Jane Goldman: Meet the screenwriter of the controversial new film Kick-Ass | Interview (Guardian Unlimited)

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Jane Goldman’s new film Kick-Ass is the story of a foul-mouthed 11-year-old girl assassin. The screenwriter wife of Jonathan Ross and mother of three admits to a ‘geeky’ enthusiasm for comic books and violent video games The screenwriter Jane Goldman freely admits that her new film Kick-Ass “is not, obviously, for everyone”. Perhaps she is thinking of the scene in which Hit-Girl, an 11-year-old …

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FF13’s UK launch bigger than WoW (Guardian Unlimited)

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Did you go? Only the biggest gaming brands get their own retail launch event and Final Fantasy 13 was one of them. The UK launch event was held in London yesterday with, apparently, thousands turning up to meet producer Yoshinori Kitase and art director Isamu Kamikokuryo. According to HMV’s Tim Ellis the event was their biggest yet. Today’s Final Fantasy 13 signing at HMV’s flagship store on …

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Virtual reality is coming of age (Guardian Unlimited)

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If you want evidence of how virtual worlds are breaking into the mainstream, look at how commerce is taking hold within them I’m standing outside a branch of Diesel and a colourfully dressed man is dancing the robot in front of me like Peter Crouch on steroids. Browsing through the items on offer in the window, I spot a pair of jeans that I like the look of. The price tag says £1.59. A licensed …

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High points of the noughties (Guardian Unlimited)

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Twitter, Daniel Barenboim, XBox, WG Sebald, Nicholas Hytner’s National, Big Brother and The Wire… just some of the cultural highs of the noughties.

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Review of the decade | Culture (Guardian Unlimited)

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Twitter, Daniel Barenboim, XBox, WG Sebald, Nicholas Hytner’s National, Big Brother and The Wire… just some of the cultural highs of the noughties. From the rise of Dizzee Rascal to the emergence – at the age of 89 – of the dazzling Cuban painter Carmen Herrera, our critics pick the defining people and trends of the past 10 years TECHNOLOGY GOOGLE Larry Page and Sergey Brin began thinking …

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Just so you know: the Gamesblog Top 100 of the Noughties (Guardian Unlimited)

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The 100 most voted for games in this week’s Games of the Noughties list. A few readers have asked for this, so as an epilogue to an interesting week of discussion, here are the top 100 games that made up our Gamesblog Games of the Noughties list. As you’ll see, plenty of favourites were bubbling just below the top 50, although still no room for Dwarf Fortress! 1. Half-Life 2 2. World of Warcraft …

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The RPG that could save lives (Guardian Unlimited)

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A new Government-backed MMORPG seeks to teach kids about crossing the road - and it’s much more absorbing than it sounds… Getting children to cross the road safely has never been easy. In the seventies, we had David Prowse dressed up as the Green Cross Code man, desperately cashing in on the popularity of the Superman films (and Prowse’s role in Star Wars, of course) to grab the attention of …

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