By CmdrTaco from Slashdot's now-pass-the-cheetos deptartment:
Xemu writes "Computer's don't make children fat, but watching TV for the same length of time does. This is shown by a recent Swedish study of all school children in Lund's county conducted by RN Pernilla Garmy. The results were clear: The child's obesity was directly affected by placing a TV in the child's room, but placing a computer in the room had no effect at all. One theory is that it's common to have a snack in front of the TV, while a computer requires a more active user, for example when chatting or playing games."

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By Ben Gilbert from Panels on Pages:
Did a major character die? Did we get any more answers this week? Did I screw up another character's name? All will be revealed.

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By Charlie Jane Anders from io9:

A new character joins Men In Black III. The Let The Right One In remake revamps vampires. There's a "red-band" Hot Tub Time Machine clip. Millar talks Kick-Ass 2! Jewel Staite's Warehouse 13 role will freak you out. And more...


Men In Black III:

Yes, this "threequel" is still going forward. Rumor has it Josh Brolin will star, and there's a new character named Yaz (who might be a new agent.) Contenders to play Yaz include Sacha Baren Cohen and Flight Of The Conchords' Jemaine Clement. The screenplay was written by Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder, Igor, Idiocracy). [Bloody Disgusting]

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By kdawson from Slashdot's read-my-lips deptartment:
Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that professors have banned laptops from their classrooms at George Washington University, American University, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Virginia, among many others, compelling students to take notes the way their parents did: on paper. A generation ago, academia embraced the laptop as the most welcome classroom innovation since the ballpoint pen, but during the past decade it has evolved into a powerful distraction as wireless Internet connections tempt students away from note-typing to e-mail, blogs, YouTube videos, sports scores, even online gaming. Even when used as glorified typewriters, laptops can turn students into witless stenographers, typing a lecture verbatim without listening or understanding. 'The breaking point for me was when I asked a student to comment on an issue, and he said, "Wait a minute, I want to open my computer,"' says David Goldfrank, a Georgetown history professor. 'And I told him, "I don't want to know what's in your computer. I want to know what's in your head."' Some students don't agree with the ban. A student wrote in the University of Denver's newspaper: 'The fact that some students misuse technology is no reason to ban it. After all, how many professors ban pens and notebooks after noticing students doodling in the margins?'"

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By Lee Rodriguez from Panels on Pages:
It's another very special episode as this week we announce the winners of the first annual PoP!ples Choice Awards. It's all sorts of madness and there are a TON of guests and call-ins.

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By Lee Rodriguez from Panels on Pages:
It's been nearly a year since the last crop of "Transformers Animated" figures. With the release of the last few long-awaited molds, this looks like the end. We hardly knew ye, "Transformers Animated."

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By Sol Fury from TFW2005:
oracle1984 of the IDW Publishing forums has put up a listing for IDW's future trade paperback and hardcover edition releases. The listing covers the end of this year, and the beginning of 2011, and it also confirms that Transformers Animated: The Adventure Continues will not be a comic continuation of the series, but rather will be continuing the adaptation of the cartoon series with print versions of the stories featured in Season 3 of the series. There will also be a new hardcover, collecting the second year of IDW Transformers comics, and two new Best of collections, Best of Starscream and Best of Grimlock.

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By Sol Fury from TFW2005:
The February / March edition of the Official Transformers Collector's Club Magazine has been made available to the public on The Official Transformers Collector's Club homepage! Check out the magazine which Club Members get every two months by clicking here to visit the Collector's Club homepage, and then click on the front cover with War for Cybertron Bumblebee!

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By Soulskill from Slashdot's that-cow-still-has-some-milk deptartment:
An anonymous reader writes "Philippe Dauman, Viacom CEO and President, announced today that Harmonix is currently working on the next Rock Band game, Rock Band 3, due for release Holiday 2010. 'The company is pursuing the game in spite of an industry-weakening decline in the once-booming genre of peripheral-equipped music games. Although the franchise has generated over $1 billion to date, the category in general saw sales contract by as much as half throughout 2009. MTV Games parent Viacom also saw Rock Band declines drag on its balance sheet in its last fiscal quarter, and expressed a need to refocus away from pricey peripherals in favor of software. It also said that due to royalties it would need to be more "selective" about track listings, and that it needs more support from the music industry in that department.'"

