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[State of Play] SteamBox/SteamOS

The interactive entertainment industry is a funny thing. It’s long since moved past the birthing pangs, or the necessity of justifying its legitimacy to larger entertainment – having eclipsed both Hollywood and professional sports in gross dollars per annum – and it’s a rare youth indeed that wasn’t all different kinds of atwitter about the

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Comic Books
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Review: Serenity – Leaves On the Wind

What Firefly fans want most is not a second season that picks up ten years after the last episode. They don’t want a Serenity Two that meets up with our favorite characters a decade later. What fans want most is a second season that picks up exactly where season one left off; same characters, same

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Comic Issues
Anthony Silva

Comic Issues #154 – Don’t Hate, Just Wait

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week the crew gathers together to celebrate the return of the one true wall crawler, Peter Parker! Now with Pete’s return Anthony breathes a sigh of relief and has put down his hatred for Superior Spider-man so that he can pick

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The Son of Batman is Coming

Yesterday TV Guide (another source of geek news apparently) released the first trailer for the next DC Original Animated movie following Justice League: War.  Based of off Grant Morrison’s Batman and Son story line where he first introduced Damian Wayne, the preteen son of Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul.  In the story the young

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Review: Broken Age – Act 1

As a kid, the NES was my core gaming platform. Sadly, my parents really didn’t go for the 16-bit console era, but they did have this glorious tower that would become my new gaming platform, and cue the fabled green text of DOS on the PC. I started with Flight Sims, but they were all

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Science and Tech
James Trauben

Fears of FCC Overreach Overblown and Misleading

This Tuesday, A District of Columbia court of appeals ruled against certain key elements of “net neutrality.” The court opinion takes a bit of reading, but can be summed up thusly: That said, even though the Commission has general authority to regulate in this arena, it may not impose requirements that contravene express statutory mandates.

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Gaming
Nick Melton

“Final Fantasy Tactics” Creator Launches Kickstarter For New RPG

Yasumi Matsuno – creator of the classic video games Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre and Vagrant Story – has started a Kickstarter page with the company Playdek to fund a new RPG. Called Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians, the game is described as a “spiritual successor in a storied line of epic tactical RPGs designed by Yasumi Matsuno.”

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

With the latest Jack Ryan movie, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, staring Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightly, and Kenneth Branagh, who also directed, comes a fast-paced action movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat. This isn’t the Jack Ryan we’ve seen before. With the Cold War long gone and new terror always on the

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Drive Angry

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Well it was bound to happen again, the return of Nicolas Cage! This week in Movie Issues HQ we watched the 2011 action flick Drive Angry. We watch Nic Cage play a man who has escaped hell to save his grand-daughter before

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