The first inFamous was a competent, mostly fun superhero game. Unfortunately, Sucker Punch’s 2009 new franchise launch had the misfortune of being released in the same year as Batman: Arkham Asylum – not only the best superhero game ever but also one of the best games that year, maybe the decade. To understate things, it was overshadowed. And that’s too bad since it was a good start that consistently delivered solid gameplay – even though its good-vs.-selfish moral system didn’t so much – as conflicted hero Cole McGrath’s electricity-based powers continued evolving to increasingly epic proportions.

The didn’t-ask-to-be-a-super-being Cole is back in the sequel and is looking for rest and redemption in a new town – the bayou and bourbon-y New Marais. Problem is, a mammoth evil being known as The Beast is coming to destroy him and then the world. Bummer.

It’s time to clap up those red-eyed Helghast again with Guerilla Games’ third installment of their PS3 exclusive series – and this time you can do it in 3D and/or with Move support.

Killzone 3 picks up more or less where Killzone 2 left off: Your character, ISA soldier Tomas "Sev" Sevchenko, has to continue battling the ruthless Helghast army on their home planet. It’s basic stuff we’ve all seen before. Guerilla Games tells a dour and rote space Nazis vs. space marines story with stilted dialogue, clichéd characters and no surprises – and you don’t care one bit, thanks to how technically solid and well realized the game is.

Every day dozens of ‘missed connection’ personal ads are posted to Craigslist as people try, with limited success, to use technology to help them connect with a special someone whose glimpse they caught on street.  So I was intrigued to see how a dance company translated that to the stage.

‘Missed Connections’ is a show from Toronto’s Typecast Dance Company that aims to show the impact of social media on human relationships.

According to the show’s description, social media is billed as a failure for a means of real human connection and the loss of emotional connection.  

For a tech diehard like me who might have a hard time believing this, choreographer Pamela Rasbach really needed to have a show that made the missed connections connect with me.