St. Patrick's Day trail game

Hello!  I'm still here.  This has just been a really busy week.  I am posting a little trail game I made for two children to play ... group.  Each time, my assistant accumulated many more gold coins than I did.  This provided a good ... like having these types of games available in the classroom.  Many times two friends want to work together [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 02:57:14

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A look at America’s future - grim unless we get smart and pull together

The current generations of Americans were born to affluence (most of them, that is), and few have any idea how quickly it can all go away.  As it did for Latin America — rich after WWII, poor today.  Here are three articles foreshadowing a possible future for America.  All grim, all essential reading to understand what’s happening [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 00:01:57

Campbell leads UK baseball to 8-7 victory over IU

By Bill Nigut Pretty or ugly, all wins count. Six UK pitchers allowed 14 hits in a hard-fought 8-7 win against preseason Big Ten favorite ... s first victory over the Hoosiers since 1993. “As a team we have a lot of talent and there are so many guys on this team that just want to compete every single day,” said junior first baseman [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 03:40:43

Caps Much Improved

We can take our hands off the panic button. The Caps climb back to playing solid hockey continued on Tuesday night with a big overtime win in ... like the Hurricanes and Panthers creeping closer to the division lead to get the Caps working hard again ... is not as big as it was, I would expect the team to play much better. As for the fighting... wow!  [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 22:15:35

Review: HP TouchSmart tx2 (1015AU)

The good Cheap for a tablet Responsive stylus The bad Temperamental touch capability Multi-touch is token only Low battery life No Bluetooth Right-facing hot air vent Noisy when under load Tinny speakers Greasy looking screen Inlaid screen makes touch difficult in the corners Tiny function keys Design and [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 23:39:01

Prognosticating the SEC tournament

   First, you should know I'm a die-hard Kentucky basketball fan. Second, you should know that they have disgusted me the last four games ... 1: Kentucky is playing like a street team who relies on cherry-picking. If they didn't have Jodie Meeks ... as Coastal Carolina's baseball team. However, Kentucky can't lose to Mississippi twice in the same season [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 02:54:05

Straight Talk on Crooked Shooting

In the first half of the battle of bearded student mascots — one in knickers to represent a Fighting Irish person, ... it was the one carrying a rifle whose team can shoot straight. West Virginia opened a big first-half lead on Notre Dame ... Ruoff had 9 points, all on 3-pointers.Those three baskets were more than the Irish mustered as a team [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 23:57:05

The soul still burns? Namco Bandai registers EXCALIBUR trademark

Companies like to keep secrets, hiding their upcoming projects from the general public until the marketing and PR stars align ... be looking into creating a spin-off series of the popular fighting game? An even more dramatic possibility: the franchise will be donning an entirely new name. Let's not forget, the first game [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 04:05:00

A Cyclone Grows Into a Prospect

OKLAHOMA CITY — A year ago, the N.B.A. draft was a distant dream for Iowa State’s Craig Brackins ... , he established himself this season as a legitimate prospect for June’s N.B.A. draft.In his team’s 81-67 loss ... . It’s a little harder because I’ve watched Iowa State a couple of times and it’s a real bad team [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 02:59:12

Put Me in Caudillo, I'm Ready to Play!

You do know that the story about Fidel Castro having a major league baseball tryout is an urban legend , right? ... : Havana on Tuesday debuted a baseball video game which includes famous Cuban-born defectors long expunged ... . The country's first baseball video game, MVP Cuba 1.0, features a number of Cuban stars [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 22:10:00

CryENGINE® 3 to be announced in this year’s GDC

Ahh Crysis  …  a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Unfortunately, not every rig was worthy of said rose ... . It provides the complete game engine to create AAA quality next generation games, and includes ... their vision on current and future platforms to develop games such as MMOs, action games [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 05:54:28

Aipac and the Lying Liars of the Israel Lobby

Comment is Free today published my piece on Chas. Freeman’s withdrawal.  I wanted to expand on a few points in it.  The NY Times characterizes Aipac’s Josh Block as saying the following about the group’s involvement in the anti-Freeman campaign: Joshua Block, a spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a lobbying group, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 00:34:49

Perhaps They Would Like A Goat?

