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Assault Heroes Hands-on Preview (Xbox 360)

Thanks to the runaway success of Xbox Live Arcade, it's now easier than ever for small developers to get their games into the hands of gamers. Before, the only cost-effective option was to create a "casual" game for the PC, offer up a trial version, and just hope that enough people downloaded the full version to break even. While that's certainly still a viable (and attractive) option, XBLA gives these developers much more visibility than they would have had "back in the old days." Every person who gets onto Live will see their game, and there's much less competition than there is on many of the popular gaming portals on the web. We recently had a chance to check out Assault Heroes, a game that may just be the next big thing on Xbox Live Arcade. Developed by Wanako Studios and published by Sierra Online, Assault Heroes features the type of intense, top-down action that was introduced to the world by games like Smash TV.


From skies to streets, woman warriors change military landscape

EDITOR'S NOTE _ Something is happening, little noticed amid the carnage of Iraq and Afghanistan: Women are playing a far greater role in America's military than they did in any other war. The first of two stories looking at a sexual revolution in our fighting forces.%byline(By SHARON COHEN%)%bytitle(AP National Writer%)%endtag(%)

A goodwill mission to deliver kerosene heaters to Iraqi schools erupts into the fiery chaos of a roadside bombing _ and Maj. Mary Prophit shields a comrade so he can rescue a critically burned Iraqi soldier.A convoy outside Baghdad is ambushed by machine-gun wielding Iraqi insurgents _ and Spc. Ashley Pullen races down a road to save an injured sergeant.A Black Hawk helicopter is struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq _ and co-pilot Tammy Duckworth, bloody and severely wounded, struggles to stay conscious until the damaged aircraft is down and her crew is safe.In Iraq and Afghanistan, women warriors are writing a new chapter in military history, serving by the tens of thousands, fending off enemy fire and taking on _ and succeeding in _ high-profile roles in the battlefield and the skies as never before."The American public is beginning to realize that women are playing an equal part in this war and that they are facing the same risks," says Duckworth, who lost both legs in the 2004 insurgent attack.


The Devil has Texas

I've never been to Texas. But within the mythological schema of America, we all know what Texas means. It's a point on the imagined American constellation as important to our cognitive mapping of identity as either New York or California, a depository for our most nightmarish projections of ourselves as well as our greatest delusions of grandeur. "Everything is bigger in Texas" precisely because Texas the myth supersedes Texas the physical terrain.

I've spent the last month in Texas. In Texas there are no classes, and there are no papers. Time drifts past like tumbleweed, thoughts amble through the ghost town of a fractured psyche, and a tumbler of bourbon is rarely out of reach. I've been in Texas because Minnesota finally broke me, and I had nowhere else to go.

Turning my room into my own private Texas is as easy as turning on the stereo.


Review: Medal of Honor: Heroes

EA's first-person Nazi blasting franchise makes its PSP debut with Medal of Honor: Heroes, but the results are less than heroic.

In Medal of Honor: Heroes, the second FPS to disembark on the PSP, you battle Hitler's foot soldiers in historic World War II campaigns such as the Battle of the Bulge and Operation Avalanche, which stretch across the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy.


Chris Quinn: All I want for Christmas: some villains, zombies . . .

There is one thing I want for Christmas this year, just one. And If I were to get nothing for Christmas for the rest of my life but this one thing, I would live happily ever after. Just what is this one thing?

Well, it is four things actually. And all of them relate to TV, but you knew that, right?

I mean this is a TV column after all. Well, sometimes it is.

As for the four things I desire, I crave, I yearn for? They are TV shows — TV shows so horridly cool, they will make you doubt your very existence. Yes, they are that cool. So be forewarned! Read on only at your own peril!

First up, follow me into the dark side. Ever wonder what happened right after Episode III? I refer to, of course, the infamous Sith-led imperial purge of the Jedi from the galaxy.


Julie Webb-Pullman: Oaxaca – Means and Ends

The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) protest marches in Oaxaca of 20 and 25 November have seen an unprecedented escalation of violence, the former resulting in over 50 requiring hospitalisation and more than 100 detained, and that of last weekend in at least 3 deaths, scores requiring hospitalisation and scores more injured, and more than 150 detained by police. Whilst on 20 November the police activity was largely confined to attacks on marchers, on 25 November the indiscriminate police tactics of Atenco were evident, with people being rounded up off the street, and houses entered and people seized from within them. Government sources on Monday confirmed the arbitrary nature of the detentions, advising that only some 50 of the 152 “officially” detained on Saturday night appeared before the court on Sunday, and the rest were freed because they did not participate in the confrontation between police and marchers.


 


 
 
 
 

 
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