Joystiq has posted that Microsoft has announced the official release date for the Age of Empires III game will be October 23rd. It will feature a variety of new empires, units, and gameplay elements.
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Joystiq has posted a ‘hands-on’ report of Cooking Mama 2 for the Nintendo DS. This time around you can look forward to more recipes, more ingredients, as well as a multiplayer mode.
1up has posted from an official press release that Rock Band will retail for $169.99 and will include the game, a drum kit, a guitar, and a microphone.
GameVideos has posted a video of the character creation system of Rock Band, the undisputed wannabe-rocker game coming to retail shelves November 20th.
It looks pretty interesting, at least more involved that the Guitar Hero system.
Engadget has a post up about a custom version of the RoboSapien called…ElmoSapien. Personally, it looks like something out of the amazing movie, The Thing. Like the RoboSapien was on a mission to infiltrate an Elmo camp, found a sentry and proceeded to skin him….and wear it as a suit…
LAIst has posted the short film entitled ‘The Hotel Chevalier’ in which Natalie Portman gets naked. Now I have never been a huge fan of her body, sure she is a cute girl but way too mousy for my tastes. I am sure this will satisfy many though.
AICN is reporting that an actor to play James T. Kirk in the next Star Trek film might have been found. According to their sources, the next Kirk will be actor Mike Vogel, who is also starring in the same Producer’s latest film, secretly titled ‘Cloverfield’.
Reuters is reporting that astronomers detected a very powerful radio burst lasting only 5 milliseconds from a range of 3 billion light years away.
‘This burst appears to have originated from the distant universe and may have been produced by an exotic event such as the collision of two neutron stars or the death throes of an evaporating black hole,’ said Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Yahoo reports that scientists have discovered that wooly mammoth hair offers a wealth of genetic information; much more so than from frozen animal skin/blood.
‘Learning the DNA sequence does not mean that the ancient animal can be cloned or somehow resurrected, Schuster said, adding ‘this is science fiction.”
Sounds like someone needs his Ph.D revoked! It could happen!!! I have seen it on TV!
Joystiq reports that Valve’s Orange Box has gone gold and is scheduled for store shelves or your Steam account on October 10th. The Orange Box contains Half-Life 2, Episodes 1 and 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2.