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By kdawson from Slashdot's you-call-that-a-distro deptartment:
daria42 writes "The Electoral Commission in the Australian state of Victoria has made plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux in the next state election in November of this year. But it appears to be a little confused: the documentation states it will be using the '2.6 kernel/Gentoo release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.' Huh?"

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By kdawson from Slashdot's be-there-or-be-somewhere-else deptartment:
An anonymous reader writes "After a little over five months of pondering, xkcd fans have cracked a puzzle hidden inside Randall Munroe's recent book xkcd: volume 0. Here is the start of the thread on the xkcd forums; and here is the post revealing the final message (a latitude and longitude plus a date and time)."

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By Tycho from Penny Arcade:
Now that I've finally got a dependable crew in the new Battlefield: Bad Company - and a bandolier stuffed with the fruits of my progress - it's time to let everyone who relies upon me down. Again. If there is a decision matrix that determines what game is going to be played, Final Fantasy exists at a point somewhat beyond that machinery. The fact that I wasn't able to fully enjoy Twelve still haunts me to this day, because the story behind all that stuff I couldn't choke down really worked when someone else was playing it. Good taste has ...

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Penny Arcade:


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By kdawson from Slashdot's proud-to-have-been-warped-by-it deptartment:
Mirk writes "Computer-science legend Edsger W. Dijkstra famously wrote: 'It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration'. The Reinvigorated Programmer argues that the world is full of excellent programmers who cut their teeth on BASIC, and suggests it could even be because they started out with BASIC."

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From MMO-Champion:
Patch 3.3.3 - Jepetto's new toys!
<a href="http://db.mmo-champion.com/c/29478/jepetto-joybuzz/" >Jepettoy Joybuzz</a> in Dalaran will sell 3 more items in 3.3.3! Your favorite toymaker added the following to his inventory:



<a href="http://db.mmo-champion.com/i/54436/blue-clockwork-rocket-bot/" >Blue Clockwork Rocket Bot</a> 50
(Companion Pet)

<a href="http://db.mmo-champion.com/i/54343/blue-crashin-thrashin-racer-controller/" >Blue Crashin' Trashin' Racer Controller</a> 40

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XKCD:

Using a ring to bind someone you covet into your dark and twisted world? Wow, just got the subtext there. Also, the apparently eager Beyoncé would've made one badass Nazgȗl.

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By kdawson from Slashdot's get-what-you-don't-pay-for deptartment:
gollum123 writes "US regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. The FCC provided few details about how it would carry out such a plan and who would qualify, but will make a recommendation under the National Broadband Plan set for release next week. The agency will determine details later. One way of making broadband more affordable is to 'consider use of spectrum for a free or a very low-cost wireless broadband service,' the FCC said in a statement." Nobody has more than a couple of paragraphs on this story. None of the press coverage mentions the obvious likelihood that any such free network would be heavily filtered, censored, and monitored.

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By Soulskill from Slashdot's tell-us-about-your-paladin deptartment:
eldavojohn writes "A new report from Games Industry indicates that MMO gamers in the United States paid $3.8 billion to play last year, with an analysis of five European countries bringing the total close to $4.5 billion USD. In America, the report estimated that payments for boxed content and client downloads amounted to a measly $400 million, while the subscriptions came to $2.38 billion. Hopefully that will fund some developer budgets for bigger and better MMOs yet to come. The study also found that roughly a quarter of the US population plays some form of MMO. Surely MMOs are shaping up to be a juicy industry, and a market that can satisfy people of all walks of life."

