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Gaming
Raul Valle

[Review] Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (PS3/X360)

Publisher: Konami Digital Entertainment Developer: Platinum Games Release Date: February 19, 2013 ESRB Rating: M Pg! Score: 9 There was no shortage of skepticism when Kojima Productions handed off Metal Gear Solid: Rising to Platinum Games and rebranded it as Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. While not uncommon for publishers to outsource popular franchises after creative teams

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Reviews
Leland Pierce

Review: Jack the Giant Slayer

Jack the Giant Slayer is the epic retelling of the ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ story we’ve all heard as children, directed by Bryan Singer, mostly known for X-Men, X-Men 2, and the disappointing Superman Returns. Here we find our hero Jack, a dreamer wishing for adventure. He meets up with the reluctant princess, Isabelle, who

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Gaming
James Trauben

Dead Space 3 keeps horror trappings but actionizes the tone

“Horror protagonist” is usually a life sentence. If you don’t get shuffled off in the last few minutes of your debut feature or job for the villain in the first few of the sequel, you’ll probably get dragged back, again and again, to deal with the latest threat du jour. Having narrowly escaped both the

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: A Good Day to Die Hard

A Good Day to Die Hard, directed by John Moore, is the fifth installment in the Die Hard franchise. Once again it stars Bruce Willis as John McClane, now with Jai Courtney as his son Jack, who has gotten himself into some trouble in Russia. John feels it’s his fatherly duty to go and help

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Beautiful Creatures

Based on the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures is a supernatural romance movie directed and written by Richard LaGravenese. Ethan Wate, your average teenage boy eager to get out of his small town, is captivated by new student Lena Duchannes, who is immediately rumored to be a witch after she arrives.

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Warm Bodies

Warm Bodies is the paranormal zom-rom-com you didn’t know you’d been waiting for. Based on Isaac Marion’s popular novel, and directed by Jonathan Levine (mostly known for his 2011 film 50/50), it follows the story of R, a zombie (Nicholas Hoult) who falls in love with a human named Julie (Teresa Palmer). When their romance

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Review: Wayne of Gotham

I had high hopes for Tracy Hickman’s Wayne of Gotham, but it never grabbed my attention. When I look at everything I was reading, or watching while I was trying to read this book, I don’t think it ever had a chance.

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Comic Books
Anthony Silva

Does it Hold Up?: The Dark Knight Returns

I missed a lot from comics in the 80’s and early 90’s. That’s why I decided to go back to the classics. I’ll be writing a series of articles/reviews of classic comics and movies that I have never seen before. I’ll be looking to see if they “Hold up” to the hype that they’ve accumulated

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Reviews
James Trauben

Devil May Cry for Dummies – in both senses

DmC: Devil May Cry, Ninja Theory’s new title, bills itself as a Devil May Cry game, but it’s clearly aimed at non-fans and new audiences. If the public-relations trainwreck of its development process hadn’t made that obvious, the game’s defanged combat, bland boss battles, brooding atmosphere and absurdly unconvincing anti-corporatist pretenses will not satisfy series

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