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A screengrab courtesy of OnLive, a new videogame company aiming to challenge the big three console makers by providing a "cloud-based" gaming system promising on-demand access to games and no lag time.
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(Reuters) – OnLive is set to launch its "cloud-based" video game service in June, as the closely watched start-up looks to challenge [...]

ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2010) — Some parents might see video games as an impediment to children keeping up with their schoolwork. James Gee, however, thinks video games are some of the best learning environments around. He says that if schools adopted some of the strategies that games use, they could educate children more effectively.

"Commercial video [...]

A comic showing the debut of superhero Batman has been sold for more than $1m (£655,000) at an auction in Dallas.

The comic book cover is one of the most famous of all time.
The rare 1939 copy of Detective Comic No 27 was bought by an anonymous bidder from a seller who also wished to keep [...]

Richard Garriott, creator of the long-running Ultima game series, is banking on the growing social gaming market.

Garriott’s new venture is a company called Portalarium. The firm, founded with longtime collaborators Dallas Snell and Fred Schmidt, aims to return to Garriott’s roots in the game business, GamesIndustry.biz reports. That means working with “small development teams, low [...]

A series of drawings which Michelangelo made for a younger man he is thought to have fallen in love with, have gone on display at London's Courtauld Gallery.

The Dream is considered one of the finest of all Renaissance drawings.
The exhibition is built around his masterpiece The Dream (Il Sogno), bequeathed to the gallery in 1978.
It [...]

The hit West End play War Horse is to transfer to Broadway next year.

War Horse is based on a children's book by Michael Morpurgo.
The adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's book about a horse caught up in World War I will run at New York's Lincoln Center from 17 March 2011.
First seen at the National in 2007, [...]

Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Justice: DC Comics, the longtime home of Batman and Superman, gained a new executive team on Thursday, one that places some of the comics publisher’s best-known creative talents in crucial positions.

DC Entertainment, a division of Warner Brothers Entertainment, said it had named Jim Lee and Dan DiDio to serve [...]

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Back in the producing game: Robert Evans, who has rebounded after suffering a series of strokes, at his home in Beverly Hills.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Robert Evans has long been good theater. Now comes the actual stage play.

Having been involved with pictures as grand as “The Godfather,” as [...]

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When AMD released its $49–$59 ATI Radeon HD 5450last week, we concluded that its gaming performance—even at the Everyman resolution of 1,280 by 1,024—was so weak that it wasn't really a sensible choice for anyone who had even a passing interest in playing more than mainstream titles like World of Warcraft or [...]

NEW YORK – There's nothing like a full-throttle, heart-on-sleeve melody to lift the stodgiest of Broadway musicals.

In this theater publicity image released by Helene Davis Public Relations, Elena Shaddow, left, and James Snyder are shown in a scene from the Encores! concert production of 'Fanny,' running Feb. 4-7 at New York City Center in New [...]