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Monthly Archives: April 2013

Review: Iron Man 3

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Cihan
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After a stint fooling around with the Avengers, Tony Stark is left with a mild case of PTSD and has to battle a new threat with nothing more than a screwdriver, 10 year old assistant and plenty of snark.

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Game review: Syndicate

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Cihan
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Hot off the cybernetically enhanced heels of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, this similarly themed action game is like one of the failed abortions of Ripley in the fourth Alien film we all try to forget exists. Inherently flawed failed potential.
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Game review: XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Cihan
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In the battle between turn-based and real-time strategy games, I am on the side that gives me at least a minute to decide how to move forward. Turn-based it is then!
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Review: Ikiru

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Cihan
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It’s been more than fifty years since this film was released, and due to personal experience, I can successfully say that not much has changed in Japanese bureaucracy.
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Review: Olympus Has Fallen

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Cihan
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This is basically what the two Expendables movies tried so desperately to be but failed in replicating. It’s what Die Hard 4 and 5 couldnt even aspire to be. This is the ultimate callback to 90’s ‘Die Hard In A’ template movies spearheaded by Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme back in the day.
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Game review: Sleeping Dogs

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Cihan
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Long story short: United Front Studios were making a game called True Crime, but then Activision cancelled it. Square Enix picked it up and it was reborn as Sleeping Dogs. This jerry-rigged True Crime had the makings of a disastrous flop and yet has ended up a brilliant entry in the crime sandbox genre.
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Anime retrospective: Samurai Champloo

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Cihan
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I caught Samurai Champloo as it aired back in 2004, and though I liked it enough, it didn’t impact me as much as I hoped it would. Though maybe that’s not entirely true, as the soundtrack did indirectly change my life, thanks to the composer Nujabes introducing me to instrumental hip hop and providing a soundtrack to my life for the next few years.
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