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Collaborative film reviews with Filmcrowd
Another collaborative ratings site, Filmcrowd (beta), is born. Filmcrowd is, as you might guess from the name, focused
on movies. Gibbity, which you can't guess from the title, is more of a games
site, but uses the same social aspect. The two sites are from the same folks, in fact. Tags and collaboration are the
key here. For instance, you can create a focus group of sorts, with users who find certain movies in common as their
likes or dislikes. Keep tabs on the group, and what they're reviewing, and get suggestions. Filmcrowd is young, so
there aren't as many reviews as say, Amazon (that's a joke really, Amazon has a wee bit of a head start). My favorite
tag has to be crap, which contains such winners as Alone in the Dark
and The Postman.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
