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Between highest opening weekend (at $200.3 million, ahead of Harry Potter 8), helped in no small part by 3-D ticket sales, strong international numbers, and just plain hype; largest single day of all time ($61.8 million, not including Friday’s midnight premiere), biggest per theatre average...

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Avengers opens tonight.  Or tomorrow, if you don’t count midnight showings as Thursday. Opens in America, at least.  Overseas it is already doing GANGBUSTERS! “Avengers” is already topping charts overseas with $260.5 million in earnings so far, according to Deadline. The website reported that when...

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So, you’ve finished Portal 2.  You’ve played the multiplayer.  You’ve played the DLC.  Nothing left to do for the game, right? Wrong!  May 8 will see the release of the Perpetual Testing DLC, i.e. a level editor for the PC version of the game.  You...

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I’m not the world’s greatest Fringe fan — currently I’m somewhere in the second season on the DVDs — but I appreciate that there’s a long-running sci-fi show with a consistent mythology and some solid acting. Fox recently announced that Fringe will be renewed for...

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I’ve read the book twice and am on a third read.  This RPG has some of the best layouts I’ve ever seen for a game book – and I thought 4E D&D had reached a new height. What I’m talking about is the new version...

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First – enjoy this video of Sessler getting “Bad Horsed.” Okay, it’s been quite some time since I actually watched X-Play.  Like… since I left Chicago in 2005 and no longer had Comcast and therefore it’s G4 channel.  But I DO very much enjoy Sessler’s...

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