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Commander: Conquest of the Americas Tutorial Video

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Susan Bailey
Posted in: VIDEO GAMES

Nitro Games, developer of the real-time strategy game, Commander: Conquest of the Americas today announced a new series of gameplay tutorials to help users master the game. Gamers can use the tutorials to their advantage as you attempt to earn thirty newly released achievements on Steam.

In the next four weeks, game players will learn how to set up a colony, determine the best and basic trade routes, build ships and maximize the value of the advisors. The first tutorial features a basic guide to getting started with your colonization process of the new world, how to identify an empty colony spot and the details of how to found a colony.

While perfecting your skills with the latest tutorials, attempt to conquer the fifty new achievements. Establish yourself as a leader when you achieve 100% colony morale and become a Gold Digger after successfully importing 1000 tons of gold to home port. Identify yourself as a Colonizer when your colony has reached more than 100,000 colonists and a Collector once you have built every single ship in the game. Claim to be a Master of War when at war with all nations or a Peace Maker after successfully refraining from fighting for twenty years.

Commander: Conquest of the Americas is available for download on all leading digital distribution platforms.

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Harry Potter ABC Family Interstitial

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Susan Bailey
Posted in: MOVIES

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REC 2 Clip Video

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Susan Bailey
Posted in: DEAD END

[REC] 2 picks up 15 minutes from where we left off, taking us back into the quarantined apartment building where a terrifying virus has run rampant, turning the occupants into mindlessly violent, raging beasts.

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“Psycho” 50th Anniversary Edition on Blu-Ray

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John Fleck
Posted in: DIGITAL DOMAIN


This black and white film originally came out in 1960, and is probably only rivaled by The Birds as Alfred Hitchcock’s most memorable film.

What a mark this movie made on society, let alone film history. How many people have thought of the shower scene over the course of fifty years whenever they stepped in? Even Janet Leigh, who portrayed the victim reportedly went to extreme measures of security when showering after viewing the scene. Hard to think of many things in film that have endured in imaginations that long and had such a “psycho”-logical effect.

The film provided several scenes that seem trite today yet were very controversial in 1960. For example, the opening scene where Janet Leigh and her lover are sharing the same bed was considered too racy for censors. Hitchcock made a deal that if they allowed the shower scene he would re-shoot the bed scene with the censors in attendance. But they failed to show up during filming so the scene remained intact. Also, censors were upset over the use of the word “transvestite” and the scene of the toilet flushing. Prior to the film, a toilet flush was never even heard let alone seen.

Alfred Hitchcock’s cameo is a signature occurrence in most of his films. In Psycho, he can be seen through a window, wearing a Stetson hat, standing outside Janet Leigh’s office (seven minutes into the film). Most of Hitchcock’s cameo came early in his films, to prevent the audience from being distracted by looking for him.

In 1992, the film was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The 50th Anniversary Edition of the film is set to hit the street on October 19th of this year. Distributed by Universal and priced at $26.98, the Blu-Ray version features many extras including the making of the film, behind the scenes, an extensive commentary by the author of the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, and of course, the shower scene.

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