The Bourne Ultimatum led a cool weekend at the foreign box office...

Besides Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Microsoft will also be talking about a desktop and application virtualization suite nicknamed App-V.

Date Added: the candle is bigger than he is (meant in 2 ways) 08/29/2008 15:53

Check out the very first official trailer from Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 coming straight to you from the Leipzig Games Convention 2007.

Filed under: Gaming, Household, Peripherals

For Roomba hacking extraordinaire longjie0723, it's just another day in the office. Grasping for one more way to control the circular vacuum with something video game-related, he keyed in on the Wii Balance Board. Granted, he's already had success controlling the Roomba with a Wiimote, so we assume that whipping this one up was a lesson in simplicity. We still can't really understand why this here hack is necessary, but unlike decisions made by publicly traded companies, independent DIYers don't need no logic to get their mod on. Video after the cut.

[Via Nintendo Wii Fanboy]

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An Engine Panel at the 2007 GCDC examined the benefits and challenges of licensing an engine versus deciding to build ones own, and addressed questions to ask during the decision process and what to look for in support after the decision has been made.

Krawall Gaming Network's Goetz Klingelhoefer moderated, and Cryptic Studios' (City of Heroes, City of Villains) Bruce Rogers, Crytek's (Crysis

The studio will distribute the political comedy.

Four months after a database problem prevented thousands of U.S. users from paying their taxes on time, Intuit Inc.'s chief executive said he would step down.

Designer must avoid mediocrity, laziness, fear.

TIMES FOR FUN has launched FastCut 3.0 RT, the latest edition of its real-time video editing program. FastCut handles tasks such as 3D motion and effects keyframe animation, and is based on OpenGL, enabling hardware acceleration on compatible video cards. Should a video stream still be too much for a system to handle, quality can be scaled dynami...

Fever. Chills. Incomplete remediations. Why you need Effective Solutions.

There's still no trailer, but we do have a new title. 20th Century Fox 's Alien vs. Predator follow-up is now going by Aliens vs. Predator Requiem . Written by Shane Salerno and directed by the Strause brothers, the movie is scheduled to hit theaters on Christmas Day.

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD, OpEd

Yes, I know it's been a couple of months since the second season of Extras came out on DVD. But since I reviewed Season One earlier this year, I figured it would only be fair to look over Season Two, even if it's only for anal completist reasons (Of course, our UK Bureau -- otherwise known as "Martin Conaghan" -- reviewed the series when it aired on the BBC; his reviews start 1/4 of the way down this page).

From everything I heard and read, the second season of the Ricky Gervais / Stephen Merchant comedy was better than the first season. Of course, given the high standards set by Gervais and Merchant, that was saying a lot. After watching Season Two, I have to say that I agree with those assessments, but not for the reason that you think.

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A Florida company was hit this month by a massive "pump-and-dump" scam, an increasingly popular attack method for fraudsters who use spam e-mail to try to manipulate stock prices.