As I was driving home the other day, I was pointing out animals to Hannah. We saw cows, horses, chickens, birds, and ducks. We make the animal sounds and this little game helps to pass the time and keep my little sweetie awake (thus preserving the all important nap). When we got to our neighborhood I mentioned [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 04:30:05

Heat 107, Celtics 99

        Observations from Wednesday's 107-99 victory over the Celtics at AmericanAirlines Arena:   Against Kevin Garnett, ... can make a huge difference. But it should not have been this difficult, with yet another team able ... . He also tied his franchise record with his 20th consecutive 20-point game. Jamaal Magloire [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 02:08:21

Gambit facilitates sales of virtual goods

Did you know that Gambit can help you increase your CPM rates and offers a completely customizable payment interface that can be integrated into your casual game in just minutes? No, not that Gambit . We're talking about Gambit , a new company ... game developers make more money by optimizing their payment systems. Essentially, the company makes [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 23:55:40

X-Men Origins: Wolverine live chat highlights

The newest trailer from X-Men Origins: Wolverine was released yesterday and it showed Wolverine doing what he does best — lunging and destroying ... Software had been working on the game for 2.5 years as a separate Wolverine title created by a team that were fans of the character. The same team worked on X-Men Legends and Marvel Ultimate [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 03:30:41

Game Called On Account Of Pitcher Shortage…….. Todays WTF, Part Two

Paul Maholm was exceptionally efficient, and Craig Monroe’s home run with one out in the ninth inning brought the Pirates a 2-2 tie with the Toronto ... Blue Jays this afternoon at Dunedin Stadium. The game was called after 11 innings because each team ran out of pitchers. The Pirates are 8-4-1 in Grapefruit League play. Editors Note: Beats ... [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 03:04:14

So You Want My Job: Financial Planner

It’s once again time for our “So You Want My Job” series, in which we interview men who are employed in desirable man jobs and ask them about the reality of their work and for advice on how men can finally become what they always wanted to be when they grew up. For this installment, we interviewed Tom Rose. Mr [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 04:02:22

Yankees’ Spring Training: It’s Only Spring But CC Fails

If you read around different Yankee websites, you’ll read that it’s only spring and that CC doesn’t have control of his cutter ... He had a perfect game going 2 for 2 with a run scored. This was a typical Damon performance. A Mark ... that Gardner is going to beat him out for the center field position but Melky had a decent game [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 03:40:17

Should Billy Gillispie get the Matt Doherty treatment?

A once storied college basketball program had entered uncharted waters.  They missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time in years.  There were former players who questioned whether the coach was the right guy to lead the history-laden program.There were those who questioned his intense practices and moodiness with the players and public [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 04:43:17

We all love a WII Party

No, that is not a typo. Without the capitalization, it would read Wii Party. You do have a Nintendo Wii, don’t you? ... , who will lose interest in the game and be just as happy making beaded necklaces. I’m talking ... is not likely to coax them away from their game. Before I get accused of being some Luddite and depriving [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 05:20:30

New Project Ringo teaser leads to more promises

Sega has updated their Project Ringo site , with a new teaser. It shows a class room with math problems being written up on the board ... . It looks like this could be a Math training game of sorts for the Nintendo DS. As you can tell by the image above, we will get another teaser on the 24th. Source Sega Thanks Luis via [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 03:39:35

Of Footage and Foosball

My new job has a foosball table. That's probably a little unusual for those of you who work outside of Internet startups ... , but I have no offensive game. My biggest weaknesses lack of power with my left hand and only being able ... Man's foosball game... now you can say your day is complete.) [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 02:57:40

BASKETBALL UPDATES: 3/11/2009

LIBERTY-BENTON GIRLS 43, TINORA 35 By DAVE HANNEMAN STAFF WRITER ADA — Three-point baskets have been Liberty-Benton’s bread and butter all season ... m the leader on this team, and I wanted to step up and get the win for my team and all of us,” said Hyde, a 5-foot-10 junior who had a team-leading 21 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists. “I just wanted [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 04:23:13

'Daily Voting News' For March 11, 2009

The Texas legislature battle over a new expanded Voter ID bill included an all-nighter for testimony from invited ‘experts’ ... lives! Coleman's leaked donor database hits Wikileaks; spin game off and running http://www.politicsinmin...ileaks-spin-game-running MN: Coleman’s site wasn’t ‘hacked,’ says IT pro who discovered [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 23:40:35

