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- The Center City District is running a pretty cool contest: submit your best photos from Center City Sips and you could win $200 worth of Center City restaurant gift certificates. (Via RJ)
- The AV Club takes a look at 20 cases of The Darrin Effect, that being, when a character is recast and the result is jarring. (Via)
- The estimates say that The Dark Knight is the new record holder for biggest weekend box office opening ever. Meanwhile, the Underwire is already taking a look at what the sequel might be about, and who might be in it.
- As you've probably already heard, 600 Starbucks stores in the US are being closed. Huffington Post has the entire list for your perusal (which is "searchable" in that you can use your browser's built-in "Find" feature to search it—wow, thanks). For you local caffeine junkies, don't worry—no Philadelphia stores are closing.
- Check out some Fable 2 walkthrough videos.
- EA's upcoming boxing title Facebreaker will reportedly allow you to perform a beatdown upon a digital representation of Peter Moore, the company's head honcho.
- Details on the Portal pseudo-sequel, Portal: Still Alive.
- More leftover E3 news! Joystiq's hands-on experience with Puzzle Quest Galactrix; Game|Life reimagines Nintendo's rather dull E3 press conference into something way cooler; why the FPS Aliens: Colonial Marines was missing from E3; something that Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis and Development director said at E3 suggests that we might eventually see Wii Remotes that have the new Wii MotionPlus controller built into them; and finally, Nintendo Wii Fanboy gives us their E3 Endgame Evaluation.
- Due to many complaints from users, LiveJournal is going to start offering basic, ad-free accounts again.
- Shiny Shiny picks the top twelve robots of the screen.
- Ronald Moore drops some details on us about the plot of Virtuality, the 2-hour pilot he's making for Fox. Meanwhile, apparently no decision has been made yet as to whether the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica will air as a TV movie or as the first part of a proposed series.
- The film Wanted is going to be adapted into a video game.
- G4 imagines what would happen if it turned out Jack Thompson was right.
- It's finally official! A Knights of the Old Republic MMO is indeed in the works! Exciting.
- Konami has announced a new game in the Gradius shooter series exclusively for Nintendo's WiiWare; it's called Gradius Rebirth.
- In a recent post where he mentioned he was not interested in seeing Dark Knight, Warren Ellis linked back to a much older post explaining how Batman might improve his technique. It involves nipples, and it is hilarious. More fun from Warren Ellis: a collection of clips from old British sci-fi TV shows.
- A foreign poster for Dragonball.
- We hope you watched Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog this weekend, while it was still online and free! But even if you didn't, don't worry; it will reappear in other forms, birth sequels, and go on and on until it takes over the world! Mwa ha ha ha... heh... heh... okay, we'll have to work on that evil cackle.
- Former bodybuilder Roland Kickinger will play the T-800 in Terminator Salvation. (Via)
- You can now watch the 15-second teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince online. But it's literally just one line of dialogue and a logo, so don't expect much.
- Geekadelphia took part in a fun photo project.
- The Underwire takes a detailed look at the many, many films based on comic books that are supposed to be coming out in the near future.
- The first of a series of animated Watchmen webisodes is available for download now. (Via)
- A three-game bundle of space shooters will be released for the Wii this fall.
- Now they're putting Sonic in a "storybook world of Arthurian legend" and having him fight bad guys with a sword? WTF?!
- A release date for Pikmin 3 has shown up on a UK retail site, and it's March 27th, 2009.
- Pitchfork lists the overlooked records of 2008.
Image Credit: Flickr user oskay
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