Video Game Review: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (2012)

3.5 stars Nevin P. Jones | Collegio Reporter Chaos is the kind of element that, if you can harness its power, then the product can be completely amazing. Bringing order to chaos isn’t easy, but Nintendo has proved time and again that it is possible with its “Super Smash Bros.” franchise. Pitting more than 20 years of iconic characters against each other in an arena-style brawl creates frantic brilliance. Sony is looking to cash in on this kind of successful chaos with its new “Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale,” which puts some of Sony’s greatest icons together in one game. However, their attempt was good but it never quite reaches the same level of brilliance as…

Album Review: Alicia Keys – Girl on Fire (2012)

Keys returns to form, a little, with ‘Fire,’ 3/5 stars Carl J. Bachus | Collegio Writer Alicia Keys is nothing if not ever-evolving, especially in terms of genre. She’s hopped from neo-soul to mainstream R&B to top 40 pop in a ma cheap viagra tter of 10 years. Unfortunately, her music has gone downhill a bit since the days of “Songs in A Minor,” with the songs becoming more and more generic with every album. This isn’t the case with Keys’ latest effort, “Girl on Fire,” her most interesting album in almost a decade. The first half of “Girl on Fire” is probably some of Keys’ most fun music in a while. Most of the…