I waited around until the middle of the afternoon today to wander into my local Apple Store to check out the iPad.  I knew I wouldn’t have much time to look at it after the store opened, the store had pretty much cleared out of the geek contingent and was mostly full of curious teenagers [...]

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Outside of E3 or perhaps the Christmas shopping season, video games rarely get that much mainstream press coverage.  To get it outside of those scenarios, a newly launched game really has have a name as big as Final Fantasy.  Such a launch did occur in North America this past week, and there has been prominent [...]

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The Road.  Moon.  Crazy Heart.  What do movies like this have in common?  They weren’t nominated for Best Picture, while The Blind Side was.  Not to say that The Blind Side is a bad movie, but The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences deems it to be a vastly superior product by means of [...]

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You’ve heard the jokes about the name, you’ve heard all of the media coverage, and you might have even seen Stephen Colbert at the Grammys with one.  And it’s also possible that you might still be on the fence when it comes to buying the once highly anticipated and now highly overhyped iPads.  Although it [...]

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For as long as most of us veterans of Nightly can remember, our video game forum has held a yearly poll to see which is our favorite game of the past year.  As it’s generally understood that video games are far more important a topic than religion or politics, the vote is typically a very [...]

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Allright, so the overly covered Civil War at NBC over The Tonight Show pales in importance in comparison to the tragedy happening in Haiti over the past week.  It’s honestly silly to even compare the two.  However, there is a bit of cultural poignancy that can be found in all of the uproar as to [...]

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