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Oh boy, is it a bad week to be me. Things that I love are leaving Netflix, and not much new is coming in return. A few of my go-to movies are off the stream, which is just plain upsetting.
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There’s a sort of poetry to it, and I can’t tell if it’s wonderful or horrible. Sony announces a brilliant piece of hardware and then does something to muck it up so badly that people stop caring. Take the PS3, for example. In 2011, it’s a great piece of hardware that’s well worth $250. In 2006, though, it was a hulking monstrosity with a price tag impossible to justify. I worked at Best Buy that Christmas and I can tell you firsthand. We ran out of the Wii, and one day we even ran out of the Xbox 360, but we didn’t even have to restock the PS3. The PS Vita isn’t going down that same path quite yet, but Sony has already killed a feature that really sounded promising.
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Did you enjoy that big rush of videogames over the last month or two? I sure hope so, because this is where things start to slow down. There’s nothing at all of value coming out this week, and nothing I’ve even heard of aside from the new ‘Jaws’ game, which I won’t even dignify with a write-up. Games miss the point of ‘Jaws’. It’s not about the shark. It was never about the shark. It’s about the men.
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There isn’t a lot of movement on Netflix this week, but some cool things are on the way, including one of those essential Christmas movies and everybody’s favorite film about clowns with guns.
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This week, Wii owners finally get theirs. After plenty of great releases on the big boy systems, ‘Skyward Sword’ comes to the Wii. The other consoles don’t get much. PC gamers, on the other hand, finally get the full version of a game that I completely neglected to mention last week.
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Some weeks, Netflix goes through massive content changes, forcing us to add and subtract things from our queues to reflect the new landscape. Then there are weeks like this one, with barely any changes worth talking about. I guess that fans of ‘Jersey Shore’ and ‘Bridezillas’ will be happy, but let’s be honest, they don’t really count.
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It’s getting to that time of year again – the time when there are more great games than you could even hope to play, but you buy them anyway because there are some fantastic sales going on. It’s a great yet overwhelming time to be a gamer. Continue Reading
Well, nothing big coming out this week, guess we can just move on. Oh, unless you count ‘Skyrim’, ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3′ and HD versions of ‘Metal Gear Solid’. Which you should.
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Last week was pretty devastating, but Netflix makes up for it this week by penning a new deal with ABC/Disney that brings plenty of new content. The deal also returns some of the stuff we’ve been missing, including the show ‘Lost’, which I should really get around to watching the rest of. Only one movie that I consider worth mentioning is leaving the stream too, and that’s nice to see.
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At the end of the month, things always look dire on Netflix streaming. We see a lot of great stuff leaving the stream, yet we won’t find out what’s new until the beginning of November. There’s practically nothing good being added and plenty of brilliant films going away. I have high hopes that next week makes up for it.
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