Archive for October 23rd, 2008

Russian capsule carrying US tourist lands in Kazakhstan (AFP)

US space tourist Richard Garriott is helped putting on his space suit at the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, on October 12. A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying US millionaire video game guru, the world's sixth space tourist, undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and took course for Earth on Friday, according to space officials.(AFP/File/Dmitry Kostyukov)AFP - A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying US millionaire video game guru Richard Garriott, the world's sixth space tourist, and two Russian cosmonauts, landed in Kazakhstan as scheduled, the Russian mission control center said early Friday.


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Sorry, Gamers: Larger E3 Looks to Be Press-Only (PC Magazine)

PC Magazine - An interview with ESA president Mike Gallagher seems to indicate that the E3 videogame event will still be restricted to the press, but bigger and flashier, too. Will it be the same as the E3 of old, though? And will the fanboys sneak in, regardless?

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Videogame makers bank on sequels (Reuters)

A screenshot from the videogame 'Call of Duty: World at War' is seen in this handout image. (Activision/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Sequels may not always match up to the original in Hollywood but videogames can often get better the second or third time around.


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Videogame makers banking on big hits with sequels (Reuters)

Visitors try out new software for Microsoft's video game console Xbox 360 at the Tokyo Game Show 2008 in Chiba, east of Tokyo, October 11, 2008. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)Reuters - Sequels may not always match up to the original in Hollywood but videogames can often get better the second or third time around.


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