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14 Perspectives

Technology, Gaming, Movies, TV & The Internet

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‘Arrested Development’ Season 4 will debut May 26th on Netflix

After months of hype, Netflix has finally announced the release date for the new season of Arrested Development. In a post on Twitter, Netflix says the new season will debut on May 26th with...

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This Is Madness: The Star Wars Character Tournament

Vote for your favorite Jedi, Sith, or scoundrel and help decide who is the galaxy’s most popular Star Wars character!

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The GitHub Generation

GitHub was intended to be an open software collaboration platform, but it’s become a platform for much, much more than code. It’s now being used by artists, builders, home owners, everyone in between, entire...

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Command & Conquer: hands-on with EA’s rebuilt RTS

The venerable strategy series is currently being rebuilt from the old pieces of a previously announced sequel to Command & Conquer: Generals. Its former life as a normal, boxed game has given developers Victory...

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Steam for Linux will have More Launch Titles Than Mac

So we are already there and in few days we are going to beat Mac in terms of number of game titles available at final launch. Steam Linux Beta period is not over yet...

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The Original Endings of 10 Famous Films

Audience feedback, filmmaker OCD, and other factors have helped shape the movies we know and love, changing the course of cinema history.

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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Opening Cinematic

The opening cinematic for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm in full HD glory! You are Sarah Kerrigan, former Queen of Blades. Once the most feared entity in the galaxy, you now wait in...

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Valve Suggesting Windows Users to Try Ubuntu and Steam Linux Beta

Not only Valve is promoting their newly launched product, they are also actively advertising Linux with lines like “Not running on Linux yet? Grab Ubuntu 12.04 LTS”.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Teaser Trailer

When a psycho goes on the rampage, strange things can happen. There’s carnage, and the psycho might be taken down by regular police, but they’re not always able to get the job done. When...

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Valve’s Gabe Newell on Steam Box, biometrics, and the future of gaming

Valve isn’t just attacking the living room; the Steam Box will be designed to work across multiple screens in the home using networking standards like Miracast, ideally allowing users to effortlessly transition between rooms...

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Valve Pulls The War Z, Apologizes, Offers Full Refunds

Customers who already bought it via Steam can keep it if they want; those who don’t can get a full refund from Steam support. Valve also admits it made a mistake in releasing The...

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Flying Drone Armed with a Paintball Gun

It’s a little bit of a commentary on the proliferation of drone warfare and a lotta bit of cool DIY skills. Milo Danger designed, built, flew and shot the armed drone to see how...

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Pacific Rim Official Trailer

When an alien attack threatens the Earth’s existence, giant robots piloted by humans are deployed to fight off the menace.

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The Lone Ranger Official Trailer #2

Say what you want about the recent Pirates movies, the new trailer for The Lone Ranger looks pretty cool. Because railroads and cowboys and gunfights and there’s a horse standing on a branch.

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BANE OUTTAKES (Auralnauts extended edition)

Bane went through a lot of changes before the final version of TDKR.

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42 Things We Learned From the ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ Commentary

Well, it’s the beginning of September, and the Summer days of giant robots and even bigger explosions is now behind us. The master of giant budget films, James Cameron, is just the person to...

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Diablo Inspired Co-op RPG ‘FORCED’ Fully Funded, Coming to Linux in February

FORCED is a Diablo inspired cooperative gladiator combat game in which you play together with your friends as a team to rack up victories. The game features four unique weapon classes which can be...

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‘Walking Dead’ Season 3 Mid-Season Finale Ratings Top 15 Million

Zombies aren’t the only things getting their asses kicked by AMC’s The Walking Dead as the hit post-apocalyptic thriller dominated all the other networks with last night’s season 3 mid-season finale ratings.

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Reddit’s Founders Describe How the Site Was Born

Reddit has become a social powerhouse thanks to its mix of aggregation and user-submitted content, but the website was born out of a different idea altogether. Founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian explain that...

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Christopher Nolan Discusses the Open-Ended Nature of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

Given that Nolan’s spent most of the past decade trying not to give away too much about his Bat-plans, it must be a relief for the filmmaker to finally speak freely about the trilogy.

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SimCity trailer: a mustachioed overview of urban planning, region play, and data layers

Creative Director Ocean Quigley isn’t just the charismatic mayor of mustaches: he’s an accomplished artist who’s been working on the SimCity series since the ’90s. In Maxis’ latest developer diary, Quigley narrates a general...

