Entertainment Stories for 2008

Time Warner Recommends Internet For Some Shows 379
Banned Words List Carries Its First Emoticon 333
A Look At the Growth of MMOs In 2008 122
Terry Pratchett Knighted 366
The Best Games of 2008 109
Breaking Down the Dropping Parts Cost for Sony's PS3 302
Tales From the Support Crypt 855
Worlds.com Sues NCSoft Over MMO-Patent 261
Resurrecting Old Games, What Works? 381
Penny Arcade On NPR 128
Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware 224
Categorizing Puzzles In Adventure Games 44
XBMC Running On an Atom-Based MID 97
RIAA Case May Be Televised On Internet 221
Comcast Facing Lawsuit Over Set-Top Box Rentals 200
Streaming Video Service Coming To the Wii 103
Managing Last.FM's "Mountain of Data" 139
30 Years of Star Wars Technology 146
DIY USB Servo-Guided Water Gun 66
White Christmas In Antarctica 84
Judge Rules Fox Has Copyright Claim To Watchmen 262
Last Major Supplier Calls It Quits For VHS 308
The Role of Video Game Immersion 40
Interesting Uses For a USB LED Screen? 403
Software-Generated Paper Accepted At IEEE Conference 235
Boss By Day, Gamer By Night 51
Roku Box Adds HD, Grows Beyond Netflix 95
The RIAA's Rocky Road Ahead 542
Tabula Rasa Goes Free, Brings New Content 87
As Christmas Bonus, Google Hands Out "Dogfood" 366
Thieves Take the Cake 91
Zoe's Tale 109
Will People Really Boycott Apple Over DRM? 664
Are Browser Games Filling the Same Role As Political Cartoons? 33
The Return of (Old) PC Graphic Adventures 93
Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV 482
Inside F.E.A.R. 2's Engine and AI 34
An In-Depth Look At Game Piracy 504
Mechanical AI Made In LittleBigPlanet 65
EA Is Now Officially On Steam, Spore Loses SecuROM 354
Game Devs Warming Up To More Mature-Rated Games On the Wii 129
City In Georgia Planning Virtual World For Civic Interaction 39
Majel Roddenberry Dies At 76 356
iPlayer Released for Mac, Linux; Adobe Announces AIR for Linux 231
Console Makers Pushing For More Network Reliance 198
Are Micro-Transactions the Future of Online Game Business Models? 68
Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas Songs 142
Video Game Trends In 2008 81
Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives 248
If Programming Languages Were Religions 844
Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Lawsuit 51
Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? 165
Club Nintendo Goes Live 59
100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes 293
Adventure Game Interfaces and Puzzle Theory 149
God of War 3 Gameplay Unveiled 30
Torture in Games 249
Strategy Games Improve Cognitive Functions In Older Adults 64
How Gamers View Their MMOs 132
Canadians Miss Out On Doctor Who Season Finale 303
Publishers Detail Specific In-Game Ad Plans For Future Games 104
Survival-Horror Genre Going Extinct? 166
20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe 268
BD+ Successfully Resealed 443
Ubisoft Testing PC Prince of Persia Without DRM 254
PlayStation Home Beta Opens to the Public 206
World of Warcraft, the Restaurant 73
Russian Hopes To Cash In On Emoticons 213
Will Consoles Merge Back Into PCs? 356
Left 4 Dead Bug Patched Quickly, EVE Exploit Takes 4 Years 157
Nintendo Slapped With Wiimote Strap Lawsuit Once Again 356
Examining the Beginnings of the RTS Genre 135
On Luck and Randomness In Games 156
Activision Wants To Bring Guitar Hero To Arcades 75
Why a Music Tax Is a Bad Idea 194
William Gibson's AGRIPPA Recovered and Revealed 98
Used Game Market Affecting Price, Quality of New Titles 384
Paul McCartney Releases Album As DRM-Free Download 292
SOE Allows Purchase of In-Game Items In Everquest I, II 173
Atari Purchases Cryptic Studios For $26.7 Million 45
Netflix Comes To Tivo, AppleTV, Linux 190
Gears of War 2 Patched To Fix Matchmaking Issues, Problems Persist 34
Reuters Pulls Out of Second Life, Army Heads In 77
Activision Blizzard Announces Guitar Hero 5, New Call of Duty 85
