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Aspyr Media is now shipping PC and Mac versions of SpyHunter, the re-worked classic arcade game released last year for console systems by Midway Games.
Rated “T” (Teen), both versions have an MSRP of $29.99.

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Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith report:

The future of the next “Planet of the Apes” is in limbo.
Producer Richard Zanuck reveals that, though his blockbuster of 2001 has brought in some $380 million worldwide, 20th Century Fox has yet to decide when — or if — it will proceed with its follow-up.
“The [...]

According to a Reuters story this morning, Sega Corp., fresh off of rejecting two previous suitors, is now considering an offer from Electronic Arts to form a North American sales alliance.
Hisao Oguchi, currently senior officer, but tapped to become president of Sega Corp. in June, told Reuters, “We will consider forming [...]

The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. Bruce Almighty $70.4 million
2. The Matrix Reloaded $37.2 million
3. Daddy Day Care $15.1 million
4. X2: X-Men United $10.5 million
5. The In-Laws $7.4 million
6. Down with Love $4.5 million
7. The Lizzie McGuire Movie $3.4 [...]

squiggleslash writes “Apple has issued an update to iTunes 4, iTunes 4.0.1. It can be downloaded via Software Update. The big change seems to be that iTunes will now only stream music to other Macs on the same subnet. This is presumably a response to people publishing public lists of shared iTunes playlists, though it [...]

A federal jury on Tuesday found eBay guilty of patent infringement and ordered the online auction giant to pay $35 million in damages.
A U.S. district Court jury sided with MercExchange of Great Falls, Va., which accused eBay in 2001 of infringing on three patents held by MercExchange founder Tom Woolston. The verdict determined that [...]

Help save the Screen Savers Re-Runs!!
Leo says “I’ve been getting a lot of email about the lack of re-runs for The Screen Savers. There’s nothing I can do about it, folks. Management already knows what I think. You need to let them know what you think.
Sign the online petition and email feedback@techtv.com.
TechTV’s programmers don’t [...]

ATI has admitted that it tweaked its Catalyst drivers to generate better 3DMark 03 scores and said that it will remove the modifications before the next release of the drivers.
The admission followed 3DMark creator Futuremark’s audit of graphics card drivers from ATI and arch-rival Nvidia. The audit was prompted by an ExtremeTech investigation of [...]

As perhaps the clearest evidence yet of the power of sophisticated but inexpensive game consoles, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has assembled a supercomputer from an army of Sony PlayStation 2 devices.
The resulting system, with components purchased at retail prices, cost a little more than $50,000. Researchers [...]

Microsoft is designing its ever-present Windows operating system to streamline and lower the cost of building and distributing the software.
The next major client version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, will be designed as a series of components that Microsoft can easily combine and tailor for different markets and computing hardware, according to company executives. That’s [...]