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Rage With Your Machine
A jampacked Tuesday gives the core gamer Rage and Dark Souls. Sports fans get NBA 2K12 and loyal webheads will see Spider-Man: Edge of Time Today • Tetris Axis (3DS) Tuesday • Dark Souls (PS3, 360)—The successor to From Software’s uncompromisingly challenging Demon’s Souls sends Xbox 360 gamers to hell and back for the first…
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Sunday Comics: A White Belt in Yoga
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Also, remember to vote for our newest feature. Voting is open until Thursday. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Sept. 26.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!!…
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Vote on Sunday Comics‘ Newest Strip
Last week we took nominations for a new feature to take Rooster Teeth‘s place in Sunday Comics. After reading through all of your suggestions, we’ve come up with a list of eight candidates for your vote. This is your decision. Please make it carefully. The eight candidates are in that gallery above, published in alphabetical…
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Sunday Comics Poll
Vote here for your choice for the newest feature in Sunday Comics. The candidates are listed in random order there, so be sure you know the name of the feature you prefer. Voting is open until noon on Thursday. We will try to have a new 10th comic in place by next Sunday. Thanks again…
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CultureHostess Chocwave and Snoballimus Prime Light Our Darkest Snacktime
With the third installment of Michael Bay’s Transformers movie saga on store shelves, can anything wash the taste of frustrated disappointment from the mouths of hardcore fans? Rise, Snoballimus Prime. Just in time for the DVD/Blu-ray release of Dark of the Moon, Hostess and the Baybots combine to form a pair of snack cakes colored…
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Doritos Creator Arch West Takes His Cheesy Legacy to the Grave
Orange-stained fingers around the world were clenched in grief last week, when the legendary marketing man credited with the creation of Doritos passed away. But take heart, snack fans; Arch West is taking his cheese powder-infused tortilla chips with him on his eternal journey. That’s right, West is being buried with Doritos. A marketing executive…
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We’re Taking Nominations for Sunday Comics’ Newest Strip
As you may have noticed, we’ve been down a comic in our Sunday Comics lineup ever since Rooster Teeth closed in August. I could have just filled it in with any of the submissions we frequently get from webcomic authors, but remembering how this feature was conceived, and given that everyone has such strong opinions…
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Ready for Some Football
EA Sports’ FIFA 12 highlights this release week (Tuesday in North America, Thursday and Friday in Europe) along with Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2011. Not diggin’ sports? X-Men: Destiny, the quasi-action-RPG by Silicon Knights, arrives on shelves, too. Monday • FIFA Soccer 12 (Wii) Tuesday • FIFA Soccer 12 (PC, PS2, PSP, PS3, 360) —A…
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Sunday Comics: Elitism Isn’t Free
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Sept. 19.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Sept. 24.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
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Elk Strips: The $35 Snack That Made a Great Nation Great
Funyuns, Doritos, Chikin-on-a-Biskit. They conjure images of stoners and the unemployed, but no one consumes those snacks to affect said lifestyle. Jerky, well, c’mon. It’s like a meat Marlboro. If you’ve ever torn off hunks of dried flesh, wrung them out on your molars, and not once narrowed your eyes and internally complimented this great…
By Owen Good
