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Hasbro’s Republic News updates today with official confirmation on their upcoming Titanium Series Die-cast vehicle collection. According to the update, the line will be sold exclusively through Wal-Mart stores in the U.S., and a second wave of “all-new” vehicles is already planned for Spring 2005. No information was given on availability outside the States, or [...]

Hasbro’s Republic News updates today with official confirmation on their upcoming Titanium Series Die-cast vehicle collection. According to the update, the line will be sold exclusively through Wal-Mart stores in the U.S., and a second wave of “all-new” vehicles is already planned for Spring 2005. No information was given on availability outside the States, or [...]

Hyper Hobby magazine and Marmit will be releasing exclusive Hedorah candy case style vinyls at end of Jan, 2005. There will be 3 different color versions; glow, translucent pink, and silver. Marmit has also announced that latest release in the MOSTER HEAVENS line: Godzilla ’68 (DAM) [Destroy All Monsters] Marusan are releasing a gray Minya, [...]

Secure Sockets Layer, the fundamental security service for the world’s websites and many networks is at risk in the face of a new spyware application, Marketscore, an application that promises to speed up web browsing. The software is bundled with iMesh P2P (peer-to-peer) software and is popular with university students. Marketscore is a descendent of [...]

AP – “Jeopardy” whiz Ken Jennings finally met his match after a 74-game run as a pop culture icon who made brainiacs cool, beaten by a woman whose own 8-year-old daughter asked for his autograph when they first met. yahoo.com

Columbia Pictures has confirmed that Tom Hanks has been cast in the lead role of the famed symbologist Robert Langdon in the studio’s upcoming film adaptation of Dan Brown’s best-selling thriller The Da Vinci Code , it was announced today by Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group Chairman Amy Pascal and the film’s producers Brian [...]

The special Half-Life 2 “surprise” that was alluded to in an earlier update on the Steam web site has now been increased with a screenshot on the news page that may indicate that a real, official, deathmatch multiplayer mode for Valve’s recent first person shooter is close to release.

Today, CDV Software Entertainment shipped Blitzkrieg: Rolling Thunder, expansion pack to Blitzkrieg, to retail outlets across North America for the PC platform. gamegossip.com

It has always been suspected that Valve has been to “bed” with ATI regarding Half-Life 2. ATI’s cards have generally kicked ass in the Source Engine. Could the reason for this be deliberate? This thread over at Hard OCP’s Hard Forum thinks so. First off, you need 3dAnalyze. I’m assuming everyone knows that you can [...]

Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader boogah says, Apparently Netscape isn’t totally dead – AOL outsourced development of a new browser based on Firefox to Canadian firm Mercurial Communications. Normally I’d applaud something like this. Getting Firefox into the hands of the many is a good thing… But the fact that they’re going to allow the user [...]