Gameloft Best Mobile Games Developer 2008 – MobileTechNews

Gameloft Best Mobile Games Developer 2008 – MobileTechNews
[Gameloft gets best mobile games publisher award for 2008 based on game quality.] London — Gameloft has emerged as the best mobile games publisher in 2008 in terms of game quality, according to research conducted by industry website PocketGamer.biz

Paul’s last-second 3 lifts Hornets over Pacers 103-100 – Hartford Courant
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Chris Paul capped a 27-point performance with an off-balance 3-pointer as time expired, lifting the hobbled New Orleans Hornets to a 103-100 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Monday. Peja Stojakovic hit five 3-pointers and

British video game technology used to reconstruct emergency plane – Daily Telegraph
Millions watched as Captain ‘Sully’ Sullenberger performed a miraculous emergency landing in New York City’s Hudson River. News reports on the event have featured graphic footage provided by British flight simulator company, Just Flight. The

Steelers, Cardinals advance to Super Bowl – Centre Daily
PITTSBURGH — Arizona and Pittsburgh will play a historic Super Bowl in Tampa in two weeks: a team with a history as bad as any in the NFL against one that will try to win a record sixth title. AP Photo Pittsburgh Steelers’ Deshea Townsend (26) is

Students Launch Audiball, An Xbox Community Game – Science Daily

Students Launch Audiball, An Xbox Community Game – Science Daily
ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2009) — Most students like to play video games, but Georgia Tech students Holden Link, Cory Johnson and Ian Guthridge have built and are selling their own. Their game, Audiball, was launched during the first week of Xbox

Warnock uses video to make his point – News Shopper
NEIL Warnock entered the press-conference on Saturday afternoon fuming at a major talking point during his side’s 4-1 defeat by Ipswich. Crystal Palace were 2-1 down and banging on the door for the equaliser when Tommy Miller brought down Nick

Sign up for the Gamasutra Daily Newsletter! – Gamasutra
January 16, 2009 Fallout 3, LittleBigPlanet Top EMA’s 2008 Award Nominees Bethesda’s Fallout 3 and Sony and Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet top the Entertainment Merchant Associaton’s 2009 Video Game Home Entertainment Awards nominees, which

Video store worker chases after thieves – Chronicle-Telegram
LORAIN — A 23-year-old employee of Blockbuster Video chased two shoplifters Friday at the same time she called police, giving officers the thieves’ location. George Davis, 34, Lorain, and Otis Slaughter, 44, Lorain, were both charged with petty

Teen sentenced to 36 years for imitating Mortal Kombat game – KUSA-TV

Teen sentenced to 36 years for imitating Mortal Kombat game – KUSA-TV
WELD COUNTY – A teenager who beat a 7-year-old girl to death while imitating the video game Mortal Kombat was sentenced to 36 years in prison and 5 years probation on Friday. “I do agree to get what I get,” Roberts said to Judge Marcelo Kopcow in

Video games expected to evolve in 2009 – The State
LOS ANGELES — Don’t hit that pause button just yet. Despite the tanking economy and an increasing number of video game-industry layoffs, many believe 2009 will be a year of evolution for games. The combination of innovative new titles, long-awaited

Do you take this ‘Halo 2′ supersoldier? Bride, groom are game – Orlando Sentinel
The bride wore white. The groom wore a tux. The officiant wore full body armor inspired by the get-up of a futuristic, alien-fighting supersoldier. On Saturday, Desirai Labrada, 29, and John Henry, 27, better known to their fellow gaming enthusiasts

He’s got game – Woodland Daily Democrat
Dustin Pedroia’s turn as the cover athlete for the popular video game MLB ‘09 The Show adds to his list of honors. (Courtesy) The hits keep coming for Woodland native Dustin Pedroia. The American League MVP for 2008 recently picked up another honor

Analysis: Europe’s plea for peace ignores the Gaza reality – Jerusalem Post
While European leaders gathered twice Sunday in Egypt and Israel to hail the fragile Gaza cease-fire as an opportunity to revive Middle East peace efforts, the Hamas leadership-in-exile gathered in a Damascus TV studio to essentially state: Not over

Mascot was too real to prowl the sidelines at USF football games – St. Petersburg Times

Mascot was too real to prowl the sidelines at USF football games – St. Petersburg Times
The Brahman bull was to charge out of the tunnel at USF football games. He’s now 1,200-pound Suva Wolfe at Auburn University. Loading Video RIVERVIEW — He was supposed to be Rocky II, a hulking Brahman bull mascot prowling the sidelines during

Video game review: ‘Castlevania: Judgment’ and more – Post-Bulletin
Aside from the party-centric “Smash Bros.” titles, fighting games have had a sketchy history on Nintendo systems since the Nintendo 64, and “Castlevania: Judgment” doesn’t break that trend. Drawing together a roster of familiar characters from the

Mother Unplugs Video Game, Son Throws Taco At Her – WFTV
DELTONA, Fla. — Authorities say a central Florida 19-year-old threw a taco at his mother for unplugging his video game system. According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, 54-year-old Dena Moir told her son, Zachary, several times to come

At First, Funny Videos. Now, a Reference Tool. – Atlanta Journal Constitution
FACED with writing a school report on an Australian animal, Tyler Kennedy began where many students begin these days: by searching the Internet. But Tyler didn’t use Google or Yahoo. He searched for information about the platypus on YouTube. “I