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Beards of Silicon Valley: A Field Guide to Tech Facial Hair

In Silicon Valley, the beard is everything — unless you’re a woman or you’re Mark Zuckerberg and you can’t grow one. For everyone else, a beard is essential to Silicon Valley success. But not...

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‘Empire Strikes Back’ and ‘Return of the Jedi’ writer hired for new ‘Star Wars’ trilogy

According to The Hollywood Reporter, writers Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg have agreed to write installments of the new Star Wars trilogy, and they will write either Episode 8 or Episode 9. Kasdan’s already...

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Facebook Is All Smiles in China Now, But YY Is Coming

Facebook is officially banned in China, which gives local social network YY.com – with 400 million users and counting – a big leg up. The playing field is more even on the U.S. stock...

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Star Citizen Raises Over $5 Million in Crowdfunding

Even after intermittent websites crashed due to high user volume, Star Citizen is now “the highest crowd-funded game project ever”.

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First ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Trailer Premiering December 14th With ‘The Hobbit’

If you’re one of those lucky few who has a real IMAX theater in your town, you were probably excited. If not, you were probably considering driving to one. Well, don’t fret just yet....

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Grand Theft Auto V: Official Trailer #2

Rockstar games has released their second ‘Grand Theft Auto 5′ trailer. It is now apparent that you can play three separate but interwoven stories/characters in this game.

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‘StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm’ – Release Date March 12

While production certainly wasn’t Zerg-rushed, Blizzard seems to have balanced out the gameplay to a level they’re very happy with – and in just four short months, players will be bringing all those new...

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’21 and Over’ Trailer

Here’s the debut trailer for 21 and Over, the latest Hangover clone from directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who actually wrote the first Hangover. The film’s plot is exactly what you would expect,...

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New GTA 5 Screenshots

These look really good, and show off several aspects of the game, right from the gameplay to the type of missions to the vehicles to the locations we will be visiting to even some...

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‘Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome’ Web Series Online

Following the cancellation of the Battlestar Galactica spinoff, Caprica, series alums Michael Taylor and David Eick began developing a “mequel” series – based on the first phase of humanity’s war with the Cyclons.

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Mark Wahlberg confirmed as Star of ‘Transformers 4′ + New Film Logo

Whether this was a long-planned strategy, truly a response to online chatter, or just a great way to promote Michael Bay‘s own new movie Pain and Gain, Mark Wahlberg is the new Shia LaBeouf....

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Full Trailer For ‘World War Z’

Today,we can offer the full-length theatrical promo for WWZ – but does it manage to leave a better, worse, or equal impression as the previously-released 20-30 seconds of footage?

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The Elder Scrolls Online: first gameplay footage shows combat, playable races, PvP and more

The entire thing takes place 1000 years before the events depicted in Skyrim, and all of Tamriel is at your disposal. The Imperial homeland of Cyrodiil has an extra special role, however: it’s the...

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“The Last Stand” Final Trailer

Arnold is BACK! Action icon Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his much-anticipated return to the big screen in Korean director Kim Jee-woon’s hard-hitting US directorial debut, THE LAST STAND.

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“Star Citizen” Achieves Funding Goal – Milestone Stretch Goal Nearing

Star Citizen is a complete universe where any number of stories can take place. Players will have the opportunity to decide their own game experience. Pick up jobs as a smuggler, pirate, merchant, bounty...

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Battlefield 1942 – Now Free on Origin

EA is now offering Battlefield 1942 as a free download on Origin. The series’ 2002 progenitor is listed in the demos section, but the official site is clear that it’s fully free-to-play.

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New G.I. Joe trailer reveals what’s changed since the big delay

Remember that G.I. Joe sequel that was supposed to come out seemingly forever ago? Well, it’s back, and we’ve got the latest trailer just for you. Find out what’s changed about the delayed film...

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Luke Skywalker to be Primary Focus of New STAR WARS Trilogy

So not only will Luke Skywalker be a part of the trilogy, but so will many of the original cast! Holy crap, that’s awesome! It makes a lot more sense now that Lucas met...

