Day: January 16, 2013

Video Games

From Cactuars to Kefka: Final Fantasy – All the Bravest Launch Trailer

Square Enix has released a new, traditional Final Fantasy game for the iOS that features a ‘greatest-hits’ of Final Fantasy characters from all of the numbered entries in the series as well as a different type of active time battle (ATB) system adapted for play on iOS devices. As the video above shows, character ATB gauges […]

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Video Games

ArcheAge Online Updates English Language Website, Still No Word on North American Release

XLGAMES has updated the English language version of the website for the recently released Korean MMO ArcheAge. The beautiful trailer above should help give you some sense of what the game is like or what it aspires to be. An open world, sandbox MMO, ArcheAge seeks to combine the questing and raiding dynamics of a […]

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Music
Remix Music

Tenishia feat. Jan Johnson, Flesh (Glenn Morrison Remix)

Tenishia is a successful DJ and music producer duo from the island of Malta. Winners of the  Best Newcomer Award 2005, Best Live Performance 2005 and – for 3 years in a running – Best Dance Tune Award at the Malta Music Awards,  Tenishia‘s music is incredibly popular among both European music critics and clubgoers.

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J Pop Music (Japanese Pop)
Music

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ), PONPONPON

When someone says that J-Pop is an acquired taste they are likely thinking of artists like Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. Undoubtedly bizarre, PONPONPON is nonetheless mindless and catchy. The accompanying music video mixes the absurd with the surreal and is almost a piece of art by itself. It isn’t for everyone but if you’d like to take […]

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News

Russian Mafia Leader Aslan Usoyan Gunned Down Outside of Central Moscow Restaurant Karetny Dvor

Russian mafia boss Aslan Usoyan, a 75-year-old gangster nicknamed Grandpa Khasan, was shot in the head by a sniper atop the sixth floor of an adjacent building according to a Russian Investigative Committee report. Usoyan later died at a hospital, leaving his organization leaderless, leading law-enforcement officials to fear for the outbreak of a violent […]

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News

Beef (along with Pork and Horse) is What’s for Dinner! Hamburgers in the United Kingdom Test Positive for Pig DNA and Horse DNA

Burgers sold in Tesco department stores in the United Kingdom tested positive for pork and equine DNA when a Food Service Authority of Ireland examination of the products revealed some contained as much as 29% horse meat. Everything from cottage pie to beef curries, were affected with the products being sold in Tesco stores in […]

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Science & Technology

Russia Vows to Send Probe to the Moon by 2015

In order to fulfill a long-held national dream of reaching the moon, the head of Roskosmos (Russian Federal Space Agency), Vladimir Popovkin, announced yesterday, January 15. The luna-glob, or ‘moon-globe,’ will be the first thing to be blasted into space from Russia’s new space facility in the Amur region which was built to lessen the […]

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News

Dell Considering Privatization

Dell Computer, once a titan of the PC industry in the 1990s, is rumored to be considering a private buyout that would take the corporation into the realm of private equity and allow it to reconfigure itself for future markets without the scrutiny of shareholders. Rather than face the fate of RIM or HP, both […]

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