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Leland Pierce

Review: 300 Rise of an Empire

Are you ready for tons blood, yelling, more physically fit men wearing practically nothing and enough slow-motion shots that almost give you enough time to get up and grab some more popcorn? Then you must be ready to see 300: Rise of an Empire. Where the first movie, 300, focused on the battle of King

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Nick Melton

Review: “Final Fantasy VI” for iOS

About twelve hours into the new iOS release of Final Fantasy VI, I had a sudden realization: “I still have to write my review!” That’s the hallmark of a great game. No matter how many times you’ve played it you still find yourself sucked into its world, and few games are greater than Final Fantasy VI.

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Gaming
Jordan Pollock

Strider Review

It has been about fourteen years since the last time Strider Hiryu appeared in a proper Strider game. But 2014 is a year of new beginnings, and so the long-awaited and much-anticipated new title in the Strider series has revealed itself. The new game, simply titled Strider, is a platforming action-adventure game in the vein

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Gaming
James Huneycutt

Review: Thief

Thief is the latest installment in a franchise that is near and dear to my heart – in fact, I can think of one title only that predates the first installment in the franchise in my experience, and that was some nonsense pack-in with the first computer my family ever purchased – Thief was the first real

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Night Circus

The Night Circus is the debut book by Erin Morgenstern; at this point it’s also the only book by Erin Morgenstern. She has some poetry and several smaller essays on her website, but for now this is her only novel. And while I’d like to see another book by this author, at this point I can’t

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llyzabeth

Review: The Blood Guard

The Blood Guard by Carter Roy wasn’t anything like what I’d expected. The main character Ronan may be a teenager who’s stumbled across a world of swords and sorcery and automatic weapons, but this is not one of those stories where he turns out to be some kind of “chosen one” or demigod. Not even

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Sand – Omnibus edition

What had once been rafters holding up a roof were now floor joists in Palmer’s house. Someone else’s house stood below theirs, long abandoned and unclaimed. Soon, his own home would be someone’s basement and this a sand-filled cellar. And so it went, sand piling up to the heavens and homes sinking toward hell. My

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Pompeii

The tagline reads, “No Warning, No Escape”. No better words could describe the feeling of watching Paul W.S. Anderson’s new action/romance, Pompeii. The movie is set in the Roman city of Pompeii, where Milo (Kit Harington) is a slave turned gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia (Emily

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Movie Novelizations

We’ve all run into it at one time or another. As a literary genre it’s pretty much inescapable. There are a few gems here and there, but the quality is generally middling-to-poor: words churned out by writers who might not excel at anything else. Sometimes we find one that appeals to us, or that we’ve

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