Is there such a thing as internet addiction? The Times | Ben Alexander always struggled to fit in. Teased at primary school and beaten up in senior school, he turned to the internet, where he found a whole new world of friends. Subscribing to the hugely popular online game World of Warcraft, he joined 12 million other people - including the actor Vin Di...
Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II Available for iPhone and iPod Touch Now IGN Insider | Say hello to my little mage. | LATEST IMAGES | February 26, 2010 - LOS ANGELES - Inc., the publisher of interactive entertainment products in North America, announced today that two RPG classics, FINAL FANTASY and FINAL FANTASY II, are available now for the iPhone and iPod touch. The games can be ...
Brigid Kelly: A bloody game, made disturbingly human Star Tribune | There should have been a "Team Deathmatch!" yelled before the illumination of the Guthrie's Wurtele Thrust Stage. The opening scene for director Joe Dowling's interpretation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" effectively catapults an au...
Letterman's scandal is over, but what everyone wants to know now is, Can he beat Leno? Star Tribune | NEW YORK - Dave Letterman can heave a huge sigh of relief after the guilty plea Tuesday of a TV producer charged with trying to extort him. | No time-consuming legal mumbo-jumbo will be dogging Letterman. No more messy, embarrassing public revelati...
Alaska leads Arctic games medal count CBC Dog mushing is one of the events at the Arctic Winter Games, which have brought young athletes to Grande Prairie, Alta., from across the circumpolar North. (CBC) | Young athletes from Alaska have taken an early lead in the number of medals won in the...
UConn's Caroline Doty to play in league title game The Examiner Comments HARTFORD, Conn. (Map, News) - Connecticut's Caroline Doty will play in the Big East championship game Tuesday night after a scary head and neck injury during the Huskies' NCAA-record 71st straight victory. | The school said she participated ...
On latest guitar game, players strum real strings The Examiner Comments NEW YORK (Map, News) - An upcoming musical video game lets players strum a real six-string electric guitar instead of tapping buttons on a fake instrument. | "Power Gig: Rise of the SixString" is a game first and foremost. But its maker, Sev...
For 2nd straight season, there's a 3rd Bedlam game The Examiner Comments OKLAHOMA CITY (Map, News) - There will be a third round of Bedlam basketball for a second straight season. This time when Oklahoma State and Oklahoma meet in the first round of Big 12 Conference tournament, there doesn't seem to be nearly as...
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Japan Drops Denial of Cold War 'Treaties' The New York Times | TOKYO — Japan ended decades of denials on Tuesday by confirming the existence of secret cold-war-era agreements with Washington that, among other things, had allowed Americ...
Greece Is Not an Island The New York Times | My country's economic plight has dominated headlines for months. While many commentators have focused on the underlying problems within Greece, less attention has been paid to my...
A New Frontier for Indie Rock, Down in Mexico The New York Times | It was a scene of classic do-it-yourself Brooklyn concert promotion: In a small apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a dozen young workers who could pass for American Apparel models crowded onto sofas one afternoon last week, typing furiously on laptop...
Alabama-Style Rap, Without the Punches The New York Times | Sweaty, drinking from a pitcher of beer and spilling his syllables in rapid, often inscrutable fashion, the Alabama rapper Yelawolf was doing the absolute best he could on the stage at Brooklyn Bowl on Monday night, given the circumstances. After h...
Legoland owner Merlin Entertainments may resurrect flotation plans The Times | The company behind Legoland and Madame Tussauds, which pulled its £2 billion stock market flotation last month, hinted yesterday that it could try again by the end of June. | Nick Varney, chief executive of Merlin Entertainments, said that it could...
Investigators to look into Toyota incident The Times | Federal safety investigators in the US are sending a technical specialist to investigate a Toyota Prius car that reportedly accelerated out of control on a California freeway on Monday. | The car was driven by James Sikes, 61, who told reporters th...
Facebook games 101: How to play games on Facebook The Examiner | Facebook icon Screenshot Credit: Tami B. Related articles Farmville developer Zynga loses cofounder Andrew Trader Beware of Farmville spam groups How to build a Farmville stable Island Life releases flowers as decoration Jungle Extreme on Facebook | So you've heard that playing games on Facebook is the new thing, and you keep hearing every...
Annie Leibovitz keeps photo rights in debt deal The Guardian | Agreement with private equity owners of Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch will pay off celebrity photographer's previous $15m loan | Annie Leibovitz with her famous portrait of a pregnant Demi Moore. Photograph: KPA/Zuma/Rex Features | Top photographer has struck a deal with a firm that will solve the financial crisis that threatened her with ban...
