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    February 28, 2010 | By admin In Video Games | Comments(0)

    Welcome, yet again, to the classiest post of the week: your Weekly Recap! With February coming to a close, and a quite eventful March staring us dead in the face, like an awkward friend who doesn’t know when to look away, I’d say there is a ton to look forward to in the coming weeks. But simmer down, because before we fire up our bubble pipes, tighten our smoking jackets, and begin nodding in unison and saying things like “indeed” and “quite,” I want to go off on a tangent. And what is that tangent

    Miami Nice: Top 10 Things to Do There

    February 28, 2010 | By admin In Uncategorized | Comments(0)

    You don’t need deep pockets to holiday in Miami . Enjoying the city on a budget is easy and will leave you with little time to spare! Here are our top ten tips for enjoying the city in an unforgettable, wallet-friendly fashion: Skyline of Miami, Florida, at sunset  (Credit: Hisham F

    Academy Award–Winning Films of the Past: For Fans of Precious, There’s Lilies of the Field

    February 28, 2010 | By admin In World News | Comments(0)

    Lee Daniels’s film Precious —based, as its subtitle insists, on a novel by Sapphire called Push —has been both praised and criticized for its appallingly honest depiction of the life of an African American girl whom life has dealt nothing but bad hands: she is obese, illiterate, HIV-positive, pregnant for the second time at sixteen, and has absolutely no hope of any better life. Until, that is, someone extends a helping hand instead of a fist, whereupon Precious begins to find the inner qualities that speak to her name.

    Baron De La Warr and Jamestown (400 Years Ago)

    February 28, 2010 | By admin In Uncategorized | Comments(0)

    Four hundred years ago this month, in March 1610, a fellow named Thomas West but more properly called Thomas, Baron De La Warr (or Warre), who had lately been appointed governor and captain general of the Virginia Company’s colony in North America, set sail from England with three ships full of some 400 colonists and supplies. The little fleet arrived at the Jamestown settlement in June and found it on the point of giving up

    Splinter Cell delay “the best possible scenario” for Ubisoft

    February 28, 2010 | By admin In Video Games | Comments(0)

    Speaking in an interview with CVG , game designer on Splinter Cell: Conviction , Patrick Redding, called the game’s delay from late February to mid-April “the best possible scenario,” which he said has allowed the developers more time to fix issues with the AI and add different challenge levels. “In some ways it was the best possible scenario for us because we were angling towards our original release date in February. You know, as is always the case, you develop this kind of laundry list and think: ‘Aw man if only we had an extra bit of polish time to really go after that and that and that, plus all the usual debugging, that’d be wonderful,’” Redding revealed.

    Updated / PSN down, issues being worked on

    February 28, 2010 | By admin In Video Games | Comments(0)

    Update: A few Twitter updates from Sony: “ We’re narrowing down the issue and continue to work to restore service to all. Updates as soon as we have them ” and “Readers/followers are confirming that “slim” units (120/250 GB models) are connecting normally.” Original story: As many of us have noticed, especially those playing the recently released Heavy Rain , the PlayStation Network is currently experiencing problems.

    Avalanche CEO: developers should cancel more bad games

    February 28, 2010 | By admin In Video Games | Comments(0)

    After reading his recent interview with Develop Online , it’s hard not to think of Christofer Sundberg as a gaming industry genius. The CEO of Avalanche Studios, developer of Just Cause 2 , opined on the need of publishers to cut production of subpar games when developers are delivering poor product. Specifically, he cites Avatar: The Game : “ Avatar is a great example of a game that should never have come out, regardless of how much money it made.

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