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Why wouldn’t a child of the 80s find a modern G.I. Joe movie fantastic? Given the veritable success of the recent Transformers movie, a G.I. Joe movie seems like a logical move. That is, until one realizes that G.I. Joe is full of campy nonsense much like the Ewoks that heralded Star Wars’ demise.
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Is anyone surprised that the copy protection announced for Mass Effect and Spore is being reconsidered? In short, publishers Bioware and EA, respectively, initially decided to include a copy protection mechanism that would cause the aforementioned games to “phone home” every ten days to ensure that the game played was legitimately purchased. The ten-day authentication [...]

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What is this, the Reality Distortion Field (RDF) at it’s best? TUAW’s claiming that news of movie rentals via iTunes is making Blockbuster and Netflix stock drop, despite the fact that movie rentals on iTunes is nothing but novelty. Don’t get me wrong - the fact that I have a new rental option is nice, [...]

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It’s been over a year since I publicly released Bringing Back the Force, and have, since then, received quite a flood of e-mail. While there were, of course, flames from Lucas-zealots for defying their master’s vision, on the whole, feedback has been most excellent. I intended on writing a follow-up article a mere handful of [...]

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