Yes!! Vin Diesel is back as Riddick in the 3rd movie of the franchise. In the film, the infamous Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he’s encountered. The only way off is for Riddick to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty.
Earlier this week, Nvidia announced the launch date and price for its latest foray into actual Gaming consoles, the Shield. Originally called Project Shield when it was revealed earlier this year at CES 2013, it consists of a 5-inch HD touchscreen and a controller that has a similar layout to the Xbox 360 controller. Internal specs include a Tegra 4 multi-core processor, 2 GB RAM, 16 GB Internal Memory, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0 and ports for Micro SD cards, Mini-HDMI, and 3.5 mm headphones.
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Now what we have here is a whole bunch of trailers from Fox Broadcasting's new TV series for the upcoming season and they all look pretty decent.
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Yeah, you probably know that The Avengers was an awesome movie but did you know that it was so awesome that they decided to create a spin-off TV series from the franchise?

Titled 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D', the series will follow a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who do they usual stuff they've been portrayed as doing the usual stuff you've seen them doing in all the other Marvel movies they've appeared in: tracking down the supernatural and extraordinary.

Its the return of the Humble Bundle and this time they've partnered with Double Fine Productions to give out games at whatever price you feel like paying. 

Pay anything below the average price (currently set at $8.02) and you get Psychonauts, Costume Quest and Stacking, all wonderful indie titles. Pay above the average and you get access to Brutal Legends which was recently launched on PC (via Steam) and features voice acting by Jack Black, a triple A title in my opinion.
Even though things haven't been so rosy of late for the once reigning king of the mobile phone market, Nokia isn't letting the current situation weigh it down. The Finnish company is still fighting aggressively to conquer all aspects of the mobile market. The Lumia series to satisfy the Smartphone market and its Asha series for the not-so-smartphone and feature phone market and this year it has launched products across all these different segments of the market.

The latest of these products is the Asha 501 which heralds the next generation of Nokia's Asha smartphone platform. Most would have dismissed the Nokia Asha series as smartphones in the past but with last year's acquisition of Smarterphone, Nokia have brought in the technical know-how to take its Asha series to the next level and it shows on this phone.

Storyline:
Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by the President's order, and the surviving team members face off against Zartan, his accomplices, and the world leaders he has under his influence.

Review:
Long story short: I didn't really like it.

I know it was an action movie and the story wouldn't really be anything to burn your soul with but somehow I was still dissappointed with the movie. There was nothing to really differentiate it from any other action movie coming out this year. Yeah, it had ninjas but apart from the mountain fight scene everything else involving them was meh, plus everyone who has watched the trailers has already watched the good half of that particular scene so...

The acting was pretty decent though. All the key actors did pretty well with their parts and were able to fully embody their characters. I think Bruce Willis was an unnecessary addition to the cast. His presence didn't really do much to improve the quality of the movie. Also, RZA acting as the ninja clan head was just off. Those scenes reminded me of Nigerian home videos for some reason.

Some fans of the franchise are calling this a better movie than the first because it was more faithful to the source material and maybe that's true from the fans point of view. I watched some G.I. Joe cartoons when I was little but apparently not enough to be classified as a fan because I definitely prefer the first movie to this one.

My Rating: 6/10
Book Description:
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.

The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce--and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.

Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.

John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine--and what he will become is far stranger.

Review: 
This was one of the easiest books I've read in a long time. Easy in the sense that once you pick it up, it's hard to put down until you finish it. Mainly because the writing style is so laid back and uncomplicated, the characters are not hard to figure out and even though it's a science fiction story, the futuristic concepts and technology used in the book don't overwhelm you with their complexity. But that doesn't mean that the tech isn't cool! Another thing that I loved about this book is the way it brings up certain questions that are associated with the themes used in the book and attempts to answer it through the points of view of the different characters in the book. For instance, at one point during the story the morality behind certain laws is questioned and you see how each of the characters affected by that law come to terms with it.   One thing I had against it though was that I wasn't able to connect emotionally with the main character. Though he went through periods of joy and pain, it looked like he was just passing through those emotions and not actually experiencing them. All in all, a fascinating read that by the time I had finished it, left me wondering why it had taken me so long to read this books even though it had been in my sights for years now. John Scalzi definitely knows how to tell a captivating story. My next course of action is to find everything else he has written see if the Old Man's War was just a fluke. 

My Rating: 8/10

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