WRAPUP 2-Israel, Hamas hold fire for now in Gaza – FXStreet.com
GAZA, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Israel ceased fire in the Gaza Strip on Sunday after declaring victory in its three-week offensive but Hamas guerrillas said the war that has cost 1,200 Palestinian lives would go on. Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak invited

Cambodia plans to regulate internet and blogging – Global Voices Online.org

Cambodia plans to regulate internet and blogging – Global Voices Online.org
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24 Hours @ Sundance – Saudi Gazette
ACTOR Ashton Kutcher and Digg website founder Kevin Rose plan to use the prestigious Sundance Film festival as a stage for an online game show pitting “social media mavens” against each other in zany challenges. “24 Hours @ Sundance” will

Gaza: A pawn in the new ‘great game’ – Asia Times

Gaza: A pawn in the new ‘great game’ – Asia Times
BEIRUT – A s Europeans watch the humanitarian disaster in Gaza unfold on nightly news bulletins, many may wonder why this crisis seems to have left their governments groping in such apparent fumbling disarray. The answer is that it is the result of

The SimCraft full-body moving gaming cage in action (video) – Ars Technica

The SimCraft full-body moving gaming cage in action (video) – Ars Technica
SimCraft specializes in building dynamic, moving rigs designed to make games more immersible. We had a chance to check out its top-of-the-line model, the Apex SC 830, at CES this year and walked away impressed by the device. It may be just a fantasy

TTFI to hire video analysts, Olympians hail decision – Daily News and Analysis
Patna: Top Indian players hailed the Table Tennis Federation of India’s decision to hire the services of specialised video analysts to help paddlers in their preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. TTFI will place a final proposal before the

Liverpool manager has no regrets – Edmonton Sun
STOKE, England — Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez said yesterday he had no regrets about his controversial comments aimed at his Manchester United counterpart Sir Alex Ferguson, who he said was “talking too much about Liverpool.” Benitez had read from

Playing Patty Hewes on ‘Damages’ toughens Glenn Close – Los Angeles Times

Playing Patty Hewes on ‘Damages’ toughens Glenn Close – Los Angeles Times
Reporting from New York — Glenn Close wasn’t too pleased to find out at the end of the first season of “Damages” that Patty Hewes, the scheming attorney she plays on the FX thriller, was the one responsible for the attempted killing of her

A look at 2008’s worst games – Corpus Christi Caller
‘Summer Sports: Paradise Island,’ one of many slapdash minigame collections for the Wii, was 2008’s worst video game. With so little happening in the video-game industry this week, there’s no better time to conduct an Airing of Grievances. So, in

Destroy All Humans! 2 Hints III (PS2) – Softpedia

Destroy All Humans! 2 Hints III (PS2) – Softpedia
Destroy All Humans! 2 is a video game created by Pandemic Studio LLC and published by THQ. The title was designed for the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony and for the original Xbox from Microsoft. It was released in October 2006 and it is

A look at 2009’s video game hits – Batavia Sun
Real news from the virtual world: Most video gamers spend the early part of the year catching up on software they couldn’t get around to during the holiday glut. Maybe you’ve been meaning to check out “Fallout 3″ or “Fable II,” or dig in and finish

Defoe heading back to Tottenham – Soccerway
England striker Jermain Defoe, seen here, is set to leave Portsmouth and rejoin Harry Redknapp at Tottenham, the London club said. LONDON (AFP) – England international striker Jermain Defoe is set to leave Portsmouth and rejoin Harry Redknapp at

Sony cuts costs – ITWeb
[ Tokyo | Reuters News Service, 6 January 2009 ] – Japan’s Sony is likely to announce a restructuring plan that could include closures of Japanese factories and major divisions, the Times of London said on Monday, but the company denied any such plan

Japan’s video game market shrinks – News.com.au
JAPAN’S video game market shrank for the first time in four years in 2008 in the absence of new console launches. Sales of video games and consoles in Japan dropped 15.3 per cent last year compared with 2007 to Y582.6 billion ($A8.69 billion

Speeding hoons in Victoria and South Australia goad police with vanity – News.com.au

Speeding hoons in Victoria and South Australia goad police with vanity – News.com.au
Taunts hoons are goading police by posting video of their antics on the internet. Hoons post antic on the internet One shows motorbike going 215km/h But police say they’re onto them FURIOUS police are scouring the internet for the irresponsible

Woman rescued, two homes damaged in Perth Amboy blaze – Asbury Park Press
PERTH AMBOY — An 83-year-old woman was saved from her burning home by her next-door neighbor during a blaze that last night heavily damaged two city homes. No one was seriously injured and firefighters managed to contain the damage. Steve “Butch

O’Neill calls for video technology – TEAMtalk
Referee Steve Bennett initially gave a last-gasp spot-kick to Phil Brown’s side after believing Villa winger Ashley Young had handled a header from Hull’s Michael Turner. But Bennett changed his mind after consulting with one of his assistants after

No. 6 Utah beats No. 4 Alabama 31-17 in Sugar Bowl – ksl.com
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Out of their element, out of their league — and still perfect. Brian Johnson and seventh-ranked Utah came down from the mountains to SEC country and established themselves as the best of the BCS busters, finishing 13-0 with a