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VLC is easily one of our favorite media players (and yours too). While it can handle nearly every movie you throw at…
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Is that you, Dog from Half-Life 2? This insanely good LEGO mech looks like him. Such a cool build, with a really detailed workshop, all made by the talented Kosmas Santosa.
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I'm not sure what I'd do if I opened the stall door and saw this. Perhaps shut it and back out of the restroom…
Continuing her series of posts outlining how the game's characters were designed, Platinum's Mari Shimazaki has…
I don't even think it's that. It's probably someone from another department, like marketing or something, who steps in and says "You will do X, Y, and Z. It's cheaper, it sells more console-copies, and you will listen to us because we're above you." And then when they get backlash or anything, the guys at PR just…
I'm not saying the original 3DS is bad. I'm not saying that at all. What I'm saying is that the New Nintendo 3DS…
For the second year in a row, America has let me down. Lay's 2nd annual "Do Us A Flavor" competition is over, and…
I want so badly to play this game, to kill things and to take beautiful pictures of Talion's sadism masked as a crusade for justice. I wish Gamefly would stop messing around and mail my copy out :(
Sarah Michelle Gellar was miscast. I grew up watching her as Buffy kicking vampire's ass and now i can't believe she will be frightened by any ghost ever.