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DJ Eclectic Method has created this video remix of hackers in popular films like The Matrix, Skyfall, Tron, and more.

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Sandy is the 77th name to be retired from the Atlantic list since 1954. The name will be replaced with “Sara” beginning in 2018.

Rather than waiting to localize Tomb Raider into Japanese, Square Enix will sell a Japanese voiceover pack for the Steam version already available in Japan through the Western stores. That part is cool and kind of forward-thinking.

The part that's less cool: the pack costs $30, on top of the full-price purchase of the game. The massive upcharge brings the US Steam version into price parity with the Japanese retail release, which shares an April 25 release date with the VO pack, and retails for ¥7,980 ($80). Yes, video games are always too expensive in Japan. And Square Enix is artificially ensuring that's the case for Tomb Raider.

It's hard to figure out who this Japanese Language Pack is for, if it comes out the same day as the localized PC release for the same effective price. We suppose it's for people in Japan who want to play Tomb Raider now, but don't mind missing out on all the dialogue for a couple of weeks.

Japanese voiceover pack coming to Tomb Raider PC ... for $30 originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d like us and the readers to answer? E-mail us at avcqa@theonion.com.

Now that the news about Jimmy Fallon replacing Jay Leno at The Tonight Show is official, we’re left to speculate about who will take Fallon’s spot on Late Night. The leading contender appears to be Seth Meyers, but the whole thing has us wondering: Who would you choose to replace Jimmy Fallon at Late Night if you were the type of God-person who makes those decisions?

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HAVE YOU EVER FUCKING SEEN the Hamburger Helper? That shit is terrifying. What’s worse than that? The sodium content. Get off the salt lick and grub on some real food.

Seriously someone in HH marketing should be fired.

TUCSON TEMPEH PASTA

1 block tempeh (~8 oz.)

1 yellow onion

1 bell pepper

2 carrots

3-4 cloves of garlic

1 teaspoon olive oil

2-3 teaspoons soy sauce or tamari

2 tablespoons chili powder

2 teaspoons dried thyme

1 teaspoon dried oregano

1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin

1 teaspoon liquid smoke (It is near the BBQ sauce at the store I swear. You haven’t even looked yet so stop fucking complaining.)

14 ounce can of tomatoes (make sure you don’t buy some brand full of salt)

1 pound of pasta (whole wheat, rice, quinoa, whatever the fuck you want)

juice of 1 lemon

1 cup of green peas or other vegetable

Optional: add some steamed broccoli, spinach, roasted sweet potatoes, whatever you got that you need to use up.

Cook the pasta how the box tells you to. You got this.

Chop up the onion, bell pepper, and carrots. Mince the garlic cloves up nice and small. Heat up the oil over a medium heat in a big skillet or a wok. Crumble the tempeh into little pieces with your hands and toss into the skillet. Add the veggies and cook them until the onion begins to look all golden and the tempeh bits start to brown. Add the soy sauce, spices, and garlic and cook them for about a minute. Your place should smell fucking awesome by now. You’re welcome. Now add the liquid smoke and tomatoes and let the mixture start to bubble a little. Let this all stew together for a minute or two.

Add the cooked pasta, lemon juice, and any additional veggies you picked out to the tomato mixture. Mix everything together until the pasta is nice and coated. Add more spices if you think it needs it. I like to serve mine topped with red onion, jalapenos, and cilantro but you add your favorite shit.

Serves 4-6 people as a meal (or one bad mother fucker with leftovers)

This footage of a NOLA Jazz funeral is a grimly appropriate way to tip the sombrero and say adios to Les Blank, one of the most gifted documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, if not the most. He died yesterday.

It’s been nearly two long years since we first learned of plans to remake Point Break—years we’ve spent only living to get radical, secure in knowing that news of its further development would someday roll in like the next tasty, symbolic wave. Today’s that day, with the announcement that Ericson Core, director and No. 1 trainer-recommended abdominal machine, has been hired to bring the film’s “Zen meditation on testosterone-fueled action and manhood” into the 21st century, where both the manhood and the meditation are far more extreme and possibly also involve parkour.

