TV/New media
Episode Review: Latest 'How I Met Your Mother' breathes needed life into faltering season
- CBS
BY RADHIKA MENON
The first half of this episode was mindless and humdrum — light, superficial and inconsequential. But the conclusion packs the emotional punch that this season has been lacking.
Notebook: Save Facebook from #hashtagculture
BY BRIANNE JOHNSON
Why use Facebook if Twitter offers the same experience, only simpler? Why use Facebook if it only adopts the worst aspects of other sites? Why use Facebook? You won’t.
Notebook: Debating sides of the Six Strikes System
BY MOLLY WEBER
The most recent effort to combat the illegal downloading of music, movies and TV launched Feb. 25 under the name of the Copyright Alert System.
Notebook: Solving the 'FIFA' conundrum
BY ELLIOT ALPERN
MLS pulled in a paltry $300 million in 2011 — so how did “FIFA 13” suddenly surge ahead as a major juggernaut in the gaming industry?
A&E takes a well aimed stab at 'Psycho' origins with 'Bates Motel'
- A&E
BY KELLY ETZ
After Alfred Hitchcock ruined showers for everyone with one iconic scene, Norman Bates became a household name. Now A&E fancifully imagines the beginning of the “Psycho” legacy in the new prequel series, “Bates Motel.”
Deities clash in ambitious multiplayer experience of 'SMITE'
- Hi-Rez
BY JULIAN AIDAN
Gamers everywhere will find a solid, rewarding and intense multiplayer experience in any one of “SMITE” ’s ambitious game modes.
Episode Review: 'Walking Dead' shows signs of life in latest installment
- AMC
BY ALEC STERN
Overall, the episode is a marked improvement over the last. All it’s missing is the other half of the cast. Nonetheless, it has me reeling with anticipation over what’s to come.
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