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2058, Lunar Outpost Alpha. Contact with Outpost Beta was lost hours ago when routine excavation revealed a subterranean structure of unknown origin.

You are Major Kane, Chief of Military Operations for the Extra Terrestrial Encounter Organization, and you and your team have been brought in to investigate. Erratic energy readings from deep below the lunar surface tell you that this will not be a diplomatic mission. Welcome to the Moon.

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New region free game released for the 360



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This new game lets you try to name the film after watching an old-school, eight-bit-style animation of a famous scene
This is a "six degrees of separation" challenge in which you must link together a series of clues to guess the answer
In this game, test your power of observation as you try to determine which of two similar movie stills match a particular movie
Movie fans in France, Italy, German, Spain, and the U.K. have even more to love, with content from some of their favorite local films included in versions of the game sold in their countries

description
Scene It? ® Box Office Smash for Xbox 360 brings movie and trivia fans together for a game that provides hours of laughter. Challenge your friends and family to see whose movie knowledge reigns supreme while you relive some of your favorite moments from the silver screen

With all-new questions, more high-definition (HD) movie clips, and several new puzzle types, you have a trivia game overflowing with images plus audio and video clips from hundreds of films you know and love

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New region free game released for the 360



features
Two wireless interactive microphones. Featuring stylish interactive motion sensors and lights, the microphones respond to singers’ actions and can be used as percussion accompaniments. With the freedom and encouragement provided by the high-quality wireless microphones, everyone can live their singing dreams in style.
The best music. ”Lips” will include a diverse selection of songs, including your favorite blasts from the past such as ”Bust a Move” by Young MC, as well as new songs from breakout artists such as ”Mercy” by Duffy and ”Young Folks” by Peter Bjorn and John.
Sing your music collection. ”Lips” allows people to customize their experience with the songs that matter most to them by singing along with friends to the music from their personal collection.
Play along. Using the standard Xbox 360 controller, up to two people will be able to join the fun and choose from a variety of percussion accompaniment to play along with the music in ”Lips.” By placing control of various tambourines, claps and of course the ubiquitous cowbell at the fingertips of anyone with a controller, ”Lips” creates a social entertainment experience for friends, co-workers and kids alike.
Constant flow of new music. From the songs that will come with the game, to your own music collection and the ability to download new tracks from Xbox LIVE Marketplace, ”Lips” will continually provide new music to bring people together and keep the party going.

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Microsoft Corp. is taking a whole new stage with ”Lips,” an all-new music franchise exclusively for Xbox 360. ”Lips” is the only singing game that offers wireless motion-sensitive microphones and the ability to sing from your own music collection of DRM-free songs.* Start channeling your favorite pop star because it’s you, your friends and most important your music that turns ”Lips,” the new singing game for Xbox 360, into the world’s ultimate party experience this holiday season.

Keiichi Yano, celebrated developer behind some of the industry’s most beloved rhythm games, brings his vision of collaborative and social musical entertainment to ”Lips.” The first and only singing game that offers interactive motion-sensitive microphones to make your party rock all night long, ”Lips” encourages players to toss apprehensions out the window and join the party.

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Robert Rubin, the former US Treasury Secretary, said he would leave Citigroup after a controversial decade on its board as it emerged that the company was in advanced talks to sell a majority stake in its brokerage unit to Morgan Stanley.

Samsung swept into CES this year like an alien invasion. Tucked away beneath its awards, massive booth presence, and disrupter blast of products is this sexy Bluetooth earpiece. The Capella (shown tucked inside the receiver) is meant to be worn as a fashion accessory. Hey, that's what they say. And at the risk of being juiced by a Martian, well, we're not going to argue.

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Robert Rubin will leave the megabank behind after a tumultuous decade.

Unemployment jumped to 7.2% in December, and new layoffs at Boeing add fuel to the fire.

