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Remedy’s original blockbuster franchise gets the Rockstar treatment with its latest installment, Max Payne 3. It’s been almost nine years since we last encountered the titular hard-boiled mess of a man, but he’s clearly returned with a fresh look...

This week’s episode of Game of Thrones gets a much more appropriate title than last week’s. We see a lot of contrast between those who have honor, those who fight to preserve it, and those who have forsaken it. The last kind of man is of course the...

When my sister and I were much younger and shared a bedroom, we would often play a game of “Don’t Step in the Lava,” jumping from one piece of furniture to the next like little spider monkeys, careful to not touch the floor. We were very good at ...

As many avid Blizzard fans (or gamers in general, really) already know, Diablo III’s release is less than a week away from becoming reality. The May 15 launch date is welcome news to jonesing players who were unable to get their hands on a beta invit...

That was definitely my favorite episode of Game of Thrones this season. It was gut-wrenching, nail-biting, downright disturbing, and it had some moments to cheer for (though they were few and far between.)I found the episode title misleading, as so muc...

Things got off to a characteristically grim and shocking start on this week’s episode of Game of Thrones.After the opening scene, we were treated to an episode heavy on characters. It was a welcome relief after the torture and gratuitousness of last ...

Uh-oh. Joffrey’s been reading Hunger Games again.This week on a shocking episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones, the adaptation gets a little loose in places, to varying degrees of WTF-ness. But nothing that comes before it can prepare one for a final tw...

This week on Game of Thrones, a bunch of twenty-something, rich, awkward, white chicks talked a whole lot. Wow, HBO really wants people to watch Girls. The commercials before Game of Thrones seemed to take forever.In the world of Westeros, which seems ...

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International and Atari Corp, passed away on Sunday, April 8, 2012 at the age of 83. Born in Poland, Tramiel’s family was sent to Auschwitz during the German invasion of World War II. After the war, he emigrated to ...

This week on HBO’s Game of Thrones, we mostly just felt uncomfortable whenever Arya was offscreen. The sex that has become a hallmark of this series returns in full force as we learn, by turns, that some girls can be neither rock nor salt wives, some...

This week on HBO’s Game of Thrones, we mostly just felt uncomfortable whenever Arya was offscreen. The sex that has become a hallmark of this series returns in full force as we learn, by turns, that some girls can be neither rock nor salt wives, some...

BioWare can’t win. Well, as much as shipping 1.3 million copies of a game in the first month of release can be seen as a loss.While highly praised by critics and many fans, Mass Effect 3 looks to be remembered most for a controversial ending and sthe...