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Welcome to NWP at the Movies! This week, the pantsless ones are joined by film critic, actor, artist, and all around good dude, John Gholson. Movies are the topic of the day, but as always we begin with what we’ve been playing and listener mail. This week, we talk about Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, Patrick’s intro to iOS games, XCOM, and Julian’s existential gaming crisis.

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While fun with friends, this addition to the Scene It? franchise lacks the substance to make a lasting impression.

Scene It? has been around for a while now and there have been more than a few video game adaptations of the popular DVD/film based trivia game.  Now the game based on the premise of useless cinematic know-how has wound up on the PSN and XBLA as a downloadable game. The move to a digital format makes perfect sense for this type of game, but this stripped down version fails to capture the more fleshed out experience we've come to expect from the franchise.

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Games and movies are on a crash course, but when will they collide? Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is one of the first titles to successfully fuse these mediums.

In many regards, games have attempted to mimic movies over time. As graphical power has increased, game stories have become more grand, the characters have become more real, and the overall experience has become more and more engaging.

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