Bush is the featured group on Rock Band this week with the release of a downloadable three-pack of songs. You can get the whole set for $5.49 (440 Microsoft Points), or you can buy each individual track for $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points). Here’s the full song list, followed by videos of all the selections:

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If you’re a fan of The Hunger Games, you won’t want to miss out on a chance to win the hilarious new parody book, The Hunger Pains by The Harvard Lampoon. You will miss that chance, though, if you don’t get your contest entries in before midnight Eastern time on the night of Wednesday, February 8, 2012! Check out the original contest post to see all the details on how to enter.

Good luck!

Cosplay is big news these days. It’s no longer merely just fans dressing up as their favorite characters. Creative interpretations of existing properties are popping up at every showing from Steampunk Ghostbusters to Star Wars armor built entirely out of LEGO bricks. It isn’t just the expansion beyond stock characters that has changed. Cosplayers are now entrepreneurs, selling their creations to other fans. They’ve become commodities, gaining sponsorships to underwrite their production and travel costs and companies like Sega have been tapping the cosplay community by bringing Aliens cosplayers to trade shows to promote their upcoming Colonial Marines title. All of this success and popularity has a down side, however, and that is the fans.

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Arthurian legend has been a popular source of modern adaptation in all media, but few recent versions have gained the success and popularity of the BBC’s Merlin. The third series ran in 2010 from September through December and now has arrived on DVD with a five disc box set.

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Episode: Supernatural 7.13 – “The Slice Girls”
Original Air Date: February 3, 2012

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Dean Winchester has slept his way across this country. You knew that was bound to catch up with him sooner or later. This episode we saw Dean become a father in the span of three days.

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00:00:16 – Episode Opening

TV Talk:

• 00:06:11 – Alcatraz: “Cal Sweeney” (spoilers!)
• 00:13:28 – Fringe: “Making Angels” (spoilers!)
• 00:23:04 – Downton Abbey

Game Talk:

• 00:30:13 – Final Fantasy XIII-2

00:34:43 – Episode Closing

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Close your eyes and imagine building one’s own personal Helm’s Deep, Minas Tirith, Mirkwood, Isengard, or The Shire. Now, imagine doing it with LEGOs. In June, this feat becomes a possibility.

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Toy Story + Brokeback Mountain by daekazu

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Episode: Once Upon A Time 1.11 – “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree”
Original Air Date: January 29, 2012
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In “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree”, viewers are served a delicious and deadly bite of Once Upon A Time. King Leopold is granted three wishes by a Genie, and in Storybrooke, Sidney involves Emma in his search for evidence to expose the extent of the Mayor’s corruption.

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Comedy Central’s [adult swim] block is the home of all things absurd, and it unleashed another of its creations upon the DVD consuming public last week with the arrival of Delocated! Seasons 1 & 2.

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