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In wake of the non-existent rape scene announcement from a Connecticut Senator, New York officials linked a recent teen crime spree to Grand Theft Auto 4. They based this connection off of an arrested suspect who said the only reason they went on a crime spree was because they "got drunk and thought it would be fun to play out GTA4"
http://www.gamepolitics.c…nnection-teen-crime-spree First of all, I am furious with that suspect. He just u . . . Read more
Spain has just won the Euro 2008 After 44 years of nothing!
Germany put up a good fight but in the end Spain's 1 Goal in the First-Half lead them to a 1-0 Win!
One only need to look at the launch sales of GTA IV (as per Draqul's recent article) to see video games as a significant portion of the entertainment industry. Several reports have popped up around the Internet following the results of a survey conducted by GameStrata.
The survey examines the financial commitment of a 30 year gaming lifetime, which generally encompasses the 'peak' gaming years, 18-48. During this time, the average gamer will spend $US30,000 on video games, or gaming related h . . . Read more
Winners are Germany and Spain!
Final is going to be 29 of June! I will cover it the Final in lots of Detail!
"Thanks to AMD’s vocal efforts, Intel is facing antitrust charges from the European Union’s (EU) European Commission (EC) and has been subject to raids. However, here in the U.S., it was thought that Intel was safe thanks to looser anticompetition laws; that is until the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a formal investigation into Intel’s discounting practices."
You can read the article [url=http://www.insidetech.com/news/2397-amdintel-case-highlights-differences-in-antitrust-la . . . Read more
A team at MIT has developed and built a new solar dish that has the capability to melt steel at it's focal point. It amplifies the sun's energy 1,000 times, and can be very useful in developing more forms of fossil fuel independence. The best thing about it? It is made completely of aluminum pipes and mirrors, so it has a relatively low price, especially compared to other forms of solar power such as photovoltaic cells.
You can read the article [url=http://www.insidetech.com/news/2389-mit- . . . Read more
From guyslitware.blogspot.com:
"Rob Heinsoo has been lucky enough to take his passion growing up and turn it into his career. This demigod of gaming has worked on everything from trading-card games to board games to miniatures games, as a freelance designer and now working for Wizards of the Coast. Most recently, he led the team behind Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition--a new installment of the game with a faster, more fun play-style that's likely to pull in new players. Rob talked to us at . . . Read more
According to Reuters; comedian George Carlin died in a Los Angeles area hospital of heart failure.
Carlin, who did have a history of drug and alcohol abuse, was admitted to St. John's Health Center at around 6 P.M. PDT complaining of chest pains. He leaves behind his wife, Sally Wade, and daugher, Kelly Carlin McCall. (Source: http://www.reuters.com/ar…ews/idUSN2339172520080623)
Germany won...
Turkey won... Russia won... And Spain Won 4-2 on Penalty kicks... Semi-Finals... Germany v. Turkey... Wednesday Russia v. Spain... Thursday
Netherlands went into the Quater-finals match as the winners... but they left losing 1-3 against Russian in 2 periods of overtime...
They went into the extra-time with a score of 1-1.... Russia scored two goals in 112 and 116... 4 minutes apart... We will see who Russia faces tomorrow with the game Spain v Italy 2:30 pm On Espn
THIS WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Croacia scores goal 118th minute.... Then Turkey in 120+2 score the tie goal!!! Shoot-Out!!!!! Croacia gets bad start... and then loses 1-3 Germany beats Portugal 3-2....
19th
Portugal v. Germany (Germany Favorite) 20th Croatia v. Turkey (Croatia Favorite) 21st Netherlands v. Russia (I'd say Netherlands) 22nd Spain v. Italy (I hope Italy) I will update at the end of the quaterfinals who won... but i will be away for some of the semi-finals and finals... sorry....
The formation, measuring 150ft in diameter, is apparently a coded image representing the first 10 digits, 3.141592654, of pi. It is has appeared in a field near Barbury Castle, an iron-age hill fort above Wroughton, Wilts, and has been described by astrophysicists as "mind-boggling".
More in the source page: http://www.telegraph.co.u…-British-fields.html?=rss
Apparently bloggers are being arrested around the world for exposing corruption in government and other various scandals.
You can read the story here.
A "hacker" in California was recently caught opening multiple accounts on Google Checkout and other sites that deposited minuscule change in user's accounts to accrue $50,000 dollars.
You can read the article here.
Apparently there is a new species of ant, still located in the Texas area, that goes specifically after electronics. The "crazy raspberry ants" are still only in the Houston area, but are a big risk for spreading. They are extra resistant to pesticides, and have ways around the fatal ones.
Anyways, you can check it out here.
They are:
Italy Germany Netherlands Croatia Russia Spain Portugal Turkey Updates will be coming! Including Who will be playing Who, and when they will be playing!
Ok guys, it's finally here! Get over to http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord!
Download! Join the fight for a Guinness World Record! Spread the Fire!
[img align=left title=JT's not doing so hot]http://www.gamepolitics.com/images/JT-scowl.jpg[/img]
"The Florida Bar has requested that controversial attorney Jack Thompson, 56, be disbarred for ten years for 27 violations of professional misconduct." And apparently he "stormed out of the hearing after Tunis refused to let him read a lengthy objection aloud." Temper tantrums, much? [url=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/06/04/florida-bar-wants-jack-thompson-disbarred-10-years-thompson-storms . . . Read more
HTML5. Basically, this is an effort to "bring all browsers under a single, standard markup language and a set of APIs," but I agree with the article I read this from...with everyone running in a different direction with their own next-gen techs, is this ever really going to happen?
HTML 2.0, HTML 3.0....the W3C works hard, it really does, and I commend them for that and love the general idea of usable standards and the like; but everyone in the "race" of online development and such may just.. . . . Read more |
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