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So Boy Genius Report reported on a shot of what seems to be a Curve 8900 running on AT&T -- which seems like a pretty good idea, may we add -- and we're trying to make sense of what's really going on. We hit up RIM's booth at CES to get the lowdown on the situation, and what do you know, the mythical beast is nowhere to be found. The reps on the floor said that it's only for T-Mobile and when we checked every 8900 on the show floor, we couldn't find one running on any other carrier. 'Course, we'd be shocked if RIM wasn't chronically refreshing BGR every fifteen seconds, so it's entirely possible that they saw the news, realized their grave error, and pulled the offending phone posthaste. Either way, it's a great idea, is it not?

[Via Boy Genius Report]

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Lexus has announced plans to roll out a system that will allow the company to a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2009-01-07-lexus-talking-car_N.htm" target="_new"send audio messages to its cars/a, which most people immediately realized meant we should get ready for a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F08%2F2038216#038;from=rss" target="_new"spam in our cars/a. It's pretty obvious that's what Lexus is thinking when it says things like: "messages can be highly targeted, such as tailored for those who have a specific vehicle type or who live in a particular ZIP code." However, the company is obviously sensitive to the spam issue, saying that "We're not going to barrage customers with marketing messages," and noting that some may not want this: "Many of our owners enjoy their car as a cocoon." The whole thing sounds like a trial balloon idea to see how people react, and so far it doesn't sound good. You could see isome/i potentially useful situation -- such as in the event of a recall, but the likelihood of someone in marketing getting a "brilliant idea" for some extra revenue and pissing off a lot of people just seems too high.br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20090109/0300333343.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20090109/0300333343.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20090109/0300333343op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=f1cb267a93d45d13574ed0bba1fd4655p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=f1cb267a93d45d13574ed0bba1fd4655p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=f1cb267a93d45d13574ed0bba1fd4655" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=CTnid3HH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=CTnid3HH" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/44ZS09hsjCo" height="1" width="1"/

O desempenho registado nas vendas de música ao longo dos últimos anos revela padrões bastante idênticos nos mercados mais avançados. Apesar de em termos unitários as vendas totais de álbuns descerem, as vendas digitais registam um crescimento sustentado. No entanto, tudo indica que essa subida não compensa a descida extraordinária dos CDs. Isto porque as estatísticas disponíveis não se baseiam no montante total de receitas mas sim de unidades comercializadas.

Mesmo assim, é interessante verificar ligeiras variações na evolução das vendas de alguns países: por exemplo, se de acordo com os dados do painel SoundScan da Nielsen nos Estados Unidos as vendas anuais de álbuns desceram 14 por cento durante o ano de 2008, já no Reino Unido a descida foi de uns meros 3,2 por cento segundo os números da Official Charts Company - a empresa responsável por compilar as tabelas de vendas de discos naquele país - divulgados pela British Phonographic Industry (BPi) - a entidade que representa as grandes editoras britânicas - citados pela BBC e pela Billboard. O número total foi de 133,6 milhões de unidades em comparação com os 138,1 milhões de 2007.

A verdade é que o resultado final teria sido pior se não fosse o quarto trimestre do ano, período em que as vendas subiram 0,9 por cento em comparação com 2007: de 49,4 milhões elas subiram para 49,8 milhões. Este aumento na ponta final do ano foi tanto mais inexplicável se tivermos em conta o acentuar do clima de recessão económica que se fez sentir, aliado à falência das cadeias de lojas Zavvi e Woolworths e da distribuidora Pinnacle.

Ainda no que diz respeito aos ákbuns, as vendas digitais aumentaram 65 por cento em 2008, representando actualmente 7,7 por cento do mercado global de álbuns, com 10,3 milhões de unidades comercializadas. Mas a maior subida registou-se mesmo nas vendas de singles que cresceram 33 por cento para as 115 milhões de unidades em grande parte graças aos downloads que constituem 95,8 por cento do mercado global de singles. Em 2007 essa percentagem tinha sido de 90,1 por cento.

Estes dados vêm apenas confirmar duas coisas:

• Apesar dos downloads ilegais via redes P2P e sites de alojamento de ficheiros, os consumidores estão a aderir aos downloads legais via iTunes - e isto sem contar com a remoção da DRM nos ficheiros comercializados no iTunes. Agora imaginem quando os dados já contarem com esse facto novo?
• O crescimento das vendas digitais nunca irá compensar em termos de receitas as vendas de CDs, o que significa que as editoras e outros profissionais da indústria terão que explorar à força toda outras fontes de receitas adicionais caso não pretendam fechar as portas.

