Sunday, July 6th, 2008

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Gamer's Galaxy: "Mario Kart Wii"

If driving with the sleek, wireless motion-sensor wheel isn’t enough to get you hooked on Nintendo’s latest installment of “Mario Kart” for the Wii gaming console, racing neck-and-neck with Miss Piggy from Finland and Sr. Jesus from Japan should be.

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Gamers Galaxy: “Super Mario Galaxy”

We play video games for a lot of reasons now – to compete, to make friends, or maybe just to experience a story. However, games like “Super Mario Galaxy” remind us why we began playing games in the first place – because they’re fun.

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Another world of writing

On campus, Etana Jacobson is your typical graduate student in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television specializing in directing. She’s working on her thesis film and staying focused on graduation.

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Gamer Galaxy: "Halo 3"

This is madness. Spartan, even.

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Crazy days of Comic-Con

For four days we suffered through heat, long lines and a crowd of over 120,000 fans at this year’s Comic-Con International. With beer-bellied Spartan gladiators in leather Speedos and children attached to their leather-clad mothers by chain leashes, this annual convention was not for the queasy or faint of heart.

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Gamer Galaxy: Guitar Hero Encore

If anything could make you fall in love with the ’80s, it would be “Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the ’80s.”

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Don’t miss out on what Comic-Con has to offer

When choosing my favorite month, there are many factors to consider.

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Comic Corner: Achewood

Oh, hi everybody, I’m not used to this public speaking stuff but uh, I will try not to get all embarrassed. My name is Roast Beef and uh, there is not really much to say about myself so I guess I will write at some lengths about much times with my friends.

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Comic Corner: “Y: The Last Man” #56

Brian K. Vaughan’s “Y: The Last Man” is often compared to a similarly well-written, addicting and entertaining cultural phenomenon: ABC’s “Lost.” It’s fitting, then, that Vaughan was recently brought on as a writer for the show.

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I need a hero

Tom DeGravel and Ryan Burke’s narrow room in Rieber Hall is admittedly a bit claustrophobic for its three residents. But DeGravel, a second-year English student, and Burke, a second-year chemical engineering student, still manage to find room to host the Vans Warped Tour, along with its thousands of cheering and jeering fans – all merely with the press of the power button on their PlayStation 2.

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