Some unusual, out-of-the-ballpark knowledge from umpire school

 Major League Baseball umpires get four weeks of paid vacation every summer. They don't actually shout "Play ball!" before games ... . And what do they say to start the game? Weber: It's in the rule book that the plate umpire begins a game by calling "Play" (not "Play ball,") and it's taught that way in umpire schools. Young umpires [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 05:16:15

The "duh" statement of the day: Modern Warfare 2 due this fall

Filed under: FPS , Multiplayer , Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Activision is still keeping details about the game under their vests but ... , which you can listen to on Activision's investor web site, pretty much gushed over the game. He stated that Modern Warfare 2 will be " . . . the most anticipated game of the year." He added [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 01:00:00

Brockton, Mass: Down-on-its-Luck City Shines On Court

As part of our series "The Kitchen Table," we're embedding in the community of Brockton, Mass., to get a firsthand look at how the city, where unemployment is already at 10 percent, is coping with the recession and preparing for the challenges ahead. A high school basketball game last night [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 00:00:59

RapeLay: Sleazier than any Hollywood horror film?

I know that Hollywood is obsessed these days with buying the movie rights to the latest violence-strewn video game, ... ,  the underground Japanese video game that has already been barred from Amazon and EBay ... game is chilling, even more chilling than Eli Roth's vile "Hostel" horror series: A man stalks [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 22:37:46

Your Interests Are My Interests

If you’re a fan of professional print journalism, you may be a little worried as of late.  Denver’s Rocky Mountain News just closed its doors after nearly 150 years in the news game.  Meanwhile the San Francisco Chronicle and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer are both on life [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 21:59:46

Get Ready Terminator Salvation Game Coming To iPhone

12MarPosted on 2009 under Cool iphone Stuff, Upcoming Apps, iphone games | If you want to be updated with the latest iPhone news, ... . Thanks for visiting!This is going to be big, Gameloft is developing a iPhone Game based ... 22.And Michel Guillemot(President/CEO) of Gameloft claims that Graphics on the game [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 03:31:07

Game Informer to get first look at BioShock 2

Big Sisters in Ireland? Let’s all pray they will release this to PC. It’s by far the biggest game magazine in the US ... out later this month) Game Informer’s print magazine will have the first major preview of BioShock ... that we can expect a Big Sister to appear in the game and Game Informer is touting that its 10 page preview [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 05:45:40

re: Free Game Add-Ons now available (Trivial Pursuit, Tomb Raider and F.E.A.R. 2)

Major, When I follow your link for the Trivial Pursuit Free DLC, it says the content is not available ... it? It's only available in the game?Can't it be accessed in the marketplace? I'm asking cause I don't have the game yet, but it's one I plan on buying real soon, and would like to have this pack [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 00:45:17

The Remnant

Eject, Eject, Eject: YOU ARE NOT ALONE (Part 1) Folks, you are about to be hit with a BIG IDEA. It’s not entirely my big idea, but I’m willing to hang some tinsel on it and take credit for it. First, a brief set-up, and then (and I will make an announcement in BOLD CAPS) comes the Big Idea [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 22:03:16

Jonah Bloom Of AdAge Talks To PSFK About Skipping The Issue

Advertising Age, the leading trade magazine for the marketing industry, has pulled its March 16 issue. There has been a lot of talk about the decline of print media recently but instead of just reporting another story that not only impacts readers but the lives of the people who work there, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 02:35:44

Major league honkbal

Once again, in dramatic fashion, the Dutch baseballers give the Dominican club the finger like it was a leaky dike ... ( eenhonkslag ), scoring the baserunner ( honkloper )  to tie the game.  Dancing off the bag, basestealing ... and exultant Eugene Kingsale cruises home to end the game.  The Dutch advance to round 2, the Dominicans [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 04:15:26

Season preview: Ballarat Lady Miners

The Lady Miners are looking forward to an exciting year ahead but coach Kym Cassells says it's going to be a testing first few weeks. The Miners will have new recruits Cayla Francis and Amy Lewis onboard for the first game but Lewis will not have trained with the team after only finishing with WNBL team the Townsville [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 03:10:03

EA Sports Active Challenge, Here comes FAT me!

