This week I’m taking a look at Tom Clancy’s Magnum Opus – Red Storm Rising (Feat. Larry Bond)
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This week, I’m reviewing the latest installment in the Call of Duty franchise, with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Multiplayer footage by Matroix (http://www.youtube.com/Matroix)
Classical Music during the “Incoherent Rage” card is “Virtutes Instrumenti” by Kevin McCloud
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: Activision, Call of Duty, call of duty modern warfare 3, video game
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This week I’m taking a look at the latest Batman film – The Dark Knight Rises.
Filed under: film, videos Tagged: Batman, Christopher Nolan, Dark Knight Rises, film
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Arthur C Clarke in his home office in Sri Lanka (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This week I’m taking a look at Arthur C. Clarke‘s classic SF novel, Rendezvous With Rama.
Gamers Against Bigotry’s IndieGoGo Campaign can be found at http://www.indiegogo.com/GAB648
Their web page is http://gamersagainstbigotry.org/
The campaign ends on August 1st, 2012 – so donate now!
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Last night I went to the Hollywood Theater for their monthly Kung Fu Theater night, and I wanted to give my thoughts on the theater and the films I saw.
Filed under: film, Hong Kong Action Movies, videos
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Well behind schedule, I finally have my thoughts on the E3 games I was unsold on, including the “winner” of the “lucrative” award of shame of the show.
The IndieGoGo project mentioned in the video can be found here – http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/150672?c=home
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: Dead Space 3, Dust 514, E3 2012, EVE Online, Gears of War: Judgement, Tomb Raider, Wizardry Online
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This week, I’m returning to my E3 2012 coverage and finishing it up with my Top 5 Sold! List.
Persona 4 Arena footage: http://YouTube.com/AtlusUSA
Sleeping Dogs footage: http://YouTube.com/SleepingDogsGame
Rock Band Blitz footage: http://YouTube.com/HarmonixMusic
Watch Dogs footage: http://YouTube.com/Ubisoft.
Castlevania: Mirror of Fate: http://YouTube.com/Nintendo
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: Atlus, Castlevania, E3 2012, Harmonix, Konami, Persona 4, Rock Band, Rock Band Blitz
I’m taking a break today from the video game stuff, to give my thoughts on the just released movie Prometheus, a prequel to Alien.
Filed under: film, videos Tagged: Alien Series, film, Horror film, Prometheus, science fiction
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Now that E3 has officially concluded, I’m posting my thoughts on Nintendo’s two – count ‘em – two press conferences, covering the 3DS and the Wii U, with one more video. Next week, my picks for favorite game of the show.
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: E3 2012, Nintendo, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U
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Just two days late, I’m giving my thoughts on EA, Ubisoft, and Sony’s media briefings from E3. I never said I’d be timely, now would I?
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: E3 2012, Electronic Arts, Sony, Ubisoft
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It’s E3 Week, which means it’s time for me to talk about the press briefings, starting with Konami & Microsoft.
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Konami, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, Microsoft, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Zone of the Enders
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It’s book review time, as I get the two Hugo Award Nominees for Best Novel that interested me, out of the way. Specifically, Among Others by Jo Walton, and Leviathan Wakes by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck writing as James S.A. Corey.
Filed under: Books, videos Tagged: Hugo Award
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This week I’m taking a look at Need For Speed: The Run, as well as the nominees for Best Professional Artist in the Hugo Awards.
The Nominees and their web pages are.
Dan dos Santos
Bob Eggleton
Michael Komarck
Stephan Martiniere
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: Hugo Award, Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
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This week I have a review double feature – the science fiction novel The Quantum Thief, and the film The Avengers.
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Filed under: Books, film, videos Tagged: Avenger, book review, film, Quantum Thief, science fiction
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This week I’m giving my thoughts on the game Rayman: Origins.
Also, because it didn’t really take that long to talk about the game, I’m also giving my thoughts on this year’s nominees for Best Fancast at the Hugo Awards, including my pick for the winner.
The Nominees:
The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe
Galactic Suburbia Podcast, Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce, and Tansy Rayner Roberts (presenters) and Andrew Finch (producer)
SF Signal Podcast, John DeNardo and JP
This week I’m quickly giving my thoughts on a short novel – James Blish‘s They Shall Have Stars (Part 1 of Cities in Flight), and then taking a look at some more of this year’s Hugo Nominees.
Filed under: Books Tagged: book review, Cities in Flight, Hugo Award, Hugo Nominees, James Blish, science fiction
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This week I’m taking a look at Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception… and, since I had time to spare, I also take a look at this year’s Hugo Award nominated novels.
I apologize for the technical difficulties – I was having difficulties capturing video from my webcam.
Filed under: Video games Tagged: Hugo Award, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
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Cover of Black Blade
This week I’m finally getting back to book reviews, with a look at the horrible novel by Eric Van Lustbader – Black Blade.
Filed under: Books, Reviews, videos Tagged: Black Blade, book review, Eric Van Lustbader
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Well, it’s been a long time since my last video review, but I’m back, and I’m taking a look at El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.
Gameplay Footage by GhostRobo
http://www.youtube.com/user/GhostRobo
Filed under: Reviews, Video games, videos Tagged: El Shaddai, El-Shaddai-Ascension-of-the-Metatron, Video games, video review
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This is a thing that’s been bugging me for quite some time. There’s this mindset that’s been bugging me for quite some time among people who, well, make their living criticizing anime – people like Justin and Zac of Anime News Network for instance. The idea is, that because the anime industry has demonstrated the market cannot support the levels of cost for mass production of Anime DVDs, and manga as books through regular channels, to levels that will cover the costs that the Japanese rights-hol
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This week I’ve got an editorial for you all, thanks to the embarassment of news riches that were worth ranting about. First I have a discussion on the reveal that “Mega Man” would appear in Street Fighter X Tekken, and then I have a discussion about the Used Game Debate, and whether the Occupy movement should get involved. (Hint: The answer is yes.)
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: editorial, Video games
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This week I have another review of a game in the Gears of War series, with my thoughts on Gears of War 3.
Gameplay video recorded by TheRadBrad (http://youtube.com/TheRadBrad)
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: Gears of War, Gears of War 3, video game
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After taking a break for the holidays, I’ve got a video game review for you of
. It’s not the best game in the history of gaming… but you can see it from here.Gameplay Footage by: J2JonJeremy
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