As previously reported, the film will once again find an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a criminal ring set inside the world of “international extreme sports”—sports that are no longer limited to just surfing, though surfing will remain “very, very prominent,” so as to justify keeping the title. Core’s sole feature directing ...

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Confirming that revenge is a dish best served conceptually, on a papier-mâché plate fashioned out of old Tiger Beat clippings and semen, rapper Riff Raff will get even for James Franco’s alleged theft of his personality on Spring Breakers by, fittingly, playing James Franco. Or rather, “Jamie Franko,” a Miami art dealer who appears on an upcoming episode of One Life To Live, in an obvious mockery of Franco’s own artist character “Franco” on General Hospital. It’s a bit of hall-of-mirrors vengeance that’s been months in the making, ever since Riff Raff began pointing out the similarities between himself and Spring Breakers’ Alien and accusing Franco of lying about the source of his inspiration. Of course, it’s possible James Franco only denied portraying Riff Raff because he knew it would someday lead to Riff Raff playing James Franco. We’ll have to wait for ...

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A fair maiden in New Orleans is looking for a hard dose of Robb Stark lovin’. Last week, an intense Game Of Thrones fan posted a Casual Encounter to Craigslist looking for someone to help her fulfill her elaborate Iron Throne-based fantasy. As she explains, she recently purchased one of those $30,000 Iron Throne replicas and is looking for someone to, well, conquer her on it. She writes:

"In my fantasy, I am Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen, Mother of Dragons, and Rightful Heir to the Iron Throne and the Seven Kingdoms. After crossing the Narrow Sea and defeating the forces of Westeros, it is within my power and right to slay all of those who betrayed my family and denied me my rightful place for so many years. The most vile enemies of house Targaryen, House Stark and House Baratheon must pay the highest price. All of those who fought ...

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Director David Zucker all but defined the spoof movie with films like Airplane!, Top Secret, and The Naked Gun, then entered a hilariously meta phase of his career where he began spoofing the inherent emptiness of spoof movies via the Scary Movie franchise. Or, at least, that’s what fans of his earlier work tell themselves. As it turns out, no, Zucker actually tries to make genuine comedy, and in this interview with Hollywood.com, he offers a fascinating glimpse of how your spoof movie sausage gets made: Basically, Bob and Harvey Weinstein see another sausage, then they demand it be ground up into their own sausage, no matter how that might taste.

Confirming most suspicions, Zucker dispassionately describes how every Scary Movie is conceived first by “rounding up all the ideas that must be in the movie, and piecing them together into something watchable”—a backwards approach that means ...

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Ever wanted to ask Louis CK anything? Now's your chance.

As an increasingly bellicose North Korea rattles its saber, an unusual sighting in North Korean border town Sinuiju: Female soldiers in platform heels, patrolling by the banks of the Yalu River.

For nearly two decades now, Dana Carvey and Mike Myers have been bitterly divided by an ongoing feud—a Wayne’s World war that, like the Battle of the Bulge, also involved funny words for erections. Myers, it was gossiped, had tried to prevent Carvey from tagging along on the movie version of their popular SNL skit, worried he might be upstaged. That jealousy reportedly grew even more intense during actual filming, allegedly leading to Myers trying to minimize Carvey’s role in the sequel. Shortly thereafter, Carvey supposedly expressed indignation over Myers stealing his Lorne Michaels impression for Dr. Evil. Various frustrations were vented. Wigs were probably tossed. Johnny Carson impressions were deployed sarcastically. In other words, it was war.

Of course, said “feud” was primarily characterized by Carvey and Myers’ repeated denials, dating all the way back to 1993, that it ever existed. (Indeed, if the two did ...

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By Samit Sarkar on Apr 11, 2013 at 6:45p

Rhode Island legislators are considering a proposal that would have the state default on the debt it owes as a result of 38 Studios' collapse last spring, AP reports.

