The Darkness

The Darkness
 
Favorite Games
Games Cheats
List of Games
 
 

Under US-Mexico border, a squalid life for tunnel refugees

NOGALES, Mexico -- One mile deep into the drafty tunnel under this hilly frontier city, a flashlight beam cuts through the darkness and illuminates a yellow line painted on the concrete wall: the US-Mexico border.

Just beyond the boundary a graffiti message believed to have been scrawled by US law enforcement warns intruders: "USA Tunnel Rats. Este lugar es de nosotros" -- This place is ours.

Not exactly.

Inside the largest-known tunnels on the border -- two passages that make up an enormous drainage system linking Nogales, Mexico, with Nogales, Ariz. -- migrants stumble blindly through toxic puddles and duck bats. Methamphetamine-addicted assailants lurk. And young men working as drug mules lug burlap sacks filled with contraband.

There are shootouts and rapes.


Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine screens and info

Earlier today we brought you the news that the latest batch of content for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion had hit the Xbox Live Marketplace. The new content is called the "The Knights of the Nine" will cost 800 MS Points to get your hands on the latest chapter.

We can now bring you some exclusive screenshots from the chapter which you can check out by clicking here.

Here's the official description of the content:-

Knights of the Nine

The Gods have forsaken Tamriel.

A fallen King has been unchained from the darkness of Oblivion to seek vengeance upon the Gods who banished him. Only a champion pure of heart can vanquish the evil that has been released upon the land. You must heed the call, reclaim the lost relics of the Divine Crusader, and return the Nine to glory.


'First flicker of light at the edge of darkness'

Amos Oz, one of Israel's most prominent novelists, said it might be "the first flicker of light at the edge of the darkness". The ceasefire between the Israeli military and Palestinian fighters is only two days old, it only covers the Gaza Strip, not the still-occupied West Bank, and already it has been breached a number of times.

Yet some in Israel and among the Palestinians are hoping that the end to a particularly brutal round of violence, five months of clashes in Gaza that have claimed at least 380 lives, may be the beginning of a return to peace talks. If so, it would be the first time for major negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in the six years since the start of the second intifada.

"Perhaps a change on both sides is occurring at present," said Oz, writing in yesterday's Yedioth Ahronoth, a popular Israeli newspaper.


Television movies for the week of Nov. 19

The Accidental Witness '06. Natasha Wagner. A murderer pursues an attorney, believing that the woman saw one of his crimes. (NR) (2:00) LIFE: Tue. 7 P.M. (CC)

The Adventures of Marco Polo'38. Gary Cooper. The travels of 13th-century explorer Marco Polo bring him to China. (NR) (1:45) TCM: Wed. 8:30 A.M.

The Adventures of Robin Hood'38. Errol Flynn. The Sherwood Forest outlaw and his men save King Richard and Maid Marian from Prince John and Sir Guy. (PG) (2:00) TCM: Mon. 11:30 A.M. (CC)

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl'05. Taylor Lautner. A 10-year-old and his imaginary friends try to save a distant planet from the forces of darkness. (PG) (1:35) ENC: Tue. 9 A.M., 6:15 P.M. (CC)

After Innocence'05. Filmmaker Jessica Sanders interviews seven men who were wrongfully imprisoned until DNA testing set them free.


Black Jack

Under the cover of darkness, Tiger Woods birdied the 72nd hole at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio to win the $5 million NEC Invitational - by 11 shots.

At 21-under-par, Woods more than doubled the score of Justin Leonard and Phillip Price, who tied for 2nd at 10-under. Hal Sutton, who played in the final group with Woods, tied for 4th with Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk.

Sunday's final round was suspended for nearly three hours due to rain and lightning. When play was called, Woods and Sutton had yet to complete the first hole.

Having taken a nine-shot lead into the final round, Woods could have played left-handed and still won the $1 million dollar first prize. The battle was for the $540,000 second place check.

Sutton got off to a great start by birdying three of his first five holes, but bogeyed the 8th, 9th, 10th and 13th to fall out of runner-up contention.


