Dice-K adjusting quickly to life in U.S.
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Daisuke Matsuzaka is quickly putting his off-the-field worries behind him. Now, the Japanese ace is hungry for spring training with the Boston Red Sox.
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I spent large chunks of last year playing the same AAA video games everyone else played: "BioShock," "Rock Band," "Super Mario Galaxy" and so on. But if I actually kept track of my gaming hours, I wouldn't be surprised to find that I spent just as much time enjoying the simpler delights of Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade.
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The gaming industry is set to court the swelling ranks of casual gamers who favor the ease-of-gameplay offered by platforms like the Wii and Nintendo DS, along with the varied selection and lower prices offered through downloadable games.
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With or without the U.S., online gambling will continue to be big.
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Chip Bergh works fast. When the Procter &amp; Gamble Co. veteran left his job in Singapore, he trained his successor in less than three weeks.
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Americans may look with envy on the super-fast Internet connections available in South Korea, Japan and parts of Europe, but they can take consolation from a new study that concludes that the U.S. makes better overall use of its telecommunications.
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The odds aren't as long as you might think.
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Digital technology changes from workhorse to entertainer.
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Just over a year ago, Joe Barlow, a paramedic in Illinois, spent a week testing a computer game called Incident Commander, a training simulator that gives players a lead role in managing crisis situations such as terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
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The gaming industry is increasingly pursuing casual or coffee-break gamers, those who indulge in short-term play of games including puzzles, solitaire and mah-jongg.
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A digital version of Hasbro's classic dice game can be downloaded now from the iTunes Store.
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Gabe: I just have some random stuff to share here.***UPDATE***Looks like we got bumped to 2/12 because of a Magic tournament.Pokemon League night is next Tuesday at the Comic Stop. Matches start at six pm, but you can show up a little early if you'd like to trade cards. As always new players are welcome, just bring a starter deck. It's also a good idea to register at Go-Pokemon.com and bring your POP ID. A reader wrote in today to tell me that he was doing the New York Sun crossword puzzle for January 30th and noticed this clue for 12 down:  "Tycho's pal in the webcomic 'Penny Arcade' (4 letters)." That's totally awesome. I'm sure the Force Unleashed will be fine. The time period around the original trilogy is just getting so crowded. Now Vader has a secret apprentice? I mean, it makes sense canonically to me. The Emperor had Mara Jade out there doing his dirty work. It's not unreasonable to think Vader had a similar arrangement. Also the very nature of Sith rule makes covering your ass a necessity. The hook for the game is fine and I don't mind the 3rd person action stuff. There are a few games I'd much rather see them make though. The fact that they have not made a sequel to Republic Commando is fucking criminal. That's not a joke either. I mean that someone over there should be put in jail for the rest of their life. RepCom was an incredible squad based shooter, and unlike most games in that genre it was packed with awesome characters. This games deserves a next gen sequel. The other game that needs a next gen installment is Tie Fighter. Seriously that game came out in 1994 and it's one of the best space shooters ever. And for fucks sake stop setting things during the movies. There's nearly sixty years worth of incredible content (minus the dark nest series) extending out past Return of the Jedi. You don't have to keep trying to cram stories into the same 20 year period. They're milking so much content out of that period that eventually we'll be playing a game as Luke where the goal is to repair vaporators on the south ridge. Hurry up you've only got 'till mid day!Rez is available on Xbox Live now. It's one of the best games ever made.   The most popular piece of clothing we've ever made, AKA The Black Mantle is back in stock. It's joined by its polar opposite, the Luminous Vestments. I have a feeling both will be sold out before I finish typing this.   -Gabe out
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Timothy McCracken, an amiable guy who works for Firaxis Games in Hunt Valley, Md., has what is either a gamer's dream job or the classic "be careful what you wish for" sort of gig.
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Shane Kim, VP of Microsoft Game Studios, is facing tough competition on a shifting playing field. Wired.com chats him up at the DICE conference.
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NEW YORK, Jan 30 (Reuters Life!) - Older people are able to take bad news more in their stride than their children or grandchildren which can make them more risky gamblers as losses don't scare them, according to a U.S. study.
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Are online gaming champions the rock stars of the 21st century? Fifty million Koreans canÂt be wrong.
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Handheld game player "most likely" will make it to North America by late March.