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The Five Scariest Games of All Time

Modern Halloween isn’t really all that scary–unless, of course, you’re deathly afraid of cats in fishnet stockings or nurses with bare midriffs. Luckily, gaming can more than sate our appetite for horror.

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Rockstar Confirms ‘Grand Theft Auto 5′ Spring 2013 Release

Courtesy of a press release through parent company Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar confirmed the Spring 2013 launch for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Disney Buys Lucasfilm; Eyes Release Of ‘Star Wars: Episode 7′ For 2015

Disney announced on Tuesday that he had purchased Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion in cast and stock shares. In conjunction with the news, Disney also revealed that plans for a seventh “Star Wars” film, “Star...

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Your Expired Groupons Are Valid Again Thanks to $8.5 Million Court Ruling

Your coupons are still good if they were purchased before Dec. 1, 2011. Most future Groupons won’t expire, either. The company agreed that for the next three years, no more than 10 percent of...

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ISP’s Voluntarily Screen Our Internet Activity Starting July 1st

RIAA CEO Cary Sherman confirmed that by July 1st the countries largest ISP’s will roll out a SOPA-like program that aims to discourage unauthorized downloading. The (guilty until proven innocent) system allows rights-holders to...

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Photoshop CS6 Already Being Regarded As “Best Update In Recent Memory”

The Photoshop CS6 beta is out and critics are praising the updates to core features and new features alike stating this is a “must-have update”. One of the big long standing gripes about Photoshop...

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50 Most-Anticipated Films of 2012 – Metacritic

Lots of highly anticipated films coming out in 2012. Some movies on my shortlist include: The Avengers, The Bourne Legacy, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit, Looper, Men in Black 3 and Prometheus.

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Outrage Regarding Michael Bay’s Live-Action Ninja Turtles Movie Reboot

At the Nickelodeon Upfront in New York, Michael Bay talked about the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles origin movie. The most disturbing part he mentioned is: “These turtles are from an...

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Diablo 3 Release Date Announced!

The End of Days approaches…. Diablo III will be unleashed from the Burning Hells on May 15, 2012. Beginning May 15, players around the world will be able to return to Tristram to discover...

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Retina Artwork Bloats iPad Apps

What am I talking about? Bitmap images. When quadrupled in size to look nice on the hi-res screen, bitmaps bloat the apps containing them. For example, iMovie for iOS jumps from a merely large...

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Play Palo, an HTML5 Game

A classic platform style game set in the trees! Did I mention there’s a parachute level? Created with Construct 2.

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Play Apache Command, an HTML5 Game

Check out my top-down style helicopter shooter created with Construct 2.

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Grand Theft Auto V – Trailer

Back to San Andreas… or at least Los Santos!

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‘Rum Diary’ TV Spots & Clips

Whereas Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas reflected the “death” of the 1960s American counter-cultural revolution, Rum Diary is set during an earlier stage of that movement. So it’s all the more fitting that...

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Rage PC Review

Rage combines three types of game-play styles: open world, corridor shooter and combat racing. If you play shooters to blow stuff up and watch gibs fly in all directions, then this is your type of game. Or, if you...

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Arrested Development returning for one more season!

Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz let loose a juicy bit of information today: The series will be returning for one more season, with a limited number of new episodes, to air before the forthcoming...

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Italy Proposes Law That Will Ban People From The Internet Based On Single Accusation Of Infringement From Anyone

Glyn Moody points us to a frightening analysis of a proposed copyright law in Italy that seems positively ridiculous, in that you could lose access to the internet based on a single accusation (which...

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Anonymous vows to destroy Facebook on Nov. 5

A video press release from the hacker group claims it will launch an all-out assault that will bring down the social network. Anonymous has singled out Facebook for its shady privacy settings and its...

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Coastal And Mid-Atlantic States Have Way Faster Internet

The coastal and Mid-Atlantic states had the fastest and most reliable Internet (with Rhode Island scoring highest) while the Mountain states and Midwest did the worst. It also reinforces what we already know about...

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Annie Leibovitz Disney Dream Portraits

In 2008, Annie started a series for Disney called Dream Portraits, featuring a series of celebrities and actors/actresses re-enacting a scene from various Disney movies. In 2011, Annie and Disney have worked together again...

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Gears of War 3 Boxart Revealed

Microsoft’s released the official Gears of War 3 cover art during a recently held conference for the media and it looks simply stunning.