Okay, I’m going to make this review relatively brief.  Why, you ask?  Well firstly, be thankful for small mercies.  Secondly, because I have to get back to the game… the green pigs are mocking me!

No, reader, I have not finally lost my marbles. You see, Angry Birds reaches Pop Cap levels of digital addiction with its physics-based madness. What Angry Birds boils down to is a portable version of the Wii title Boom Blox.  As anyone who has played Boom Blox will know, it was a great little game that flopped spectacularly.

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After only being announced just yesterday, a new teaser trailer has emerged for Call of Duty: Black Ops, Treyarch’s upcoming entry in the long running shooting saga. While the trailer doesn’t reveal much in the way of plot, it does deliver several split second snippets of action sequences, chilling voice-overs and glimpses of locations that are bound to cause rife speculation for the fans.

As the trailer confirms, Call of Duty: Black Ops will be ready for deployment November 9th, but in the meantime you can watch the first footage of the game after the break.

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