Leading online poker site, InterPoker has sealed a deal to display 30-second commercials for InterPoker (www.interpoker.com) and InterCasino (www.intercasino.com) during the Montreal Grand Prix, June 12th in Montreal, Canada and at other prominent sp

Think about the luckiest person who you know and it’s likely that he or she is a happy extrovert who has an approach on life that is open and relaxed. There is a good reason for this, and that is optimistic people will te

Reuters - Hollywood actors unions have
reached a contract deal with video game publishers, accepting
higher pay instead of the profit-sharing they had demanded, the
unions said Wednesday, removing the threat of a strike.

Reuters - Hollywood’s actors
tentatively agreed Wednesday to accept a new video game
contract after failing to get enough member support for a
strike over residuals.

AP - Actors who provide the voices for video games would receive 36 percent raises over the next 3 1/2 years under tentative agreements reached Wednesday.

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大野狼 - Da4 Ye3 Lang2 - Big Wild Wolf – Big Bad Wolf

Jenny picked an awful Korean movie for us to see tonight called (I think?) Return of the Wolf. Complete waste of time. Avoid.

MacCentral - A processor alliance between Intel Corp. and Apple would have seemed
unthinkable five years ago, when Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs
first began setting up the company’s “just in case” plan
for moving to Intel’s chips if its relationship with IBM Corp. and
Freescale Semiconductor Inc. faltered. With IBM and Freescale moving in
different directions from Apple, the backup plan moved front and center.

AQABA Global Search Engine Marketing SEM Company, a Global provider of Search Engine Marketing SEM services, Organic Search Engine Optimization SEO, Optimized Press Release, Linking Strategies and Pay Per Click services, announced today the signing o

Interactive Voices (Video Game Voice Overs), provider of voice actor services, has been witnessing the increasing demand for non-union voice actors at their website. A host of video gaming employers have been posting their voice-over jobs with one ob

Ziff Davis - In order to expand on the wireless capabilities of Nintendo’s dual-screen handheld gaming system, the Nintendo DS, the company has announced plans to establish 1,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in Japan by the end of 2005, Reuters reports.

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閏月 - Run4 Yue4 - Intercalary Month

閏秒 - Run4 Miao3 - Intercalary Second – Leap Second

Don’t worry… there will be no leap second this June. And you can check back here twice a year (January and June) too see when the next one will be. They really, of course, should have an RSS feed.

AP - Video-game maker Atari Inc. on Tuesday said President and Chief Executive James Caparro resigned, and the board appointed Chairman and Chief Creative Officer Bruno Bonnell to take his place on a temporary basis.

AP - The biggest drawback to today’s massively multiplayer online games: They consume WAY too much time. These virtual worlds have always demanded a cultish devotion to playing hours on end. It’s the only real way to gain greater powers and equipment.

Reuters - Video game publisher Atari Inc.
on Tuesday said James Caparro had resigned as
president and chief executive officer to work at another
company. Shares of the company fell more than 15 percent in
after hours trade.

AFP - Japanese game maker Nintendo said it would launch a full online game service this year for its DS portable game consoles as it seeks to maintain its competitive edge over rival Sony.

Reuters - Nintendo Co. Ltd. said on Tuesday it
would establish 1,000 WiFi hotspots in Japan by the end of 2005
where owners of its DS portable game machines can play games
with others online for free.

BusinessWeek Online - Quin Boucher regularly e-mails or instant-messages his mother in the kitchen from his bedroom four stories above. At 14, he’s a child of the wired generation, attending a special technology high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., talking to classmates by cell phone or IM, and firing up his Sony PlayStation to play Tony Hawk’s Underground. “He’s a real screen kid,” Rebecca Boucher says, so when it came time to choose a summer camp, her first priority was clear: “I want to unplug him for the summer.”

USATODAY.com - The actors who supply the voices in video games are calling for more money. And today, more than 1,900 will have their say on whether their unions (the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists) should go on strike against gamemakers over the lack of profit-sharing.

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, Atlantic City’s premiere hotel-casino, has teamed up with Maxim, Stuff, and Blender magazines for the second year in a row to present Maxim All Access at Borgata on June 25th, hosted by the ultimate master of ceremonies, P

There’s no doubt Brett Jungblut was in the chips when he won the Omaha Hi-Lo Championship at the WSOP 2004. But this 26-year-old internet poker-playing whiz is still in the chips - this time with a phenomenal number of internet poker wins, and his