Monster Kingdom

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Monster Employment Index UK Declines in April, as White-collar ...

Online recruitment activity and related employment opportunities across the United Kingdom declined by nine points in April, reflecting a similar slowdown in hiring from the first quarter of 2006. Despite the drop, the Index still stands at a higher level than the first two months of this year, reaching 141 points in April. Year-on-year growth stands at 26 points or 23 percent. The Index is based on a real-time review of millions of employer job opportunities culled from Web sites across Europe, including Monster.

Most UK industry sectors saw a decline in hiring throughout April, while several occupations did experience increases in demand, including healthcare, social work and personal care and environment, architecture and urbanism.

The Indexs decline was driven partly by lower demand for white-collar employees in April.

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Folklore officially announced

Well it's undergone many name changes: first Monster Kingdom then Folk's Soul, but at Sony's Gamers Day this title was officially announced as Folklore. A PlayStation 3 exclusive, Folklore is developed by Tokyo's Game Republic under Yoshiki Okamoto, who has quite an impressive roster under his belt. Executive producer of Onimusha, Devil May Cry, and Resident Evil, Okamoto describes Folklore as a dark fantasy adventure inspired by Western fairy tales. As you begin your journey through the Netherworld to solve a mysterious murder, you have the option to play as two highly differing characters - the intriguing journalist by the name of Keats, or the folk story loving Ellen. Promised for the game are over 40 hours of gameplay within 7 different realms, over 100 unique monsters, and sixaxis implementation in the form of jerking your wrist to practically tear the powers out of defeated foes.

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Hunter Coffee Hour: First offline event for Monster Hunter Frontier

If you ask us, it seems that Capcom is really serious in getting a huge portion of the booming MMORPG genre. After expanding to Asia with its consolidated subsidiary in South Korea, Capcom has just announced the first offline event for forthcoming title Monster Hunter Frontier.

The event will commence on June 4 in Shinagawa. Known as Hunter Coffee Hour, the event will be a good venue for players to meet up with the title's development team and join in the ensuing Q&A. More importantly, the progress of the game in terms of development will be discussed along with the reports from closed beta testers.

The winners of the recent Monster Hunter Frontier contest in Japan will also be picked during the event. Accordingly, 100 out of 1,000 names will be handpicked by Capcom for a chance to participate in the above mentioned closed beta testing.

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Ask The AV Club: April 20, 2007

Is American Idol bad for music? Specifically, will AI take us to the point where an entire generation will largely listen to and identify with anesthetized, focus-grouped pop music written and composed by studio rats, sung exclusively by flawless, mass-approved performers? I know that kind of music has always been around, but it seems that AI's populist sensibilities have gone a long way toward giving it a new kind of validation.

Eric Queue

Idol obsessive Noel Murray fields this one:

As you point out, Eric, prefab pop is nothing new. The boy-band craze just recently faded away, and we've rarely lacked for pop stars who neither write their own songs nor play their own instruments. If AI went away, nothing would significantly change, either in the tastes of the teenage girls who make this kind of music fiscally viable, or in the music-industry mechanisms that crank it out.

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