The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation gave 38 Studios a $75 million loan in 2010 in an agreement under which the game developer would create 450 jobs over the subsequent three years. But the studio failed to make its first payment on the loan last May, and during the next month laid off its entire staff before declaring bankruptcy.

That left the state of Rhode Island on the hook for approximately $100 million, and Gov. Lincoln Chafee's current budget plans for a $2.5 million payment this year and annual payments of $12.5 million thereafter. Chafee opposes the new proposal because he believes the state should be responsible for its debts. The Economic Development Corporation agrees — according to chief of staff John Pagliarini, defaulting on the debt could harm the state's bond rating and make it more difficult to finance future projects. According to AP, the plan is unlikely to win much support in the state legislature.

But the default proposal does have backers, including state representative Karen MacBeth, who told the state House of Representatives' Finance Committee, "The state of Rhode Island cannot afford to put this burden on the backs of the taxpayers." MacBeth suggests the insurance company that underwrote the loan should pay instead.

Follow along with the 38 Studios saga in our StoryStream below.

In This Storystream:

• Apr 11 2013, 6:45p

  Rhode Island considering defaulting on 38 Studios debt

• Mar 4 2013, 4:26p

  38 Studios' Curt Schilling asks judge to dismiss lawsuit over $75 million loan

• Nov 1 2012, 12:51p

  Curt Schilling's 38 Studios sued by Rhode Island over $75 million loan guarantee

• Sep 27 2012, 8:38a

  Rhode Island governor considering overhaul of agency that provided 38 Studios' loan

• Sep 8 2012, 3:19p

  Rhode Island lawmakers face political blowback from 38 Studios bankruptcy

• Aug 22 2012, 8:48p

  Beautiful environments from 38 Studios' 'Project Copernicus' revealed

• Aug 16 2012, 5:53p

  38 Studios' 'Copernicus' would have been free-to-play

• Jul 24 2012, 8:54p

  38 Studios burned through $133 million before bankruptcy

• Jul 23 2012, 8:43p

  Boston Magazine chronicles 38 Studios' demise building a game that 'wasn't fun'

• Jul 13 2012, 7:37p

  Trustee for 38 Studios bankruptcy seeks help to sort out remaining assets

• Jun 14 2012, 6:06p

  38 Studios founder Curt Schilling sued by bank for $2.4 million

• Jun 13 2012, 11:16p

  Subpoenas sent out to 38 Studios

• Jun 13 2012, 4:06p

  '38 Studios spouse' says company knew about cancelled insurance

• Jun 7 2012, 6:22p

  Rhode Island values 38 Studios assets in 'tens of millions,' investors interested

• Jun 7 2012, 2:05p

  38 Studios declares bankruptcy

• Jun 3 2012, 6:22p

  'Epic Baltimore' rises out of the ashes of Big Huge Games

• May 30 2012, 4:45a

  New 'Project Copernicus' screenshots released by Curt Schilling

• May 29 2012, 10:52a

  Schilling could lose $50 million in 38 Studios closure

• May 28 2012, 10:46a

  'Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning 2' was in pre-production before staff was let go

• May 28 2012, 4:39a

  No new 'Kingdoms of Amalur' patch barring 'some sort of miracle'

• May 27 2012, 11:37p

  38 Studios: 'We thought the governor was an ally'

• May 25 2012, 4:27p

  38 Studios passes second mortgages onto some former employees

• May 24 2012, 8:35p

  Studios reach out to former 38 Studios staff, list of vacancies created

• May 24 2012, 4:20p

  38 Studios lays off entire staff

• May 24 2012, 1:32a

  Image leaks could be from 'Project Copernicus'

• May 23 2012, 11:05p

  38 Studios may miss out on tax credits

• May 23 2012, 7:38p

  38 Studios CEO and senior VP leave company amidst layoffs

• May 22 2012, 12:25a

  Rhode Island governor confirms layoffs at 38 Studios

• May 18 2012, 5:05p

  'Project Copernicus' video revealed in midst of financial turmoil

• May 18 2012, 1:29p

  38 Studios makes late payment to state

• May 18 2012, 1:10p

  Rhode Island's Reckoning: A quick history of 38 Studios and their deal with Rhode Island