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Absolute Best of Ghost Hunters US US$ 24.98
Atmospheres: Earth, Air & Water US US$ 28.99
Babylon A.D. (~Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, ...) US US$ 39.98
Bangkok Dangerous (~Nicolas Cage, Charlie Yeung, ...) US US$ 39.99
Dexter: The Complete First Season (~Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, ...) US US$ 54.98
Disaster Movie (~Matt Lanter, Kim Kardashian, ...) US US$ 39.99
Eden Lake (~Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, ...) US US$ 29.95
Friday Night Lights (~Billy Bob Thornton, Tim McGraw, ...) US US$ 29.98
Hacken's Concert Hall Live Karaoke (~Hacken Lee) HK US$ 41.90
Hard Gun (~Panna Rittikrai, Tony Jaa, ...) US US$ 24.98
Opium and the Kung Fu Master (~Lung Ti, Tak-lo Mai, ...) US US$ 24.98
Pineapple Express (~Gary Cole, James Franco, ...) US US$ 39.95
Righteous Kill (~Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, ...) US US$ 39.98
The Happening (~Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, ...) JPN US$ 51.90
The Last Emperor (~John Lone, Joan Chen, ...) US US$ 39.95
The Wackness (~Famke Janssen, Ben Kingsley, ...) US US$ 39.95

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The company says it needs to add some more servers before making the code publicly available. Heavy demand on Friday was leading to site problems for Microsoft.

Welcome to this week's Movie/Music news roundup, containing new Japanese and Hong Kong Video and Music releases from this week listed at Play-Asia.com. Around 150 new items are covered in this week, including new J-Pop, Anime as well as Japanese, Hong Kong and Western movie releases and much more.

There are two wonderful game OSTS newly arrived in our warehouse. Tales of the Abyss, a fantasy RPG that combines classical elegance with pop and cool music elements has released another soundtrack. This image album contains the song contributions from a wide range of sources.

As the last game on the PlayStation2™, Dragon Ball: Infinity World combines the best parts of the fighting game series, including the music. The exciting tracks will heat up your blood and restore your fighting spirit. Listen to the sountrack as you wait for the live action movie to go on your local silver screen.

Besides the fighters in the Dragon Ball tournaments, Takizawa Hideaki, one of Johnny's boys has his blood heated up as he performed Ai Kakumei [A vers., B vers.]. by mixing Chopin's Revolution and Johnny styled dance beats, the artist created a delightful blend of a piece that reminds people of the Takarazuka shows.

Besides music releases, the Blu-ray disc version of Bangkok Dangerous has arrived. After the relaxing or healthily exciting pieces, take a look at the intrigues spawning in the underworld.

Here's a summary of all new releases that were published between Saturday, January 3rd and Friday, January 9th. If some specific item that you are looking for is missing, please don't hesitate to contact our customer service with your request.


J-Pop Music releases (42)
ENKA Music releases (9)
Anime Soundtracks & Drama CDs (21)
Video Game Soundtracks (2)
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Anime & Animation (21)
Hong Kong Version Movie releases (11)
Japanese Movies (10)
Non-Japanese Movies / Japanese Version (12)
J-Pop DVD releases (4)
Idol DVD (1)
UMD™ Video & Music (1)

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In these classic gaming news updates you will find a frequent summary of all classical titles which were added to our site. Availability is subject to frequent changes and fast decisions are recommended as we usually have only very few copies of those titles that are listed below. As always we are trying to expand our catalogue regularly.

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Further, if you are looking for any title that is not listed on our website yet, you are always welcome to contact our customer service with your request. We will try our best to track down the requested title and add them to our website with one of our next major updates.

You might take a look at the Classic Game Room DVD. "Classic Game Room" was the first classic video game review show on the Internet in 1999 and 2000. It returns as a feature-length comedy film about the triumphant story of online success, failure, obscurity, resurrection and success again! It features hillarious reviews of lots of interesting classic gaming titles.

