At this point, I’m really rather confused. The Sarah Connor Chronicles, yet another knee-jerk sci-fi show from Fox that’ll be lucky to last three seasons, has been renewed for a second season. By all accounts, the best people can say about this show is that it’s action-packed; reading several reviews has shown that’s the nicest (and most repeated) thing that can be said for it. Meanwhile, detractors are quick to point out the new Terminator’s frequent propensity for wisecracks (did Skynet install a classic action hero mode while we were away?) and relative lack of substance.

Oh, and let’s not forget the season one finale—several audience members are STILL moaning over that train wreck. But let’s be honest. Broadcast TV has been steadily crumbling for years. Aside from a handful of bright spots, most shows that debut on television will be gone in a year or less. I’ve seen some shows that can’t last more than four episodes before getting the axe. Several die after the pilot!

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Well, kids…bad news coming out our way from Grudge 3 director Toby Wilkins, who gives us a serious bummer. Apparently, early reports that Judd Nelson and William Devane will be involved in Grudge 3 have been greatly exaggerated. Indeed, they will have absolutely nothing to do with it.

But there is some good news—Wilkins and company are taking the canon of the Grudge series very, very seriously by the look of it and are picking up almost exactly where the second one left off. Grudge 3, you see, will be about a Japanese woman with the secret to ending Kayako’s two-film reign of terror, and wiping her freaky ghosty self off the face of the earth forever. Thus, she goes to a haunted apartment building in Chicago—EXACTLY where the second one ended!—to finish the job.

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It may come as a surprise to some of you out there that Cameron Romero, son of legendary zombie horror overlord George Romero, is a filmmaker just like his father. Of course, when I say “just like his father” I mean that “he also makes films”. It’s too bad that Cameron’s don’t look to be anywhere near the caliber of his father’s.

His upcoming film, Staunton Hill, features—and stop me if you’ve heard this one—a group of hikers in the 1960s that runs afoul of the evil Staunton family in the hills of Virginia. Okay, you probably should stop me by now, because you’ve heard this one already, haven’t you? I can practically hear your enraged nodding from here as you wonder how—HOW!—a Romero can be so desperate as to do a knockoff of House of 1000 Corpses.

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Is it possible for a first date to go any worse? After waiting in line for an hour and plopping down a cool $60 to be one of the first to get my hands on the megahit of 2008, I feel obliged to try all this massive game has to offer. So I went on a real date with the very fictional Michelle. I even bought a nice pair of jeans beforehand to make a good impression, American girls seem to put a lot of importance on clothes for some reason. Tight pants was the last of my problems when it was all over, though.

Russians have a pretty cute word for carnival: funfair. You know what you’re getting into there. Instead of just eating food like two normal people meeting each other for the first time, we went to this supposed funfair down by the docks. Doesn’t trouble always spring up there? Turns out, the carnival is closed for renovation – something to look forward to as this sordid tale progresses – but a devastating turn of events on this evening.

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Grabbed by the Ghoulies had little chance to succeed. It’s probably a bad idea to concoct a title for your future game before you think of, oh, story, characters or gameplay ideas. But that’s exactly what Rare did. They giggled at their dirty minds and threw together a game around that idea. And it bombed. Horribly.

But it could have been so much more. GbtG is genuinely funny and surprisingly addicting. Fighting a hoard of undead creepies with just an analog stick (no buttons for this game), made for a surprisingly deep and satisfying experience.

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