Ray Harryhausen passed away yesterday and, with him gone, we lost somebody would could bring fantastical creatures to life with his fingertips.

The man responsible for the fantastical elements and chilling creatures of film classics like Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans passed away today.

I like God of War: Ascension. It's a violent video game. I've got nothing against that.

There's a Trophy in the new PS3 game God of War: Ascension that rewards you for scoring a thousand-hit combo. Imagine the bloody combat artistry required to win this accolade! Imagine using the game's wonderfully-varied arsenal of combat maneuvers.

For the first four and a half hours of the new God of War, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the game was made by malfunctioning robots.

There have been five God of War games and, in each one, Kratos slaughters his way through significant portions of the Greco-Roman pantheon. Wow, you might say, is there anybody left for the Ghost of Sparta to be mad at? Yeah, there is.

Last month, Sony started trying to convince us that we will need a PlayStation 4. The system is coming out at the end of the year.

Everyone will get their hands on the demo for God of War: Ascension on Feb. 26, but some will get access to it on Feb. 20, provided they prevail in some kind of social media sign-up challenge that's been going on for the past 10 days.