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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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Comic Books
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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Comic Books
Anthony Silva

Marvel is the Leader of the Digital Frontier

Last weekend Marvel made another uncharacteristic appearance at South by Southwest (SxSW), the independent movie and music festival held annually in Austin, Tx. In the previous year Marvel announced their ReEvolution campaign that included the first fully digital comic line called Infinite, and its debut story featuring Nova set off the events of last year’s

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: OZ the Great and Powerful

After the grand finale of the Harry Potter series, most of the big studios have been trying to fill the “magic-kid friendly-franchise” slot left vacant. First up at the plate is Disney’s OZ: The Great and Powerful. Welcome back to the merry old of land of OZ, and leading us down this new yellow brick

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Purple Rain

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! We here at Movie Issues are still rock n’ rollin’ with Music Movie Month, so this week, we went back to the 80s! The height of the 1980s, no less. We watched 1984s Purple Rain, starring Prince, the purpled one himself. Neither

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