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Shell Shock: The 5 Stages of Playing an Online Competitive First Person Shooter

by Blake on Jan 17, 2012 • No Comments

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First person shooters (FPS) video games are extremely popular. The Call of Duty games have had record breaking world-wide releases, surpassing any blockbuster film opening before it. With Modern Warfare 3 making over 1 billion dollars in sales in just under 16 days , it’s safe to say that people like shooting other people in the face via an internet connection. Competitive shooters are varied (from the fast paced arcade shooting of Call of Duty games, to the slower paced and more tactical shooting of the Battlefield series, to the ultra cartoon violence of Team Fortress 2 ), there’s something […]

Reading Is Fundamental: Nile Rodgers’ “Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco & Destiny”

by MJ on Oct 28, 2011 • No Comments

Awww freak out! Singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer Nile Rodgers has a book out, and we’ve reviewed it!!

Best Wishes To El DeBarge

by MJ on Feb 17, 2011 • 1 Comment

music / news / Pop Music / soul music

I was extremely saddened when I heard that singer El DeBarge entered drug rehabilitation on Monday. He really seemed like he was on the comeback trail after wasting over a decade of his life on addiction. One of the most gifted singers of his generation, El apparently started using drugs in the late Eighties. It completely took over his life in the mid-Nineties, and has led to a laundry list of arrests as well as a period of incarceration a […]