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Tabloid’s Most Outrageous Claim Ever: Wii Boxing is “Dangerously Lifelike”
Hey, you know what makes a domestic violence arrest funny and lighthearted? Wii Boxing. At least according to one supermarket tabloid’s interpretation of what went down between Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller. This just in from the Weekly World News – a Tooth Fairy gazette that straight-faced writes about stuff like Bat Boy and alien…
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Batman Comic Book Writer Advocates More Video Game Violence?
Landry Walker, writer on comic book Batman: The Brave and The Bold, recently played Batman: Arkham Asylum and did not like what he saw. In his own words, “Batman doesn’t get shot. He doesn’t get shot, because he’s Batman.” As a comic book writer with the name Batman in his bibliography, Walker says he has…
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Not Exactly a Quote That Inspires Hope for Retail Season
The New York Times took a first look at holiday sales and, while finding that it didn’t suck as bad as last year for retailers, found someone to remind us that stores aren’t the only ones deserving of concern. “This is not the year for silly stuff,” said Keith Browning, 50 of Columbus, Ohio. He…
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Assassin’s Creed Fan Film Shows You How Altair Lost His Finger
High quality fan films can enrich video game lore as much as yaoi fanfiction damages it by filling plot holes and visualizing pieces of the game’s back story we only hear about in passing. Take for example the loss of Altair’s ring finger on his hidden-knife-hand. From playing Assassin’s Creed, we know he lost it…
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Oh Yeah, That Other Final Fantasy Release
It may not look, sound, or play quite as good as its numbered big brother, but the recently released Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers does have one advantage over Final Fantasy XIII – I can understand it. I’ve played around 10 hours of Final Fantasy XIII now with zero-Japanese comprehension skills, and it’s…
By Mike Fahey