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Gaming
Jordan Pollock

Pixel Clicks Podcast #33 – Flying Solo

You can listen to this episode on our Pixel Clicks Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Never fear, PCP is here! This week, the guys are absent! But, no worries (or unfortunately) Jordan talks into a microphone about Nintendo NX rumors, Payday 2‘s horrible micro-transactions, Overwatch and Battleborn betas, and much more!

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Review: The Silent Girls

He’d always wondered why people in rural areas, when interviewed after appalling violence, said, “This isn’t supposed to happen here.” As if violence had forgotten to keep itself within some prescribed geographic boundary. It’s a pretty appropriate opening chapter for a book I’m reviewing in the middle of October: a hapless housewife, a ghoulish trick-or-treater, and

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Review – Transformers #46

CONQUERORS part 1! Optimus Prime struggles to find his place on Cybertron where half the population hates him and the other half worships him. Meanwhile, on Earth, Galvatron doesn’t care what anybody thinks. No matter where you are (Cybertron, Caminus, Earth, a disintegrating Ark) tensions are high and getting worse. Click the jump for a review

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Review: Crimson Peak

Guillermo del Toro is one of these directors that truly owns genre filmmaking. Whether it’s a Spanish ghost haunting an orphanage, vampires, a monster from hell fighting on our side, or even having giant robots fighting creatures from the deep, del Toro knows what he’s doing. Is it any wonder why he has such a

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: The Fog

This week the guys fall down the well of Master of Horror, John Carpenter and watched one of his lesser known, but just as awesome movies, 1980s The Fog. Antonio Bay is on the eve of their town’s centennial when a terrible secret is learned, that the town was founded on blood money and murder. As

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Gaming
Andrew Plein

Review: Transformers Devastation – Xbox One

There was really something special about the 80s, specifically with our Saturday morning cartoons. While most were there to sell countless amounts of plastic toys, there were those special series that still managed to keeps their spark, in particular the leader of the Autobots: Optimus Prime. What’s truly fascinating is he has stood the test of time

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Comic Books
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Bitch Planet: Radical Feminism, Empowerment Apologists, and Everybody In Between

In an NPR interview last week, Kelly Sue DeConnick talked about how some fans reacted to her reimagining of Captain Marvel: Carol Danvers went from a long-sleeved bathing suit with thigh-high boots to a full-cover flight suit, and that among other changes caused an outcry of “feminist agenda” and “angry feminism.” To paraphrase DeConnick, who seems

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Comic Issues #244 – Beat the Clock: Ten Titles Under the Wire

We’re going for a record this episode: it’s the first week of the All-New All-Different Marvel titles and it’s also the final issue of several Battleworld series. What does that mean? It means we had ten books we wanted to talk about this week, twice our usual number, and we can’t do a two-hour episode. (Well

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Gaming
Jordan Pollock

Pixel Clicks Podcast #32 – Fight Fire with Fire

You can listen to this episode on our Pixel Clicks Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Get ready for some PCP! This week was filled with a lot of bite-sized news stories but the guys talk a bit more about Far Cry Primal, awful microtransactions, voice actors going on strike, Star Wars Battlefront, and much more!

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