Three book review : Zero Sight, Confessions of a D-List supervillian, and Wearing the Cape

 Zero Sight by B. Justin Shier  Deiter Resnick is a bright kid plans to get out of his hometown of Las Vegas. He has the smarts to do it and a bright future has an accomplished scientist he can just get a full ride to college.

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Priceless Jesus Painting Found in Tennessee Motor Home

Praise Frosty! That's the name of the 73-year-old man who had a priceless portrait of Jesus Christ sitting in the closet of his Tennessee motor home.

Captain Planet to get a live action feature film!

Captain Planet is getting his own live-action movie debut — which means we're getting a blue, mostly-shirtless superhero who sports a bright red caplet, hot pants, boots and a green mullet.

Rumor has Microsoft Announcing TV Service at E3

Microsoft will reveal an Xbox Live subscription TV service at E3 on Monday, or so the rumor goes.

Do Not Adjust Your Brains, It's Just The Alice: Madness Returns Launch Trailer

Like countless crayon drawings from a crazed mind coming together to form a giant disturbing picture, American McGee's vision coalesces in the launch trailer for Alice: Madness Returns.

Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong Now That Duke Nukem Forever Has Gone Gold

This is it, ladies and gentlemen. A gold master containing the culmination of fourteen years of game development is now in production

Buffy, Freddy and Machete Are Call of Duty's New Zombie Slayers

Dropped on a mysterious, ice-covered Siberian island, Call of the Dead has players control a dream-team of zombie killers as they fight to survive an army of the Soviet undead led by the set-light wielding reanimated corpse of George Romero.

Report: PSN Taken Down Because of Credit Card Scam | GamePolitics

A speculative VentureBeat report suggests that Sony took down the PlayStation Network completely to avoid a new program that let hackers use a credit card number to download software - even if the credit card number was fake.

Wyld Stallyns will ride again! Bill & Ted 3's script is finished!

We haven't heard from Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Theodore "Ted" Logan since 1991. But actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have promised their fans a third installment of Bill and Ted — and now the script is finally done!

FTC Undercover Shopper Survey Gives Highest Marks to Video Game Retailers

The latest Federal Trade Commission undercover shopper survey found that video game retailers continue to enforce the sale of "M-Rated" games to minors better than any other industry.

It's Official, The PSPgo Is Dead

The Tokyo-based electronics giant told Japanese website AV Watch that new PSPgo units would no longer be manufactured or shipped "in order to concentrate on the NGP".

Rumor: Sony Sacking PSP Go

According to several published news reports, Sony plans to halt production of the PSP Go.

Watch the Green Lantern footage that tore the roof off Wondercon!

Green Lantern won over a skeptical crowd with hot new footage of superhero space opera action last night. And now you can see for yourself!

Rush is Green Lantern's Tomar-Re

It is rumored that Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush (the Pirates of the Caribbean films, The King's Speech) will lend his voice to the role of Tomar-Re in the upcoming DC movie.

Duke Nukem Forever, Portal 2, L.A. Noire And A 3DS Headline An Amazing Video Game Spring

The spring season of video games usually starts busy, then slows. But last year's spring produced Kotaku's 2010 Game of The Year and a few GOTY contenders are on the calendar to be released between now and June.

How to advertise your business: trap thousands of cockroaches in a sign that says E. Coli

On Monday in Dallas, Terminix filled a billboard emblazoned with the words "E. COLI" with several thousand roaches

The Legend of Zelda's 25th Anniversary

It's been 25 years since the release of The Legend of Zelda

More Bulletstorm Musings from Fox News

In yet another news report masquerading as an editorial (the last one being the whole Carole Lieberman "Games cause Rape" story), Fox News writer John Brandon takes another shot at stirring the pot about Epic Games' Bulletstorm.

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First glimpse of First Class.

Sex in Games Leads to Real-World Rape and Other Ridiculousness

FoxNews has posted an article examining the violent and sexual content of the upcoming Bulletstorm and I'm happy to report that it's the most entertainingly sensationalistic tripe I've read in quite a while.

Captain America: The First Avenger - Super Bowl TV Spot

The super bowl tv spot for Captain america

Tron: Legacy Comes To Blu-ray (With The Original Tron!)

Looks like Disney's planning a Blu-ray and DVD disc orgy for the upcoming home video release of 2010's Tron: Legacy. And it looks like that includes the long-awaited release of the 1982 original on Blu-ray as well.

The PSP2 Is Here: Dual Analog Sticks, Touch-Sensitive OLED, 3G Built In & So Much More

The PSP2 is finally here. Sony revealed its brand new PlayStation Portable at an event in Tokyo today, giving us our first official look at the PlayStation maker's next bold foray into handheld gaming, the "Next Generation Portable." Here are the first details.

Conservative Commentator Targets Video Games in New Year

Conservative gadfly Phyllis Schlafly put together a list of New Year's resolutions that incoming freshman republican lawmakers on the state and federal level should adopt, in her estimation.

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