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The Design Problems of Transformers 2

I saw Transformers 2 Wednesday night, and as I write this I still sort of feel like I have a echoing headache from that movie. Now I enjoyed it, in sort of a mindless way that there were cool explosions, and interesting bits of story here and there with the humans (also Soundwave was epic.) But generally I find that reading Ebert’s review of the movie I can’t really disagree with him all that much.

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Could 2009 be the Best and Worst Holiday Season for Videogames Ever?

With E3 just wrapping up its hard to not be excited for all the games set to come out this year, especially in the fall. When you actually look at them all though you’ll likely begin to realize that this fall may in fact be the best one for videogames ever. In terms of quality games that is. Here is just a partial list of what is going to be released this fall, between the end of August and the start of 2010:
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