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Video games make playing God fun!
I am hacker when it comes to playing games – most gamers are – we like to see what we can can break about it before we commit to finishing it. Even Will Wright admitted this; the first thing kids do when they encounter a new game is figure out what the limits are -…
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Xbox and Netflix Team Up – Still Waving that Blu-Ray Banner SONY?
From xbox.com: “At E3, Microsoft and Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service, today unveiled an exclusive partnership to offer the ability to instantly stream movies and TV episodes from Netflix to your television via Xbox 360®.” Netflix recently introduced its Watch Instantly program that allows subscribers to view selected (that is, the titles…
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Save up for those Gucci 3D glasses
Hollywood has started to align itself behind the idea that the movie industry, despite a healthy summer take 26% over this time last year, is still seeing 5% decline in people’s butts in movie theater seats. They are meeting this challenge in a variety of ways, principally among them the idea that 3D is a…
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The Golden Age of Steampunk is Upon Us
Why do I feel like I have already posted this entry? Perhaps it is because I have been announcing the sentiment in the tagline for the past decade. The etymology of “steampunk”: I first heard the word steampunk when my friend Matt Johnson, after editing my book True and Selfish Prophets commented how much he…
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the britney block and the erosion of n american media
It is a form of insanity, what the Buddha would call hardcore addiction were he to use the vernacular. We are in a riptide of obsessive compulsive behavior that has left mainstream media culturally bankrupt; everything is post-source to a degree that we are mashing up a mashup culture. Every news source now has a…
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Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD – the end of another format war
Here at the Culturepin I provide a form of virtual safari through the bleeding edge landscape of the world and contemporary society. Suffice to say it is a treacherous terrain filled with uncertainty and conflict that requires a certain mad bravery to traverse. Even more treacherous is attempting to predict what will unfold around the…
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