Joseph Hall once wrote “Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.” In other words, like it or not, death is an inevitability for all of us. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that death features prominently in popular culture. Countless films, books, poems, and songs feature death as a prominent theme, often in an […]
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The iceberg has split off and you’re drifting away from your family! Jump penguin! Jump! Air Penguin, developed by Gamevil Inc., is a game about a penguin that is separated from its family and struggles to get back to them. As the game boots up for the first time and other times through the game, you get a quick synopsis […]
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Hoo, boy. I know I’m inviting a whole storm of anger by suggesting that The Hunger Games is a movie that needs fixing. This is a series with a passionate and vocal legion of fans, and which has reached a cultural saturation unseen since the Twlight novels. It’s made a pretty penny at the box office, to say the least, and has […]
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Dukes of Hazzard, pull over and turn off the General Lee, because you just got owned by the hillbillies running moonshine through the bayou. Want to try your luck at outrunning the Law? Then hop in your flat-bottom fanboat and try being a Shine Runner! From launch ramps, to gators, to the Law trying to bring you to a halt, […]
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Defender II is a tower defense title for your Android powered smart phone where you must defend your castle wall from an ever-increasing army of various monsters. To do this you must use your badass crossbow and various magic (and other upgrades) to fend off their advances. Featuring what seems like a countless number of stages and an online multiplayer, […]
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With C2E2 almost set to launch from the McCormick Place in downtown Chicago, I wrap up my three part series on superheroes with this entry, in which I attempt to answer this question: do religious figures and the heroes of legend fall under the definition of “superheroes,” as outlined in part I? First, let’s look at the heroes of legend […]
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RUN FORREST, RUN!!!! Run like your balls are on fire and the nearest water is a mile away. Every time I go for another round on this game, it reminds me of an inappropriate, 2-part joke I learned as a kid: Q: What’s the fastest animal on earth? A: The Ethiopian Chicken. Q: Who’s the fastest human on earth? A: […]
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This spring Clearance Bin Review is being invaded by indie games! We already feature a ton of indie game reviews from month to month but this spring is going to be different as we carpet bomb the internet with way more reviews than normal. Why? Well mostly because we suddenly found ourselves buried in indie games to play and it […]
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We all have gaps in our cinematic knowledge, films which, if we confess our ignorance of, someone, somewhere will say, “How have you not seen that?!” Catching Up is about these films, and viewing them so long after seemingly everyone else has. Some of these entries may be shocking, some are embarrassing, but all of them are classics. The Film: […]
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Cinema is an interesting art form, in that it is made up of a number of other art forms, including theater, painting, music, and writing (among others). Not all films can be considered art, nor should they all strive to be, but when they do rise to that level, they become something that can help us better understand ourselves, and […]
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