The holidays arrived early for gamers this year as Sony launched its PlayStation 3 console, along with what might be the PS3’s first killer app: Resistance: Fall of Man, a first-person shooter that takes pace in an alternate 1950s in which a hostile alien race called the Chimera have swept across Eastern Europe.Developed by Insomniac [...]
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ABC has pulled The Nine from its schedule, the network announced Saturday. In the series’ place this Wednesday, November 29, will be the 20/20, with a permanent replacement TBA.
ABC pulled The Nine for the last week of the pivotal sweeps period, when ratings samples are taken to determine ad prices for the next [...]
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian man who could not figure out how to deal with his girlfriend’s feverish 10-month-old daughter put the baby into a freezer to cool her down, a local newspaper reported on Friday.
Derrick Hardy faces charges of criminal negligence and assaulting the infant, who was rescued when her mother [...]
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Elton John’s latest Australian tour got off to an inauspicious start when the British pop superstar had to leave the stage briefly to be sick, local media reported Monday.
John was about to perform “Crocodile Rock,” one of the most popular songs of his four-decade career, Sunday when he felt unwell and left [...]
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HONG KONG - A theme park with a statue and memorial hall will be built at Bruce Lee’s southern Chinese ancestral home of Shunde, the president of his fan club said Monday.
The park will also contain a martial arts academy and conference center, Wong Yiu-keung, chairman of the Hong Kong-based Bruce Lee Club, told The [...]
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Over the past decade, Tupac Shakur’s fans have wondered what the rapper would be doing if he were alive today. During the filming of a video for Shakur’s posthumous single “Pac’s Life” in Atlanta early this month, his family and friends had their answers.
Some say he would probably be the most prolific rapper today; some [...]
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I know a great many people are fans of the movies and television show; Stargate, and the plethora of Stargate related spin-offs. I’m sure they’ll be excited to hear that a Stargate MMOG (Massively-Multiplayer Online Game) is currently in the works.
The game is being developed by Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment and does not yet have a [...]
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A Serbian prisoner who burgled a house during his weekend release picked the wrong victim - the prison governor.
He was caught out when he returned to prison - and the governor spotted his own watch on the convict’s wrist.
Alija Cerimi stole jewellery, a watch and a mobile phone from the unnamed governor’s house in the [...]
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Kate Winslet’s body has been revealed as the inspiration for Jaguar’s new sportscar.
Winslet, 31, revealed she was in the mind of Jaguar’s chief designer Ian Callum when he created the new Jaguar XK.
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A dancing penguin was king of the Thanksgiving birds among movie-goers. The animated penguin romp “Happy Feet” remained the No. 1 movie with $37.9 million in ticket sales from Friday to Sunday, while the James Bond adventure “Casino Royale” stayed in second place with $31 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Over the Wednesday-to-Sunday holiday period, [...]
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