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Square Enix Desperately Seeking Programmers For US Dev Studio [Usa! Usa! Usa!]

According to job feelers extended by Square Enix, the company has designs on building a brand new development studio in the United States, specifically Los Angeles, California. The solicitation for developers notes that the new Square Enix team will be working on "an action-oriented original IP game ...

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Free Blu-ray remote and movie with PS3 at Amazon

Were you finally thinking of getting a PS3 for yourself? I know you aren't really thinking of getting one for the Blu-ray functionality, but you might as well use it since you'll have it, right?If you buy your PS3 at Amazon.com and you also purchase a game, you'll get both the Sony PS3 ...

Google Maps - Capital Wasteland Survival Guide Edition [Fallout 3]

Capital Wasteland/A survivalist nightmare/Google Maps can help. This haiku brought to you in honour of the heroic efforts going on over at Planet Fallout, where a bright Paradigm Of Humanity has made a Google Maps mashup that is building into a handy guide to the post-apocalyptic landscape with t...

'JCVD' Shows Van Damme's Life: Fame, Drugs and Bad Decisions

Call it Jean-Claude Van Damme's "Being John Malkovich" moment. In the opening sequence in his namesake drama "JCVD," the C-list martial arts movie star is shown punching, kicking and blasting his way across a wartime wasteland. But then the scene falls apart, literally, when a...

Jeffrey Feldman: Can We Stop Pretending California is 'Green,' Now?

With half the state yet again in flames, I find myself of two minds with respect to the residents of California. One the one hand, my heart aches or this latest crop of Californians to lose their homes in this month's out-of-control brush fires.  On the other  hand, it amazes me that, d...