One of the major critiques of Mass Effect 3 that I’ve seen floating about lately has been of the story. I’m not going to go into great detail on that front right now. A story can be hit or miss with any game, and it’s not a terribly interesting complaint, regardless of its validity. What’s […]
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The iPad 3 has gotten a lot of attention for its high-definition display, but there are other factors to take into consideration when thinking about touchscreen technology. Michael Humphries, at Geek.com, notes that whenever “a new tablet gets released the main question that gets asked about its touchscreen is “what’s the resolution?” It seems to be […]
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I wrote my review of John Carter yesterday and told everyone to just please, for the love of all things good and beautiful, ignore the critics who seem inexplicably determined to strangle the movie in its crib. has a brilliant defense of the film as well, arguing that the movie is a throwback to the […]
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Mass Effect developer BioWare has been lambasted by fans for releasing day-one DLC (downloadable content) that many gamers think should have been included as part of the game itself. (Warning, spoilers ahead.) (Update: Read my latest in this series: New Video Shows That Mass Effect Day-One DLC Already On Disc) Casey Hudson, an executive producer […]
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Disney’s John Carter is a sword-and-planet space romance. If that’s what you’re after, you’re in luck. It’s fun and trendy to trash science fiction and fantasy films that aren’t Very Serious Movies. That’s what we’re seeing happen with Disney’s John Carter, a fun, campy action-adventure directed by Pixar’s Andrew Stanton, and written by Stanton, Mark […]
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Alyssa Rosenberg says there’s no reason so many of our science fiction movies should be set on . It’s just a blank slate for an alien planet – any alien planet – and too few of the films and novels that use it only do so as a prop rather than as a real place. John […]
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We’ve been having a little back and forth around here on the merits of Disney films about girls and the lack of male protagonists in the Disney line-up. Aziz Poonawalla (also known as Otaku Kun) wrote the first round, and I followed up here. Aziz went on to write: What I want in a nutshell […]
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The front page of the internet has a new CEO. Reddit has chosen to fill the online community’s top spot. Wong will oversee reddit.com, redditgifts.com, and reddit.tv. Writing at the reddit blog, Wong made the announcement, noting that he didn’t think, at first, that he would be a serious candidate for the position. “‘I’ve spent the past decade of […]
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Over at Joystiq, Alexander Sliwinski reports on a surprising statement from CD Projeckt Red CEO Marcin Iwinski on that studio’s decision to abandon digital rights management protections on their future titles: “Every subsequent game we will never use any DRM anymore, it’s just over-complicating things,” Iwinski said. His presentation was hinged on how the Polish publisher sold […]
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I played and loved the first Far Cry game but didn’t get a chance (yet) to play the sequel. Now Far Cry 3 is on the horizon and its multiplayer components have been announced. One of the intriguing, mysterious things about the multiplayer is something that’s being called an “online universe” developed by Ubisoft studio, […]
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