Forry Ackerman Dead At 92 83
Spore the Most Pirated Game of 2008 404
New Time-Trial Maps Coming to Mirror's Edge 22
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 135
Automated Scripts Overrun eBay Holiday Contest 182
Players Furious Over Buggy GTA IV PC Release 384
Xbox 360 Laptop Creator Unveils Sleek New Design 46
Warner Music Pushing Music Tax For Universities 375
Nintendo's Miyamoto On Innovation, Wii Ambitions 263
30 Minutes of Frank Miller's The Spirit Reviewed 100
Age of Conan Servers To Merge, Funcom Sees Layoffs 109
Valve's Gabe Newell On DRM 241
Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled 1093
A Look At Modern Game AI 87
Battlestar Galactica Gets Spinoff Prequel Series 297
Measuring Engagement In Games 72
Atari Talks Ghostbusters Date, Popular Franchises 33
Race and Racism In Video Games 371
Techniques and Styles of Video Game Music 68
Virtual Peace Sim Game Based On America's Army 186
Dead Space Highlights Disparity Between Plot and Gameplay 87
Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python 311
iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio 397
MS Says Windows 7 Will Run DirectX 10 On the CPU 503
Street Fighter HD Remix Launches With Fan-Made Soundtrack 44
Left 4 Dead Demo Includes Linux Steam Client Libraries 217
New Asimov Movies Coming 396
New Jumpgate Evolution Details 37
PC Grand Theft Auto IV Features SecuROM DRM 531
Excluding Intelligent Design Principles From the Search For Alien Life 308
Scientists Get Their Groove On On YouTube 77
Gen Con Goes Up For Sale 34
18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD 603
Annual Video Game Report Card Is Positive, For Once 75
Editor, DLC Coming To Fallout 3 98
Blockbuster's Movie Download Box Runs Linux 194
Gaming In Sweden Bigger Than Football and Hockey 252
Robots Debut In Japanese Theater Production 75
November Indie Game Round-Up 39
The Player Is and Is Not the Character 152
At Atlantic Records, Digital Sales Surpass CDs 273
90% of Gaming Addiction Patients Not Addicted 333
The Real Monsters Behind Godzilla 243
Entertainment Software Association Following RIAA? 204
Judge Excludes 3 "John Does" From RIAA Subpoena 225
The Comparative Value of 2-D Vs. 3-D Graphics In Games 107
PETA Using Games To Spread Its Message 477
Breaking Into Games Writing? 254
Fable II DLC Coming In December 25
McDonalds Files To Patent Making a Sandwich 346
Home Theatre System Using Laptops 37
Anathem 356
US Army To Invest $50 Million In Game Development 68
How Politics Interacts With Games 81
Multi Theft Auto - San Andreas Goes Open Source 127
A Computer Composing and Playing Jazz 134
Three Downloadable Expansions Announced For Final Fantasy XI 51
Integrating the Web Into Games 52
Google to Track TV Viewers More Closely 123
Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents 72
Interest Still High In the Netflix Algorithm Competition 77
Rock Band Creators Hit With Class Action Lawsuit 79
Tabula Rasa To Shut Down 244
RICO Class Action Against RIAA In Missouri 213
How To Find a Mobile Games Publisher? 119
Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle 423
Lessig, Zittrain, Barlow To Square Off Against RIAA 288
Study Recommends Online Gaming, Social Networking For Kids 189
iPhone Gaming Continues To Grow 131
10 Years of Half-Life 182
Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube 222
NRDC Rates Energy Efficiency of Video Game Consoles 260
Ray Kurzweil Wonders, Can Machines Ever Have Souls? 630
The Importance of Procedural Content Generation In Games 160
Gaming Benchmarks For the New MacBook Pros 46
National Geographic Getting Into Video Games 35
Crowdsourcing Site Offers Rewards To Bust Patents 96
Game Designer Makes Case For Used Games 209
New Details On Halo Wars 45
Stardock Tried To Make Star Control, Master of Orion Sequels 125
New Star Trek Trailer 591
Ender in Exile 507
The Science of the Lightsaber 197
