

by DigitalPh33r He's back, and with an acid tongue! Master Chief is having a hell of a time playing Jon's copy of Halo 3 while he's out of the house, and is still as bad as ever. That is until he gets a lucky headshot and thinks he's the best Halo 3 player in existence!
| Group: Families turning to video games (UPI) LONDON, July 5 (UPI) -- British families increasingly are turning to video games for entertainment as the ongoing credit crisis restricts their finances, a game maker says. |
| China to close plants over Games (BBC News) Factories in Tianjin near Beijing are ordered to close in an attempt to improve air quality a month before the Olympic Games. |
| End Games, By Michael Dibdin (Independent) Published posthumously, End Games sees Michael Dibdin's Venetian detective, Aurelio Zen, investigating the kidnapping of an American lawyer in Calabria. Zen is as world-weary as ever, although somehow hardwired to the task of seeing that justice is eventually done. A plot involving the production of a film version of St John's Apocalypse ("Saint John of Patmos has variously been described as an ... |
| China will hold the Olympic Games on its own terms (Slam! Sports) You know the Olympics are near when the usual gang of juiced-up Bulgarian weightlifters gets tossed from the games before even learning how to say in Chinese, "These needles are for therapeutic use only." |
| Oasis man blames games for violent crime (Ferrago) Chatting with UK music mag NME Oasis star Noel Gallagher has partially blamed video games for a rise in violent crime in the UK. |
