When, o’ when, will that future finally arrive? You know, the one where humans fight each other to the death for cash and prizes in game shows televised across the globe? “Monday Night Combat” is the latest in the “soon we’ll all be killing each other for fun and profit” canon, and it’s a fairly simple recipe: Take a healthy portion of “Team Fortess 2,” add a dose of any turret defense game, a splash of “SmashTV” and you have Xbox Live’s latest entry in its “Summer of Arcade” series. (And am I the only one who finds the phrase “Summer of Arcade” to be incredibly grammatically annoying?)

“Blacklight: Tango Down” is a new multiplayer frag-fest. While it’s certainly not a reinvention of the genre, it is a solid and fun experience. The story involves a group of high-tech soldiers called Blacklight and a group of high-tech terrorists called The Order. They don’t like each other for some reason. Whatever. “Blacklight” is basically “Call of Duty” in a sci-fi, future-y, dystopian setting.

The folks that decide the crap that gets to be on television have made a rate great move to bring back celebrity boxing, the show that gives “celebrities” gloves and tells them to slug it out with whomever they’ve been feuding.
However, Celebrity?  A bit of a stretch.  Sure we loved watching Rodney King versus one of the LAPD cops that beat h… Click to read more