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Review: PlayStation icons join in 'Battle Royale'
The holiday season is a good time to catch up with old friends. If you're an Xbox fan, you're probably getting reacquainted with galactic warrior ...
Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar dies at 92
The kids at first didn't seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar began his four-hour set on the final afternoon of the Monterey Pop Festival, in ...
Cavallari shares her style with 2 accessory lines
Kristin Cavallari may be a new mom, but she still aims to be as put together and stylish as she did pre-baby. It's part of her job these days.
'Dishonored' tops a diverse year in video games
The video game universe in 2012 is a study in extremes. At one end, you have the old guard striving to produce mass-appeal blockbusters. At the other ...
Redbox Instant streaming plan takes on Netflix
DVD kiosk operator Redbox is launching a challenge to Netflix's streaming-video supremacy. Later this month, Redbox will offer an unlimited ...
Americans finding dozens of ways to mark 12-12-12
A Michigan sixth-grader will put aside her nerves and get her ears pierced on her 12th birthday. Two law-enforcement officials will exchange wedding ...
Monopoly comes to Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city
Nigeria's largest city of Lagos is no boardwalk, but now Monopoly is taking inspiration from the city's sprawling chaos. Officials unveiled a ...
Man strips at Austrian art exhibition of nude men
An Austrian museum says a man took the concept of life imitating art to an extreme when he suddenly stripped at an exhibition of pictures and ...
Van Gogh dazzles at Netherlands' Kroeller-Mueller
With the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam closed for renovations until April, the world's second-largest collection of the tortured Dutch master's work ...
NBC Sports partners with Yahoo for content deal
NBC Sports and Yahoo are taking on the crowded sports media landscape with a partnership that fills in gaps for both companies. NBC brings video and ...
Lenox Lounge, a jazz landmark, to close in NYC
The Lenox Lounge, a cabaret in New York City's Harlem neighborhood with a supercool, Art Deco style that made it a favorite of jazz greats like Billie ...
'Walking Dead' wins game of the year at Spike VGAs
"The Walking Dead: The Game" took a bite out of the Spike Video Game Awards. Telltale Games' interactive episodic series based on the zombie comic ...
NBA's Stern scolds Christie on sports bet effort
NBA Commissioner David Stern scolded Gov. Christie and said New Jersey "has no idea what it's doing" by seeking to allow sports betting in the state ...
WVU mascot told to stop firing musket at wildlife
The musket toted by West Virginia University's Mountaineer isn't just a prop — it's a bona fide weapon, and mascot Jonathan Kimble demonstrated that ...
'BioShock Infinite': 5 ways it's different
Fans clamoring for the video game "BioShock Infinite," the highly anticipated spiritual successor to the landmark "BioShock," will have to wait a bit ...
Authorities 'confident' bodies are 2 Iowa cousins
Northeast Iowa residents who have been holding out hope that two young cousins missing for five months might be home for Christmas were grappling ...
Alaska reclaims missing moon rocks since 1973
A display of moon rocks that disappeared from an Alaska museum after an arson fire nearly four decades ago has been returned to the state following ...
Zynga moves to enter US gambling market
Online games company Zynga said it has asked Nevada gambling regulators for a decision that could pave the way for it to enter the U.S.
Pearl Harbor survivor helps identify unknown dead
Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater.
Gary Sinise, Trombone Shorty to ride in Orpheus
Actor Gary Sinise and New Orleans musicians Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and Harry Connick Jr. will lead the parade of the Krewe of Orpheus on the ...
Galleries spite Sandy to show at Art Basel Miami
It's art season in the Miami area. Art Basel Miami Beach and about two dozen other independent art fairs open Thursday. Tens of thousands of people ...
Review: 'Need for Speed,' 'Forza' hit the gas
Holiday-season TV ads would have you believe that lots of people get brand-new cars for Christmas. With giant bows on top. I hate to play Scrooge, but ...
Man calls 14-foot canoe on Boston Harbor his home
Michael Richard Smith is a man without a fixed address, someone who leaves it to the wind and tide in Boston Harbor to help decide where he'll dream ...
Winfrey picks Mathis' debut novel for book club
Add another book for possible holiday gifts: Oprah Winfrey's latest 2.0 selection. Winfrey announced Wednesday that she has chosen Ayana Mathis' debut ...
Grizzly managers look toward hunts in Rockies
With bear-human conflicts on the rise, wildlife managers in the Northern Rockies are laying the groundwork for trophy hunts for grizzlies in ...