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From StarCraft: Legacy:
VG247 has recently had the chance to interview Dustin Browder, lead designer of StarCraft II:
 

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By Charlie Jane Anders from io9:
John Krasinski has read for the part of Captain America four times, and is doing screen tests, an inside source at Marvel tells Fox News. The source adds: "He has screen tested 2 times so far. It's very likely that he will be the new Captain America. He is a favorite among the key decision makers and has been asked to come back for more this week." And these decision-makers are having Krasinski test opposite various actresses, so they can lock in the other key roles once the lead is cast. Adds the source, a comics fan who works at Marvel: "It's a surprise and we are bracing ourselves for 'that guy from 'The Office'' to land Captain America. They are not really looking at the other guys, so it's time to get ready to work with him." [Fox411]

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By Charlie Jane Anders from io9:

People talk about science fiction as the literature of humanism. But actually, science fiction's explorations put it into conflict with humanism's tenets. The best science fiction questions the nature of humanity, and whether the universe will let us stay human.

It's easy to think of science fiction and humanism as going hand in hand: Science fiction is about, or else informed by, science, which is empirical and rejects "a priori" beliefs and superstitions. Both Isaac Asimov and Kurt Vonnegut served as honorary presidents of the American Humanist Association.

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By kdawson from Slashdot's quieter-in-version-2 deptartment:
ElectricSteve writes "It's been a long time coming. While Arthur C. Clarke's geosync satellites have taken to space, and James Bond's futuristic mobile technology has become commonplace, still the dream of sustained personal flight has eluded us — until now. At $86,000, the Martin Aircraft jetpack costs about as much as a high-end car, achieves a 30-minute flight time, and is fueled by regular gasoline. A 10% deposit buys you a production slot for 12 months hence." Here's a video of some indoor test flights. This isn't Buck Rogers's jetpack — it's about 5 by 5 feet and weighs more than the average human. You won't be able to commute with it (the FAA has not certified this class of device) so it's recreational only for now.

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By Meredith Woerner from io9:
<!-- videoId: 7c99dfb51715eaccf4 --><!-- /videoId: 7c99dfb51715eaccf4 --> Check out this exclusive clip from Geoff Marslett and Mark Duplass' strange-looking space romantic comedy Mars. We're still not sure what to make of this indy film — the graphics alone freak us out a bit.

The picture, which is premiering at SXSW, is part comic book, part love story and part comedy. You may remember Mark Duplass from his Sundance directing days or his role on The League.
Here's the official synopsis:

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By Annalee Newitz from io9:

In a universe of supermassive stars and galactic cannibalism, what makes astronomers call a star system "extreme"? Megaspeed. A group at University of Warwick found two white dwarf stars revolving around each other in a blinding 5.4 minutes.

You know what that means, don't you? For these two collapsed stars, a year is about five and a half minutes long. I have no idea what that does to the 5-hour workweek, but I think it might be bad.

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By kdawson from Slashdot's throwing-silicon-at-it deptartment:
gollum123 sends an excerpt from the NY Times on how Google has taken a lead in language translation, in one of the company's few unqualified successes as it attempts to broaden is offerings beyond search. "...Google's quick rise to the top echelons of the translation business is a reminder of what can happen when Google unleashes its brute-force computing power on complex problems. The network of data centers that it built for Web searches may now be, when lashed together, the world's largest computer. Google is using that machine to push the limits on translation technology. Last month, for example, it said it was working to combine its translation tool with image analysis, allowing a person to, say, take a cellphone photo of a menu in German and get an instant English translation. ...in the mid-1990s, researchers began favoring a so-called statistical approach. They found that if they fed the computer thousands or millions of passages and their human-generated translations, it could learn to make accurate guesses about how to translate new texts. It turns out that this technique, which requires huge amounts of data and lots of computing horsepower, is right up Google's alley. ...Google's service is good enough to convey the essence of a news article, and it has become a quick source for translations for millions of people."

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By Cyriaque Lamar from io9:

Some days Hollywood casting news just reads like drunken chimpanzees playing Mad Libs. Dane Cook confirmed that he tried out for Captain America via Twitter, and two of the Jonas Brothers are (groundlessly) rumored to be in the running.

