Category: Opinion

Shia LaBeouf apologises for his past films…again!

I think there becomes a time when you can be too much of an apologist and Shia LaBeouf may have just reached that time. On the last episode of The Geek Actually Podcast Josh, Nathan and I discussed Shia’s comments on the upcoming Transformers 3 film, where Shia basically said he knows that part 2 …

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A Strong Turn Out By Gamers May Have Hurt the R18+ Rating Campaign – WTF!

Only in our strange weird world can a strong turn out in support of something cause it to fail! Okay, fail is a harsh word, but the discussion on the introduction of an R18+ Rating for games seems to have stalled. According to Federal Homes Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor, more than 86% of the submissions …

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Top Ten Video Game Enemies

In my time spent rummaging around the internet .. oh and believe me I do spend a lot of time doing that. I realised I’ve seen a lot of “top ten bad guys” lists… which are usually all the same, showing the persons love and admiration for Sephiroth and Bowser..not so much a measure of ability but …

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The PM Discovers the Hazards of Social Networking

According to news.com.au (on May 1st) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been having a bit of a PR problem when it was discovered that he is following porn on his Twitter account. A little embarrassing for the PM, especially considering his stance on Internet Censorship, but actually quite innocent. The PM’s Twitter account basically does …

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Is the Australian Internet Filter in Trouble?

I was reading the feeds today and I can across this article on news.com.au (dated April 30th) and I find it interesting that more hasn’t been made of it. Basically it is wondering why an official policy on the Internet Censorship Filter hasn’t been introduced into Parliament yet and was speculating if the much hyped …

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Daily Thought: Is the Nintendo 3ds a smart direction?

Yesterday in Platforms we showed footage of nintendo’s new design prototype, the “3ds”, which is a pre- announcement announcement. The concept behind this is a 3 dimentional image inside the screen that will track your head allowing image rotation, etc.. This got me thinking.. Is this really practical? The design at this stage still remains …

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