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IGN’s Gear site took a look at Windows 7, Microsoft’s latest and greatest scheme to milk a few hundred dollars from your wallet:
It’s no secret that the PC world was less than blown away with Windows Vista. Buggy applications and other complications sent user’s running back to XP, and for some even into the arms [...]

Amazon’s new Frustration-Free Packaging initiative. Over several years the retailer hopes to convince many of its suppliers to offer consumer-friendlier packaging. It’s starting with just 19 products from Mattel, Fisher-Price, Microsoft, and Transcend.  From Amazon’s announcement: “The Frustration-Free Package is recyclable and comes without excess packaging materials such as hard plastic clamshell casings, plastic bindings, [...]

Just another Microsoft way of warning you that piracy is bad, and patience is a virtue: don’t expect to access Xbox Live if you install the New Xbox Experience for the Xbox 360.

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Congratulations to select AT&T broadband consumers in Reno, Nevada. They’re about to be enrolled in a little “usage tier” experiment whether they like it or not.

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Sin City and 300 creator Frank Miller returns to theaters this December, behind the camera for the adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit. Miller knew his fellow comic book writer very well and, of course, he knows The Spirit well, too. The influential comic was first released in 1940, and when the time came for [...]

If you read my recent Cinematical Seven about my favorite Bruce Campbell moments, you know already how much I enjoy watching the actor/filmmaker onscreen. I was one of the people who refreshed her browser window continually in order to be able to score tickets to the Austin screening of My Name is Bruce, [...]

In 2003, it was announced that the Farrelly Brothers were developing a film based on The Three Stooges. They spent five years trying to make the film at Warner Bros, but for one reason or another, the film never went into production. Now, Peter and Bobby Farrelly have brought the project over to [...]

“24,” the Emmy Award-winning series starring Kiefer Sutherland, will premiere with a special two-night, four-hour event Sunday, Jan. 11 and Monday, Jan. 12 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on Fox. The series, returning for its seventh season, celebrates its milestone 150th episode during the fourth hour of the not-to-be-missed two-night premiere.

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THQ and Relic Entertainment today announced the next title in the Company of Heroes series; Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is currently scheduled to be released in spring 2009 on PC.
“Company of Heroes is one of the most critically acclaimed RTS series of all time,” said Peter Matiss, vice president of global brand management, [...]