Jan 27 2009

New G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra Posters!

Check out 5 new poster that reader ‘JimJ17’ sent us for Stephen Sommer’s big screen live-action adaptation of “G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra.”

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Jan 27 2009

Cross Gender Superheroes? [ART]

I think many men can appreciate a good female superhero. Be it Wonder Woman, one of the female X-Men, or something in the video game world like Lara Croft. But imagine if some of your favorite heroes were women? Not just Wonder Woman, but let’s say The Flash or Daredevil. Guess what? People already have.

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Jan 27 2009

Europe’s Grass-Lined Green Railways

One way to ameliorate climate change is to replace concrete with green, growing stuff wherever possible. Europe is showing that its green-grass railways is a good way to go. Say goodbye to heat-releasing tarmac!

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Jan 27 2009

Citigroup Dies—But Slower with Richard Parsons

Dick Parsons is now presiding over Citigroup, which means, as Michael Wolff says, that the institution will hang around longer, but the result won’t be different. It’ll fail. Parsons is a modern-day Zelig, a comforting, affable figure, who’s brought in as sort of an undertaker of troubled businesses.

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Jan 27 2009

Battling Addiction: Are 12 Steps Too Many?

AA’s spirituality may put too much pressure on drinkers. The latest evidence suggests that those who think that spirituality or a pill alone can save them are wrong.

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Jan 27 2009

John Updike: Dead at 76

The Legendary American author has passed away from lung cancer.

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Jan 27 2009

100 Hottest Women of 2009

Our goal with making this list was to avoid the cliche as much as possible, while still picking out the hottest women in the world.

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Jan 27 2009

Navy Turbocharges Its Missiles

The Navy is developing a new type of rocket engine to make missiles faster and more deadly.

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Jan 27 2009

10 Cancelled Games We Wish Were Released

Sometimes budgets get slashed, timelines shift, milestones slip, the publisher just doesn’t see it as a fit in the market at the time. Whatever the reason, some games just get canceled, here’s ten games we most regret never having had the time to properly experience. They range from MMOs to RPGs to…well, lots of other acronym-friendly genres.

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Jan 27 2009

Sony denies touchscreen PSP 2 rumours

Sony has flatly denied that a PSP mark 2 is in the works, despite usually-credible news source IGN claiming otherwise this week.

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