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Look, we know how your mind works. One day, you were sitting around, thinking about how you could lay your hands on the <a href="http://joystiq.com/tag/god-of-war-3"><em>God of War III</em></a> demo. Then, all of a sudden, it hit you. You figured out how to game the system. "Easy," you thought, "I'll just order the <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/28/god-of-war-iii-demo-included-on-district-9-blu-ray/"><em>District 9 </em>Blu-ray</a> from <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/Netflix/">Netflix</a>, grab the demo, and send the disc back. Bam, free demo." Alas, it looks like Netflix has seen through your paper-thin ploy, as tipster Caleb tells Joystiq that the demo isn't included with the Netflix version of the film. A quick look at the <a href="http://forums.godofwar.com/t5/God-of-War-III-Discussion/Demo-on-District-9-blu-ray-through-Netflix/td-p/20400;jsessionid=C308BA0636A5C35D95BDE79CD6C9E6DA"><em>God of War</em> community forums</a> reveals the same story.<br />
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Sorry to spoil things. Maybe your next evil plan will work out better.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.joystiq.com"><img src="http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Joystiq" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/28/no-god-of-war-3-demo-on-netflix-district-9-blu-ray/">No God of War 3 demo on Netflix District 9 Blu-ray</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.joystiq.com">Joystiq</a> on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:15:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/28/no-god-of-war-3-demo-on-netflix-district-9-blu-ray/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/19336231/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/28/no-god-of-war-3-demo-on-netflix-district-9-blu-ray/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>district-9</category><category>god-of-war-3</category><category>netflix</category><category>scea</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Mitchell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[JBO: Joystiq Box Office, December 14 - December 18, plus Joyswag!]]></title><link>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/18/jbo-joystiq-box-office-december-14-december-18-plus-joyswag/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/18/jbo-joystiq-box-office-december-14-december-18-plus-joyswag/</guid><comments>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/18/jbo-joystiq-box-office-december-14-december-18-plus-joyswag/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<title></title>
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<div align="left"><em><font color="gray">Welcome to Joystiq's "<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/@naughty-or-nice-2009">Naughty or Nice</a>" holiday giveaway extravaganza! It's simple: Just follow the instructions below to enter for your chance to win. Ah, but to win what? There's always a catch, isn't there? Each "Naughty or Nice" giveaway features two prizes: a totally sweet bundle of holiday cheer and, um, </font></em><font color="gray">a lump of coal.</font><em><font color="gray"> Winners are selected </font></em><em><font color="gray">randomly</font></em><em><font color="gray">, we assure you. Of course, who's to say luck isn't dependent on virtue ... Have you been naughty? Or nice?<br />
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</font></em>With the holidays in mind, we're going to be giving away ... wait for it ... MOVIES with each <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/JBO">Joystiq Box Office</a> post on Friday from today through January 1! Simply leave a comment below telling us what you'll be watching on your Xbox, PS3, PC, PSP, DS, OMG or whatever (whether it be naughty or nice) and we'll pick winners at random each week to receive a nifty prize. This week we're joining the rest of Joyswag and going <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/@naughty-or-nice-2009">Naughty or Nice</a>. Five "Nice" winners will win a copy of <span style="font-style: italic;">District 9</span> on Blu-ray, which includes the <span style="font-style: italic;">God of War III</span> demo, and one "Naughty" winner will wind up with a copy of the American <span style="font-style: italic;">Godzilla</span> on Blu-ray.  [<strong>Update:</strong> The entry period has closed.]<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><img hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" align="left" style="padding-right: 10px;" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/12/basterds.jpg" />Inglourious Basterds </span>(Blu-ray, $39.95 suggested retail)<br />
If you haven't already seen this film, then you owe it to yourself to check it out in high definition. This is definitely Tarantino's most mature film to date, and despite numerous trailers out there, it's not a gory, Nazi slaughter-fest. There is some violence, to be sure, but I've talked to people who avoided this in theaters because they thought it was going to be torture porn. There's an extremely good film in here, and what's really compelling is that it's nearly two movies in one. The story of the Basterds and the story of a woman who owns a theater run separate courses throughout the film until a head-on collision at the end, but they stand on their own very well. Extremely crisp and sharp in HD and filled with extras, including the bizarre but hilarious "Quentin Tarantino's Camera Angel," this is a must-see, must-own, must-covet title.</div>
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Read on for the rest of the recommendations<strong><em><strong>, </strong></em></strong>and<strong><em><strong> </strong></em></strong>as usual, we'll see you at the popcorn sta -- well, actually, we won't see you at all. But you catch our drift. Plus, be sure to tell us what you'll be watching, or what you've seen recently that bowled you over.<strong><em><strong> </strong></em></strong><strong><em><strong><br />
