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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Olympus Has Fallen

In one year, some action flicks come out that are really good, and many of them get lost in the mix. Especially in recent years now filled with comic book action movies, how does a standard one stand out from another? A good plot, a tight script, and wonderful actors doing great characters usually helps. Olympus Has Fallen

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Review – Castlevania: Mirror of Fate 3DS

Rating: 7.0 I’m a sucker for a good Castlevania game, and even more so on a handheld device. There is something special about getting to sit down and kill zombies on the go. This time around Konami went for the 3DS promising a 3D-2D Castlevania. So how does this game hold up to it’s predecessors?

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Comic Issues
Andrew Plein

Comic Issues #110 – Started on Mars

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Has KickStarter changed the way movies are made? Join our heroes and heroine as they take a look at the upcoming Veronica Mars movie funded by KickStarter. Will it change everything as we know it? Also we are recording from our newest

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The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct – Launch Trailer

Activision’s launch trailer for The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is bloody and mournful. The game, evidently set before the series, dramatizes about Daryl Dixon’s quest to find his missing brother Merle. Unfortunately, standing in the way of his sibling are hordes of walking dead and a desolate landscape, hostile landscape. The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct

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Christin Tomaschke

Old Classics: Rurouni Kenshin

The 1990’s gave us enormous perms, hilariously awkward fashions, and bizarre fads. But as many of us revel in our childhood memories of Pokémon cards and pogs, we tend to forget one of the greatest gifts that the 90’s gave us: epic and groundbreaking manga series. Among those gems is Nobuhiro Watsuki’s riveting series Rurouni

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Josie and the Pussycats

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Still giving love to movies with heavy music influence, the guys found themselves in Riverdale this week, watching 2001’s Josie and the Pussycats. This movie really is a time capsule of the early 2000s pop music crazy we all found ourselves trapped in

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Konami Releases PlayStation 3 Exclusive VR Missions for Metal Gear Rising

It’s no secret that Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance can feel a bit on the short side. But for those of you looking for more, Konami has you covered. Exclusive to the PlayStation 3, Konami recently released the VR Missions DLC Pack, consisting of 30 different missions for players to test their skills on. And, if the

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Comic Issues
Andrew Plein

Comic Issues #109 – Shamrocking

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s March which means Brackets, Shamrocks and the Emerald City Comic Con. Join our heroes and heroine as they go green with the sprit of March. As they talk about the Throne of Geekdom. Which pits your fav pop culture characters against

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Outsourcing works as a partnership – not a hand-off

Why did DmC: Devil May Cry fail and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance succeed? What can we learn from the stark contrast of these two very different attempts to outsource popular franchises? You might argue, of course, whether the former failed at all. After all, the aggregate scores on Metacritic place the two roughly in the

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