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Doctor Who Series 5 BBC America Trailers
The long one: The short one:
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Cave Story
I often post Game Impressions, and occasionally post about a game on release day, but I usually shy away from saying solely in a non-review type post that you should go buy a particular game. But I’m going to break with tradition today and say that if you have a Wii, go spend $12 and…
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Amazon Kindle for Mac
Amazon released a beta today of its Kindle software for the Mac operating system. As the press release states “Kindle books can now be read on the Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC and Mac, and soon the iPad.” I don’t know that I’ll ditch my Kindle in favor of reading on my…
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Papercraft Friday #78: NASCAR #48 Lowe’s Jimmie Johnson Car
Though not a topic I normally converse about, the subject of NASCAR and Jimmie Johnson came up at the office today. It reminded me that I had once seen a page of NASCAR paper models, so I dug up the link. Lo and behold, there was a Jimmie Johnson #48 Lowe’s car, so I thought…
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Doctor Who Time Squad – The Master
British toy company Character Options released a series of Doctor Who figures called Time Squad, which are similar to the Star Wars Galactic Heroes toys made by Hasbro. The released a set called the End of Time series (or sometimes Series 2) that consists of 6 figures. Each Collect & Build figure package has a…
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Papercraft Friday #77: Rurikoji Temple Pagoda
One of the papercraft models that got me into the hobby was Build Your Own Japanese Pagoda by Alan Rose. I love that model and still display it proudly. It was based on the 5-story pagoda at the Kōfuku-ji temple in Nara, Japan. If you can’t track that model down (it was published in 1982!),…
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Exaspirations: My PS3’s “10 Year Life Cycle”
What the hell happened to my PlayStation 3’s 10-year life cycle? In 2006 Sony Computer Entertainment America President and CEO Kaz Hirai stated: We look at our products having a 10-year life cycle, which we’ve proven with the PlayStation. Therefore, the PlayStation 3 is going to be a console that’s going to be with you…
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Game Impressions: Heavy Rain
Introduction By description, Heavy Rain is the type of game to which I would naturally gravitate. Developer Quantic Dream describes it as interactive drama, which smacks of my love of interactive fiction, choose your own adventures, and point-and-click games. The game uses a unique control scheme that uses context sensitive actions and quick time events…
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LEGO Night: 8183 Racers Track Turbo RC
This week’s LEGO Night was a radio-controlled build. The 92 piece 8183 Racers Track Turbo RC is not a difficult build, and it’s one of those that has a lot of custom pieces. It takes 3 AAA batteries (for the remote) and 3 AA batteries (for the car). You can build three different cars with…
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