Last week we confirmed that Scott Porter of Friday Night Lights didn't nab the role of Steve Rogers. Since then, casting news for Cap has gotten exponentially weirder, as the world's most successful jokeless stand-up artiste reported that he was in the running for the shield-slinger:

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By Meredith Woerner from io9:

Jude Law told us about his small, but pivotal, role in Steven Soderbergh's epic pandemic film Contagion. Law's playing a "fear-mongering blogger." One of us! One of us!

At the press conference today for his next film, Repo Men, Law revealed to us a few details about his next Soderbergh project, Contagion, which sounds a lot like, Traffic, but instead of cocaine, the plot is centered around an infectious disease.

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By kdawson from Slashdot's what-price-standards deptartment:
blozza2070 notes the news that Jeff Jaffe has been appointed CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium. Until January Jaffe was CTO at Novell and, while his name hasn't come up very often in this community, he is one of the architects of the Novell-Microsoft patent deal. A reading of Jaffe's blog while at Novell tenda to paint him as a software patent supporter, Microsoft apologist, and no fan of the FSF. This strongly worded page at Boycott Novell features copious links to support the above characterization.

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By Popular Science from io9:

Toxoplasmosis, a common food- and pet-borne illness linked to hallucinations, personality alteration, and, since it's often carried by house pets, the stereotype of the crazy cat lady, infects around 15 percent of the US population.

Luckily, a new technique that traps the parasite with gold nanoparticles, and then zaps them with lasers, should help ease the $7.7 billion the disease costs America every year.

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By Meredith Woerner from io9:

We've got an exclusive image from what people are calling the "The Latin District 9," or Gareth Edwards' Monsters. Is this street art a representation of the possible octopus aliens that have been quarantined in Mexico? Plus a new clip.

The film, which is screening at SXSW's SX Fantastic and Fantastic Fest, tells the story of what happens to the world when a group of aliens crash-land in Mexico. The only details we have about this film, which is keeping its big alien reveal secret, are the above exclusive above image, and the basic premise. Six years after the crash, Mexico is quarantined, and the film follows a journalist who helps an American tourist through the alien-filled country, trying to get safely home.

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By kdawson from Slashdot's making-good deptartment:
adeelarshad82 writes "After originally rejecting the story, online retailer NewEgg confirmed that a shipment of Core i7s were indeed fake, and apologized for the affair. NewEgg has also broken off its relationship with IPEX, the supplier of the phony lot. The retailer said that it has already contacted affected customers and would continue to reach out and replace the counterfeit parts. We discussed the fake Core i7s over the weekend."

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By Cyriaque Lamar from io9:

The Arecibo Message isn't some new Spanish sportswear label - it's the binary message that SETI researchers transmitted into space in 1974 to converse with extraterrestrials. Nonetheless, you can rock the Arecibo Message sartorially, with this retro-chic SETI scarf.

When you're cruising with this scarf, everyone will know that your DNA is double-helixed, you come from the third planet from the Sun, and your DNA is made of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus. You're basically broadcasting to potential mates, "Hey babe, I'm 100% terrestrial. Let's do a little something extra."

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By Hena Mohayya from io9:

Every week, we round up the best tips that you post in io9's tips forum. This week, we've got Lady GaGa in Wonderland, an Xbox 360 Robot Sculpture, Elijah Wood and the Universe, and much more!

If you want to post a tip, just click on the #tips link on our navigation bar, or include the word #tips in any comment, on any post, that you think is a good tip for the people who read and write io9.

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By kdawson from Slashdot's irrational-exuberance deptartment:
netbuzz writes "When the NASDAQ stock index hit its all-time high of 5,133 on March 10, 2000, it had more than doubled in a year and the dot-com bubble was already leaking in a big way. A week later the NASDAQ had fallen 9 percent. A year later it was below 2000. Gone were such poster children of the era as Pets.com, Kozmo, and — who could forget? — Whoopi Goldberg's Flooz. Here's a look back."