• May 17 2012, 5:20p

  38 Studios hands over bad $1.125m check to state, can't pay its employees (update)

• May 16 2012, 3:36p

  Kingdoms of Amalur developer asks state for bailout

• May 15 2012, 9:50p

  38 Studios defaulted on loan payment

• May 14 2012, 7:21p

  'Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning' developer could be in financial trouble

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• Redditor creates a Fallout-themed version of Monopoly for his wife's birthday
• Hardware: Shipbreakers concept art
• Speed Run: Blood Dragon, next Xbox games, EA layoffs, cyber attacks
• Nintendo updates Swapnote 3DS messaging app with photo sharing and more
• Scribblenauts Unlimited on sale for $8.99 at Amazon
• Gemini Rue now available on iOS, discounted to $3.99 for two weeks
• Sega teaser trailer hints at Castle of Illusion re-release this summer
• LucasArts's eulogist looks back on the poetry of goodbyes
• Ubisoft takes full ownership of Anno developer Related Designs
• Years-long cyber attack on online gaming companies uncovered
• iD Tech Camps teaching FPS game design with ShootMania Storm this summer
• Far Cry 3 on PS3, 360 discounted to $29.99 on Amazon
• Darkstalkers Resurrection sales not enough to be called 'successful,' says Capcom US vice president
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Twitter has been expanding its reach over the last year, and it's now moving into music: the company has just confirmed that it's acquired the team behind music discovery site We Are Hunted. The move was rumored by CNET last month and bolstered after We Are Hunted was taken offline; now, the team confirms that the site will be shutting down for good. Instead, the team will start working with Twitter on a new, undisclosed project. "We will continue to create services that will delight you, as part of the Twitter team," the site's main page now reads. "There's no question that Twitter and music go well together. Artists turn to Twitter first to connect with fans, and people share and discover new songs and albums every day."

CNET reported in March that Twitter was buying We Are Hunted in order to launch a standalone music streaming app based on the technology; according to sources, it would offer personalized music recommendations and stream music through SoundCloud. Now, the acquisition is a sure thing, but we still can't say with certainty what's coming. For now, neither Twitter nor We Are Hunted has anything to announce. "We wish we could say but we're not yet ready to talk about it," says the We Are Hunted team. "You'll hear more from us when we are."

Update: As TechCrunch has pointed out, we've got at least one hint that a Twitter music app is coming. Ryan Seacrest has posted the following tweet, suggesting that it's in testing now.

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““There is a whole new sort of group of individuals now…that never hunt at all,” he said. “But they own guns for one of two reasons — self-protection, or they just like the feel of that AR-15 at the range.” “They like the way it feels,” Biden continued. “It’s like driving a Ferrari, you know. And so my impression is there’s not the same sort of cultural norm about gun ownership with a lot of people who are buying guns now.””

- Joe Biden: ‘Having Guns Is Like Driving A Ferrari’ [Video]

In a new weekly column, writer Bob Mackey will alternate between two of his passions: the Japanese RPG genre and classic games. This week Mackey discusses the recently revealed DuckTales revival.

Game designer Warren Spector's preoccupation with Mickey Mouse ranks up there with some of the more notable wastes of time in recent memory. You can't say Spector didn't have his heart in the right place, though; while much of his love for Disney's mascot seems to be informed largely by his generation's exposure to the character as more than just a soulless corporate brand, both of Junction Point's Epic Mickey games carried forth the noble mission of teaching a new generation about Disney's often-overlooked catalog of animated shorts.

I found myself on board after hearing the premise of Spector's original Epic Mickey, mostly because Disney held nearly all of their shorts hostage on a premium cable channel during my childhood. If I wanted to soak up knowledge about the studio's earlier works, why not do it in Spector-engineered video game form?

