The New Xbox Experience, the reimagining of Microsoft’s gaming console launched last month, may have improved the interface, added user created avatars, and placed fewer menus between gamers and their desired content, but it’s the Netflix ...

1 Dec 2008

Results of a Consumer Reports survey indicate that 48 percent of adults don't plan to be vaccinated against the flu this year. People gave a variety of reasons for this decision. Some said they don't believe the vaccine works, while others simply ...

1 Dec 2008

LucasArts has been around for over a quarter-century now and in that time they've managed to create some pretty great and some pretty not-so-great games. Curious how that happened? The new book Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts provides a ...

1 Dec 2008

The hottest toys from the 1970s and 1980s have been reinvented as the “It-toys” of 2008. The sock monkey proved to be Geppetto's fastest-selling item, with all three locations currently sold out. ”The generation that had sock monkeys when they ...

1 Dec 2008

Eleven African-American Current and Former Employees of the Largest Food Catering Company in the World Filed A Class Action Lawsuit in Federal Court in Philadelphia After White Managers and Supervisors Repeatedly Called Them the "N-word," "Monkey ...

1 Dec 2008

Today, Lucasarts are a bit crap. But 10+ years ago? They were great . So great their story is a story worth telling, and telling in the form of a big, expensive coffee table book. Called, charmingly, Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts, it's a ...

1 Dec 2008