Sarcastically deployed by countless "clever" writers such as myself since the onset of Gulf War II, the once sublimely arrogant phrase "shock and awe" shriveled like the Republican Guard. But Sony, bless its earnest corporate heart, was not content to let the proud campaign name fade into cloying anti-war cliché. Up until last week, the conglomerate—having applied to trademark the locution one day into Desert Storm Deux—planned to release a PS2 game in online, video, and PC formats... More >>>