Day: January 10, 2013

Video Games

Microsoft Debuts Illumiroom at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013

The revolutionary Kinect-enabled device transforms the player’s room into a Star Trek-like ‘holodeck’ – projecting the images that would normally be confined to the game screen onto the walls of the surrounding environment. Microsoft Research is known for its cutting edge projects, developing the Kinect and the Surface tablet. While the implementation of Illumiroom technology for the consumer market is […]

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MMO Video Games (Massively Multiplayer Online)
Video Games

TERA is Free-to-Play (F2P) in the United States in February 2013

An announcement from En Masse Entertainment confirms what many rumors have suggested for months: Korean MMO TERA will join the ranks of DC Universe Online (DCUO) and Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) in the F2P MMO realm. This move also fall in line with the games European and Asian versions which also announced a transition to F2P. The F2P […]

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Music
Video Game Music

Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core Original Soundtrack, The Shrouded Village

Composer Takeharu Ishimoto began his career at Square Enix with his work on Legend of Mana in 1999. In addition to Legend of Mana, he has composed for The World Ends with You, Dissidia: Final Fantasy, and Final Fantasy: Type-O. This track recalls Final Fantasy VII’s villages with their mellow, rundown industrial vibe. The violin really […]

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News

After a Two Month Detention in Ghana, Argentine Ship ARA Libertad Released

Originally held for Argentina’s refusal to pay sovereign debt obligations from a 2002 default, the ARA Libertad was released from its seabased prison in Ghana and returned home to fanfare and parades in a spectacle in the capital of Buenos Aires that embattled Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called a ‘victory.’ Financial fund NML Capital obtained a ruling […]

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Cars
Science & Technology

Acura Retooling the ILX Based on Consumer Feedback

Acura’s version of the successful and legendary Honda Civic, the ILX, has turned in an unimpressive performance for its first model year and will be reworked according to consumer feedback. Honda, desperate to make the Acura brand a contender against such stalwarts like BMW and Mercedes-Benz, will begin offering the Acura ILX with an automatic transmission and a 2.5 liter V6 engine […]

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Music
RnB Music (Rhythm and Blues)

Enrique Iglesias feat. Ciara, Takin’ Back My Love

Enrique Iglesias is joined by Ciara on this pumping dance track from 2009’s Greatest Hits Album for his hit single Takin’ Back My Love.   Preview this song in iTunes.

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News

Britain Plans to Shutter Older Prisons Possibly in Favor of 2,000-person ‘Super Prison’

Among those prisons scheduled to be closed is HMP Shepton Mallet in Somerset, the UK’s oldest operating prison. Also known as Cornhill, Shepton Mallet began operating in 1625 after an Act of King James I requiring every county to have a house to keep criminals. The prison was described as having extremely poor sanitation in […]

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