According to critics and consumers, the experiment didn't turn out so well. Epic Mickey didn't aspire to greater heights than "competent N64 platformer," and gamers regarded the series as such. Tragically enough, Spector had been sitting on a much better - though not necessarily more popular - property while developing Epic Mickey: Disney's Uncle Scrooge comics, best known to children of the '80s as the animated adaptation DuckTales.

Spector had written for the newly launched DuckTales comic between Epic Mickey installments, and during a PAX Prime 2012 interview, I managed to sneak in a few questions that confirmed his interest in making a game that starred Disney's crankiest curmudgeon. His vague, non-committal statements didn't exactly set the Internet on fire, but they at least gave us all a moment to pause and fantasize about what a modern DuckTales game would look like.

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By Michael McWhertor on Apr 11, 2013 at 8:00p

Rockstar Games has made it easier than ever for fans of the Grand Theft Auto series to listen to the tunes that populate the virtual airwaves of the series' radio stations. The developer has replicated the stations from seven games (and two episodes) in the GTA franchise on Spotify and iTunes as playlists.

Playlists built from the many radio stations featured in Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Grand Theft Auto 4 and Episodes from Liberty City are available from Rockstar's official website.

Granted, not every song from every radio station in Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City is available on Spotify and iTunes, but Rockstar says it hopes to add songs "within our control where possible soon."

"And for those nostalgic for some of the commercials from these games," the developer says, "be sure to check out The Advertising Council repository if you haven't before — a proper collection of radio adverts from the archives of LC, VC and SA's historical radio dials."

Rockstar's next GTA game, Grand Theft Auto 5, is now dated for Sept.17.

Washington, D.C., native Billie Burke in her hometown circa 1918. Some 20 years later she would attain pop-culture immortality as Glinda the Good Witch in "The Wizard of Oz." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.

A series of mysterious and troubling computer breaches at the Pentagon has led to an order for military and civilian defense lawyers to cease use of their computers when working with sensitive information, reports Reuters. The order came last night following the gradual disappearance of three or four weeks worth of confidential documents, as well as the discovery that 500,000 legal files of varying sensitivity were made accessible to parties not authorized to view them. It's unclear why these events have occurred, but they've all revolved around the legal proceedings of inmates being held at Guantanamo Bay, some of whose cases were about to begin pretrial hearings.

Both the prosecution and defense now want these hearings postponed until this issue can be resolved. Reuters reports that the incidents all involved the defense attorneys' files, many of which are protected by attorney-client privilege. The disappearances began in February, and evidence has been discovered suggesting that third parties had monitored the defense's emails and internet searches. The impact of these security breaches remains to be seen, but there's currently no indication of wrongdoing on the prosecution's part.

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There are signs that the defense was monitored

However, Guantanamo's handling of the inappropriate file access has only raised further issues. Reuters reports that the detention camp's legal advisor noted that hidden microphones had been present during private discussions between inmates and their lawyers, but that the conversations — which would be protected by attorney-client privilege — were not monitored. It's not clear what the further developments around the defense's privacy will mean for the inmates legal proceedings, but one hearing has already been pushed back two months, into June.

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They may not have invented Facebook, but twin tech entrepreneurs Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss — better known to the world as the Winklevoss twins, or Winkelvii — are deep into the next big online trend. The brothers claim to have amassed one of the largest portfolios of Bitcoin in the world, worth around $1.3 million, or about 1 percent of the entire currency's dollar value equivalent, as the New York Times Dealbook reports.

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That staggering amount comes in a little less than a year, as the brothers are only reported to have begun "dabbling" in Bitcoin starting last summer. “We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error,” Tyler Winklevoss told Dealbook. The 31-year-old brothers also seem unfazed by the market's tumult in the past few days: “People say it’s a Ponzi scheme, it’s a bubble,” Cameron said. “People really don’t want to take it seriously. At some point that narrative will shift to ‘virtual currencies are here to stay.’ We’re in the early days.”

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“This is a particularly tasteless ad considering that Hill Holiday launched a massive “Happier Boston” campaign for Samaritan this winter, aimed at lowering suicide rates in the city. While Massachusetts’ suicide rate went down, the city-wide rate has gone up in the last decade.”

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