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If Microsoft wants to be like Apple, so be it. The company should design, build and sell consumer PCs directly to customers. As Steve Jobs says, "good artists copy, great artists steal." Microsoft needs to steal Apple’s whole approach to marketing its products and managing its brand, not just copy its retail store ideas.
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The chart (which we could only include partially to the right because of its massive size and awesomeness) summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of 50 popular vampires throughout popular culture. Included in the list is everyone from Count Chocula to Blacula to the lead vamps on True Blood.
It lists such attributes as sun sensitivity, coffin [...]

Few people have more skeletons in their proverbial closets than Niles Caulder, founder of the Doom Patrol. And with BLACKEST NIGHT doing a bang-up job of bringing those skeletons back in the form of Black Lanterns, you can only imagine how complicated things are going to get for the Doom Patrol. Caulder’s been playing god [...]

G4TV has a new 12 minute video up on their site that outlines some of the things that Realism mode adds to the game while playing the campaign Hard Rain. Examples include being able to ditch a health pack for a defibrillator, getting up close to weapons to get them to highlight, increasing the number [...]

Despite all the positive buzz surrounding the game, Borderlands is in danger of becoming yet another great game whose launch is tainted by broken online play. A few unlucky players (on all three platforms) have encountered a game-crippling bug that strips them of their characters’ progress when playing multiplayer.
Multiple threads on the official Gearbox [...]

Valve Software has just sent out final word letting us all know that the demo for their upcoming Left 4 Dead 2 is available now for pre-order customers on the Xbox 360 game console. They also said that tomorrow the Windows PC version of the demo would become available (again – for pre-order customers). Left [...]

According to The Future, the industry trade publication, Microsoft is ready two new Xbox360 bundles for the Holiday Season. The two new elite bundles will feature either a Star Trek or Transformers theme. The Star Trek pack will feature the Trek movie on a USB stick, and 800 MS points to download the "Star Trek [...]

A new Xbox 360 system update is rolling out this morning, bringing support for the WPA2 security protocol to the Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter. Owners will be prompted to download the mandatory update when they next sign into Xbox Live.
Microsoft’s Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hyrb stresses that the update does not include the upcoming Facebook, [...]

Sky Player has been pulled from Xbox 360 shortly after launch “due to an unforeseen technical issue”.
The online TV service launched earlier today with 24 channels available to watch via Microsoft’s console.
“The Sky Player on Xbox 360 service did successfully launch early this morning, it has subsequently been suspended due to an unforeseen technical issue," [...]

With weeks of viral marketing and a promotional campaign driven by social networks like Twitter and Facebook behind it, Oren Eli’s Paranormal Activity (Paramount) expanded into just under 2,000 theaters on Friday and successfully took the box office with an estimated $22 million and an astounding cumulative gross of $62.5 million after less than a [...]