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September 26th, 2009, 10:29 pm by Jayson Peters
 A game of Fluxx The creators of the ever-changing card game Fluxx are expanding into hazy territory.
Fully Baked Ideas, a new imprint of the family friendly games company Looney Labs, will publish an updated edition of the once controversial and now out-of-print Stoner Fluxx. The new company’s official site promises that 5 percent of the proceeds from the game’s sale will be donated to organizations that actively support the end of marijuana prohibition in the United States.
Other editions of the game published by Looney include Zombie Fluxx, Monty Python Fluxx and the recently released Martian Fluxx. All versions of the game feature the same basic mechanic: Each card played can change the rules or goal of the game, making sure it’s a different experience every time.
Looney explains that a spin-off brand was necessary “to make sure children are not accidentally exposed to adult themes on our family games web site.” Fully Baked’s new edition of Stoner Fluxx will be followed at some point by the recently announced Drinking Fluxx.
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August 28th, 2009, 9:51 am by Jayson Peters
 LeVar Burton (Credit: WNED Buffalo) Today marks the end of Reading Rainbow’s 26-year run on public television. Only Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and Sesame Street have aired on PBS longer.
The Emmy award-winning show, hosted by actor LeVar Burton (Star Trek: The Next Generation and Roots), featured children’s books and literary reviews by and for kids. It has struggled to stay on the air for years, sometimes producing only a handful of episodes per season as funding dried up. Now, as National Public Radio reports, neither PBS nor the Corporation for Public Broadcasting can afford to renew the broadcast rights.
That’s just a shame. Read the rest of this entry »
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August 14th, 2009, 4:37 pm by Jayson Peters
 Jim Ward, a Republican who wants to challenge Democrat Harry Mitchell next year in Arizona’s 5th Congressional District, recently served as an executive at Lucasfilm and LucasArts.
According to his campaign bio, before leaving LucasArts last year Ward was president of LucasArts and senior vice president of marketing and distribution and online at Lucasfilm, Ltd., where he managed the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises.
He was part of the Lucas Empire for more than 10 years, and recently oversaw the release of Star Wars Battlefront, LEGO Star Wars and last year’s Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
Via Kotaku
Posted in: Business • Gaming • Politics • Scottsdale • Star Wars • Arizona • Jim Ward • LucasArts • Lucasfilm • Tempe | Post a Comment »
July 25th, 2009, 11:27 pm by Jayson Peters
We’ve already reported that at least one e-tailer has proved it has both the ability and the guts to snatch back content you thought you wanted (Amazon embraces the Orwellian spirit and UPDATE: Orwell e-books yanked from Kindles were bootlegs, July 17).
Now the U.S. government appears to be on the verge of establishing a squad of truth police if not Thought Police, if Tribune columnist Austin Hill is to be believed (Obama appointee wants control of web speech, July 25).
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Posted in: Books • Business • Hmmmmm..... • Internet • Nerd rage • Piracy • Politics • Technology • Television • Amazon • Barack Obama • Big Brother • e-books • George Orwell • Kindle • PDF | Post a Comment »
February 6th, 2009, 12:10 am by Jayson Peters
  
Marvel is seeking a fifth printing of Amazing Spider-Man #583, which contains a five-page story featuring President Barack Obama. Already in a fourth printing is IDW’s bio-comic Presidential Material: Barack Obama, which originally shipped in October, and the Savage Dragon book in which Erik Larsen had his protagonist endorse Obama for president.
Speaking of Larsen, he will appear Feb. 25 at Atomic Comics’ Mesa location, 1120 S. Country Club Dr., No. 105, from 1 to 4 p.m. to sign copies of Savage Dragon. Joining him will be Rob Liefeld, who will sign Youngblood #8, sporting an Obama cover and containing a six-page backup by the series creator in which a fictitious President Obama announces his very first superhero initiative: an all-new, hand-picked Youngblood team leading to a May shipping relaunch as Liefeld takes over the artistic reins. Read more about the event in its flier at Atomic’s Web site.
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January 20th, 2009, 7:00 am by Jayson Peters
 Think you can do better than Barack Obama on issues such as unemployment, the environment, social security, or foreign relations? Here’s your chance! Commander in Chief, a new PC game that lets players make critical presidential decisions, goes on sale today, the same day that Obama is inaugurated the 44th president of the United States.
Just like the president, players immediately face the same problems and challenges as in the real world - the economy, controlling the military, national security and terrorism, natural disasters, alternative energy sources, and many others - all with the persistent threat of a terrorist attack on a major U.S. city. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 5th, 2008, 10:24 pm by Jayson Peters
Forget the election and CNN’s “Magic Wall” — did you see this?
The journalistic value of such a tool is debatable, but CNN rolled out some pretty impressive 3-D hologram tech on Election Night. In the clip above, veteran anchorman Wolf Blitzer in New York carries on a real-time conversation with reporter Jessica Yellin in Chicago “via hologram.” It’s a feat of technical wizardry that takes dozens of cameras and computers to pull off. And Yellin bears no small resemblance to Princess Leia’s plaintive recording in Star Wars: “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi — you’re my only hope!” Read the rest of this entry »
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August 20th, 2008, 2:13 pm by Jayson Peters
 A blogger for John McCain’s presidential campaign recently took some shots at a liberal blog raising the possibility that McCain stole one of his POW stories from Gulag Archipelago author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died earlier this month. Michael Goldfarb for some reason decided to include fans of a fantasy roleplaying game in his retort — and because it’s the Internet, you can bet he got a geeky earful from players right away. Read the rest of this entry »
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