Preview the New MythTV User Interface 229
75 Comics That Are Being Made Into Films 256
Microsoft, Blizzard Crack Down On Piracy, Cheating 150
Rubber Duckies For Global Warming Research 167
Second World of Warcraft Expansion Launched, Conquered 386
Canadian Fined For Videoing Movie In Theatre 382
IP Rights For Games Made In School? 128
Unhappy People Watch More TV 193
Independent Dev Reports Over 80% Piracy Rate On DRM-Free Game 422
Duke Demands Proof of Infringement From RIAA 159
VR Snow Game Functions As Pain Management 27
Dead Parrot Sketch Is 1,600 Years Old 276
Fewer Shuffles Suffice 101
The Best Fictional Doomsday Devices 340
Square Enix Announces Supreme Commander 2 70
Multiple Upcoming Games, Movies Based On Jordan's Wheel of Time 217
Lego Loses Its Unique Right To Make Lego Blocks 576
First Trek Film Footage Unveiled 320
Richard Garriott Quits NCSoft 149
Gadgets For a Budding Geek? 372
Mystery Science Theater Turns 20 165
PCGA To "Take Up the Challenge of Piracy" 134
Vital Parts of Games As DLC? 446
Battlestar Galactica Props Are For Sale 65
AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File 440
Obama's Election Means a Return of Vampire Flicks 97
Halliburton Applies For Patent-Trolling Patent 244
MGM First To Post Full-Length Features To YouTube 116
Non-Violent, Cooperative Games? 329
After 4 Years, HydrogenAudio Opens New 128kbps Listening Test 267
Two New Class-Action Suits Against EA Over DRM 336
"Challenge Room" DLC Doesn't Follow BioShock's Strengths 41
New EVE Online Expansion Detailed 96
NYCL Responds to RIAA Accusations 231
US Army To Use MMOs For Turing Tests 55
Ghostbusters Game Coming From Atari 48
Are Neo-Retro Game Releases a Fad? 266
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 126
Turbine Planning Console MMO 31
Guitar Hero World Tour Equipment Problems, Subscription Possibilities? 146
Getting Started In Android Game Development 43
iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition 668
FCC Unanimously Approves White Space Wi-Fi 156
How Do Games Grow Up? 248
Professor, ECA Dispute Video Game Aggression Study 78
Michael Crichton Dead At 66 388
Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate 239
EA Recommends Hilarious Work-Around For RA3 CD-Key 301
UK ISPs Near Agreement On Illegal File Sharing 97
Nintendo DSi Sells Out Quickly, Reviews Coming In 72
China To Begin Taxing Profits From Virtual Currencies 65
New "MP3 100% Compatible" Logo For DRM-Free Music 263
Stretchable, Flexible, Transparent Nanotube Speakers 76
Steam Cloud Launches This Week 69
LittleBigPlanet Creations Raising Copyright Questions 66
The State of Game AI 88
Charity Refuses Donation Because of D&D Connection 216
Video Games Linked To Child Aggression 500
Netflix Extends "Watch Instantly" To Mac Users 205
The Gym Arcade 143
Left 4 Dead Demo Dated, Cinematic Released 30
10th Year of the International Nethack Tournament 170
Are MMOs Time-Release Vaporware? 193
Fallout 3 Launches Amidst Controversy 397
October Indie Game Round-Up 34
Examining the Role of Video Games In the US Election 81
Game Makers Accusing Innocent People of Piracy In the UK 190
EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban 549
Miyamoto Scrutinizes Mario, Zelda, Hails Portal 145
David Tennant Stands Down From "Doctor Who" 245
MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video 395
Sony Patents Reconfigurable Controller 32
Rock Band Licenses The Beatles 266
UK Opens National Video Game Archive 121
Sony Opens PS2 Platform 77
New Elder Scrolls Game In 2010? 130
Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? 396
MTV Launches Music Video Site 192
Hellgate: London To Be Closed, Possibly Saved? 91
Sony Claims PS3 Javascript Performance Is Better Than IE7's 112
Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants 332
The Second Coming of Virtual Worlds 117
LittleBigPlanet Sequel Already In the Works 27

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