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Civil War has been tearing its way through the Marvel Universe as America has passed a Superhuman Registration Act, but will the fighting carry over to Wakanda when heroes on both sides of the conflict attend the royal wedding of the Black Panther and Storm in Black Panther #18.
Regale at the most royal Marvel [...]

1. Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme will be the fastest processors available. Faster than the Pentium EE, thanks to new techniques like Smart Cache and Wide Dynamic Execution—and, according to preliminary results, faster than the AMD FX62.
2. Core 2 Duo overtakes the Pentium as the name in processors. Farewell Pentium: There will never [...]

Quality threshold is going to be a lot higher at release, says Digital Illusions’ Marcus Nilsson
We’ve just returned from a trip to not-so-sunny Sweden to visit Digital Illusions, maker of the epic Battlefield series, to see how the newest entry Battlefield 2142 is shaping up.
We’ll be bringing you a full report and an interview with [...]

It didn’t take that long for an official response from Microsoft after a Toshiba executive predicted an Xbox 360 with a built-in HD DVD drive.
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If you’ve seen advertising for “Superman Returns,” you’ve no doubt noticed some scenes missing from the film, even though they’re quite apparent in trailers, commercials and released art. CBR News takes a look at what we can expect from the eventual complete DVD release of this blockbuster film.
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Good news! The Hulk statue will soon be in our warehouse and will be shipping out to all those that have pre-ordered. By the way, this guy is HUGE, nearly 18 lbs. of resin muscle (box and all)!

Hulk Cold-cast Porcelain Statue
1000 piece Limited Edition
Stands over 14″ tall, 11.75″ width
Includes full color collector’s box
Sculpted [...]

Historically, electronic games of any kind have been seen as more of a “guy thing,” right alongside muscle cars, power tools, and other techno doodads. Well, a new study from Parks Associates flies in the face of that conventional wisdom in at least one arena, finding some 59 percent of U.S. consumers who play games [...]

Resident Evil: Extinction is again based on the wildly popular videogame series and picks up where the last film left off. Alice (Milla Jovovich), now in hiding in the Nevada desert, once again joins forces with Carlos Oliveira (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps), along with new survivors Claire (Ali Larter), K-Mart (Spencer Locke) and [...]

Performance Improvements
* Far Cry performance improves 4-5%. Larger gains of up to 18.3% can be seen when using anisotropic filtering.
* Fear performance improves as much as 8.5% on X1800 and X1900 Single card systems and as much as 14% on X1800 and X1900 Crossfire systems.
* Splinter Cell (original) performance improves as much a 7% on [...]

There is an article up on Computer & Video Games, stating that we may well be seeing the much anticipated and oft-delayed Prey demo hit the Xbox Live Marketplace this Sunday. Just in time for July 4th.
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