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0 Comments POSTED ON Nov 14 2007 AT 8:01 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetHOW TO CONNECT A RAZR V3xx TO ISYNC: It was high time for a cell phone, and because we refuse to buy a 1st Gen iPhone, we got something to hold us for a while, namely a Razr V3xx, which is 3g and unlike the original Razr you can hear people [...]

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To Do NYC: Heroes video game event

16 Comments POSTED ON Sep 24 2007 AT 10:18 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet There’s a whoopie-do tonight at the Nokia store for the new Heroes game — which ends in time for the season premiere tonight.

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Medal of Honour equalizes the sexes

0 Comments POSTED ON Sep 14 2007 AT 11:56 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetPlaying video games erases the spatial acuity gap between men and women at least according to one study where men and women participated in an “off Man Out” game in which men scored much better than women. However, then video games entered the picture. They asked some of their volunteers to spend [...]

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Links of compelling inportance

0 Comments POSTED ON Aug 22 2007 AT 8:01 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ The LA times looks at the practice of “slabbing which despite what you think, is not a preference you can check on Suicide Girls. “It’s changed the nature of the hobby, it’s turned comic books into a medium of exchange instead of a medium of entertainment,” groaned James Friel, who works [...]

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Virgin teams with Sony for MMORG

0 Comments POSTED ON Aug 10 2007 AT 8:04 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetAnother massive multiplayer online role playing game is in the works, this one based on the Indian-based Ramayan universe published by Virgin Comics. The Kama Sutra has GOT to figure in there somehow. Sony Online Entertainment has announced it is teaming up with Virgin comics to create an MMORPG based on the [...]

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Gay gaming site knocked off line

0 Comments POSTED ON Aug 06 2007 AT 8:01 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetAccording to Kotaku, gay-themed gaming site GayGamer has been knocked offline by a hate-crime spammer. Flynn De Marco, the site’s owner and Kotaku weekend editor, said small waves of denial of service attacks started Wednesday morning, causing occasional timeouts on the site. By Friday the site, working with their host, was able [...]

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If you liked LEGO Star Wars…

2 Comments POSTED ON Jul 31 2007 AT 9:10 pm BY Mark Coale

Share this link on Facebook!TweetYou’ll probably like LEGO Indiana Jones. See the trailer here. Posted by Mark Coale

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What's up with Cloverfield?

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 26 2007 AT 5:15 pm BY Mark Coale

Share this link on Facebook!TweetNow that Harry Potter is passed, what’s the next thing for Nerd Nation over which to obsess over? How about CLOVERFIELD aka 1-18-08, the new film project headed up by ALIAS/LOST maestro J.J. Abrams? You’ve already seen the trailer. You’ve been to the website. What’s next? Well, this week’s “Entertainment Weekly” (Harry Potter [...]

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SD07: Curt Schillling (#2601)

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 24 2007 AT 8:04 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet 38 Studios (www.38studios.com), a pioneering entertainment force delivering a broad spectrum of immersive products, today announced its participation in the annual San Diego Comic-Con 2007. The company is comprised of luminaries from multiple industries including Boston Red Sox pitcher and game visionary Curt Schilling, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, New York Times [...]

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DC to publish WORLD OF WARCRAFT comic

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 23 2007 AT 10:28 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetDC had to WoW license for toys, so this isn’t much of a stretch, but it is a potentially very popular franchise. DC Comics, the world’s largest English language comic book publisher and home to Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman announced plans today to publish a new comic book series based on [...]

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John Layman Cryptic, funny

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 18 2007 AT 8:06 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe know what you’ve been asking yourselves all this time. What is REALLY GOING ON with John Layman’s career? Well, for one thing, he’s joined Cryptic Studios to work on the Marvel MMO:

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What video games would Kevin Huizenga play?

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 12 2007 AT 8:04 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetApparently this: “Eternal Sonata of the Spotless Mind [for the Xbox 360] follows the adventures of famed composer Frederic Chopin as he travels through his own dream world filled with colorful characters and stunning locales. In a land where music influences both combat and exploration, Chopin sets out on a journey not [...]

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E3 on the d-lo

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 12 2007 AT 8:01 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetDid you know E3 the yearly gaming confab is going on? It is, but it’s vewy vewy quiet. Unlike past AV extravaganzas, which made San Diego seam like a Seurat painting, E3 has been downsized to a series of media presentations in a large hangar in Santa Monica. Joystiq has all [...]

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Notable Quotables

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 06 2007 AT 12:56 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Dave Astor has several reports from the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’s 50th Anniversary convention: Can editorial cartoons survive? Before audience members came up with the suggestions, the problem was described by editorial cartoonist Paul Fell — one of the session leaders. “Part of the reason the AAEC was founded was a [...]

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SAM & MAX back to print!

0 Comments POSTED ON Jun 28 2007 AT 8:06 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Wired blog reports that Telltale Games is reprinting Surfin’ The Highway: The Collected Sam & Max. The book includes both the priceless originals and more recent bonus material. The original printing is super-rare these days, fetching between $150-200 through Amazon used book sellers. Pretty pricey for a trade paperback! Telltale is also [...]

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