Ghostbusters: The Video Game By Terminal Reality and Atari Genre: Third person action/adventure Rating: T for Comic Mischief, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language If you’re like me, you have fond memories of that excellent pair of science-fiction-fantasy movies from the late 80s/early 90s, Ghostbusters and its sequel. They saw a ragtag trio of “paranormal investigators” (everyone...
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July 28, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment
Explore a vast research facility For Science!
Fallout: New Vegas – Old World Blues article by Wade Manns Yet again Obsidian brings to us another piece of the puzzle that is the Courier’s life in the Mojave Wasteland. This time out the storyline and happenings are far quirkier than you might expect for an installment of Fallout; it seems to draw as...
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July 27, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment
Return to those thrilling days of yesteryear… with emulation!
Travel back in your mind, if you can, to the mid-80s. Travel back to your local mall, and enter the arcade. Crowded, noisy, maybe smoky? Filled with flashing lights and sounds of primitive audio processors? I am filled with a rush of nostalgia whenever I think of the classic arcade; 20 or more cabinets of...
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July 26, 2011August 13, 2025Editorial & Opinion
High School to College: The Transition
My old high school principal’s huge motto for my senior year was “choices”. How do I remember that? He only mentioned it a couple thousand times before I graduated, which got quite boring and repetitive to say the least. But, he had a critical purpose in stressing this. A high school graduate has many paths...
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July 22, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment
The stealth action is strong in this five-strong series
Splinter Cell series Tom Clancy, the renowned author of political action thriller novels, has carved out quite a little niche for himself in the world of computer gaming, most of his work being distributed by Ubisoft. From Rainbow Six and its many spinoffs (Ghost Recon, Vegas, Raven Shield), tactical first-person shooters; to HAWX and its...
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July 22, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment
Get ready to become addicted to Warcraft, because it’s free now!
Free to Play Games (F2P) and World of Warcraft (WoW)! article by Wade Manns Since the beginning of the Internet, there have existed free games: download them, play them, no big deal at all. Then came the Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games, which were quite the opposite: you paid a (usually hefty) fee up front,...
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July 20, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment
Weird and wacky animal detectives cause hilarity in three interactive seasons!
Sam and Max: The Adventure Games By LucasArts, then TellTale Games Genre: Graphical adventure Steve Purcell is a comic artist best known for releasing Sam and Max: Freelance Police in the late 80s. This comic series (and what I’ll be talking about, the games) follows the adventures of a detective dog who works for a...
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July 16, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment
The end of a cinematic era in this epic sequel of sequels
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 By Warner Bros. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson Genre: Magical fantasy Some say it’s the end of an era. It only lasted about ten years, though, so for cinema in general it’s a fairly small time frame, and arguably the literary potential can last indefinitely....
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July 15, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment
Watch out: this whimsical-looking tale is more than it appears
Mary and Max (2009) Directed by Adam Elliot Starring the voice of Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana and Barry Humphries Genre: Black comedy/drama Let’s get one thing straight, first: Whatever you may think of claymation – the technique used by (among others) Aardman, creators of the whimsical Wallace and Gromit series and movie...
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July 14, 2011August 13, 2025Arts and Entertainment
Oldschool RPG flavor comes to Steam, and it’s good
Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII: The Beginning! By Zeboyd Games Here I was, just recently waxing near-rhapsodic on the virtues of old-school games for this very publication, when along come two of the best representatives of the Retraux game form I’ve ever seen! From independent developers Zeboyd come offerings that are...