Exclusive titles like Gears of War have helped Xbox 360 sales

Rising development costs and small user bases mean games developers are unlikely to make a profit on new titles until 2008, according to a report. The report by media analysts Screen Digest said that the complexity of […]

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Ghost Rider is based on a Marvel Comic character

Comic book movie Ghost Rider has held on to top spot in the North American box office chart for a second week. The adventure, which stars Nicolas Cage as a man who gives up his soul to battle for justice, […]

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Microsoft said Monday that it donated $1.7 million to support rebuilding of the Gulf Coast, with the money being awarded to non-profit partners in Louisiana and Texas. With its latest donation, the company will have donated over $55 million as part of its Unlimited Potential charity program. Through this effort, Microsoft donates cash, software and […]

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A documentary claims this is the ossuary of Jesus Christ

Jesus had a son named Judah and was buried alongside Mary Magdalene, according to a new documentary by Hollywood film director James Cameron. The film examines a tomb found near Jerusalem in 1980 which producers say belonged to Jesus […]

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FASA Studio’s controversial decision to apply the Shadowrun license to an online first-person shooter game may still cause hardcore fans of the IP to feel a slight burn behind their eyeballs whenever news of the game surfaces, but we can’t deny FASA’s product, now in the final phases of bug testing, is an entertaining one. […]

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Sub-glacial lakes can affect how quickly ice reaches the sea

Scientists have discovered four giant lakes under the Antarctic ice.
Together the four are as big as Lake Vostok, the biggest body of water so far discovered in Antarctica.
Researchers say the newly found lakes appear to affect how rapidly […]

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Cigarettes were found to affect brain chemicals

Smoking cigarettes causes the same changes to the brain as using illicit drugs like cocaine, a study suggests. US researchers compared post-mortem brain tissue samples from smokers, former smokers and non-smokers.
Their findings, published in Journal of Neuroscience, suggested smoking causes changes […]

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America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic
In a move that reflects Washington’s growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be helping opposition militias among the numerous ethnic minority groups clustered in Iran’s border regions.
The operations are […]

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Symantec on Monday introduced Norton 360, its new standard security suite, replacing the aging Norton Internet Security product.
Formerly known as “Genesis,” Norton 360 is intended to compete with offerings from McAfee and Microsoft. Like OneCare, the application contains a suite of products that traditionally had been sold separately by the antivirus makers.

Symantec says that Norton […]

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Pre-production work for this film began before Casino Royale (2006) started filming.
In an interview with Jonathan Ross, Casino Royale (2006) director Martin Campbell hinted that Bond 22 would be a sort of follow on to Casino Royale, stating that it would be part 2 of a 2-part story and thus expecting there to […]

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