While Christmas shopping in December, Kari and I were in the Super Target in Dallas and had gone into the holiday knowing that each of the seven kids were getting their own iPod Nano in their own color and we were seeking out "small" gifts for each of the kids so they'd get something besides their colored jewels [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 03:14:09

The Amazing Race: C-K-V-O-H-E-H spells VEHKCOH

So we’ve had four legs now and four different winners.  I should be happy there’s not a young, pretty team completely dominating everyone else - as it does give the season a whiff of unpredictability - and yet, I find that without a few clearly [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 04:05:21

From ‘CSI’ to ‘Castle’: Traveling the World, One Crime Show at a Time

Photo by aturkus via Flickr ( Creative Commons ) We’ve written before about crime novels being a prime source for vivid place-based writing ... in an episode of CSI: NY—now, walking around Queens during my stay here, I see the game being played [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 00:46:06

Don’t Anger The Momba !!!

Written on March 11, 2009 – 8:21 pm | by Harry Robinson | Kobe Bryant had to show a prove tonight that he is still the most dangerous player in the NBA. Tonight the Rockets tried to bully the best team in the NBA and all that happened at the end is that they made the black momba Kobe Bryant mad.  Bryant and the Lakers who were coming off a bad [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 03:21:33

Natalie Gulbis - Sexy On and Off the Golf Course

Natalie Gulbis is a professional golfer on the LPGA tour and is currently appearing on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice. Gulbis started finding interest in the game at the early age of 3-1/2. By the time she reached 7 years old she had won her first tournament. In three years, at age 10, she was breaking par. Gulbis [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 00:40:08

FIFA 2010 is Close

Held every four years, the FIFA World Cup is probably one the most renown and popular sports tournaments in the world. The soccer tournament takes place in one or two countries over a four week period in which thirty-two teams compete against each other to claim the title of world champions [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 03:56:14

ESRB rates Rock N’ Roll Climber

ESRB rates Rock N’ Roll Climber March 11th, 2009 Posted in News, Wii, Written by Valay | 2 Comments » ESRB description below… Platform: Wii Rating: Everyone Content descriptors: No Descriptors Rating summary: This is a rock climbing game in which players must climb up various formations within a time limit. Players navigate rocks [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 21:45:42

New sceenshots show off the "Valor" in Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

Filed under: RTS , Screenshots THQ 's in-house developer Relic Entertainment has mostly made PC only game titles ( ... platform for their next game, the stand alone WWII RTS expansion pack Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor . THQ just released 16 new screenshots from the game that we have added to our previously [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 01:10:51

Man United Shuts The Special One Up

Admit it. It’s something that’s happened to you, too. You get psyched about a specific game, maybe it’s a Champions League match ... to experience it through the goal highlights which is often not a fair representation of how a game played [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 02:58:48

Right Wing Round-Up

Today's best reporting on the Right from around the web: Teagan Goddard reports that things are not looking good for RNC Chair Michael Steele ... " unless he is "quoting someone else, making a joke, or talking about a gay baseball team's pre-game [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 22:03:47

NPD Group: 87 percent of online gamers play on PCs

While there has been a huge jump in the number of online games played on various enabled game consoles, ... to the results of a new survey of over 20,000 gamers by the NPD Group. The survey, conducted last January, does say that PC gaming has shown a slight decline compared to the NPD Group’s previous study (Shacknews [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 05:28:01

In the News (3/12)

Today’s Game: White Sox 6, Brewers 2 Record: 5-6-1 Today’s Game - The Brewers dropped their game today against the White Sox ... continued making a case to make the big league team. Brewers News - Apparently Braden Looper ... to expect 30 games, nearly 200 innings, and a lower ERA for Manny Parra in 2009? I don’t think so. He’ [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 02:56:22

Couch Potato Alert: 3/12

No fewer than ten bubble teams will be in action on Thursday ... ) This game will have an effect on the seeding for the Big Dance. 2:30 PM: Iowa vs. Michigan (ESPN2 ... Arizona St. (FSN) I think this is the game of the day. The Sun Devils can probably end their arch [more...]

Date: 2009-03-12 04:30:35

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