If you’re fortunate enough to own an iPhone or iPod Touch, you’re also unfortunate enough to have tried browsing the gadgets’ application store. With over 35,000 downloads currently available, finding the quality in all that quantity is growing increasingly difficult, frustrating and costly. ... » Read More

4 May 2009

The Top 7... gut-wrenching choices

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Games are complicated these days. Plotlines are deep and branching. Worlds are open to explore, and to change. Major characters are expendable. Side quests are optional, dialogue trees are intricate and endings are multiple. We are the authors of our own digital experiences. Which sounds pretty great, until you reach one of those choices that you just know will affect the rest of the game. ... » Read More

16 Sep 2008

The Force Unleashed in 90 seconds!

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This article and its accompanying video contain spoilers. You’ve been warned. If you’re curious about what happens in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, but don’t want to spend more than a minute thinking about it, we’ve got you covered. ... » Read More

11 Sep 2008

Gnarliest kills in The Force: Unleashed

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The Secret Apprentice has definitely earned his nickname: Starkiller. When it comes to killing, he’s a superstar. Stormtroopers, Rebels, Jawas, even supposedly all-powerful Jedi are just grist for his unrelenting death-mill. For this exclusive video, we captured all the best boulder crushings, lightsaber impalings, exploding Jawas and Ugnaught beat-downs we could find. Our fave gnarly Force kill? ... » Read More

31 Jul 2008

Things The Force Unleashed won't unleash

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In the long run-up to the release of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed this September, developer LucasArts has been making a big deal about how the star of the show will be the Force itself, cranked up to ridiculous levels and with no limits or constraints. Packed in along with that destructive awesomeness is a darker-than-normal storyline, which puts players into the role of Starkiller, a secret Sith apprentice raised by Darth Vader to travel the ... » Read More

4 Jun 2008

The Force is overrated: FACT!

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is hitting stores on September 16th and that’s all cool and lovely. But, as you prepare to get your Sith on, why not pause for a moment and consider this for a curve ball…The Force is overrated: FACT!But it’s an energy field, you say, created by all living things. It surrounds and penetrates living beings. It binds the whole galaxy together for god’s sake. Well, that’s as ... » Read More

14 May 2008

Evolution of the lightsaber

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We'd like to say Star Wars thrives due to its developed characters and provoking science fiction storytelling, but the real answer is a lot simpler: lightsabers.Star Wars may not have invented the laser sword, but Lucas took the idea and owned it. Now it's the generic term the entire globe uses to describe an energy blade of any type. Like Coke is all cola and Kleenex is all tissue, lightsabers are all melee beam weapons. They're ... » Read More

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