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We’ve avoided talking about the Mass Effect 3 ending on here too much, mostly because we’re still in the depression stage of grief, but also because the rage against the ending and why it fails both as a concluding statement and as a literary device...

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Reboots are a funny thing.  Sometimes you get great ideas — Rise of the Planet of the Apes was, surprisingly, one of the most acclaimed movies of 2011; the Christopher Nolan reboot of Batman rebuilt the movie character for a new generation; The Amazing Spider-Man...

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I recently had the pleasure of watching the HBO adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s “Game of Thrones” on DVD, and let me tell you, it is a sight to behold. The visuals are stunning (even more so in HD, naturally) and the adaptation, while truncated...

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Yeah, that’s right. Chris Avellone, he of Fallout 2 and New Vegas, Planescape: Torment and Alpha Protocol fame, will be bringing some former Black Isle allies (who worked with Fargo’s Interplay back in the day) to help on Wasteland 2 IF (not that big an...

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Another game I’ve been waiting for has now decided that some Kickstarter funding might be a good thing.  I highly agree. The game is Dead State, and you can find it’s website here -  http://www.deadstate.doublebearproductions.com/. It began here - I still don’t think we’re quite...

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If you were looking forward to the troubled Battlestar Galactica spinoff Blood and Chrome, you had exactly one day to feel excited about it: a teaser trailer for the series from WonderCon was released online, then yanked later in the day as SyFy announced that...

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