequel to last year’s Dead Space has traded in the original’s third-person view for a first-person on-rails shooter similar to House of the Dead and Time Crisis. Set in the distant future on a barren planet, a human colony prepares to “crack” the land for vital resources when a strange artefact is discovered. As a team of engineers attempts to move this object, most of the colony suddenly turns insane, eventually into vicious monsters called Necromorphs that …

Game: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Platform: PS3
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer: Naughty Dog
Players: 1
Release: Out Now
It might be just after you take down a helicopter, or after scrambling up a train that’s literally dangling from the edge of a cliff that you realise Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is something truly special. Nathan Drake returns in this stunning sequel to 2007’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Fans of the original game will remember it for many reasons; it played just like watching an Indiana Jones film, with thrilling 3rd person gunfights separated by platforming that …

Even though Arnold Schwarzenegger is not starring in this sequence, Terminator Salvation is more than worth watching. The film presents the dark future of year 2018 that Kyle Reese was talking about in Terminator (1984). It tracks out the events leading to the first movie and reveals a lot of unknown facts from previous sequences.
John Conner (Christian Bail) has been the leader of the human resistance for years and although everybody is convinced in the prophecy that he will win the war against Skynet the chances for success are not …

If you’ve ever had a chat with our Vice President (Media & Services) Kal Sajad then mention of his appearance on cult TV show Supermarket Sweep will no doubt have crept into the conversation, and for those of you who don’t have the time to watch the whole episode, the one Kal has on standby on his Mac, you can watch a clip here.

This clip is also available at ccsu.co.uk/cctv