I first heard of Bunraku back in early 2008, when it was announced that GACKT would be in it. I didn't expect the film to be out until the following year, so I put off my excitement until 2009. However, even that year passed with little news about the movie, as did most of 2010. Bunraku finally made its western premiere in September of 2010, at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Ideals can vary from person to person -- For some, marriage can be a scary thing. In fact, in this day and age, more and more people are opting not to get married, for whatever reason. What are your thoughts on marriage? Do you want to get married? Or do you not want to get married? Although the answer ultimately is different depending on who you ask, this is one of life's big questions nonetheless, and it's also the main theme of Atlus's new XBox 360 and Playstation 3 game, Catherine.

Third-party video game controllers, while inexpensive alternatives to first-party ones, can be a crap-shoot as far as quality goes. Some are well-made and reliable, while others break easily. Even so, they keep being produced. So what category does the Mad Catz WWE All Stars Brawl Pad fall into? In 2009, Mad Catz started shipping Street Fighter IV Fight Pads, controllers specifically designed to be used to play Street Fighter IV. In 2010, another batch was shipped, this time for Super Street Fighter IV. While made for WWE All Stars, the Brawl Pad is the newest incarnation.

An extra monitor can always come in handy. You can set other windows or folders to the extra monitor, you can use it for your media player, or just generally get rid of the clutter on your main monitor. ThinkGeek has been selling Lilliput Mini USB Monitors, but do they serve their purpose well or not? Lilliput Electronics Co., Ltd is the bestselling Chinese brand of mini LCD application in Europe, North America and Southeast Asia and other areas. With branches all over the world, Lilliput has relations with multiple educational institutions. In 2001, Lilliput Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd was set up as an independent scientific research institution specializing in LCD display, embedded computer systems, among other things, as well as development of relevant software applications.

Recorders are an integral part of a journalist’s repertoire, regardless of whether or it it’s audio or video. However, students also utilize them for notes and lectures. Much like any other piece of technology, the size of the recorders has gone down drastically. Nowadays, you can get them as small as a business card or flash drive. ThinkGeek now sells an USB Digital Voice Recorder, but how does it fare? My interest in the USB Digital Voice Recorder came about after thinking of going back to school, as well as the idea of maybe doing audio interviews. The former is the main reason I wanted this device, as audio interviews might be tricky for me, although I have some ideas on how to accomplish them.

Regardless of whether or not we want to admit it, we all have different faces we put on to deal with different events that occur in our lives. For example, you might choose to keep your mouth shut while you're getting yelled at, rather than yelling back. How would you deal with a friend who has just been dumped? Or how about a fellow track team member who made a promise to their little cousin but is having difficulty keeping the promise, thanks to life? How you go about handling such things, what face you put on to do so, is your Persona. This is one of the core elements of Atlus’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) role-playing game (RPG), Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable (P3P).

As technology progresses, we are getting stuff that, not-so-long ago, was out of science fiction stories. Mobile devices, MP3 players and DVD players were all things we could only dream of, 15 years ago. Now ThinkGeek now sells Spycam Video/MP3/Camera Sunglasses, but are they a dream come true, or a nightmare? I first saw the Spycam Video/MP3/Camera Sunglasses ("Video Sunglasses" for the remainder of this review), while reviewing the 1.3 Megapixel Spy Camera Sunglasses ("Camera Sunglasses"). Being able to only use one hand, I've never been able to use a video camera, although the desire has been there since high school. Having a lot of success with the Camera Sunglasses, I decided to give the Video Sunglasses a try.

Movie adaptions rarely live up to the epicness of their source material. The X-Men, Super Mario Bros., and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies are some examples of this, while the Lord of the Rings trilogy is something that has lived up to the source material. How does The Last Airbender fare -- does it blow you away, or is it just hot air?

Preferences: we all have them. Whether you like Coca-Cola over Pepsi, subtitled anime over dubbed, or dogs over cats. As gamers, some prefer to play shooters with a controller, while others prefer to use a keyboard and mouse. However you can't use a keyboard and mouse (to play games) on a console... Or can you? The XCM XFPS Rateup Adapter for PS3 aims to change that. Still, the question remains: Does it hit its mark, or does it shoot itself in the foot?

Felicia Day's award-winning webseries, The Guild returns for a third season. The series tells the story of a local guild and their adventures both in and outside of the game. Following the troubling conclusion of season 2, tempers flare and a rival guild shows up. Things escalate when the rival guild starts terrorizing the Knights of Good in-game and out. Will the Knights of Good survive the trials and tribulations, or will anarchy reign supreme?