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</div><p><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/18/jbo-joystiq-box-office-december-14-december-18-plus-joyswag/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>JBO: Joystiq Box Office, December 14 - December 18, plus Joyswag!</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.joystiq.com"><img src="http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Joystiq" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/18/jbo-joystiq-box-office-december-14-december-18-plus-joyswag/">JBO: Joystiq Box Office, December 14 - December 18, plus Joyswag!</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.joystiq.com">Joystiq</a> on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:15:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/18/jbo-joystiq-box-office-december-14-december-18-plus-joyswag/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/19287586/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/18/jbo-joystiq-box-office-december-14-december-18-plus-joyswag/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>Blu-ray</category><category>District-9</category><category>film</category><category>holiday-2009</category><category>JBO</category><category>Joystiq-Box-Office</category><category>joyswag</category><category>Microsoft</category><category>movies</category><category>Netflix</category><category>XBL</category><category>Xbox-360</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Kelly]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[God of War III demo included on District 9 Blu-ray]]></title><link>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/28/god-of-war-iii-demo-included-on-district-9-blu-ray/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/28/god-of-war-iii-demo-included-on-district-9-blu-ray/</guid><comments>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/28/god-of-war-iii-demo-included-on-district-9-blu-ray/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<center><img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/10/gow1028.jpg" alt="" /></center>If you're interested in checking out <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/god-of-war-3"><em>God of War 3</em></a> early, but don't want to play the <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/27/god-of-war-collection-coming-in-november-with-two-platinum-trop/">first two <em>God of Wars </em>again</a>, Sony corporate synergy has a solution for you! The Blu-Ray release of <em>District 9</em>, due December 29 (a bit later than the <em>God of War Collection</em>), will include a playable demo of <em>God of War 3</em>. Once you've played through the demo, a making-of featurette will be unlocked (for the game, not the movie).<br /><br />While <em>District 9</em> and <em>God of War 3</em> are united in that they're both <em>things</em> that people presumably want to see, it strikes us as odd that this rather random collection is the first <a href="http:// http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/11/sony-ps3-focused-movie-plus-game-blu-ray-discs-coming-this-ye/">Blu-ray/game demo pairing</a> for SCEA. The <em>Watchmen</em> movie and game actually <em>related</em> to one another in some way, and they came on <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/22/wait-what-watchmen-game-plus-movie-hybrid-blu-ray-comes-on-two/">separate discs</a>.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.joystiq.com"><img src="http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Joystiq" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/28/god-of-war-iii-demo-included-on-district-9-blu-ray/">God of War III demo included on District 9 Blu-ray</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.joystiq.com">Joystiq</a> on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/28/god-of-war-iii-demo-included-on-district-9-blu-ray/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/19213002/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/28/god-of-war-iii-demo-included-on-district-9-blu-ray/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>blu-ray</category><category>district-9</category><category>god-of-war-3</category><category>god-of-war-iii</category><category>hybrid</category><category>scea</category><category>sony</category><category>Sony-Computer-Entertainment-America</category><category>sony-pictures</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[JC Fletcher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Jackson tells Joystiq about the Halo movie, video game project]]></title><link>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/24/peter-jackson-tells-joystiq-about-the-halo-movie-video-games/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/24/peter-jackson-tells-joystiq-about-the-halo-movie-video-games/</guid><comments>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/24/peter-jackson-tells-joystiq-about-the-halo-movie-video-games/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<div align="center"><img hspace="0" border="1" vspace="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/07/peter-jackson1.jpg" alt="" /></div>
We caught up with Peter Jackson himself last night, after a screening of District 9 - the feature-length debut of director <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/Neill-Blomkamp/">Neill Blomkamp</a> who had previously been attached to helm the <em>Halo</em> movie that fizzled out. Jackson explained that they felt like they had an amazing director in Blomkamp and they didn't want to lose the opportunity to work with him so, instead of bringing Halo to the big screen, they created an entire film based on his <em>Alive in Joburg </em>short. (See <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/09/scrutinize-halo-directors-cv-with-videos/">the rest of Blomkamp's work here</a>, in our roundup). <br /> <br /> <em>District 9</em> - which Jackson produced and is coming to theaters on August 14 - is seriously amazing. There's a wide array of alien weapons that would make Ratchet &amp; Clank jealous, CGI aliens that look better than <em>Avatar</em>, walking mech suits, and a really amazing performance from lead actor Sharlto Copley. Clear your calendars and make plans to see this one. But back to the <em>Halo</em> movie that never was: After the screening, we got to sit down with Jackson to ask him about <em>just that</em>. Read on to find out where the Halo movies stands, and if we'll ever see the long-rumored <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/Halo-Chronicles/"><em>Halo Chronicles</em></a> video game project.<p><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/24/peter-jackson-tells-joystiq-about-the-halo-movie-video-games/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Peter Jackson tells Joystiq about the Halo movie, video game project</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.joystiq.com"><img src="http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Joystiq" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/24/peter-jackson-tells-joystiq-about-the-halo-movie-video-games/">Peter Jackson tells Joystiq about the Halo movie, video game project</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.joystiq.com">Joystiq</a> on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:59:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/24/peter-jackson-tells-joystiq-about-the-halo-movie-video-games/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/19109000/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/24/peter-jackson-tells-joystiq-about-the-halo-movie-video-games/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>District-9</category><category>Halo</category><category>Halo-Chronicles</category><category>Halo-movie</category><category>Microsoft</category><category>Neill-Blomkamp</category><category>Peter-Jackson</category><category>SDCC-2009</category><category>Xbox-360</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Kelly]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:59:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
