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- Sabaton: Coat of Arms
- Iron Maiden: Final Frontier
- Kula Shaker: Pilgrims Progress
- Amorphis: Forging the Land of Thousand Lakes
Dead trees
- Dave Thomas, et. al.: Agile Web Development with Rails
- Haje Jan Kamps: Macro Photography
Simon Singh: BIG BANGJeremy Keith: HTML5 For Web Designers- Johnson P. Johnson: Armchair Naturalist
Jens Lapidus: Siisti KostoCharles Stross: The Fuller Memorandum- Tara Hunt: The Whuffie Factor
Bryan Lee O'Malley: Scott Pilgrim, vol. 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest HourReijo Mäki: Tatuoitu Taivas- V/A: AATK 369: Tripla
- Leena Lehtolainen: Luonas en ollutkaan
Amusements galore
- Zynga: Mafia Wars
- Scrabble
- Failbettergames: Echo Bazaar
- Zynga: Frontierville
- LucasArts: Monkey Island 2: Special Edition
Michael Mann: Heat- Frozenbyte: Trine
- Nintendo: Super Mario Galaxy
- Bioware: Mass Effect 2
- Infinite Interactive: Puzzle Quest
Clint Eastwood: ChangelingPopCap: Plants vs. Zombies- NCIS: Los Angeles, season 1
- Bones, season 5
John Lasseter: Toy StoryJohn Lasseter: Toy Story 2- Jason Scott: GET LAMP
Flicks to catch
- Ridley Scott: Robin Hood
Vincenzo Natali: Splice- Mike Mitchell: Shrek Forever After
- Christopher Nolan: Inception
Next in line
9.7-8.8.: Summer vacation (oh yes)- 14.7.: Hothead Games: DeathSpank (Ron Gilbert's back)
20.7.: Bryan Lee O'Malley: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (the last part of the slacker magnum opus)21.7.: Playdead Studios: Limbo (monochromatic bliss)- 13.8.: Sylvester Stallone: Expendables (Action with a capital A)
- 27.8.: Lee Unkrich: Toy Story 3 (Pixar movie)
- 27.8.: Luc Besson: Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (Jacques Tardi's unfazeable heroine on the big screen)
- 14.9.: Bungie: Halo: Reach (once more into the breach)
- 14.9.: Death Angel: Relentless Retribution (old school Bay Area thrash)
- 15.9.: Dragonforce: Twilight Dementia (doublelive)
- 20.9.: Level-5: Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (Third puzzlefest)
- 28.9.: Neversoft: Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (back to shredding)
- September: PopCap: Plants vs. Zombies (on XBLA)
- 1.10.: Edgar Wright: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Slacker movie goodness)
- 1.10.: Oliver Stone: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Gordon Gekko is back)
- 22.10.: Fallout: New Vegas (game)
- 26.10.: Harmonix: Rock Band 3 (with keyboards, no cowbell)
- Fall: Treme (David Simon, HBO, Post-Katrina New Orleans)
- Fall: Turisas: Thus far unnamed third album (and a couple of headliner gigs on top, please)
- Fall: Epic Mickey (Unconventional Disneyana from Junction Point)
- 5.11.: Doug Liman: Fair Game (yet more dirty details from the Bush-era)
- December: Unspeakable Oath XVIII (the original Cthulhu zine is back)
- 2010: True Blood, season 3 (got to pick up the second as well)
- 2010: George R.R. Martin: Dance of the Dragons (hopefully)
- 2010: Scott Lynch: Republic of Thieves (rather late as well)
- 2010: Michael Winterbottom: Killer Inside Me (Jim Thompson on the big screen)
- 2010: Third Witcher-book by Andrzej Sapkowski (in english, that is)
- 2010: Pasila, season 3
- 2010: Bookhounds of London (shades of gray campaign for Trail of Cthulhu)
- 2010: Skulduggery (Robin D Laws' new game on verbal battles)
- 2010: Jane McGonigal: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Happy and How They Can Change the World (book)
- 2010: CD Projekt: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (hopefully on X360 as well)
- 2010: Eidos: Deux Ex: Human Revolution (and hopefully the original in XBLA as well)
- 2010: DMZ, vol. 9: M.I.A.
- 2010: David Fincher: Social Network (Fincher, Sorkin, Reznor)
- 2010: Pagan Publishing: Bumps in the Night (classic Cthulhu from Pagan)
- Late 2010: Dropkick Murphys seventh album (record)
- 2011: Charles Stross: Rule 34 (book, if reality doesn''t intervene)
- 2011: Charles Stross: Trade of Queens (Merchant Princes #6, in paperback)
- 2011: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, chapter 2: Paint It Black (graphic novel fragment)
- 2011: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, chapter 3: Let It Come Down (graphic novel fragment, probably quite a bit later than this)
- 2011: Frozenbyte: Trine 2 (more physics-based fantasy glee)
- 2011: Cars 2 (Pixar movie)
- 2011: Bioware: Dragon Age 2
- 2011: Level-5: Ni no Kuni (first Ghibli video game)
- late 2011: Bioware: Mass Effect 3
- 2012: Brave (Pixar movie)
- 2012: Monsters, Inc. 2 (Pixar movie)
- 2012: Andrew Stanton: John Carter of Mars (Pixar movie)
- FNORD: Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity (redacted)
- FNORD^2: Delta Green: TBC (even more redacted)
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