Crystal Dynamics reflect back on Tomb Raider Legend

CVG have mobilised a new interview with Riley Cooper and Matthew Guzenda, both key architects on Tomb Raider Legend. The duo from Crystal Dynamics reflect on game length, the insatiable Lara Croft, and briefly touch on the tentatively titled Tomb Raider 8. On the marvel that is Lara Croft: "Going from The Angel Of Darkness model, she was very stylised at that point so we wanted to make her look more human. Obviously she still looks very perfect in a lot of respects, as far as dimensions go, but her proportions now are far more human. "In AOD if you compared her to the other characters, the others were quite realistic but she stood out. Now obviously, we didn't want to make her too realistic as you run into the whole 'uncanny valley' thing when it looks too close to a human person - you start seeing odd things...


Wresting Meaning From Darkness

Nearly all the 40 black-and-white images by Japanese photographer Akio Ohki in his exhibition "Taiwan 19711978," currently at Sepia International, are absurdly mannered, but they work. This is partly because he exploits stylistic devices not uncommon in the practice of the Japanese visual arts certainly not uncommon in Japanese photographic practice and partly because these devices are appropriate to his subject matter. If the pictures tend to be grim, Taiwan in the concluding days of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang government was plausibly a grim place.

The mannerism that is used in virtually every image consists of intense blacks. These are not just dark, but really black blacks, blacks from which light struggles to emerge. Maybe the blackest single photograph is the last in the exhibition,"Ludao Island."The bottom third of the picture seems all black with just some meager hints of what might be hidden in the dense, inky darkness.


Jicha Q&A: Siblings get reprieve; of ads and darkness

Q. One of the best new shows this season is ABC's Brothers & Sisters. It has a most appealing cast along with interesting story lines. However, I was unable to find it anywhere in last Sunday's lineup. Has it been put on hiatus, moved to another slot or unceremoniously dropped? -- C.K., e-mail

A. Brothers & Sisters was pre-empted on Thanksgiving weekend so that ABC could see if Boston Legal, a former occupant of the time period, could hold more of the potent lead-in from Desperate Housewives. Brothers & Sisters has been losing almost half the DH audience, which is generally unacceptable. Boston Legal did better, but probably not by a great enough margin for ABC to tear up the schedule.

The saving grace of Brothers & Sisters is that despite the dropoff, it still wins the time period in the advertiser-cherished 18-49 demographic.


Despite loss, UNH breaks through to big-time

AMHERST - All 6-foot-3 and 270 pounds of Dan Wagner stood just outside the University of New Hamphire football team's locker room, dodging the hugs and tearful condolences of the well-meaning Wildcats fans following their team's 24-17 Division 1-AA quarterfinal loss to the University of Massachusetts yesterday at McGuirk Alumni Stadium.

For a third straight season, Wagner and the Wildcats had experienced the showcase that was the tournament's quarters, and for a third straight season they were forced with digesting the unsavory nature of defeat.

"One of these days," he said, "we're going to break down that door."

What the lineman, his Wildcats and the entire collection of footballers who participated in the nationally televised affair should have realized was that the day's events did signal the breaking of a barrier.


Emerging From The Darkness

It was a post-Christmas dinner in January 1980 when Platt Arnold, a 1964 graduate of Connecticut College, was sitting around the table with a few friends talking about The Revels, a group founded in Boston that promoted folk music, dance and rituals.

Revels are held every year in major cities and are a sort of celebration of the winter solstice. Arnold's husband David had performed in the New York Revels in 1979.

"We had fun talking about it that night,'' she says. "We were reminiscing about what an incredible show it had been.''

Also at the table were Anita and Gene TeHennipe, and David Robb, who at the time was chaplain at Connecticut College. By July, the group had decided to organize their own version of a revel. They found performers, costumes and singers. They sold ads, printed a program, did the publicity and opened at Harkness Chapel at Conn College.



 
 
 
 

 
Games Cheats, Games Reviews, Games News  : Contact us
COPYRIGHT 2007-08 gamescollection.net All Rights Reserved.