Don’t take my word for it, look around you: regardless of your field of interest, there are more people tossing around opinions then there are those with original ideas. And that’s not bad, it’s actually quite good. We fought so hard and for so many years for freedom of speech it would be a shame not to exercise it just because any individual with a brain the size of peanut can benefit from it also. The internet boosted our voices to a super power level and now everyone with a keyboard and a decent ISP can share his thoughts with the world. There are no more age, gender or race boundaries we need to overcome in order to be heard. We tore those walls down brick by brick or all at once with a large enough quantity of dynamite and now we are enjoying the infinite possibilities provided by such freedom. Hurray for us! … More

Somehow every year from the whole set of international releases there are a few movies we miss out on. You can blame it on bad marketing, wrong targeting or just some freak happening, but either way the result can be the same: a movie goes under the radar and it stays there until someone is kind enough to dig it out and recommend it to us. If this were to happen only to titles such as Sex and the City I honestly wouldn’t mind that much. On the contrary I would actually be glad and even grateful for being spared of the horror of watching such Hollywood productions. But unfortunately it tends to happen to more interesting ones also. For me this was the case of Black Snake Moan, a movie released in March 2007 that I never heard of until recently and that has managed to turn me in the course of two hours into one of its biggest fans. … More

Have you ever dreamed of saving the galaxy… twice? Well now you can, as the highly anticipated sequel of the famous BioWare RPG is finally out. Two years have passed since Commander Shepard has defended the galaxy from the Reaper threat and saved all organic life from annihilation. Not much has happened since. The newly formed human controlled Council is wasting no effort in burying any Reaper related information and shifting the public’s attention towards the artificially created life form known as the Geth. All inhabitance from some human colonies based in the Terminus Systems are mysteriously disappearing and no one has a clue as to why or how. A new alien race, The Collectors, makes its dramatic stage entry. Oh yes, and there is also the small matter of your death which functions as the main catalyst of the whole sequence of events that hold Mass Effect 2 together. … More

I got into an argument with a friend a few days ago over the controversial work of Henry Miller. The whole subject of the debate was whether or not his books could and should be listed in a “Quality Literature” section of a book store. I was strongly against that idea and I was trying to prove in a very puritan, “mother of twelve”, “I’m going to church every Sunday” way that his texts have so few connections with literature and so many with pornography that the choice of the book store manager should be simple: put it right between the Hustler and the Penthouse. My suggestion was met with such virulent protests by my lady friend that for a few moments I was genuinely afraid for my life: how dare I compare such trivial publication meant to amuse the masses with the subtle mélange of metaphors and vivid descriptions which … More

King’s Bounty: Armored Princess, the sequel to King’s Bounty: The Legend, is a turn-based strategy game with a few drops of RPG. Developed by the Russian based studio Katauri Interactive and published 1C Company, the English version of game was launched on the 20th of November 2009 and ever since we haven’t stopped playing. Armed with great patience, unbelievable courage and unquestionable skill, we took on the greatest challenge the game had to offer and… failed vigorously just before the last boss. But after two months of constant struggle and bloody battles, after 1.2 million skeletons turned to dust, 398 thousand demons sent back to hell and after 471 spells cast, we now know enough to give you the most highly detailed review possible. … More