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Games, LCD TV, Nuclear Blasts, Secret Agents, Original Emo – must be Thursday’s deals

Thursday is upon us like a swarm of locusts.  Chocolate covered locusts no less since there are some sweet deals today.

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Quantum of Solace Gameplay Trailer Impressions

Video game adaptations of movies are notoriously awful, as are movie adaptations of video games.  Case in point: the Spiderman games suffered from clunky controls and the Tomb Raider movies were overly dramatized and unfaithful to the video game character designs.  Games like these are usually shovelware (that is, games that are produced quickly and cheaply in order to get the game in stores as quickly as possible to take advantage of hype).  Even though these games are notoriously bad, affiliation with popular movies usually causes them to receive fairly good sales results based on name-recognition.

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