As a lead up to the Chicago pop culture extravaganza that is C2E2 (where I will be officially stalking John Barrowman, Val Kilmer, and John Cusack), I started a series in my last article that focuses on one of the current driving forces in American pop culture: superheroes. In the previous article, I focused on working out just what exactly […]
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I’m much like my grandmother in the way that my ears get nervous just like hers do. Whenever “CSI: Miami” is turned up too loud on her television she gets incredibly irritable and uncomfortable and complains that her ears are nervous. What the hell is my point? My point is that SILENT HOUSE made my ears nervous. The house is […]
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SPACE: The final frontier. Or is it? For all those that just about played Angry Birds to the point of admitting yourself to a rehabilitation clinic, prepare to take another fat dose of bird slinging fun. The makers of Angry Birds have gone galactic and tossed in a bit of education on top of it. WTF? We’re going to subconsciously […]
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Hi. My name is Briana Lawrence and I — deep breath — am a Naruto fan. Well, that’s not entirely true. I’m more of a recovering addict. My fangirl mind has become exhausted with the series and, recently, I haven’t felt the excitement I use to feel oh so many years ago back when Naruto was a wee little lad […]
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John Carter has received a mostly negative reaction, both from critics and movie fans. General audiences appear to have shunned the film as well, in America at least, although you can blame that on a botched marketing campaign more than the film itself. But I liked the movie. Quite a bit, in fact. It’s infused with a rousing sense of […]
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For those of you who love tactical RPG’s that combine the feeling of Diablo and Warhammer, your opus may have just arrived. Confrontation, a tactical RPG developed by Cyanide Studios, brings you directly into the fantasy universe of Aarklash. It is here that a fierce campaign is waged between the heroic Griffin faction, the insidious Scorpion faction, the ferocious Wolf […]
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There is a long tradition of films that mix horror and comedy, going at least all the way back to the Harold Lloyd film Haunted Spooks (1920). Sometimes it works (An American Werewolf in London, Shaun of the Dead), but quite often it doesn’t (Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Evil Toons). The reason so many films that attempt to mix […]
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Every so often, it seems another politician seeks to spend his or her political capital on an endeavor aimed at curtailing video games. In the 1990s, such endeavors led to the formation of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) and the rating labels for video and computer games. After the formation of such a self-regulatory system, companies and states have sought […]
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Once upon a time there lived an adorkable gamer girl who enjoyed her fair share of hadoukens, sonic booms, and spinning bird kicks. One day, the young girl strolled into an arcade — back when they still existed outside of malls and movie theatres — and discovered a concept that blew her mind: the fighting game crossover. X-Men vs […]
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It’s that time of year again, a time when we drown ourselves in green beer and make long lasting, life altering mistakes all in honor of St. Patrick. Who did something important, possibly inventing alcohol? Whatever his accomplishments, all that matters is that it is now a day of celebration; but mostly getting passed out on the front lawn drunk […]
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