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Former Trail Blazer Darius Miles is finding the road back to the NBA bumpier than usual.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hirings-firings/" rel="tag"Hirings/Firings/Layoffs/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jTG7SuUsayqE6bO9GPluAfU5blewD95JGNAO0"img width="580" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="359" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/01/610x.jpg" alt="" //abr /br /The Associated Press is reporting that Toyota will once again have a Toyoda at the helm before long. Akio Toyoda, the 52-year-old grandson of Toyota Motor Corp's founder, Kiichiro Toyoda, is reportedly about to be voted in by the board. If everything goes as planned, he will officially take over the presidency in June. It will be the first time in 14 years that a Toyoda will lead the company, but Akio isn't your father's Toyoda. He is known for being a lot more laid-back than the typical Japanese executive, which might help rejuvenate the company.br / br /Current president Katsuaki Watanabe is on his way out as Toyota faces its a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/19/toyota-poised-for-first-annual-loss-in-71-years/"first projected operating loss/a in the company's 70-year history. Just like the rest of the world, Toyota sales have slumped and the automaker has had to a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/06/toyota-plans-11-day-plant-shutdown-in-japan/"cut production/a and a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/28/who-says-the-japanese-dont-have-a-jobs-bank/"lay off temporary workers/a. Although Toyota remains predictably tight-lipped on the move, it's expected that Watanabe will become a vice chairman, with current chairman Fujio Cho keeping that position. Toyoda has been an executive vice president since 2005, so this "prince" (as the Japanese media call him) should be well-prepared for the job. emThanks for the tip, Jarrett!/embr /br /[Source: a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jTG7SuUsayqE6bO9GPluAfU5blewD95JGNAO0"Associated Press/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/09/all-in-the-family-toyoda-grandson-to-take-top-job/"All in the family: Toyoda grandson to take top job/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:28:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jTG7SuUsayqE6bO9GPluAfU5blewD95JGNAO0Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/09/all-in-the-family-toyoda-grandson-to-take-top-job/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1424540/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/09/all-in-the-family-toyoda-grandson-to-take-top-job/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/3vzCDlzRMZf054CSJ-U5CSEc7AE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/3vzCDlzRMZf054CSJ-U5CSEc7AE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=UAHCfj1Z"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=UAHCfj1Z" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=ynpqjUPB"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=ynpqjUPB" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/POKiOocFheU" height="1" width="1"/

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Welcome to this week's Games Update, our weekly summary featuring all new product arrivals from the last seven days.

The new year is starting off calm as developers give their fans some time to play through the plethora of games released during Christmas before another bombardment of goodies come through. That said, there are few new releases arriving at the Play-Asia warehouse this week.

Although there are no new releases, a number of budget priced version of previously released hot games came out, for those who has missed these when they first came out or are waiting for less expensive versions, here's the time to grab them and play before a new wave of games come out to tempt you.

Xbox360™
Armored Core: For Answer (Platinum Collection) JPN US$ 34.90
Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom (Platinum Collection) JPN US$ 34.90
Trusty Bell: Chopin no Yume / Eternal Sonata (Platinum Collection) JPN US$ 44.90

Sony PSP™
Mobile Suit Gundam: Giren no Yabou - Axis no Kyoui (PSP the Best) JPN US$ 34.90
The Happening JPN US$ 31.90

Video Game related Soundtracks
Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World Original Soundtrack JPN US$ 31.90
Tales of the Abyss Image Album JPN US$ 31.90

Game releases will pick up their momentum next week as a number of highly anticipated products are scheduled to come out:

Xbox360™
Lord of the Rings: Conquest ASIA US$ 49.90

PlayStation3™
Lord of the Rings: Conquest ASIA US$ 49.90
Naruto Narutimate Storm ASIA US$ 69.90
Naruto Narutimate Storm JPN US$ 74.90

Nintendo Wii™
Akumajou Dracula Judgment / Castlevania: Judgment JPN US$ 68.90

Nintendo DS™
Moon US US$ 34.90

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