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Welcome to VR – The Oculus Rift

As much as I’ve tried to ignore this, it appears that, for better or worse, virtual reality is going to become a “thing.” It appears that no less than four virtual reality devices are heading our way with the Oculus Rift, as well as projects from Sony, Microsoft, and Valve. While the hype certainly exists, I’m just not sure...

Review H.I.T.M. (History In The Making) – This Band Is Destined To Blow Up

H.I.T.M. (History In The Making) represent everything great about the L.A. music scene. I was fortunate to catch their live show at the Whiskey A Go Go on the famed Sunset Strip last week. H.I.T.M. is a band that take charge the second they hit the stage. Not with a pretentious “hey look at us” kind of vibe. H.I.T.M....

Review Captain America The Winter Soldier – This Adventure Works

Directors Anthony and Joe Russo take over from Captain America: the First Avenger director Joe Johnston and come up with a unique, inspired and intelligent superhero film in an era where each new entry is required to deliver more bang for the buck. With 007 no longer having a monopoly on larger-than-life action films a special twist is required...

Video Game Roundtable Episode 178: Old in the Valley – Podcast

This week’s Jonah discusses an article about ageism in Silicon Valley, while Paul complains about an achievement ruining a casual game he’d spent $200 on. This week’s Gaming Flashback is Dance Dance Revolution. The news includes: Facebook acquiring Oculus for $2 billion, Valve’s Portal coming as Tegra 4 Android App to Nvidia Shield, Xbox One may allow loaning of digital...

Video Game Roundtable Episode 177: Origin Problems – Podcast

In this episode, Jonah complains about Origin and his inability to play Dragon Age: Origins, while a heated discussion between Jonah and Paul occurs over various topics, along with discussion of Frozen. Jordan discusses his son’s college tuitions as well. This week’s Gaming Flashback is the coin-op arcade game Wizard of Wor. This week’s news items include: Sony PlayStation honcho...

The Top 8 Movie/TV Show Based Video Games

For this list, I’m using some flexible rules. Basically, I’m allowing video games that are based directly on a Movie or TV show as well as games that only use those licenses. Some of these also originated as comics, but I’ve allowed them so long as the games are pulled from a Movie or Television adaptation or if the...

Guitar Gear Review – In Need of a Boost, the EHX Soul Food is Worth Considering

Over the last few months, there has been not a little excitement at the news that Electro-Harmonix (www.ehx.com) was about to release the Soul Food, a pedal they describe as a "transparent overdrive with great touch and response". The more interesting part of the marketing blurb though, was the link to the almost mythical KLON CENTAUR, a pedal that...

Hilarious Clip of the Week: Panty Droppers Boot Camp (Video)

Campus MovieFest (CMF), is the world's largest student film festival and a premier outlet for the next generation of filmmakers. You can see over 10,000 student-made short films. We weeded through the thousands of great entries and found this hilarious film called Panty Droppers Boot Camp. This short is a training guide for you guys out there that “got no game”....

Review Arnold Schwarzenegger Returns in Sabotage

The former Governor of California has "buy your tickets now" for the new film Sabotage on his website Ya gotta love the sheer capitalism of it.  And you'll be hard pressed to count the bullets and see if there are more fired in Sabotage than in Bruce Willis 2013 new sequel in his Die Hard series,  A Good Day to...

Movie Review: Non-Stop – ‘Taken’ on a Plane

When Liam Neeson entered the action star portion of his acting career, my reaction was, “Yes, of course.” Actually, I may not really have had any reaction at all because the one-man army role suited him so well that I hardly noticed any difference. This is partly a way of getting at the fact that Neeson’s action...

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No, Seriously, Sexism in Video Games

In my last post, I made a point of ridiculing the notion that a lack of female protagonists means that developers are sexists. Essentially,...

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