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The final DLC for Batman: Arkham City will be released Monday, entitled Harley Quinn’s Revenge.  What she wants revenge for is a spoiler to the ending of Arkham City, so I’ll just sidestep that detail by mentioning that the DLC includes more than two hours...

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Though Iron Man ended up being the flagship movie of Marvel Studios (to the point where every Marvel movie since then up to the Avengers has emphasized “from the creators of Iron Man”), I feel like Iron Man 2 was diminishing returns and not particularly...

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Michael Fassbender as a creepy android for the movie, Prometheus. So, any doubts ANYONE might have still held that this was tied to Ridley Scott’s Alien film should be shot down by the whole “Weyland Corporation” part. Plus, you know, you could just go read...

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We’ve been promoting the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter campaign for some time now, and it’s finally come to an end today.  Including Paypal donations, the grand total is… $3,043,900!  This means not only will the game be bigger than Wasteland 1, they’re able to bring in...

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What are you doing here? Don’t you know that the Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard-written horror movie “Cabin in the Woods,” which has opened to great reviews, and counts among its stars Chris Hemsworth (of “Thor”), Fran Kranz (Topher of “Dollhouse”), and Amy Acker (Fred...

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Yes, someone from the BBB has called Mass Effect 3 out on it’s ending.  The blog post, as a whole, isn’t antagonistic towards Bioware or EA… but it does boil it down to saying that, in key pieces of of the game’s advertising, declarative statements...

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