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  • Netflix Streams to iPhone

    Netflix Streams to iPhone

    Twenty minutes later I'm home, sitting in front of my TV, watching Chief Brody turn oxygen into fruit punch as Jaws streams through my Xbox... in HD.

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  • The Empire Wants You

    The Empire Wants You

    A few great posters by artist Cliff Chiang.

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  • Used Games, Good for Everyone

    Used Games, Good for Everyone

    While secondhand commerce may not be popular with retailers, it is, and always has been, a prevalent segment of the marketplace. So it can hardly be a shock that gamers are outraged over video game developers considering, and even implementing, plans to block consumers who buy pre-owned games from using those games’ online components.

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  • Where I’ve Been

    Where I’ve Been

    I've been patrolling The Borderlands

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  • Mass Effect: Great Game Cheap and New to You

    Mass Effect: Great Game Cheap and New to You

    You can sprint straight through the core missions if you like, but I suggest you ignore them, at least for a while. Mass Effect is a Star Wars quality universe. If you get hung up on the plot you’ll miss a lot of it.

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  • An Escape: The Prisoner

    An Escape: The Prisoner

    You don’t really need an excuse to watch Ian McKellan as a twinkle-eyed villain, do you?

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  • This Just In: The Half-Naked City

    This Just In: The Half-Naked City

    The preferred method of media coverage was a whipped up controversy over semi-nudity and morality that often included man-on-the-street interviews with passers-by, featuring parents with their children when possible, in front of the offending objet d'adverte.

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  • Fallout 3 Downloadable Content for (sigh) PS3

    Fallout 3 Downloadable Content for (sigh) PS3

    The environment is filthy, creepy, massive, and overpopulated with evil, mutated in-breeders and ignoble savages designed to put up a fight before you turn them into a fine red mist.

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