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Xbox 360 Fanboy (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
| Video Games
So this is kinda confusing, try to roll with us. Developer Reality Pump announced that it's working on Two Worlds II , due this winter. Only ... it had already announced a sequel to Oblivion -esque FPS RPG called Two Worlds: The Temptation . We're pretty sure the team just decided to go with the number instead of the subtitle, but we guess we'll never know . (Yeah, we've emailed them.) Set two years...
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Xbox 360 Fanboy (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Video Games
Do you want more Grand Theft Auto ? Well, that's what Todd Mitchell, analyst for Kaufman Bros. Equity Research wants. Nay, expects! Speaking to GI.biz , Mitchell stated that he's anticipating two more downloadable GTA IV episodes to launch after The Ballad of Gay Tony . "It's been indicated to me that would be the case," he said. Additionally, with Microsoft's exclusivity deal covering only two episodes,...
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Joystiq (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
| General
Worried that those pesky digital shelves are going to put your local brick-and-mortar out of business in the next few weeks? Worry not, friends, as Valve's Doug Lombardi is here to put all your worries to bed. Talking to GamesIndustry.biz , Lombardi claimed that "free weekend" sales on Steam (among others) actually help to bolster sales at physical retail locations as well as online. "Recently we've...
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Ten Percent (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Politics
It could be worse, you could be in a backwards nation with no comprehensive health service- The fatality rate also appears to be low. In the UK, only three people – all with significant underlying health problems – have died out of 7,447 confirmed cases. Health experts believe more people have caught swine flu but shown [...]
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Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
| Politics
At that debate on Tuesday Sir Michael White interrupted Guido’s speech criticising him to such a degree that it was cut short. So Guido sent the full text over to the Guardianistas’ to republish. Taking the fight to his own lair. He has responded of course What I do that really annoys Guido, Peter Oborne and other [...]
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Xbox 360 Fanboy (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Video Games
For all the talk of petitions and boycotts over Left 4 Dead 2 's sooner-than-expected release, the game doesn't seem to be suffering much. A Valve representative tells Eurogamer that pre-orders for the sequel are currently double that of the original's pre-order figures from the same time last year . Although that sounds impressive, it's possible to see some spin in there -- Left 4 Dead didn't really...
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Traction Control (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
| International
Female gang may have killed midget wrestlers Authorities say men found dead in Mexico City hotel could have been victims of botched robbery Mexican authorities say two professional wrestlers found dead in a hotel in the country’s capital may have been fatally drugged by a gang of female robbers. Autopsies are being performed on the two midget wrestlers, [...]
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Engadget (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Technology
Packard Bell recently overhauled its logo in an effort to keep up with the times, but are its offerings up to the same task? The new imedia lineup immediately recalls the recently announced M-series desktops from Acer, and that's no accident . The innards are remarkably similar too, with the top models sporting Core 2 Quad or AMD Phenom II X4 processors, a 1.5GB GeForce GT230, HDMI out, Blu-Ray combo...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
| UK
As we think about the "meaning" of Iraq's assumption of security control over its territory, we need to remind ourselves that Iraq is part of a regional war, and Obama's America is withdrawing from that war. General Odierno knows that, and calls our attention to it: The top U.S. military commander in Iraq on Tuesday accused Iran of continuing to support and train militants who are carrying out attacks,...
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Mr Eugenides (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
| Politics
So, ten years of the devolved Parliament in Scotland, and our elected representatives could scarcely have chosen a more apt way to mark the occasion . MSPs have been branded "dishonourable" after almost 50 of them snubbed the Queen and stayed away from the parliament's tenth birthday celebrations. While Her Majesty shrugged off a slight cold to deliver an uplifting speech in the Holyrood chamber, many...
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Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
| Politics
Everybody is saying they won’t go on Press TV now and Hopi Sen has a cryptic reference to Guido’s appearance on the Iranian regime funded Press TV channel. Guido had a bit of a laugh with Press TV: was invited to spar on a debate show hosted by Nick Ferrari with a Labour baroness (can’t remember [...]
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TV Snob (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Technology
Digital Vision has announced the GiGo Digital TV Recorder, a simplistic DVR built to record Freeview programming to USB thumb drives in MPEG2 format. Envisioned to be placed in secondary rooms such as kitchens rather than the living room, the...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Politics
A tombstone for the famed German sex-worker and advocate Domenica Niehoff has been turned down as too sexual by the cemetery where she was buried. The 77-year-old artist Tomi Ungerer's parting gift to his friend Domenica Niehoff was to be a gravestone featuring two ample pink marble boulders in homage to her famously top-heavy figure. But those responsible for the Garden of Women cemetery, resting...
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SoccerLens (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
| Football
Well how’s that for starting July with a bang? The start of a new month and the official first day of the summer transfer window brought another big-money signing for Real Madrid. Real have been the biggest spenders by far this summer, and they’ll likely come out on top in that list when all’s [...]
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Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | yesterday
| Politics
'Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap' (Gal 6:7). With the threat of 100,000 new cases every day, the pandemic of fear sweeps the nation and containment is no longer an option . Cranmer is pleased to introduce this thought-provoking guest post on the matter from Michael Shrimpton QC , a barrister who specialises in strategic studies, international...
