EA: Warhammer Won't Rival WoW

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The MMORPG is slated to release later this year. In addition, EA's new internal studio BioWare is prepping a single-player RPG experience in the form of Dragon Age for the PC. Riccitiello attempted to assure investors that this particular new piece of IP isn't that big of a risk to the company. No release date has been pinned on Dragon Age yet. Submitted by: scriptillusion | Visited 5 times | Comments 0

♦ Bow Wow Fires Back At Loose-lipped Video Vixens.

1 vote	Bow Wow Fires Back At Loose-lipped Video Vixens.... Rapper Bow Wow has fired back at two music video models who poked fun at his womanising ways and his stature on a radio show. Dollicia Bryant and Rita G claimed Bow Wow hit on them while he was still dating then-girlfriend Ciara during a recent radio chat... Submitted by: vpvinnie - Visited 2 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Bow Wow Reunites With Dupri In Studio.

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Bow Wow and Dupri Together In Studio.... Rapper Bow Wow has made amends with his producer pal Jermaine Dupri and is desperate to feature the hip-hop mogul on his upcoming LP in one form or another. The 21-year-old MC is currently in the midst of recording his new album Pedigree, and Bow Wow real name Shad Moss is confident mentor Dupri will b... Submitted by: netbizman - Visited 4 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Book Author: 'Spears Fears She Won't See Another Birthday'.

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Book Author: 'Spears Fears She Won't See Another Birthday'.... Britney Spears fears she won't live to see her 28th birthday, according to the author of a shocking new expose about the troubled pop star. Biographer and journalist Ian Halperin spent 18 months studying the Toxic singer as an undercover paparazzo, getting close to the star and her inner circle. Submitted by: sitemarker - Visited 5 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Athletics: Bolt and Gay excel in trials

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World 100m record holder Usain Bolt completed a sprint double at Jamaica's national championships to secure his place at this summer's Olympics. He ran 9.85 seconds to beat rival Asafa Powell in the 100m on Saturday and won the 200m in 19.97 secs a day later. The 21-year-old's main rival in Beijing could be Tyson Gay, who ran the fastest 100m of all-time, a wind-assisted 9.68 secs... Submitted by: netsinteractive - Visited 3 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Greenskins unite: Warhammer Online coming Sept 18

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Few games have the ability to truly challenge Blizzard's titanic massively multiplayer game World of Warcraft, but Warhammer Onlineoften affectionately nodded to by players still playing "Waiting on Warhammer"is finally on the way. After some bumps in the road, EA and Mythic have confirmed that the game will be launching on September 18. Subscription prices will fall in line with the average... Submitted by: Sem-Advance - Visited 8 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Hamilton's old rival comes good

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Robert Kubica won his first Grand Prix on Sunday in Montreal on the same circuit as Lewis Hamilton did last year, and there is a fitting symmetry about that. The two are old rivals from their teenage days in karts, and Hamilton has always known that Kubica would one day become a serious rival in Formula One as well. Hamilton has already made it clear he regards the Pole as a future world champion... Submitted by: webmasterplace - Visited 1 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Clean sweep for Ethiopian party

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Ethiopia's ruling party has won all but a handful of local council and parliamentary seats following an opposition boycott of the April poll. The EPRDF regained control of the capital Addis Ababa and won all but one of the 39 parliamentary by-elections. Many of the seats were declared vacant after opposition leaders who had won them in 2005 were arrested over protests at alleged electoral fraud. Submitted by: dhw - Visited 1 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Bow Wow To Quit Rap In 2009.