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By Charlie Jane Anders from io9:

Last week, Doctor Who's most fearsome cybernetic enemies invaded the DVD shelves in greater strength than ever before. The "Dalek War" DVD box set and a new edition of "Remembrance Of The Daleks" both appeared. But are they worth it?

Those of us who survived the Dalek War don't like to talk about it. It's one of those things that you either know about, or you don't. You'll see us huddling under our blankets and twitching slightly whenever a rolly bin goes by or a Roomba starts vacuuming near us. Some of us are so traumatized, we can't even stand to hear about exfoliation because it sounds too much like exterminaton — and thus, we have terrible skin. And the worst thing? Nobody even knows the Dalek War even happened, because it's been erased from the history books.

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By kdawson from Slashdot's x-ray-goggles deptartment:
bjb writes "While helping a somewhat computer illiterate person figure out a problem recently, they mentioned that PDF files had recently stopped working. Upon investigation I found something installed called 'PDF Suite.' Never having heard of it, I Googled it with 'malware' and other key words, but nothing turned up, though my suspicion remained (and was somewhat confirmed by WOT.) So my question is, where can you go to find out if something is legitimate? Because the person I'm helping is on a dial-up connection, downloading malware detection applications (and updates) is too heavy consider. And I don't maintain a USB stick with such apps, since I don't do this kind of thing very often. Where can you quickly find information?"

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By Graeme McMillan from io9:

Wondering what made Congressman Eric Massa tell a staffer that he wanted to frak them? It's merely the natural crossover between SF geeks and political wonks, according to Ana Marie Cox's Venn Diagram of Washington's internal social subcommittees. [GQ]

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By Brian Crecente from Kotaku:
Remember that painfully adorable Voltron cosplayer Ash posted about a few days ago? Well, that was nothing.

Turns out that the little girl sporting that robot armor is Belldandy, a professional cosplayer backed by a dad with some serious crafting skills.

How serious, check out their full site, and these amazing samples.




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By Cyriaque Lamar from io9:
Looking for the right bundt for The Rapture? The perfect pie for global pandemics? You just might find your recipe at Apocalypse Cakes, quite possibly the internet's only doomsday-themed pastry blog.

The final word for end time epicures, Apocalypse Cakes seeks to tickle your tastebuds as humanity goes extinct. Its founder(s) have a simple philosophy - sweets before ruin:

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By kdawson from Slashdot's one-loc-per-second deptartment:
CWmike writes "Today Cisco Systems introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. 'The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate,' Cisco's John Chambers said while announcing the product. At full scale, the CRS-3 has a capacity of 322Tbit/sec., roughly three times that of the CRS-1, introduced in 2004. It also has more than 12 times the capacity of its nearest competitor, Chambers said. The CRS-3 will help the Internet evolve from a messaging to an entertainment and media platform, with video emerging as the 'killer app,' Chambers said. Using a CRS-3, every person in China, which has a population just over 1.3 billion, could participate in a video phone call at the same time. (Or you could pump nearly one Library of Congress per second through the device, or give everyone in San Fransisco a 1Gbps internet connection.) AT&T said it has been using the CRS-3 to test 100Gbit/sec. data links in tests on a commercial fiber route in Florida and Louisiana."

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By Cyriaque Lamar from io9:

At a Repo Man press conference today, Liev Schreiber confirmed that he and Hugh Jackman have read the Wolverine 2 screenplay. Even though he's unsure whether Sabretooth will appear, he's optimistic about Victor Creed's return for Logan's Samurai saga.

At a press conference for Repo Man in New York, Schreiber had the following to say about Wolverine's Japan odyssey.

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By Mike Fahey from Kotaku:

Viacom President and CEO Philippe Dauman officially outed Rock Band 3, due for release this holiday season, when it will "will innovate and revolutionize the music genre" all over again.

Dauman revealed the game while speaking at the Credit Suisse Group Global Media and Communications Conference this morning, quickly followed by Tweets from several members of the Harmonix staff, relieved to finally be able to discuss what they've been working on, as well as this new entry on the Rock Band Facebook page:

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By Graeme McMillan from io9:

Last night's Chuck finally gave us something we'd been wanting since day one - and made it seem worth the wait. Also, the Ring showed that maybe they're not completely inept before reassuring us that, yeah, they actually are. Spoilers!

