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Posted in: Boom, Comics | Tagged: Babs Tarr, blind bags, cliff chiang, frank miller, jamike mckelvie, siktc, something is killing the children, Something Is Killing The Children #50

Rocker Rick Springfield recalled this week how, as a teenager, he performed for U.S. forces in Vietnam and killed a Viet Cong attacker — haunting him to this day, that he “was responsible for the end of a life.”

In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. Unsurprisingly, this causes the shell to essentially disintegrate…

Posted in: Boom, Comics, DC Comics | Tagged: james tynion iv, siktc, Swamp Thing Is Killing the Children, Werther Dell’Edra

The growing reliance of video games on internet connectivity, coupled with the steady decline of physical formats, has fueled the rise of the Stop Killing Games movement, which has already brought its demands before European Union authorities.

There is a rather optimistic argument doing the rounds about Sony’s decision to kill physical PlayStation game discs: maybe digital games will finally become cheaper. Former Square Enix business development director Jacob Navok argues that removing manufacturing and distribution costs, combined with greater competition between publishers, could push digital prices down and create a Steam-like…

X-Men ’97 just finished its second season, and fans and critics agree that this is one of the best cartoons ever made. It’s certainly one of the best Marvel projects ever made, and its quality rivals all but the very best of the live-action films. Previously, I predicted that the show might be so good…

Stop Killing Games Backs Dutch €400M Suit Over Sony’s PlayStation Store ‘Tax’ – GamesReviews.com

Stop Killing Games, the grassroots initiative fighting to prevent game publishers from shutting down servers without offering an alternative, has joined a lawsuit filed in the Netherlands against Sony for its alleged monopoly of selling digital games on the PlayStation Store

“It’s time to sue Sony,” game preservation advocates Stop Killing Games have declared, as the group throws its weight behind a Dutch lawsuit targeting the PlayStation Store’s alleged monopoly and “Sony Tax” on digital games.