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Bow Wow To Quit Rap In 2009.... Rapper Bow Wow will retire from the music industry after the release of his next two albums because he doesn't have enough material for any more LPs. The 21-year-old is gearing up to unleash his seventh album, The Pedigree, later this year (08) and he's predicting he'll retire from hip-hop in 2009 so he can focus on his acting career. Submitted by: rchase14 - Visited 6 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Johnson will return Olympic gold

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Five-times Olympic champion Michael Johnson says he will return the relay gold he won at the Sydney Games after a former team-mate admitted taking drugs. Antonio Pettigrew, who together with Johnson won 4x400m relay for the United States at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, has admitted taking banned substances. "I know that the medal was not fairly won and that it is dirty... Submitted by: angilina - Visited 9 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Banded makes Cup line-up

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The progressive stayer won at Nottingham two weeks ago and the 3lb penalty he picked up proved the key to making the 17-runner field at the Roodee. The four-year-old has won five of his last seven races and is strongly fancied to improve his record under big-race jockey Kerrin McEvoy, having won a favourable draw in stall five. Last week's Sagaro Stakes victor Shipmaster heads the weights... Submitted by: BioPod - Visited 0 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Lamborghini won't meet emissions standards, but it won't build an SUV, either

1 vote	How will Lamborghini — a company that produces vehicles with only V10 and V12 engines — meet new emissions and fuel economy standards? Put simply — it won't. "We will never reach the emissions that are asked for... Submitted by: ebkebk - Visited 7 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Ruling parties win Pakistan polls

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The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) have won five by-election seats to the country's national parliament. The PML-N won three seats while the PPP won two seats in Thursday's vote. Polling was postponed for a sixth seat in the city of Lahore because of wrangling over whether former Premier Nawaz Sharif was eligible to contest. Submitted by: scorpionagency - Visited 2 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Knee won't stop me against South Africa: Vaughan

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London: England captain Michael Vaughan has insisted his longstanding knee problem won't prevent him from getting through all four Tests of the upcoming series with South Africa after undergoing a fresh course of injections on Saturday. The team head to Lord's for next week's opener with Vaughan's right knee again a talking point. Submitted by: bri2336 - Visited 5 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Final results declared in Nepal

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Nepal's election commission has published its final results for elections to a new constituent assembly held on 10 April. The former rebel Maoists have won 220 of the 601 seats, giving them the chance to form a minority government. The Nepali Congress party has come second with 110 seats, while the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) has won 103 seats. Submitted by: bestija - Visited 5 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ How golf can cope with post-Tiger letdown

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They played a PGA tournament over the weekend and somebody won. You probably noticed that his first name was not Tiger. So life goes on in golf, even without The Big Guy. This is not going to be easy for golf, because there's suddenly a hole in the sport the size of Antarctica. Nothing against Stewart Cink, who won the Travelers Championship on Sunday... Submitted by: drewclarke - Visited 6 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Christmas savings firm 'recovers'

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Christmas savings firm Park Group has said its sales are recovering after the failure of hamper firm Farepak in 2006 hit confidence in the industry. The collapse of Farepak, its rival, caused Park Group's Christmas revenues to fall by 34% last year compared with the position a year earlier. But orders for Christmas 2008 are now up 17%, thanks to its new payment protection scheme, the firm said. Submitted by: ZakYoung - Visited 11 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Dow Chemical Buying Rival for $15 Billion

1 vote	Dow Chemical Co. has agreed to buy rival Rohm and Haas Co. for more than $15 billion in cash in a deal that Dow hopes will fuel its growth in a more lucrative wing of the chemical-making business. Submitted by: janneke - Visited 5 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ ODM wins three Kenya by-elections

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Kenya's coalition partners have remained on roughly level terms after by-elections in five constituencies. Prime Minister Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) won three seats, while President Mwai Kibaki's Party of National Unity (PNU) won two. The ODM lost one Nairobi seat to the PNU, and now has 103 parliamentary seats to the PNU's 104. Submitted by: hyjlmc - Visited 1 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ World of web names now wide open

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) overwhelmingly approved the new guidelines on Thursday in Paris after weeklong meetings. The guidelines represent one of the biggest changes to the internet in its 25-year history. New names won't begin appearing for several months and ICANN won't be deciding on specific ones. Submitted by: strings - Visited 7 - Comments 0 - Write first comment