First off: Thank God Morgan finally knows. After his suspicions were raised earlier this season - even though, let's face it, they probably should've been raised way before that - this probably should've seemed like more of an obvious conclusion, but I was worried that the Hannah reveal was going to be a successful diversionary tactic (Hannah, by the way? Entirely gone; Morgan tells us that she quit the BuyMore between episodes, so I guess Kristin Kreuk's guest-spots are done).

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By Luke Plunkett from Kotaku:

For years - no, decades - games on the Mac have been a running joke, a constant source of derision from the dominant PC gaming community. But in a single move earlier this week, the Mac made a comeback.

In unveiling not only the release of its line-up of first-party titles - classic games like Portal, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead - but of the company's Steam digital download service on the Mac, Valve has shown how antiquated and out of place its retail competitors on the PC (and even on consoles) have become in the digital age.

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By Charlie Jane Anders from io9:

Even if Battlestar Galactica hadn't suffered an epic-letdown ending, we'd be dubious about the potential of an MMO set among the bedraggled last few survivors of a nearly-extinct humanity. But now? Is anybody really clamoring for BSG Online? [L.A. Times]

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By kdawson from Slashdot's self-supplied deptartment:
kkleiner writes "For many years countless individuals in the US have had to watch with envy as dogs and horses with joint and bone injuries have been cured with stem cell procedures that the FDA has refused to approve for humans. Now, in an exciting development, Regenerative Sciences Inc. in Colorado has found a way to skirt the FDA and provide these same stem cell treatments to humans. The results have been stunning, allowing many patients to walk or run who have not been able to do so for years. There's no surgery required, just a needle to extract and then re-inject the cells where they are needed. There has always been a lot of hype around stem cells, but this is the real deal. Real humans are getting real treatment that works, and we should all hope that more companies will begin offering this procedure in other states soon."

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By Tim Formas from TFW2005:
Thanks to Red leader of TFW2005 sponsor Kapow Toys, there is solid confirmation that the Hasbro will release Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Class Wave 9 and Scout Class Wave 5 in the United Kingdom this month.

UK Deluxe Wave 9 will include 1x Alliance Bumblebee, 1x Strike Mission Sideswipe, 2x Lockdown, 2x Brawn, and 2x Ratchet with a suggested retail price of £14.99 (a £2 increase). Dirge continues to be unreleased in the United Kingdom.

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By Brian Crecente from Kotaku:

Windows Phone 7 games will include the ability to unlock achievements on a phone as well as pulling in a user's gamertag, 2D avatar and even let gamer's know when it's their turn to play.

This will all come thanks to an update to XNA Game Studio 4.0 being unveiled at the Game Developers Conference today, Microsoft's Michael Klucher writes on his blog.

The lead program manager at microsoft, Klucher said he will be in San Francisco this week to talk about the things that the latest build of XNA can do for developers and their games.

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By Meredith Woerner from io9:

American McGee's Alice PC game is best known for it's warped take on the fairy tale, by making Alice suicidal orphan. His next fairy tale victim is Little Red Riding Hood, and here's a glimpse at the gory concept art.






We seriously hope Catherine Harwicke pulls inspiration from this art for her Red Riding Hood feature starring Amanda Seyfried.

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By Mike Fahey from Kotaku:
<!-- videoId: iuycRCDD90w --><!-- /videoId: iuycRCDD90w --> Did you know that rapper Random, AKA Mega Ran, crafted a single dedicated to Capcom's recently released Mega Man 10? Well you do now, and you've got the new music video to prove it.

I've always been slightly fond of rap, but I've traditionally found myself liking it more when mixed with other genres, especially chiptune. There's just something about the power of the spoken word mixed with primitive video game noises that just gets me all riled up and ready to kick some ass, from the comfort of my own couch, of course.

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